Word: bittersweet
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DIED. Harry Chapin, 38, folk-rock singer and composer whose poignant, bittersweet ballads about dashed dreams and broken promises included the hits Taxi (1972), W.O.L.D. (1974) and The Cat's in the Cradle (1974); of injuries received when his car was struck by a trailer truck; in Jericho, N.Y. The son of Big Band Drummer James Chapin, he performed for a while during the '60s with a group whose other members were his father and Brothers Tom and Stephen. A social activist and crusader against world hunger, Chapin often organized and appeared in benefit concerts for environmental issues...
...brilliantly danced by the suave Anthony Dowell in a version slightly revised from the original seen in London a year ago. Dowell also danced the lead in Ashton's 1976 narrative ballet A Month in the Country, inspired by Turgenev and Chopin. One of Ashton's supremely bittersweet works, it demonstrates, together with Rhapsody, the septuagenarian's continuing artistic vitality...
...legerdemain, as Allen's boy figure did in the film Stardust Memories. Running into a flyweight booking agent (Jack Weston), Enid wheedles him into auditioning Paul. Terrified, the boy flubs a few tricks and becomes ill. In a total tangent, Enid and the agent embark on a bittersweet mating waltz that ends sourly...
...sometimes writes like Poe's alcoholic younger brother. Helprin's work lacks all the modern emotions and non-emotions that presumably are the bread and butter of modern writers. Alienation, ennui, and desperation all fail to make appearances in this book. The closest approach to the contemporary is a bittersweet sense of loss and of being lost that deepens the emotions of most of the characters, but it remains whispy and gently, one of the beauties of life. Helprin is no one to probe the horrors and malaise of the Wasteland. The characters all avoid direct confrontation with the vaguely...
...context of sports, the word "bittersweet" means having to take the good with the bad. After this weekend's performance the Harvard track team should know all about that...