Word: bittersweet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FREAKS AND GEEKS (NBC) Television has rarely got adolescence as hilariously, soul-crushingly right as in this bittersweet paean to Midwestern childhood circa 1980. With a cast that actually looks and sounds like kids, not Gap models, Freaks takes teen-show stereotypes--nerd, burnout, clueless parent--and fleshes each out with humor and heart...
Thanks for covering not only Pokemon but also anime, the Japanese animated films that are made for theaters, TV and home video [ARTS, Nov. 22]. As every American fan knows, Japanese animation is an eclectic art form. Anime can look like anything: kiddie fare (Pokemon), teenage fantasies (Gundam), bittersweet romance (Maison Ikkoku) and cyberpunk (Armitage). Now that the characters of Princess Mononoke and Perfect Blue have come to American theaters, the rest of the world will finally discover what it means to be an otaku, or obsessive animaniac. American fandom will never be the same. LEE ZION Fair Oaks, Calif...
...This weekend's Harvard-Yale game will be a bittersweet moment for Patterson, who has focused his energy and talent on representing Harvard on the field for the past four years...
...Crimson's bittersweet loss to the Tigers in the final round marked the last match for four talented seniors who have left their mark on Harvard volleyball...
...real and it is depressing even as it takes the audience along on its life-giving journey. To even hint at the ending would be unfair, but let's just say it puts a powerful spin on how the rest of the movie is remembered. Memory was never so bittersweet, but fairy tales were never so skillfully told...