Word: bittersweet
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...high-stepping, svelte-styled fellow performers are not far behind. With insinuative grace, Judith Jamison uncoils in the title number to lament the bittersweet tempo of the heart at dawn. Gregg Burge and Hinton Battle challenge the speed of light with their agility, and Phyllis Hyman and Terri Klausner pour molten sensuousness into numbers like In a Sentimental Mood and Hit Me with a Hot Note and Watch Me Bounce. If Harlem had a Renaissance court, Willa Kim's color-splashed costumes would adorn...
...caddy for superhero Bob Gaudet for most of his career, played in the finale and turned away 21 shots. The two he didn't get, a three-on-one poke by Jim Turner and a breakaway tally by Shayne Kukulowicz, ended the scoring in what has been a bittersweet campaign for the Crimson...
Neither Reagan's exuberance nor the programmed gaiety of Washington could fully mask the bittersweet nature of the passage of power. As the caravan moves on, someone must yield. It has not been an easy time for Jimmy Carter. Transitions are for winners, not losers. Yet, there was the feeling that Carter had been a better President after defeat than before, that his actions in the transition were more graceful and selfless than when he worried so much about political survival. Perhaps Carter, too, heard voices from the past, like that of Muriel Humphrey in her last days...
DIED. Tim Hardin, 40, jazz-influenced folk singer and songwriter (If I Were a Carpenter, Find a Reason to Believe) whose bittersweet ballads were popularized-with far greater commercial success than Hardin achieved-by such performers as Bobby Darin and Rick Nelson; of unknown causes; in Hollywood...
...would not inherit the same problems that have nagged Thomson for so long, he is hoping for a guarantee from the unions of future cooperation. Said Thomson last week: "Frankly, we've had more cooperation in production than we've had for years. It's rather bittersweet." So far, no potential buyer has stepped forward. Times Editor William Rees-Mogg, 52, is trying to organize a consortium of management and journalists to buy the daily, and has even received pledges of up to $480,000 from readers. But as the "Thunderer" itself editorialized: Potential proprietors are like...