Word: bittersweet
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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From the sideline, from the stands—Bell looks back on it all with bittersweet fondness...
...sitting in a Paris café drinking orange pressé on an unusually warm spring day. "I've always said that what I do is the traditional chanson Française, with three couplets and three refrains." Delerm's songs often set a somber tone; rain-drenched streets and bittersweet imagery are the backdrop for stories of complicated couples, tangled communications and missed moments. He doesn't use amplified guitars or electronic squeaks; just his voice, the piano and occasional strings. "Because of musicians in the last decade like Fersen, people are paying attention, which opened the doors for others...
...heard, he's married to Gwyneth Paltrow), Martin has never quite fit as a traditional rock star. He's just too wet. And while it's O.K. to be sensitive, it's asking a lot to be sensitive and cliched. That taste in his mouth on The Hardest Part? Bittersweet. His head? In the sand. The clouds? Silver lined. Still, the man can flat-out sing, and when the band whips up its beautiful hurricanes and he stops trying to fix us (yes, there's actually a song called Fix You), X&Y has moments where you really can lose...
...gently taken him aside and encouraged him to consign it to that great literary recycling bin into which unwritable novels go. As a writer Hornby is one of the great welterweights-lots of comic flair, good with the voices and the pop culture, always ready with a dash of bittersweet pathos-but he's not generally thought of as swinging a heavy bat, intellectually speaking. There's a reason his books get turned into movies starring John Cusack (High Fidelity) and Hugh Grant (About a Boy) and not Sean Penn and Russell Crowe...
Millardi’s comments were a bittersweet farewell to a space she has used for 40 years. She lauded the studio as an integral part of the dance community...