(The character is played by Sachie Tanaka, whose reaction to a friend's bitter charge, her neck muscles involuntarily twitching, is one of the great recent moments of performance, reminiscent of Judy Garland's eroticized eye twitch in Vincente Minnelli's "The Clock").
The Times on Thursday devoted a column of type to the ensuing controversy and Jackson's apology for what the newspaper called his "critical and crude" remarks, which included the bitter charge that Obama was "talking down to black people".
It always makes me think of post-Vichy France, riven with bitter charges of German collaboration, and not a jot of it remains onscreen.
In the background here, not on any public agenda but unmistakably in the air, are increasingly bitter charges by the South Korean opposition that the government is rushing through financial assistance, food aid and diplomatic support for the Communist North with little to show for the effort beyond the symbolic.
Big Media loves conflict and this story is perfect, complete with bitter charges of looting state resources, defections by long-time supporters of Mandela's ANC and frustration in every community as the economy seems unable to eradicate poverty and distribute wealth fairly.
In addition to being in a clearly more powerful position in Oedipus at Colonus, Eteocles and Polynices are also culpable: they consent to their father's going to exile, which is one of his bitterest charges against them.
In her transformation of John Fogerty's bitter, politically charged broadside, "Fortunate Son," into an electronic showpiece, its anger fell by the wayside.
But in Mount Vernon, the course of reform has been altered by a history of bitter, racially charged disputes over control of the school system.
In 1997, relations with the bishop became so bitter, including charges of anti-Hispanic bias, that the church's pastor, the Rev. Bernardo Rodriguez, resigned in protest.
Mississippi's incumbent Republican senator Thad Cochran narrowly beat his Tea Party challenger on Tuesday night after a protracted primary campaign that left a bitter, racially charged debate in its wake.
The campaign was bitter, with charges of fraud, and will do little to improve the image of the party, the Union for a Popular Movement, which lost the presidential election in May and the legislature in June.
