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...Dylan, who had become Joan Baez's lover, was eyeing that place for himself. In 1965 Dylan recorded Positively 4th Street, a bitter screed that renounced the folk scene he had come from, and by extension Farina, and embraced rock 'n' roll...
...course, part of being a fan stems from playing sports. When I was a boy-back when Bob Saget was a clean-cut dad instead of a foul-mouthed and bitter man-there was one thing I wanted to be when I grew up: a baseball player. But by the time the wheat was beginning to separate from the Little League chaff, I was firmly established as chaff. I had trouble hitting to the outfield, and my fastball topped out in the low sixties with a penchant for hitting the backstop...
...word I’ve been telling everyone [about graduation] is bittersweet,” Turner says. “There’s a feeling of sadness and overwhelming nostalgia--that’s the bitter part, of course. The sweet part is the excitement, the feeling that you’re so ready for the world...
...loss of the Grafton Street Bar and Restaurant is particularly bitter as this small business was overwhelmed by the corporate world as an expanding Cambridgeport Bank takes over Grafton’s space on Mass. Ave. The demise of Harvard’s bar scene is not the only signal of the Square’s gentrification and landlords’ insistence on the high rent chain stores can afford...
...caused by genetic mutations that create dense neural connections between areas of the brain that process sensory information. Ramachandran hypothesizes that in normal brains, a handful of these links might play a role in the formulation of metaphors, which often blend sensory elements of language (consider "sharp cheese" or "bitter cold"). That, he says, may explain why synesthesia is far more common among novelists, painters and poets than in the general population. And, perhaps, why the rest of us, who don't experience the world as synesthetes do, can still take pleasure in their visions...