Word: rancorous
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...believe Western credibility is alive and well, despite all evidence to the contrary -- despite feckless diplomacy, a chain of broken promises and empty threats, mounting rancor among the allies and a record on Bosnia so altogether contradictory as to very nearly beggar understanding? What really stood out in red on the Brussels agenda was the unsettling truth that the crisis is about not only Bosnia but also that much vaunted chimera, the new world order...
Palestinian extremists' rancor towardYasser Arafat, who they blame for signing the Israel peace treaty, peaked today when members of the militant group Islamic Jihad unceremoniously threw the PLO chairman out of the Gaza mosque where he was attending the funeral of 35-year-old Hani Abed, an Islamic Jihad leader killed Wednesday in a car-bombing. The murder was the first major act of violence sincePalestinian self-rule began in May. The reception: Mourners knocked off the PLO leader's headdress, shouting "Arafat is a collaborator," and shoved him out a back door into the rain. Many Palestinians blame Israel...
Chapin country is a pretty, melancholy place; sadness hides behind the lace curtains. It's on the borderline between love and loss, where a lover's rancor is so delicately phrased that it sounds like sisterly advice. Everyone is tyrannized by memories -- of a lonely childhood, of words said and chances missed, of a first love whose sweetness makes everything that follows seem both tame and tawdry. Around here, folks smile to keep from screaming...
...Cheever Evening, a series of sketches fashioned from Cheever stories by A.R. Gurney, now at Playwrights Horizons in New York City. It begins with cocktail chatter set to such nostalgic tunes as You'll Never Know and Moonglow, then flares into the peculiarly middle-class ugliness of verbal violence, rancor and self-pity. By the end, audiences should be thinking that the window through which they have seen the sins of the junior executive class is a mirror into their own messy hearts...
...Diller is close to it, and that could create some rancor among QVC shareholders. As the business colleague notes, "They could say, 'Hey, you worked on this for a year and a half, and all you did was get me five bucks over what it was worth when you came in, and this half of what it was worth a year...