Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eskimos call it "the Land of the Little Sticks" because Arctic winds and bitter cold keep its stunted pines from growing beyond the thickness of a finger. But as Operation Morning Light continued in the Canadian wilderness near Great Slave Lake, the searchers discovered remnants of the nuclear-powered Cosmos 954: man-made sticks of radioactive metal stuck in the frozen tundra and ice-covered lakes. At least five chunks of the fallen Soviet spy satellite were located. One, a mere 10 in. long and ½in. thick, was emitting enough radiation to kill anyone foolish enough to hold...
Abandoning the near-Olympian distance he had maintained up to now from the bitter political skirmishing, Giscard attacked the left headon. Pointing out some of the successes achieved by Premier Raymond Barre's policy of cautious stimulation-a December trade surplus, four months of falling unemployment and a slowing rate of inflation (0.3% for December)-Giscard argued that only the center and right were capable of leading the country out of its lingering economic malaise. "If we want to be cured," he thundered, "we must choose the right doctor. If we choose the easy way out, the economy will...
...echoes of Angola are unmistakable: a prolonged and bitter civil war, a Soviet airlift of arms in support of an unstable military regime, increasing numbers of Russian and Cuban advisers, ragtag battalions of tribesmen bloodying each other with modern weapons supplied by outside powers. Now the battlefield is Ethiopia and the high-stakes pawn is the strategic Horn of Africa, which commands the shipping routes through the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean...
...Thirties, nothing else has ever made me feel as alive, as coherent. It was for that, for the memory of that time, that I hung on. For that I lived with the narrowness and the stupidity of the party." For others, mem ory is obscured by disillusionment, bitter ness and cynicism...
Sometimes the play slides into fantasy, too: the apartheid rules are so ridiculous at times they can only be treated as a bitter joke. An episode with a talking toilet that is reserved for whites only is funny, but there is an acid note somewhere not too far in the background...