Word: bittersweetness
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...Worry?" As Secretary of Defense, Charlie Wilson's record was bittersweet. He strove to apply Detroit's big-business methods to big Government, in his first 17 weeks in office fired 40,000 civilian employees. Over three years, he slashed $11 billion from the nation's defense budgets. But in running the Pentagon, economic efficiency is not always equivalent to military effectiveness-and there can be little doubt that Charlie Wilson, chopping away at the U.S. Army on behalf of the Eisenhower Administration's massive deterrent policies, left wounds that pain to this day. Beyond that...
What seems mere improvisation is a careful and wholly Rederish sense of how each part of a sculpture should balance and play against the others. The Dwarf is not just a bittersweet sculpture of a sadly deformed human being: the strings of the cat's cradle start the viewer's eye on its voyage; the great hands and arms fix the circumference of the block, which is thus both open and closed at the same time. In Aaron, which is 8 ft. high, the shafts around the tepee-like tabernacle are balanced and continued by the symbols...
...natives are really like. It is unfair to Actors Caron and Buchholz, who are pleasant people, but lovingly photographed docks, boats, fish stalls and bit players make it difficult to pay attention to their romance. The viewer's first thought as he leaves is not of the bittersweet ambience of love but of his wristwatch: Does he have time to reach American Express before it closes, to pick up his mail and get some more francs...
Miss Forrester, it is almost unnecessary to say, displayed a subtle power for blending with the orchestra and an uncanny sense for Mahler's bittersweet melodies...
...Section Man is delightful parody, bitter satire, a complex and bittersweet manipulation of a whole kaleidoscope of colors, themes, and images, and already the subject of at least three Ph.D. theses...