Word: bittersweetly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...script with contemporary theatrical in-jokes and quizzical one-liners. As the god of wine and drama, Dionysus quips: "A little wine will get you through a lot of drama." One knows by past performance that the Sondheim lyrics are contrapuntally clever and that his music is astringently bittersweet, but the acoustics round the pool do not permit absolute proof. If Yale should opt for participatory theater, the show could close with a gorgeously refreshing swim-in. · T.E. Kalem
...theme, sometimes getting it on with other players, but always reverting back to the whole group, which, together, sings the main score, "Harlem in the Evening." At times the rhythm is off, the shifts just too coarse. When a love song, "Golden Girl," leads into a bittersweet fantasy of death (originally a one-act play, Soul Gone Home) the movement is contrived. During the entire song a mother can be seen in the dimly-lit background greiving over her son's body. While this accomodates the shift, it is annoying and detracts from the main action. The theme song...
Browder became so identified with a policy of coexistence, in fact, that the Soviets had no further use for him after the fighting gave way to the cold war, and ordered his ouster. He spent the last quarter-century of his life in bittersweet retirement, first with his Russian-born wife Raissa in Yonkers, N.Y., and, after her death, with one of his three sons (all are professors of mathematics) in Princeton, N.J. Between puffs on his corncob pipe and games of chess, he had plenty of time to field queries from inquiring historians. Asked in 1971 whether he identified...
...bittersweet success. Menzies and Meek emerged unharmed from their 31-hour ordeal in the forward compartment, where the atmosphere had remained at about sea-level pressure. But rescuers had to leave Link and Stover (whose motionless bodies could be seen through portholes) inside the aft compartment while it was slowly depressurized; if the men were still alive, suddenly opening the hatch at sea level would have caused a possibly fatal case of bends. When the hatch was opened, the fears were confirmed: both Link and Stover had died of carbon dioxide poisoning. Heartbroken by the loss, the elder Link nonetheless...
WEDNESDAY: Intermezzo. (1939) Ingrid Bergman's first American role in a love story adopted from an earlier Swedish film has her playing next to Leslie Howard in a bittersweet affair between a concert violinist and a young pianist...