Julien Temple's bitter sweet portrait is both an elegy and a celebration.
The program by Mark DeGarmo and Dancers, a New York-based modern-dance troupe, includes "Bitter Ground," a portrait of El Salvador.
In an autobiographical novella, Charles Baudelaire characteristically sketched a rather bitter and unflattering portrait of himself as a pretentious dandy and a wastrel.
It's not actually painful… Reading Dovlatov is a joyous, thrilling, usually hilarious experience, in large part because he has such a talent for making stories so concrete: he collects vignettes, loud portraits, bitter jokes, comic tales, absurd episodes, black anecdotes, and then delights in bringing them out of the ether of hearsay or memory and giving them new life in print.
This time she plays a barmaid in "Happy Hour," itself a portrait of "bitter England".
The Maid Chilean portrait of a bitter servant.
It ain't pretty but Invisible Man is a bitter, brilliant and dismayingly current portrait of New York.
And now plans are in the works to bring back "Fences," his portrait of a bitter and resentful former baseball player and ex-convict in 1957 Pittsburgh, which will be the second revival of a Wilson play on Broadway.
He does sometimes buy less strident graphics, like an 1840s ad for "oxygenated bitters" with typography around a portrait of the potion's dour Vermont manufacturer.
Some of the criticism of Mook rings true — his celebrated voter modeling, for instance, turned out to be catastrophically off — but his portrait also carries the stench of bitter co-workers conveniently tossing after-the-fact blame his way.
