Word: bittersweets
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...editorial director of Condé Nast, were dedicated to each other and to their mutual ascent in post--World War II New York City society, lavishing attention on friends like Marlene Dietrich and Irving Penn but often neglecting the young woman sharing their home. The book is a brisk, bittersweet and ultimately forgiving look at two larger-than-life figures and the shadows they cast...
Feldstein seems bittersweet about his departure from Ec10, which he calls a “very important part of my life...
Johnson is also a four-year classical DJ on WHRB, and his final show last Wednesday was a bittersweet reminder that his time at Harvard is almost up. Though he hasn’t finalized his plans for next year, he says he’d like to be a production assistant in New York or a director’s apprentice...
...center of the capital will be closed off so that, in the words of political commentator Sergei Buntman, "vagrants, illegal residents, prostitutes and Muscovites" won't get in the way of the festivities. It's a pointed reminder that for many Europeans, Victory in Europe day is a bittersweet occasion. For some, the official memories are fond. In the French town of Reims, where the Nazis surrendered, there will be three days of concerts, parades and ceremonies, while President Jacques Chirac will honor Allied war veterans in Paris on May 8. In London, pop stars and celebrities will perform...
ENGAGED. Garrison Keillor, 43, beguiling, bittersweet chronicler of U.S. small-town life on radio (A Prairie Home Companion) and in books (Happy to Be Here, Lake Wobegon Days) and Ulla Skaerved, a former exchange student at Keillor's Minnesota high school, who met him again when she returned in August for a 25th class reunion. The marriage, scheduled for Dec. 29 in Copenhagen, will be the second for both. Keillor had dedicated Lake Wobegon Days to Margaret Moos, his radio producer, with whom he shared a house in St. Paul; she has taken a leave from the show...