Word: bittersweet
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Avery Gorman's favorite flavor is bittersweet. It may be his only one In Oh, God! he presented the deity as an old man amused and appalled at his creation. In Kramer vs. Kramer he made Splitsville an interesting place to spend marriage. His newest tale concerns the mid-life-style of Steve Robbins, a child of The Bronx circa 1944. Steve grows up indifferent to everything but basketbal played in a schoolyard. But his parents do not include jump shots as a requisite of upward mobility, and the dutiful son soon drifts off court to City College, Equipped...
...capable of handling so many other musical genres that night. She ventured into European cabaret balladry with "Party lights" and "In the Winter," singing with a Continental touch of theatrics over her melodramatic piano work. "Silly Habits," a warm supper-club blues tune, was equally charming. Her encore, the bittersweet show business ode "Stars," presented her at her finest, revealing great songwriting craft while ringing true emotionally...
Despite the occasional bursts of glory, most of the counselors say the experience has left a bittersweet taste. "One mother made us spaghetti; one said thank you; and one asked us to come back," Parrette said, "but most of the parents saw us as babysitters. It was discouraging, but then we were there for the kids. We wanted to say to them, 'You can be like your brother, your counselor, or the man at the aquarium.' Maybe we can't see the effects now, but in ten years when one of the kids comes back from the University of Michigan...
...green-bannered forces of Jimmy Carter flexed more muscle and organized brilliantly to prevail in New York City's Madison Square Garden. But the blue standards of Edward Kennedy waved in defiance, then blazed across the floor in a bittersweet celebration of the vanquished Senator's finest hour?an impassioned call to the Democratic Party not to abandon its compassionate past. The masterly address set even some Carter delegates to weeping. In a convention devoid of suspense but filled with personal drama, the President won renomination yet lost much of the glory to the man he so handily defeated...
...Bittersweet, Actress Susan Strasberg tattles about her adolescent affair with Actor Richard Burton, and exposes gritty, drug-fueled scenes from her marriage to Actor Christopher Jones. In Haywire, a memoir that has become a TV film, Brooke Hayward (daughter of Actress Margaret Sullavan and Producer Leland Hayward) immortalizes a family history of divorce, breakdown, suicide. In Mommie Dearest, Christina Crawford depicts her mother, Actress Joan Crawford, as a promiscuous lush given to brutal child abuse. In I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can, TV Producer Barbara Gordon publicizes the story of her ad diction to Valium. In Memoir...