Word: bittersweetly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...letter, offering to work for him, she had enjoyed a lucky life. As a Stockholm teenager, she got the first movie job she ever tried for. By the time she turned 24 she had made eleven movies, including Intermezzo, in which she played a young pianist who has a bittersweet affair with an older man, a famous violinist. David O. Selznick had bought the remake rights in 1939 and brought Bergman to Hollywood to re-create her role opposite Leslie Howard. The film made her a star, and Selznick made an image for this shy, frugal, occasionally awkward young woman...
...book find its own audience." One nine-year-old requested, "Please send me the facts of life in number order." Blume replied, "Ask your parents." She hates to see her explicit novel of first love, Forever, on the shelves next to books for younger children. The bittersweet romance, however, is the volume most requested by teens in the New York Public Library...
...elders and sneering to his peers. "Hey, Wally, if your gunky brother comes with us, I'm gonna Oh, hello, Mrs. Cleaver, I was just telling Wallace how pleasant it would be for Theodore to accompany us to the movies." In his high-pitched whine, Beaver supplied the bittersweet moral: "You know, Wally, I guess even creeps like Eddie got to have friends...
...Stones' first LSD trip and to the type of revelation that inspired kids to grow their hair long, curse their parents and sleep five to a bed. Hair is about whatever happened to the Stones and everyone else. It's a series of vigorous pop numbers and bittersweet comedy schticks covering the familiar themes of the decade before last. When it opened 14 years ago on Broadway. It shocked and delighted, drawing nationwide attention for its frank treatment of racial tension and a brief nude scene that closes the first act. Boston authorities tried unsuccessfully to ban Hair...
...teacher, Anne Sullivan, some 20 years after the events recorded in The Miracle Worker. In that play, Sullivan led the deaf and blind Keller in a long night's journey into light. The sequel is quite different. This is a tale of fiercely kindled passions and the bittersweet bondage of entwined destinies...