Word: bittersweetness
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Even among contemporary works, there was a distinct lack of poems with a message. Springteen's social ballads were passed over for his purely imagistic "Blinded by the Light," and Ginsberg's bittersweet critiques of American mores were superseded by some of Kerouac's blood imagery work...
...even in this slightly substantial story--which comes across as almost a prose interpretation of his bittersweet anthem "Stardom in Acton" on the "All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes" solo album--Pete vacillates and destroys his message...
...joyous and poignant. It is delicious to watch Ameche, 77, Cronyn, 73, and Brimley, 50 (but he can pass for old), kicking up dust as the stars of a geezer's Porky's. But for the characters' wives and girlfriends (Gwen Verdon, Jessica Tandy, Maureen Stapleton), the spectacle is bittersweet. They realize that at any age, men must be boys, and women must be their sandbox playmates or their strict mothers. Some genders will just never grow...
...hurt to have walk-on parts for real celebrities. Erich Segal is an able practitioner of glitz lit. As a classics scholar (he has taught at Harvard, Yale and Princeton), he understands that readers never tire of seeing the proud and the privileged lowered by fate. Love Story, his bittersweet ode to the Ivy League, established him as the preppies' Pindar. The Class is his bid to be their Homer...
Enter Gilda (Lesley Ann Warren), a singer probably more reminiscent of Vegas glitz than bittersweet ballads, who agrees to front Doc's first song...