Word: soured
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...editors of The Dartmouth Review were getting testy. The readers were bored, Pat Robertson was running amok in the primaries, and things were looking generally sour for Dartmouth's conservative vanguard. Something had to be done...
...wonder, then, that such a motley class has assembled here on the bleak prairie outside Waco. There are a former helicopter pilot and a nurse, out-of- work oil roughnecks and two grandmothers, a bookkeeper and a county jailer. Even a computer programmer. People with lives gone sour or careers on hold. People treading water, looking for a break. For them the open road beckons as a great new beginning. "I'll make my husband's $45,000 within two years," whispers Goodrum. She and a friend have enrolled so they can travel the country with their trucker husbands...
Good Ol' Glory: It may be just sour grapes, but Columbia's Wally Halas is our nominee for quote of the week...
...miscalculation and highly uneven acting. Some of the performers are tripped up by Eric Korn's half-arch, half-vernacular translation, in which vulgarity and clumsy colloquialism ("Is death the net result of all my love?") clash with the neoclassicism of the set and costumes. The plot is a sour inversion of the lovers' tangle in A Midsummer Night's Dream: Orestes (Kevin McNally), son of the murdered war hero Agamemnon, pursues his cousin Hermione (Penelope Wilton), daughter of Helen of Troy, who in turn loves Achilles' son Pyrrhus (Peter Eyre). But Pyrrhus, although betrothed to Hermione, has insulted...
...United Nations Security Council reacted to the deportations by passing yet another resolution denouncing Israel's tactics. The U.S., which supported a resolution two weeks ago urging Israel not to go through with the expulsions, abstained from the 14-0 vote. U.N. officials were also indignant at the sour reception Under Secretary-General Marrack Goulding received last week in Jerusalem. Goulding, a Briton assigned by the U.N. to investigate conditions in refugee camps, was snubbed by most Israeli officials, then denied access to two camps he tried to visit. When he finally made his way into the Gaza camp...