Word: bittersweet
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...about his game. And in May We Borrow Your Husband?, he is still the consummate pro: his picture swing is smooth, his stroke is completely unmannered yet perfectly controlled, his style is at once artful and impeccable. Yet beneath all the skill lurks an unprofessional but engaging note of bittersweet poignancy...
...Thursday, April 6 NBC STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Sidney Poitier is host of the Harry Belafonte production "A Time for Laughter," which flashes back through 100 years of bittersweet Negro humor. Comedy sketches and songs by Belafonte, Diahann Carroll, Dick Gregory, Redd Foxx, Godfrey Cambridge...
...tails, ready for a twirl. Love is the only problem she knows, and that is a somewhat half-witted affair, its contretemps based on misunderstandings that a TV-trained three-year-old could settle in seconds. The battle of the sexes is either mock or bittersweet; one lyric says it all: "We should be like a couple of hot tomatoes/But you're as cold as yesterday's mashed potatoes." All this is sexy only by insinuendo-and thus stimulates the imagination more than crasser treatment...
...elusive, bittersweet quality that gives bite to the blues, soulin' is a Rawls specialty. His style is all his own. Drawing from a mixed bag of songs, he improvises effortlessly within a three-octave range, spiraling up to a keening, gospel wail, then swooping down to a gritty, resonant bottom. Betwixt and between, he intersperses rhythmic lick-ety-split soliloquies. He will lead into Streetcorner Hustler's Blues, for example, by telling of a two-timing hippie who pleads with his knife-wielding wife to take his white-on-white Cadillac "butjustdon'tcutmynewsuit'causeljustgotit outofthepawnshopandlgottohavemy-frontsolcankeepmakingmygame...
CRAZY QUILT. Henry (Tom Rosqui), by profession a termite exterminator, is a completely illusionless man. Lorabelle (Ina Mela), who believes in Providence and butterflies, is a visionary maid. How this unlikely couple meet, marry, and share a long life together is the bittersweet burden of this American fable...