Word: bittersweet
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...Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy,” which starred Will Ferrell and Christina Applegate. He also appeared in a number of television shows, including NBC’s “American Dreams.” He is currently working on “Bittersweet Place,” an independent film that will be released next year...
...world pictures," or ukiyo-e, was painter Okumura Masanobu, and the show has seven of his best. Woman Turning Around (1688-1704), for instance, exudes spontaneity, elegance as well as the faint air of melancholy that is typical of ukiyo-e?a reminder that pleasure is often best when bittersweet. Soon, however, the public wanted not just emotion but cheap, portable souvenirs of their visits to the pleasure pits?even if they lacked the nerve to actually enter. To the occasion rose the wood-block printmaking business. At first its images were mainly black and white, as they had been...
Most Harvard students have experienced the bittersweet ritual of morning postering: being handed popsicle sticks with tape wrapped around them, vibrantly colored posters and instructions to tape said posters upon practically every possible edifice within a one-mile radius of the Square...
MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM'S LAST book wasn't supposed to be the next big thing. The Hours was an audacious, challenging, bittersweet literary novel arranged as an elegant theme-and-variations on Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, and Cunningham expected it to end up in the dustbin of quiet critical acclaim, just as his first three books had. Instead, The Hours won a Pulitzer Prize, and Nicole Kidman, playing Woolf, won an Oscar for the movie version...
...home where I didn't have anyone to race," she says. Of course there were homegrown successes too. Back home in Warsaw, Poland's Otylia Jedrzejczak - who doubled her country's all-time pool haul by taking medals in three events - trains with men. The meet was a bittersweet finale for some fine athletes: eight-time relay gold medalist Jenny Thompson of the U.S., who failed to win the solo gold that has eluded her; Inge de Bruijn of the Netherlands, who won a gold, a silver and a bronze but couldn't match her triple gold from Sydney...