Word: vitriolic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...song on this new disk exemplifies this better than the first one, "When The Spell Is Broken." The minor chords issuing from Thompson's twangy, vibrettoed guitar rumble and lament like a Scottish funural dirge, and his solo swoops gracefully and reverently around them. The words, though, are pure vitriol, worthy of an especially pissed-off Dylan or a younger Graham Parker. The extremity of its despair makes this song frightening, with appropriately violent references to love letters that are "pushed back down your throat and leave you choking...
...quarters of the money ads has gone to campaign advertising. Through August, for instance, the candidates purchased air time for more than 15,000 commercials, roughly 11,000 for Helms and 4,000 for Hunt. Those numbers add up to about five and a half days of non-stop vitriol. Since August, Helms and Hunt have stepped up the onslaught...
...White House press conference last week, Reagan did not appear particularly troubled by the vitriol coming out of Moscow. "Yes, the Soviet Union is unhappy," he observed. "They are unhappy because for the first time in a couple of decades we are preserving our security ability." If the Soviets were so concerned that the U.S. would surpass them in the arms race, said Reagan, they should come back to the negotiating table. The President pointedly avoided chastising the Kremlin for its treatment of the Sakharovs. "I just have a feeling that anything I might say publicly could be injurious...
...worldwide and made Bar Owner J.E. ("Bud") Clark, 52, something of a local celebrity. When the bearded, self-proclaimed agnostic announced he was running for mayor this year, everyone was again amused. He campaigned diligently, however, and Incumbent Frank Ivancie worriedly began calling him "a born-again pagan." The vitriol backfired, and Clark astonished the disbelievers by stomping Ivancie and three other candidates with 55% of the vote. "I believe it," said the new mayor, who then went off on a four-day fishing trip...
...Sparts descend on Anderson with all the vitriol of a permanently irrelevant sect. "Some of us, including the Spartacists," writes Tom Cowperthwaite, as if the two were somehow different, "have chosen not to wear every radical-sounding button on our chest (sic)..." But just sentences before, he accuses Anderson of hiding his politics to keep "his radical-chic image intact." Which is it. Tom-of-the-non-radical-chic-image? Alden Cavanagh, displaying the SYL's talent for historical discrimination, subtly equates Anderson's original letter with Hitler's Big Lie, and then oddly smears Anderson for having defended...