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One of the Reno family, Denver Pyle, has nothing to do with the crimes and Scott falls in love with Mala Powers, his sister, who is bitter and unhappy; of course when he turns out to be just another bank robber, she turns against him, despite their obvious attraction and his courtly manners.
Sam continues to be bitter about being -what Dean calls- the "Blonde chick from the Munsters" of the Winchester clan.
I'd like to see a sequel, but I think if they were going to make one, they'd have made it by now... Or, six years later, the psycho killer could have escaped and is hellbent (hehe) on tracking down Jake and Eddie (who are still together and in love of course... or maybe they've split up (over some trivial misunderstanding) and the new danger brings them back together for a bitter reunion... but in the end they realise they still love each other...
Not a particularly good WWII yarn, but worthwhile for Anthony Quinn's commanding performance as a bitter sheepherder who is asked by the French Resistance to smuggle scientist James Mason and family across the Pyrenees.
He is a bitter, mean man who looks only at the bottom line.
The film is shot in black & white, giving it a look that may remind you of some of the classic Italian dramas (post realist) of post WWII (hint: DeSica's 'Bitter Grapes').
The dialogue is marvelous as the couple travels from young and carefree to bitter and cynical.
Her grown daughter, played with passion by Ana Fernandez, is more sophisticated and bitter.
Bitter biting fun, this is the anti-muppet movie, and it's a joy from start to finish.
Obama’s Bitter Afghan LegacyBERLIN – Nearly 15 years after its launch, the United States’ war in Afghanistan is still raging, making it the longest war in American history.
It is against this bitter backdrop that a new Afghan president will be elected and the withdrawal of forces carried out.
It might even help to steer the bitter debates over migration and trafficking of drugs and firearms in a more productive direction.
Bailout operations invariably bring bitter controversy because they help some but not others.
This sentiment is especially acute for Germans, who remain bitter at, as they perceive it, having been Europe’s paymaster during the crisis.
But because it is finance, not democratic civil society, that is pushing back against the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union, the Brexit debate will become more bitter, and the fallout more severe.
But it also adheres to the bitter logic of divorce – which is why most couples opt for counseling.
Research conducted in my laboratory on adults reporting histories of childhood sexual abuse provides a solution to this bitter controversy.
Indeed, the bitter experience WWII taught Europeans how fundamental is the importance of shared values.
The Balkan region remains sullen and politically divided, with Bosnia and Herzegovina unable to institute an effective central government and Serbia deeply jolted by the 1999 NATO bombing and the contentious independence of Kosovo in 2008, over its bitter opposition.
The only freedom Russians have left is to devise bitter jokes that tap the country’s rich historical stores of political pathology.
Another bitter irony was that, in areas that received assistance, neighboring farmers who cultivated food crops soon switched to cultivating poppy because then, too, could then qualify for aid.
By crushing our Europeanist government in the summer of 2015, Germany sowed the seeds of today’s bitter harvest: a majority in Italy’s parliament that dreams of exiting the euro.
In Myanmar, despite bitter resistance from the military regime, Ban pressured the authorities to let in humanitarian aid after Cyclone Nargis devastated the country last year.
Bitter congressional testimony by former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen about Pakistani perfidy in supporting terrorism deepened suspicion on both sides, which a high-profile visit to Islamabad by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did little to ameliorate.
Consider a preventable disease that most people have never heard of: konzo, a permanent, irreversible, upper-motor neuron disorder, common in rural areas of Sub-Saharan Africa that rely on the bitter varieties of the cassava plant as a staple crop.
Thus, the neurocognitive effects documented for non-konzo children in konzo-affected households and communities make it all the more important to ensure food safety in regions dependent on bitter varieties of cassava with high levels of cyanogenic compounds.
If it “attempts to humiliate China...it will assure itself an enemy.”Lee concludes that, “Peace and security in the Asia-Pacific will turn on whether China emerges as a xenophobic, chauvinistic force, bitter and hostile to the West, because it tried to slow down or abort its development,” or “educated and involved in the ways of the world, more cosmopolitan, more internationalized and outward-looking.”
The bitter political, strategic, and territorial rivalry between North and South Korea has generated what is essentially a zero-sum conflict on the Peninsula.
Kenya is embroiled in bitter tribal disputes, and saddled with a brazenly corrupt government.
As we know from bitter experience, waiting only makes a peace settlement harder to achieve.
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