Word: bittersweet
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...film adaptations. These are old men's movies about youth. They tell us that memories are precious because life is short. Mothers will die in their prime, and boys will fall in the Great War -- a war that ended an age of innocence and left Pagnol with a bittersweet remembrance of things lost...
...tough time shrugging off the slump. Cuts in defense spending have hurt the crucial aerospace industry, prompting state economists to predict that unemployment in the Golden State may average 7.6% this year. For Californians like Peter Perkins, a Los Angeles recording engineer, the evidence of an upturn has been bittersweet. After a radio production company laid him off in January, Perkins took two part-time jobs to meet the payments on his boat and a condominium investment. Last week he landed a new full-time position, but at a salary 25% below his old one. "I feel optimistic now about...
Typical American chronicles that bittersweet journey for Ralph Chang, a Chinese engineering student who comes to the U.S. in 1947 for his doctorate; his wife Helen; and his sister Theresa. The Changs initially disdain the lack of tradition they describe as "typical American" behavior, but soon they are stir-frying hot dogs. They also fall under the spell of Grover Ding, an American-born Svengali of free enterprise who leads Ralph into a dubious fried-chicken business, seduces Helen and causes Theresa, the family loyalist, to leave home. The happy ending for the Changs comes not in abandoning the American...
...Invented Baseball," for example, Leslie Hedley elevates the sport to the status of an organized religion, albeit an unusually corny one. Hedley tells the bittersweet tale of a young man who is thrown off his ball team for refusing to participate in his coach's prayer sessions. Unfortunately, the author employs a nauseating stream-of-consciousness style--the entire story takes, place in the mind of a pitcher during one at-bat. In addition, the language used in this story is pretentious and unlikely--would a pitcher really refer to those "whose crayon mouths masticate rubbery soft and juices boil...
...least some of the eight plaintiffs in the case, the victory was bittersweet. In 1984 Gloyce Qualls, 41, was involuntarily transferred from a high-risk area at Johnson Controls, where she welded posts onto batteries, to a safer workplace, where she cleaned and installed vents in motorcycle batteries. The move halved her salary. To get back to the higher-paying post, Qualls underwent tubal ligation. She subsequently married and now regrets that she can no longer bear children. "Nothing really would make up for it," she says. "But this decision will help other women...