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...From Here to Eternity (1953). The role that saved Sinatra's stalled career (and spawned the horse's head incident in The Godfather) is doomed Pvt. Maggio. The movie is a bittersweet classic, from Burt and Deborah Kerr's seaweed scene to a lot of Montgomery Clift's best stuff. Oscars galore. See it again...
...arrangements, in combination with the lyrics, also convey a greater artistic maturity: any pop fluff that sweetened the band's previous releases has been replaced with a pastoral gentleness and "a bittersweet taste of a time and another place before." "Leave This City," the song that concretely conveys this disillusionment, is a depiction of an urban neighborhood as an Audrey Hepburn character would see it. One can picture Holly Golightly's jaded visage at the "boarded-up...cinema" lamenting the "strawberry dreams & the dust-filled beams/shut down in a modern town." "Another Flavour" is perhaps the largest exception...
Furthermore, Yale is eager for revenge, having dropped two consecutive editions of The Game to Harvard. Last year, Hu bade a bittersweet farewell to Harvard, carrying 40 times for 177 yards--the most ever by a Harvard runner against the Elis--as the Crimson withstood a late Bulldog surge...
...Critics Association this year for "enriching Boston...with provocative productions of contemporary Irish and Celtic works." Their production of Red Roses and Petrol, although not perfect, quietly continues this tradition of excellence. Life goes on for Enda's family members as he watches from his videotapes; their angry, funny, bittersweet reunion will strike a chord of recognition in the heart of anyone who has ever attended a family gathering...
Ironically, the most invigorating performance of the evening came with the first encore, for which Hatfield performed two 1989 Blake Babies standards, including a supercharged version of "Take Your Head Off My Shoulder." The song, originally bittersweet pop, was brilliantly re-interpreted as emotive pop-punk. That Hatfield's most bracing offering was culled from her oldest material, was surprising and somewhat discouraging...