Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Miki's strongest challenger is his harshest critic, former Deputy Premier Takeo Fukuda, 71, who has lined up powerful backing from among the L.D.P.'s half-dozen factions in a bid to succeed Miki. Their rivalry became so bitter that they maintained separate national headquarters during the three-week campaign and kept up a running feud that badly damaged L.D.P. prospects. One possible compromise choice is Finance Minister Masayoshi Ohira. Miki is genuinely convinced that radical reforms are needed to refurbish the L.D.P.'s image. His diagnosis: "The party caused its own defeat because we failed...
...brave the bitter words of Satan's wiles...
...react to the disdain with which the "Eastern Press" regards anything coming from Southern California, I must heartily agree with Mr. Dalton's assessment of the current state of Bob Dylan and his music (pardon the run-on). Hard Rain (both the album and the TV special) was a bitter disappointment musically and aesthetically. Dylan, in the attempt to change his image from Bob Dylan the rebel to Bob Dylan the Pop Star, has succeeded monetarily, but the substance of his material lacks the energy and purpose it once had. Where James Taylor has succeeded and Joan Baez is attempting...
THERE WAS AN ABRUPT TRANSITION in the American musical theater between 1942 and 1943, and the transition was between Hart and Hammerstein. Lorenz Hart's death represented the end of the Depression Era in musicals, the end of lyrics that were fast and mean and bitter, the end of admitting that life was pretty rough for a lot of people who weren't all that equipped to deal with it. During the War one just had to look to see how hellish life was all around the world and what a good deal we had at home...
Wagnerian Drama. Why then are so many Americans buying yet another book on Hitler? One reason may simply be Toland's dogged thoroughness: he trails each major Nazi to the bitter end, whether it be a cyanide capsule, the scaffold or a bunker in burning Berlin. There may even be some appeal in Toland's flat American tone, which spills over into quotes translated from the German ("Come on, Stauffenberg, the Chief is waiting"). But the principal appeal of the book must rest in an enduring American fascination with the country's last honest crusade and that...