Word: bittersweet
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...America that believed so deeply when Ike said it was happy, and the nation that since developed out of that same era of uneasy, deluded simplicity. The narrative wanders, like Ellello*u, through a landscape of desolate beauty and frightening foreshadowings, and finally comes back to a world of bittersweet humor and fantastic conclusions. The American of the '50s, reborn in Africa, greets Ellello*u as he emerges from the desert, and each calls the other a sham. Each is right...
After exchanging some worn New York vs. Los Angeles one-liners, far inferior to Woody Allen's in Annie Hall, Fonda and Alda get all bittersweet. The heroine's lacerating wit, it turns out, is but a mask for her insecurity. The superficial writing is not helped by Alda's unprepossessing screen presence, Ross's melodramatic use of closeups, or by a gratuitous beach scene that exists only to show off Fonda in a bikini...
Bread and Chocolate. The flavor is bittersweet, but there is much nourishing comedy in this poignant story of an Italian immigrant seeking his fortune in chilly Switzerland. A caustic criticism of two national temperaments...
...fans all over, put away your bats and gloves in peace now. There really is justice in the world. There really was a pennant race, an autumn appendix to the Summer Game. Baseball is dead in Boston until next April, but its death was swift, fair and bittersweet instead of tragic...
...bittersweet flavor laced the economic news last week. On the good side, the consumer price index, after racing ahead at an average annual rate of 10.8% in the three months ending in June, slowed down a lot in July, chiefly because of a drop in food prices. On an annual basis, the index rose only 6%, the smallest increase since December. Unemployment also dipped, falling to 5.9% in August from 6.2% the month before. The bad news was that after months of steady improvement the nation's trade deficit in July came in at a scary $2.99 billion, nearly...