Word: bittersweetness
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...concierge. Parisians call her La Pipelette, after Mme. Pipelet, a garrulous character in a popular French novel (The Mysteries of Paris). Paris knows her well, courts her favor, dreads and cherishes her power and protection. Last week, La Pipelette's very existence was threatened, and with it a bittersweet slice of Parisian life...
Titled after the shore on which Viola and her brother Sebastian are shipwrecked in Twelfth Night, it was a story based on the blighted, bittersweet life of Charles Lamb and his mad sister, Mary. Among its characters: a laudanum-shaken Coleridge, a sobersided Hazlitt, and an opium-eating De Quincey, who, as visiting friends of the Lambs, studded the play with some witty quotes picked from their own works...
Peggy Wood, who must have delighted theatergoers of yesteryear in "Naughty Marietta" and "Bittersweet," is still very delightful to watch, both for her graceful beauty and her thorough characterization of the well-meaning, suspicious mother-in-law who almost wreeks her daughter's marriage. As her sister-in-law and complete opposite, June Walker is bouncy and very funny. The kind of woman who was once called "ente as a bug's car," she is now pudgy and painted, given to wearing fluffy mules around the house because of "foot trouble" but who nevertheless takes samba lessons. Most...
...bittersweet words of Mr. Trimingham and Mr. Trott, a jingle attributed to a U.S. Navyman on duty in expensive Bermuda in World War II (and sung to the tune of Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean), were being cheerfully chorused in Bermudian cabarets almost every night last week. In a crowded paradise almost 90% dependent on the money which tourists bring in, merchants and hotelkeepers were collecting their highest prices ever-while U.S. tourist traffic boomed along toward a record season...
...traditional four-measure bounds of the popular ballad. He can write gaily, in complicated rhythms (as in Anything Goes). He can match a pointedly off-color lyric with an insinuating tune (as in My Heart Belongs to Daddy). But the true Porter hallmark is cut in the bittersweet lament of What Is This Thing Called Love? and in the sultry, Latin fervor of Begin the Beguine, I've Got You Under My Skin, In the Still of the Night and Get Out of Town...