And "The Green Shore" effectively captures a mood: the bitter sorrow of seeing a beloved nation hijacked.
The Tour heads north, but this festive event, hailed by Louis Aragon as "the race of a summer of men", sits uncomfortably alongside the national mood this bitter July.
Three days later, 15,000 people demonstrated against the killing of five civilians in an army operation.Among the resisters, who have been struggling bloodily for 15 years, the mood is bitter.
"But there is no reason to go around in a bitter mood," he adds.
El Bronco needs a "moral controller", one speaker said.Mr Rodríguez admits that voters' bitter mood has helped him.
Kenya is no longer the world's dominant distance-running nation, and the Kenyan authorities are in a bitter mood.
THE year was 1952, with Dwight Eisenhower about to trounce Adlai Stevenson, and Harry Truman, the Oval Office incumbent, was in bitter mood.
By the time they met in the Carlyle's dining room for lunch on the day of the ceremony to pick the winner, the mood was somewhat bitter.
Such figures only compound the bitter mood, while a more promising character, a youth by the name of Bridger (played by the excellent Will Poulter), falls away.
Oh, and Minneapolis people like sushi; St Paulites prefer their tuna cooked.In short, St Paul's star is rising, but Minneapolis is approaching its mayoral election in an apathetic and bitter mood.
