Word: bittersweetness
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...Despite all this, the other two business angels came through with $5.6 million, enough for Matchbid to operate until it breaks even. The firm expects sales of $24 million this year, and things are looking up. For Dicke, the outcome is bittersweet. "It was difficult to explain that Richard left," he says. "We were very close." He still has faith in the New Economy, even if his former partner and father...
...Ryder and gang dancing to "My Sharona" in the gas-station convenience store (Reality Bites); John Cusack holding up the boombox (of course); Michelle Pfeiffer singing "Making Whoopee" on the piano; seasons changing as Hugh Grant walks down the Portobello Road to "Ain't No Sunshine" (Notting Hill); the bittersweet use of "Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head" in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and of "I Love the Nightlife" in Last Days of Disco; Abba songs punctuating Muriel's Wedding; that inimitable discussion of "Like a Virgin" in Reservoir Dogs; "No More Mr. Nice Guy" in the background...
...members (and lawyers) get to revive the age-old battle between the First Amendment and its old foe, good taste. And, as is so often the case, the First Amendment victory is bittersweet...
...much as anyone to burnish the image of the gentleman gangster. He has had 21 books published, mostly thinly disguised autobiographical screeds with rosy depictions of gang life. Of course, the books are pure pulp?a sample chapter heading from one 382-page tome: "Oh, Finger Cutting! Such a Bittersweet Glory"?but readers lap them up. His Son of the Fire sold 200,000 copies. Cho chopped off his own pinkie in public in 1974 after an ethnic Korean gunman from Japan shot the wife of dictator Park Chung Hee. Called danji (finger chopping) the gesture was immortalized by independence...
Harvard's weekend split places it solidly in third place behind Ivy co-leaders Penn and Princeton. The Crimson will take the bittersweet taste of this past weekend into next weekend's road trip to Brown (9-11, 3-4) and Yale (7-13, 4-3). Princeton rolls into the Palestra tomorrow to play Penn for first place in the league...