Word: rancorous
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...mouth luscious and sneering, his eyes mascara'd like a silent-screen sheik, Curtis' Sidney is all bustle and rancor, ever moving, biting his nails, full of unfocused nervous energy. Coming into his office ("What is here? A wake?") to find his uncle and Dallas steaming about the smear item Sidney had planted, Curtis paces, runs fingers through his greasy hair, and then picks up their cue: they want a fight, OK, he'll bounce, circle, jab and jabber like a boxer in a Garden prelim. Out on 52nd Street with J.J., he pleads, "Stop beating me on the head...
...lack of this social capital. Until the late 1980s, he was known as an advocate of the more conservative view that black society was ultimately responsible for this deficiency. This stance, coming from an African-American, won him the appreciation of the right and drew a certain amount of rancor from the left, particularly among liberal black Americans...
...West Djukanovic's star has clearly faded since Milosevic's ouster. Foreign Minister Lukovac recalls with rancor how the President and his allies were once the West's darlings when Montenegro was a base for funding the anti-Milosevic opposition. "All that is now forgotten," Lukovac says. "We are, it seems, disposable friends." But Western officials still must deal with one reality that is not easily disposed of: those Montenegrins who want independence, come what...
...Toward the end he often soured into rancor and vindictiveness. He laid a paranoid rant on Alec Wilder when the esteemed musicologist asked permission to quote snatches of Berlin songs for his study "American Popular Music." And though Berlin enjoyed writing parodies of other composers' songs, he sued Mad magazine for a 1962 folio of song parodies, including several of his ("Always," "A Pretty Girl..."). The suit was eventually dismissed. Finally he believed that a cultural environment that ignored his contributions was no culture at all. "Show business?" he told a friend. "There's no more show business! We whistle...
...emerged on Capitol Hill after a period of incredible bipartisanship and unquestioning cooperation. Democrats and Republicans are again at odds over a new economic stimulus package. Many Americans are disappointed that our recent Era of Good Feelings didn’t last any longer. However, as dirty as partisan rancor can be, this is really a reinstatement of the system of checks and balances essential for our American democracy. For once, we should be glad to see partisan bickering return to Washington...