Word: bittersweet
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Something has been lost in the translations. Isherwood's stories were taut, bittersweet recollections of bohemian Berlin in the early '30s. By the time Scenarist Allen and Director Fosse have wrung them out, what's left -with one exception-is mostly slack and sour. The exception is their vibrant star Liza Minnelli, who cocks a derby over a green-shadowed eye and struts off with the movie, or as much of it as is worth carrying...
...characters were more fully developed. Moreover, the long soliloquies which are made to carry most of the burden reveal little about the characters and at least one, Violet's, is totally superfluous. The play is hard to digest, but it does leave one with enough of its strange, bittersweet mood for a successful evening...
...bittersweet ending to a weekend. Football may rank as the more publicized sporting event, but Penn surely came out on top of the weekend exchange of a football loss for a soccer victory. For while Penn's football team appears headed toward less than mediocrity, the Quakers' soccer squad must now rate as one of the top teams in the nation, and the front-runner in the Ivy League race...
...affluent continue their flight to the suburbs (TIME, April 26). The lone remaining source of revenue that the city has yet to take advantage of is an authorized auto-use tax of $10 per car, which, if the city council approves, will net the city another $15 million. A bittersweet city hall gag goes: "We've taxed everything that moves and everything that stands still...
...enjoy "bittersweet and low" rock once in a while, like after a lot of good hard funky rock 'n' roll. Tell Mr. Bender to turn up his headphones and listen to the heavies-if he can hear them...