Word: bitters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...latest act in Carey's diva drama. Act I may have been her 1998 divorce from Tommy Mottola, boss of Sony Music and the man who helped make Carey a star. (She later signed a deal with Virgin that brings her $23.5 million an album.) The split was bitter, and Carey came to suspect that Mottola was trying to defame her--to make Mariah a pariah. Earlier this summer she hired Jack Palladino, a San Francisco-based private eye who worked for Bill Clinton in the Bimbogate scandals and Jeffrey Wigand in the Insider tobacco case. "My client...
...Thaksin Shinawatra of corruption charges, you could see the toll the impending verdict was taking on him. The eyes sagged. The usually smooth skin seemed more wrinkled. The smug smile would occasionally straighten, the corners of his thin-lipped mouth almost turning to a resigned frown. If he was bitter, however, he would never admit it, not to a reporter, nor to his Cabinet, and probably not to his friends. Yet the possibility his tenure would be abbreviated by a guilty ruling had become the defining attribute of his term. Implicit in every question...
...more troops to these regions or will you take a different approach? Megawati: As the chairman of the Democratic Party for Struggle, I have a standing instruction not to use violence. I always stress three points: the democratic mechanism, constitutional process and non-violence. The party has experienced extremely bitter times and violence such as the incident of July 27, 1996. The problems of Aceh and Irian Jaya are being addressed by government regulations and presidential instructions...
...TIME: Some commentators suggest that you will be more inclined than Wahid to use the military and more repressive means to settle conflicts in restive regions such as Aceh and Irian Jaya. Is this your plan? Megawati: (Laughs.) The media may say this but I have had a bitter experience with violence. My whole family experienced it. We have laws and the 1945 Constitution, which makes it obligatory for me to preserve the unity of this country...
...Borrring. Heston?s Taylor, drawn in the same few strokes, was perhaps perfectly suited to be stranded on a high-concept sci-fi planet. Single - and a real ladies? man, by his own recollection - cynical, bitter and biting, Heston strides on to the "world turned upside down" already knowing that everyone he ever knew was dead, and he?s not shedding any tears. He?s searching ("Somewhere in the universe there must be something better than man") and much of the film?s power is derived from the fact that from the beginning, Taylor is on this crazy mixed...