Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...husband's absence forces her to change her ways. She takes up volunteer work at the base hospital, makes new friends and asserts her independence by renting a beach bungalow and buying a sports car. More daring still, she falls in love with Luke Martin (Jon Voight), a bitter paraplegic Viet Nam veteran who turns her against the war her husband is fighting...
Coors, the fabled company in Golden, Colo., that was on a Rocky Mountain high for years also declined in 1977, from 13.7 million bbls. to 12.8 million. Part of the drop was due to a bitter strike that led to a customer boycott; it has been particularly damaging in California, where Coors has lost its leadership to Anheuser-Busch. Coors also suffered under the new competition because it long had paid little attention to marketing, figuring that its popular product would just "walk off the shelves." As a regional brewer that sells almost all its beer to 16 states concentrated...
...Canada's scattered French-speaking minority regularly loses a large part of its younger generation to English-speaking North America. Says Quebecois Poet Fernand Ouellette: "In a milieu of bilingualism, there is no coexistence, there is only a continuous aggression of the language of the majority." Quebecois are particularly bitter because little effort is given to preserving their language in the rest of Canada. Quebec has traditionally provided comprehensive, tax-supported education and complete social services in English to its English-speaking minority. No other province fully reciprocates...
...delegation." Begin has refused to authorize any settlement at Shiloh, but at the same time the families there have been encouraged to believe that if they survive and prosper on their own, they may eventually win Jerusalem's approval. The government's neither-nor position has sparked bitter debates within Begin's Likud coalition between antisettlement pragmatists and nationalistic conservatives who support the community and who even attended Shiloh's dedication ceremonies...
...seems to have trouble with comedy. Early attempts to wring bitter laughter out of assembly-line conditions and the financial woes of the three central figures (Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto) do not entirely pay off. Still, these scenes help motivate the film's central incident, a robbery of their own union's safe in which the three turn up not the cash they wanted but a ledger hinting at various forms of venality and corruption. Their attempts to capitalize on the information are ambiguous: they would like to blackmail some money out of the union...