Word: vitriolic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Vitriol flowed freely in court as attorneys in the O.J. Simpson case traded barbs over blood samples sent for DNA testing. Simpson's attorney's claimed the prosecution hadn't been forthcoming on the existence of some samples. Marcia Clark denied the charge...
...vitriol, however, is sure to be a topic of anxious discussion when thousands of America's lawyers convene this week in New York City for the A.B.A.'s annual meeting. And they're not being oversensitive, either. A poll published by the National Law Journal last week concluded that "resentment of lawyers -- ranging from lawyer-bashing jokes to outright vilification -- is running at a fever pitch." Seventy-three percent of the 815 Americans polled believe that there are too many lawyers. Only 5% said they would recommend law as a profession to their children. Concedes incoming A.B.A. president R. William...
...humble wonders and the ironist of old-time virtues, was driven to rages of wit over the suggestive excesses of Tin Pan Alley and the Broadway stage. Cole Porter's gymnastics in verse drove Lardner to postulate any number of revisions that reflected his disgust without diminishing his vitriol ("Night and day, under the bark of me/ There's an Oh, such a mob of microbes making a park of me"). Temperance of any kind was not a Lardner trademark...
...against? Well, the current officeholders and their policies, of course. But besides that? Curiously enough, no clear enemies emerge. This was a campaign surprisingly light on red meat. The Clinton-Gore team wasn't really targeting the business class (contrast its mild strictures with the anti-fat-cat vitriol of an earlier era). Nor was it targeting (as Reagan did so effectively) the "undeserving poor." It wasn't even stigmatizing conservatives as such...
Another of the few fast tracks on Automatic, "Ignoreland," lambastes the Republicans for "wrecking all things virtuous and true" in the past 12 years. In a slightly distorted vocal that struggles behind layers of instrumentation, Stipe admits that his lyrics are "vitriol," but feels "better having screamed" about the GOP menace...