Word: bittersweetness
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...master whose work always looks like a million, whether on Broadway or Pennsylvania Avenue. As for dancing Suite, he says, "I think it's all about Jerry -- a man leaning on one leg and listening, wondering, 'O.K., what's next?' There's irony and urgency and also a bittersweet quality. This is a man of intelligence, a man of the world, a thinking man." But lest that serious thought prevail, he adds with a twinkle, "Sometimes I think Jerry's inspiration comes out of his beard...
...most moviegoers' minds, Vietnam is Oliver Stone territory -- the metaphorical battleground on which he has played out his burly war games of the conflicted American spirit. French filmmakers have also taken bittersweet & tours of Vietnam; in movies like The Lover and Indochine, Saigon has the poignant glamour of a beautiful woman's photo in an old man's memory book...
Radcliffe's legacy is a bittersweet one. It gave women an education, but in Harvard professors' spare time. It was a stepchild, but its alumnae should be honored, not swept under...
...film winds down to its bittersweet conclusion, one can't help but be amazed at Maarten Smit's achievement. Smit, trained in a special acting school for children, is brilliant. Jeroen Boman is a difficult role to bring off, but Smit succeeds spectacularly. He reminds one of Jodie Foster in "Taxi Driver." Trained as a classical ballet dancer, this is Andrew Kelley's debut as an actor, and it shows. However, this works to the film's advantage, since Walt is really a symbol, magnified and perfected by Jeroen's memory. Feark Smink does a marvelous turn as Jeroen...
What the students could not have known was how bittersweet this moment seemed to Collins. It marked the end of a remarkably rewarding and productive period of his life and the beginning of an expedition into an exciting but uncertain future. Last year, after months of deliberation, Collins left his faculty post at the University of Michigan Medical School to lead the Human Genome Project, an audacious effort to decipher the complete genetic script contained in human cells. Collins considered it the most important under taking in the history of biological research. He was moving from classroom gigs...