Word: bittersweet
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...CROP OF biographies appearing in bookstores recently has been grim, glutted with post-Watergate tales of sin, the Fall, and redemption by the likes of Haldeman, Colson, Dean, Magruder and, eventually Nixon. So Tony Hiss '63 does us all a service with his bittersweet offering Laughing Last, a readable and engaging biography (if it can be classified as such) of his father, Alger Hiss. While the Nixon gang and assorted witnesses and prosecutors continue to churn out bestsellers, this slim volume may be lost in the flood tide of confessions, which is a shame, because Hiss brings a great deal...
...material checks Fellini's growing affinity for the self-indulgent excesses that emerged in Roma and Satyricon, yet the gaudiness and affected posturing of the clowns enables him to at least satisfy this inclination without damaging the artistry of the film. An ultimately compassionate insight into the bittersweet experiences of life's buffoons, The Clowns provides a fairly painless introduction to Fellini for the moviegoer unfamiliar with his work, while supplying a refreshing contrast with the bulk of his recent films...
...gotta keep movin"' sings the opening soloist in Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope, and that's just what this all-black revue does--from songs of bittersweet confrontation and celebration of black awareness to prayers for the brotherhood of man, from mock minuet and kick lines to sinuous rhythm and blue writhings...
...Britain's Royal Ballet A Month in the Country, the Ivan Turgenev play about the foolish love of an older woman for a young man. Far from sad and tormented, however, Ashton's musing on middle-age folly emerges as an airy confection of elegant humor, bittersweet lyricism and charm...
...speaks her loneliness, and her smile is one of regret. "When you're alone, sometimes you feel you'd done the wrong thing, not having a family..."Bank's sensitive documentary, combining direct interviewing with shots of old sepia photographs, is just right for the subject--short and bittersweet...