Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even more bitter this time. It was Harvard's game to win all right, but this time there were no fourth-quarter turnovers, no referees to blame, no "big play" to point...
...Thanks, Joe." The voice is cool and quiet. If people vote for Tommy O'Neill, then they have to vote for Ed King. But while this bothers O'Neill, it isn't such a bitter pill to swallow for the hundreds of ironworkers, plasterers and plumbers who are milling around the Park Plaza Hotel Thursday afternoon. In fact, they rather like the idea, and don't hesitate to tell you why. It's a class war--the working man against the intellectual elite. Hatch's record as a state rep has been weak and they claim he has voted against...
Your article "Bitter Battle over Bases" [Oct. 9] subtly suggests a shakedown by the Marcos government in the current negotiations over U.S. military installations in the Philippines...
Dirk Bogarde, looking natty and nerve-worn, is exactly right as the fissured Hermann, a chocolate manufacturer whose business has turned bitter. Explaining how he inherited the family business, he says, "My mother's dowry was her weight in gold coins. They proved to be chocolate. My father died of grief, my mother of diabetes...
...that a myth-hungry audience expects of peintres maudits. In a grisly sort of way, Rothko's suicide has been taken by the art market as a proof of sincerity and translated into cash value. His paintings easily doubled in price within a year of his death. A long, bitter and sensational court battle ensued, during which Rothko's children successfully fought one of the world's biggest art dealers, Marlborough Galleries, for having contrived with his executors to acquire 800 paintings at far below their market price. Death and money; Rothko was terrified of one and catastrophically incompetent with...