Word: bittersweet
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...this reason, it was a bittersweet feeling to see ex-Boston Bruins captain Ray Bourque take the ice last night wearing white and red, instead of black and gold. Bourque, who was originally drafted by the Bruins in 1979, was traded to Colorado on Monday. After 21 illustrious years with a now-flailing organization, Bourque--who has never won a Stanley Cup--deserves a legitimate chance to win hockey's highest prize before retirement...
...roof-raising American classical singer and the veteran French composer and pianist rendezvous for a session of bittersweet jazz songs. Legrand selected the tunes (all his own, including Afterthoughts and The Summer Knows), and his piano persuasively conjures the smoky languor of a Left Bank nightclub. But the star of this show is Norman's brilliant voice, which cuts through the nocturnal mood like a shaft of light. Though you can't help wondering what the diva could do if she shrugged off the opera-house manners and let herself go a little more, there's no denying an instrument...
...cigars and music. There are issues that loom larger than a child custody battle. Regardless of what you see at Cultural Rhythms this weekend, as you pass by the Cuban American Undergraduate Student Association's table of Cuban cuisine and listen to music playing in the background, realize that bittersweet mementos will never assuage the hurt of a people under the scourge of a tyrant...
Putnam's impending retirement will make the class bittersweet for both professors and students. West said that he and Putnam had been planning this class over a year and a half ago. "It's a historic moment," West said of Putnam's retirement. "He's the last in a line of powerful 20th century thinkers...
...characters develop naturally and with the complexity of their construction. Their pursuits of love and redemption are echoed plaintively in the music of Aimee Mann, which is interwoven throughout the film and which, in one disarmingly effective scene, assumes a lead role. But the music, too, is simply a bittersweet tribute to modern and everyday insecurities; it's as if Anderson feels so intensely what it is to be alive today that he can't help but burst into song. Which is ultimately what Magnolia proves to be: a lyrical paean to the horrible-beautiful process of living...