Word: bittersweets
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...Dernier Verre (Pour La Route)” begins simply, but Condon can’t resist indulging in his horns. Most of the record’s songs are waltzes; most feature the same full horn section, accordion, and Condon’s slow, bittersweet voice (think a higher-register Stephin Merritt). The effect isn’t unpleasant—but the album works best as background music. Some of the songs feature slightly different elements, like the Celtic drums of “Guyamas Sonora,” or the jazzy piano line throughout...
...museums that stand to lose some of their most prized works, it's all a tad bittersweet. The Frans Hal Museum in Haarlem has eight Golden Century paintings from the Katz collection on long-term loan from the national collection. They are works of "enormous importance," says Louis Pirenne, the museum's head of public affairs. "Paintings like these are important to the mid-scale museums in the Netherlands. We buy around these centerpieces in our collection." Although the loss would be huge, Pirenne says his museum respects the judgments of the Restitution Committee. "We've always realized...
...Allston community, where the stadium is located.Whatever the date, the game’s historic appeal remains, marking the first regular-season use of the stadium’s almost year-old lights for regular season football competition.But for the Crimson, it’ll be a bittersweet night.That’s because Harvard enters the game following a dramatic 31-28 loss to Holy Cross in the team’s season opener last week. It’s the first time the Crimson enters its game against the Bears winless since 2000. And after last week?...
...places better convey the bittersweet legacy of Indian independence than the eastern city of Calcutta. It was here that Britain began building its dominion in India. The sprawling mansion that today houses the governor of West Bengal - a chiefly symbolic role akin to India's presidency - was, until 1911, the seat of British power throughout all of Asia. "When the house was built, the British Empire in India was like a little patchwork of crimson spots on the map of the Indian continent," then Viceroy Lord Curzon wrote of the significance of his former abode. "When it was abandoned...
John’s success story is a bittersweet one, and his journey closely parallels the radical transformation of the American agricultural industry from the 1950s family-style American farms of John’s youth into the commercialized, consolidated agricultural industry that began in the 1980s...