Word: vitriolic
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Kearns and Goodwin insist that they had only the quality of the book in mind and never expected such an outpouring of newsprint and vitriol when she switched publishers. Whenever I call Kearns, I ask, "Don't you think you made a mistake?" and she always croons. "No, I just didn't know all this would happen. I Just didn't know," Kearns, in this very sweet way, had the wool over at least one reporter's eyes for a long time. At first she would only talk about Glikes-as-a-rejected-lover off the record, and when...
...Gold, 45, former press secretary to Spiro Agnew. Gold, who appears in 97 papers, dislikes the conservative label, describes himself as a "smartass iconoclast" at a time when "most icons are liberal." Gold's work thus far has been heavier on vitriol than substance. He spent two columns attacking the new reverence for Harry Truman ("I'm tired of all this crap about cuddly old Harry"), and he uses Nelson Rockefeller as a prime whipping boy. He has not addressed the impeachment question, other than to offer one veiled suggestion that Congress "go with the Madison Plan [impeachment...
Light, whimsical, diverting on the surface, this sleek recreation by François Truffaut is deceptively sweet-like a fondant filled with vitriol. The gorgeous kid of the title is Camille Bliss (BernadetteLafont), another of the coyly annihilating heroines who have haunted Truffaut's work since the incomparable Jules and Jim (1961). These women tease men, taunt them, stalk them, until, as in The Mississippi Mermaid (1969), and as here, the men are so enmeshed in their own obsession that they become grateful, impassioned prisoners...
...read that book, because a glance at the joltings showed that many persons used its availability to put on record the anti-bombing sentiments they were nowhere else allowed to express. "Hiroshima=Hanoi" and "Nixon, would you let this happen to Tricia?" are only two samples of the vitriol...
...preliminary platform approved last week was laced with anti-McGovern vitriol. It asserted that the Democratic Party has been "seized by a radical clique which scorns our nation's past and would blight her future," and would turn "back toward a nightmarish time in which the torch of free America was virtually snuffed out in a storm of violence and protest." It piously protests that the U.S. should not perform an "act of betrayal" by overthrowing the Saigon government, nor should it "go begging to Hanoi." And: "We reject a whimpering 'come back America' retreat into isolationism...