Word: bittersweetness
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...Bittersweet--Church of All Nations, 333 Tremont...
...best competition-Stephen Sondheim. However, Broadway's Uris Theater is the worst place to hear his intricately clever lyrics. As a tractor factory, the cavernous Uris might pass muster, but as a theater, no. Irony is Sondheim's razor, and its cutting edge is equally present in bittersweet ballads (Pretty Women, Johanna) or in A Little Priest, an antic account of what kinds of pies the varying professions taste like ("Here's a politician so oily/ It's served with a doily...
...want it short and bittersweet, it was ultimately a five-goal Yale outburst in the second period which turned a 2-0 Harvard lead into a three-goal dencit. And though the Crimson would outscore the Bulldogs 3-1 in the final frame, this momentary collapse eventually took the form of a death blow...
...women's deliberation movement modishly turns Susan's' head. Careerism lures her to New York. After six months, Paul rejoins her, keenly desiring a child. Susan refuses to be his "baby machine" and has an abortion without telling Paul. Recriminations. Divorce. New lovers, and a bittersweet embrace at the fadeout. To confuse this with soap opera is to possess 20/20 vision...
...whom one must not refrain from calling ageless, stops the clock and the show with a briskly resilient number called A Little Starch Left. An October-October romance between a carpenter (Peter Walker) and a woman (Sylvia Davis) whose husband is hospitalized and dying supplies the musical's bittersweet plot line. At show's end the pair sashay out of the Golden Days to share their sunset years, and on leaving the theater you may find your own step noticeably springier...