Word: bittersweet
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...somebody?" asks the shy Dutch student on a sudden impulse. The girl in the bright yellow dress smilingly answers no. It is Zurich in the invasion spring of 1944. but any day is D-day to Cupid. The arrow of love pins Anthoni and Catherine together in a brief, bittersweet affair. Only when they try to pull apart do the lovers discover that the arrow is poisoned...
...Druten, 56, prolific (27 plays) writer for stage and screen, top-drawer director (The King and I), novelist (The Vicarious Years); of a heart attack; in Thermal, Calif. A reserved bachelor, London-born Van Druten turned from law teaching to drama in 1926, scored flashy success with sophisticated, bittersweet comedies (The Voice of the Turtle, There's Always Juliet...
...best-loved books of the Spanish-speaking world, by the 1956 Nobel Prizewinner-138 prose poems about life and death in the author's home town in Spain. The poems are addressed to the narrator's companion, a donkey, with bittersweet and sensuous grace and delicacy...
Hollywood, turning its best scene-milking hand to this bittersweet trifle, called upon the services of Producer-Director Wilder. Squeezing the last drop of champagne from his vintage script of springtime in Paris, Co-Scripter Wilder achieves many effervescent effects. But his last-minute cascade of bubbles, belly laughs and bathos is overstretched and often repetitious...
Menotti: The Unicorn, the Gorgon and the Manticore (Chorus and instrumental ensemble conducted by Thomas Schippers in cooperation with the New York City Ballet; Angel). Menotti's bittersweet madrigal fable of a lonely poet's struggle with "the indifferent killers of the Poet's dreams" seems almost as effective in recording as it did on the stage (TIME, Nov. 5). The libretto, in clearest English, is thorny with barbed wit, and the music is alternately exuberant and shadowed with the gentle melancholy the poet-hero feels as he slowly dies, surrounded by "the pain-wrought children...