Word: bittersweetness
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BRIGHTON Beach Memoirs is the first play in Neil Simon's trilogy of bittersweet autobiographical comedies with alliterative Bs in the titles. The play is about the early adolescence of a boy in an extended Jewish family in Depression-era Brooklyn...
King was greeted with warmth and respect at the October 20 party. Sporting his ever-present bow tie, the soft-spoken King reflected on his bittersweet experience in Boston politics...
...mistress--Madonna Mendez (Braga), who appeals to his conscience and presses him to effect social reforms, which he does with remarkable ease and neatness. If Mazursky seems politically naive here, that is to be expected. His Moscow on the Hudson and Beverly Hills were similarly naive. They were also bittersweet comedies, in the same vein as Parador, and none of these movies aspires to anything much higher than that...
...Harvard men's water polo team opened its season last weekend at the Eastern League Tournament in Annapolis, Md., with bittersweet results...
...square name is Francis Morgan Thompson. "Daley" is a corruption of Ayodele, an African endearment bestowed by his Nigerian father and mispronounced by his Scottish mother. It means "joy enters the house." "That was the only thing," in Thompson's bittersweet estimation, "that they got absolutely right." His London childhood was something out of Thackeray, not Dickens, though classic shadows like boarding schools were involved. "Since forever, I always thought I was going to be the best in the world at something. My school friends used to laugh at me, but I kept searching for the thing that would express...