Word: bittersweet
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Since the Harvard baseball team wanted to win two of three against Princeton and Navy and did so, why does this weekend seem so bittersweet...
...Championships that followed, held on the scenic Princeton campus, were at best bittersweet. The aquawomen finished third--their best finish ever. Although they lost to Brown, a team which they had soundly defeated earlier in the season, the Crimson whipped Yale, one to which they had come up a little short...
Eric's celebrity left his little sister, Beth, 20, in a bittersweet state. She had been swept along in her brother's wake, and some said she could take four golds. The expectations were much too high and put far too much pressure on her. Although she had won the World Championship in 1979, some of her rivals were then still rounding into top form. They were ready for Lake Placid, and Beth finished seventh in the 500, fifth in the 1,000 and seventh in the 1,500 meters. It was an excellent showing, but some newsmen...
...stakes are not high. The people are not emotionally engaging. And such pin-flares of love as do appear seem to have been struck from a wet match. Obsessed as Pinter is by rooms, the drawing room seems to make him a trifle uneasy. Betrayal is a kind of bittersweet Noël Coward comedy in which the people are brittle, and more laconic than witty...
...accentuates the script's failings. Though Huyck cuts frantically among his stories, he tuckers out the audience without ever accelerating the film. The elaborate finale, involving a chaotic end-of-term school play, does not achieve its intended purpose of ty ing all the plot lines into a bittersweet cli max. What is missing is Lucas' fluent visual language. In cinematic terms, French Postcards sadly proves to be not so much American Graffiti as fractured Franglais. Rich