Word: bittersweet
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...once what Baseball Fan and Author Roger Angell (The Summer Game; 1972) calls one of the "sunlit verities of the game." Not any more. Disputes between owners and players have delayed spring training twice in the past five years - precisely the troubled period recaptured in Five Seasons. This bittersweet collection of baseball reporting recounts the fading of other summer truths. Many clubs have ripped up the grass in the ballparks and installed artificial surfaces ("the cheaper spread"). Pitchers in the American League no longer take their cuts at the plate; some thing called a designated hitter does that for them...
...unlike many of the movie's other aspects, the lyrics are not what you'd call accessible. But the musings of Baskin do ring true, and you suspect that if Baskin is not a native of the Southland, his experience with the L.A. scene has been both thorough and bittersweet...
...children of those proud Irish immigrants have long since moved away to a place where everyone is just American. "Irish America" is dead, and Corry knows it; so rather than trying to resurrect the victim he is content to hold a nice Irish wake, full of funny stories and bittersweet memories and a lot of healthy reminiscences about the dear departed. As anyone who has ever attended an Irish wake knows, there's no better way to brace yourself for a funeral than to mix your tears with a few good laughs. In that vein, Corry's book is about...
...James Wixted, Brad Savage). During a long visit by the boys early in the film, he painfully reaches toward them across gaps of isolation, resentment and pride-his own and sometimes theirs. Later, when the oldest son is shot down while serving as a fighter pilot, Hudson has a bittersweet interlude with the boy's mother (affectingly played by Claire Bloom) and decides to return to the U.S. On the way, he is fatally caught up in the smuggling of Jewish war refugees by small boat into Cuba...
...them well. Nearly hobbled by her bleeding blister in Chicago, MacLaine took a shot of novocain, cut out the heel in her right shoe and completed her six-night sellout engagement at the Arie Crown Theater (4,500 seats). Her 80-minute bittersweet reflections on life ranged from a poignant rendition of Irma La Douce to an upbeat, gently self-mocking tune titled If There's a Wrong Way, Nobody Does It Like Me. Backed up by four dancers and a 25-piece band, she kicked, tapped, whirled and strutted her way flawlessly through a string of numbers. "When...