Word: bittersweetness
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Died. Pamela Moore, 26, fledgling novelist, who hit the bestseller lists at 18 with Chocolates for Breakfast, describing a girl's first bittersweet taste of adult pleasures and problems, but had less success with a second novel, and tound her inkwell dry part way through her third, about a washed-up writer who puts a rifle to her head; by her own hand (.22-cal. rifle); in Manhattan...
...with the rough and jeering argot of Parisian streets. Legionnaires listened to his records in the crumbling days of French Indo-China. They can still be heard in Hanoi, as well as in New York, Dakar or any place where hypochondriacs have no intention of curing themselves of that bittersweet nostalgia known as the Maladie de Paris. But his verses are also published in the prestigious Poetes d'Aujourd'hui series alongside Rimbaud, Baudelaire and Valery, and his music is among the best now being written for French song...
...Hour turns up a decade or two late. An old-helmet romantic drama about occupied France, it has Simone Signoret as the chic Parisienne who is drawn into the Resistance movement by the irresistible U.S. flyer (Stuart Whitman). Together they make their way to a bittersweet parting at the Spanish border, along an underground route as familiar as the Champs-Elys...
...bittersweet reminiscence that prefaces his autobiographical novel, Agee wrote: "We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child." Thus the tone is set for a love poem embracing five generations of Follets, seen circa 1915 through the lens-sharp perceptions of Jay's son Rufus. There are moments when the film seems about to capture this elusive poetic mood: Jay and Rufus at the picture show laughing at Charlie Chaplin, then moseying home after dark; a visit to Rufus' great-great-grandmother...
...PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE, by Peter Shaffer, are clever, stylish, airy and bittersweet. These two one-acters explore the moods of love, antic and frantic. The players-Barry Foster, Geraldine McEwan, Brian Bedford and Moray Watson -are attuned like a fine string quartet...