Word: bitters
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...show sends up the usual Tinseltown types, but Kightlinger thoroughly rounds out Jackie, giving her the kind of drawling feminist sarcasm rarely seen since Roseanne left sitcomdom. Cynical yet principled, bitter but still ambitious, Jackie wants to conquer Hollywood yet not be of it. (She refuses, for instance, to drive.) She's the kind of tough, tart 21st century broad you would expect to idolize a '30s Derby queen: she's armed with a Billy Wilder wit and unafraid to throw elbows. And it's refreshing to see a sitcom about a woman past her 20s who is obsessed with...
...give up their push for fundamental change. And there are worse possible outcomes. Iraq could become the launching pad for a full-on war between Sunni and Shi'ite, with Iran entering the fray on the Shi'ite side and the Arab states defending Iraq's Sunnis. In the bitter Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88, more than a million people were killed or wounded--and any repeat of that carnage would take place in the context of a region where at least one power, Iran, is determined to develop nuclear weapons...
...said, of becoming that eccentric artist, that I?m not relating to anyone. I guess I?m scared of losing perspective, or of becoming bitter...
...Koizumi and his cabinet have voiced strong opposition to a rate hike, claiming that deflation has not been conclusively vanquished and that higher rates could dampen growth. Bitter memories remain of 2000, when the BOJ prematurely raised rates from 0% to 0.25%, plunging Japan back into recession; six months later, the BOJ was forced to drop rates back to zero. Still, Jesper Koll, chief Japan economist at Merrill Lynch, says fears of a replay of 2000 are misguided: "The Japanese economy is fundamentally different today, fundamentally stronger...
...emotions for Einstein. As he put it in a letter to Zangger: Dear friend Zangger, Just now I received the enclosed letter from my Albert, which upset me very much. After this, it's better if I don't take the long trip at all rather than experience new bitter disappointments. The boy's soul is being systematically poisoned to make sure that he doesn't trust me. Under these conditions, by attempting any approaches I harm the boy indirectly. Come, dear old friend, Lady Resignation, and sing me your familiar old song so that I can continue to spin...