Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...skinny ballerina and two fat women. The final shot of the film reveals that the members of the audience, who have been shouting "Take it off!" to the women on stage, have also exposed themselves. It is unclear exactly who or what is the object of Goldman's bitter attack--besides the viewers of the film...
...seems to care about, or understand, the real problems at hand. As if to further insult Quad residents, Fox suggests that a dining hall be constructed at South House at a cost of approximately $400,000. This part of the proposal, meant to be a sugar-coating for a bitter pill, is actually an old sop that has been promised for years; it should therefore be examined warily...
...bitter scrap that pits Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates against the eleven other members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, it is far too early to predict the ultimate winners. But so far, the minority of two seems to be ahead. The Saudis appear to be attracting enough new customers to force their rivals into production cutbacks and price fiddling...
...choice of lyrics has always tended towards the fourth-shot-of-Jim-Beam simplistic, and though Richard Manuel and Rick Danko dreamed up this particular opaque gem, Clapton's lazy guitar and uninspired vocals add no lustre. This prolonged and painful recollection of a past love is chicory-bitter moaning. It won't generate much energy except in your fancy new turntable. You know, the kind you can program to skip tracks...
...casino owner-cum-international tungsten cartel boss. It revolves around two sinister triangles: one, a quasi-homosexual link between the tungsten boss, the boss's sword-cane, and Glenn Ford (the other, between Rita Hayworth, the Tungsten boss (who marries her), and Ford (who has had a bitter affair with her and becomes the boss's lieutenant). The clash of the two triangles nearly destroys all three of them, and makes possible the emergence of the movie's real theme, the relation between sexuality and power. Gilda is extremely similar in its tone and its themes to another favorite...