Word: bittersweetness
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...Savor Brunellos aren't cheap, but their glories can be worth a splurge. Some of the best from our taste test: 2000 Biondi-Santi Rosso di Montalcino, $60 Intense perfume of crushed dried roses and sunbaked plum 2000 Biondi-Santi Brunello di Montalcino, $100 Very pretty, marked by bittersweet chocolate, black olive and roses 1999 Mastrojanni Brunello di Montalcino, $50 Delicious. Touches of cherry and Earl Grey tea and tangy acidity. Look for the same maker's Schiena d'Asino, a single-vineyard version, gorgeous at $80 1999 Castello Banfi, $60 While this is a more modern style than...
...that a gritty depiction of inner-city poverty, drug addiction, and the ravages of AIDS would have broad appeal. (Maybe it had something to do with the show’s rockin’ soundtrack and attractive cast of multi-cultural twenty-somethings.)But all of this success was bittersweet, as the show’s writer and composer, Jonathan Larson, died suddenly from an aneurysm shortly before its debut. The specter of his loss haunted each performance and lent them a funerary solemnity. Unfortunately, Chris Columbus’ cinematic adaptation of the musical is a devastating betrayal of Larson?...
...What accounts for the old-school taste? There's a bittersweet quality to the past that I find very accessible emotionally. Of course, most of the things I look back on fondly I never actually experienced...
...said. “The team played with good pressure and they kept it up the whole time.” With Harvard likely out of playoff contention, Kerr and his players agreed that the remaining games won’t be easy. Seniors began to acknowledge a bittersweet end to their careers. “Every game left this season, we’re just going to go out there and have fun,” Tornaritis said. The Crimson face Providence (4-3-7, 2-3-4) away tomorrow at Glay Field, with hopes of coming home with...
...know Marilou Berry's name, but they will find her face uncannily familiar. The look-alike daughter of France's legendary comic actress Josiane Balasko is lighting up the silver screen herself these days. In two breakout roles last year, she wowed the critics. One of them, her bittersweet performance in Look at Me, earned a nomination for Most Promising Actress at the César awards, France's version of the Oscars. Now, in the just-opened film Once Upon a Time in the Oued, she's winning plaudits for her role as a headstrong young woman who wins...