Word: bittersweet
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...Aimee Mann, "Bachelor No. 2, or the Last Remains of the Dodo" Gorgeous hooks and bittersweet attitude to spare. Nothing involving the marriage of melody and lyrics (the basis for songs, last I checked) beat "Red Vines" in these ears this year. Throw in the Oscar nomination for "Magnolia" (inexplicably defeated by the odious Phil Collins entry), a tour with hubby Michael Penn and a worthwhile best-of collection including highlights from her 'Til Tues-days, and it was a banner year for the prickly princess...
...familiar memory to people who remember the South in the days before Brown v. Board of Education - the days of Jim Crow racism (I have thousands of memories of that) accompanied by the bittersweet, paradoxical business of real, exuberant friendships between black children and white children: innocent intimacies, prelapsarian. Those friendships have the quality of Mark Twain boyhoods - not entirely a matter of Tom Sawyer's rapscallion innocence, but something of boyhood bitterly shadowed, as "Huckleberry Finn" was, by violence, alcoholism, hatred, vicious stupidity and the precocious knowledge of evil. Harper Lee had the atmosphere in "To Kill a Mockingbird...
...more than interested as the band played cuts from their new release, Something Like Human, and their platinum 1998 debut Sunburn. Guitarist/songwriter Carl Bell's enthusiasm for his music was particularly evident as he provoked the crowd into standing up and singing along with such well-known songs as "Bittersweet," off Sunburn. When the band played "Shimmer," their modern-rock staple, band members left much of the singing to the audience, which was more than happy to oblige. A dense set and bright, explosive lights complemented the musical energy that crescendoed and climaxed in the band's latest hit single...
...contrast to the tinkling notes that opened Learning How To Smile. While that first volume was a sweet and eclectic (and perhaps corny) manifestation of Art Alexakis' nostalgia, its successor rips those dreamy sentiments to pieces without even bothering to pause for breath. From its bitter opening to its bittersweet conclusion, the distorted fuzz-guitars scarcely let up, striking and churning in sullen anger, often in direct competition with Alexakis' voice...
Yesterday, the inaugural draft of the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA) came to a bittersweet conclusion for Harvard women's soccer...