Word: bittersweetness
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...music likewise mirrors Britko's thoughts. When he looks up at a church steeple, "Gloria in Excelsis Deo" briefly enters the soundtrack. A bittersweet fiddler's tune of his dilemma, while a full choral anthem accompanies his moment of decision. Finally, the cheerful and ubiquitous band music characterizes the optimism about human nature which Kadar and Klos insist on maintaining through the entire film...
DARLING. This bittersweet satire sheds crocodile tears for a jet-set playmate (Julie Christie) who lives and learns that a girl who is no better than she should be can do very well indeed...
Terming the move "a bittersweet event," Louis A. Toepfer, vice dean of the Law School, said yesterday that his new post will give him "a chance to work in a growth situation that I won't ever get here...
Without a Song. In 1960 he married Swedish Film Star May Britt. It was a classic union of opposites. Davis is short (5 ft. 5 in.), nervous, the color of bittersweet chocolate; leggy, lissome May Britt could be no blonder, remains serene no matter how large the crisis. Somehow the marriage worked. The Davises had one child, adopted a second, then a third. He pulled away from the Clan, hasn't appeared with them since the filming of Robin and the 7 Hoods in 1964. The drinking went down, the smoking went from three packs of cigarettes...
...Glittering Pie," the overpublicized piece by Henry Miller that caused the banning of the October 1935 Advocate, purports to be a letter from a jaded young expatriate lewdly effervescing in New York. His comments and "funny experiences" constitute an offhand critique of American civilization and the bittersweet futility of being alive. Miller is airy, a bit decadent, worth reprinting but certainly not worth censoring...