Word: bittersweet
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...play with music and dance adapted from his poignant novel. It shows the seductive folly of revisiting past pleasures -- for a generation that revives its youthful midwinter gala and for a pair of former partners, perfect on the dance floor but not off, reunited in a last bittersweet waltz...
Anthony grew up in the backwoods of Maine, where his mother kindled in him a love for mankind that still burns brightly. "I think I learned a lot of the inspiration" from her, he reflects. "My mother had a heart of gold. I've got a lot of bittersweet memories about Maine...
Barbara's attempt to keep the spirit of peace and good cheer alive at a time of trouble is part of a long tradition. White House Christmases have often been bittersweet affairs. None was bleaker than the 1963 holiday, observed under the shadow of John F. Kennedy's assassination. Back in 1929, just a few weeks after the stock-market crash, Herbert Hoover's family was having Christmas Eve dinner when fire broke out in the west wing of the White House. As fire trucks clanged, Lou Hoover gathered her grandchildren and read them Christmas stories to calm their fears...
...must have been a bittersweet moment for Margaret Thatcher. Minutes after Britain's Conservative Party announced that it had chosen her next-door neighbor, Chancellor of the Exchequer John Major, to succeed her, the ousted Prime Minister dashed through the connecting door between No. 10 and No. 11 Downing Street to congratulate him. At 47, Major had just become the youngest man to assume the venerable office since 1894. As a smiling Thatcher watched from a second-floor window of the Chancellor's official residence, Major emerged to face the press and pay tribute to his political mentor, calling...
...bittersweet ending to the Harvard men's water polo season this weekend at the Eastern Water Polo League Championship in Annapolis...