Word: bittersweets
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What also made those individuals’ swims bittersweet was the fact that other teams in the Ivy League—like Princeton, Yale, and Pennsylvania—had been improving at a faster rate and recruiting with greater success than Harvard...
...they expect—even if they’re not sure what subject matter they crave. The reasons for the public’s new demand for thoughtful, considered analyses and subsequent aversion to the phoned-in paperbacks they so recently tolerated might make the current industry climate bittersweet. Nonetheless, who could really view the shift as anything but positive? Sept. 11 was certainly a cruel awakening. For literature’s sake, let’s hope we stay awake...
...from reality. The marvels of digital animation do not detract from the “actors.” The Pixar crew can pack a truly amazing amount of emotion into the eyes and expressions of their creations—emotions that run the gamut from manic hyperactivity to bittersweet poignancy. Nor can technology save a bad story: Screenwriter Andrew Stanton has made sure that his characters trade deliciously witty back-and-forth retorts that are complemented, not dwarfed, by the technology that brings them to two-dimensional life...
...story equal power. The story is too short and well crafted to ruin with synopsis, but it reveals the humanity of the sort of rambunctious young men who seemed so callous in “Think of England.” “Boys” provided a bittersweet ending to the evening, bringing the other stories into focus with a tragic ending that touched on the fears inherent in all of them: growing old, the tragedy of love, the desire to find something transcendent in life...
...kitchen every day, cooking. His kitchen is calm and silent now, uber-professional; he's dispensed with the angry outbursts he was once known for. But in 2003, when Keller, 45, plans to open a restaurant in Manhattan, he's going to segue into an overseeing role. He feels bittersweet about that. Keller, whose knees are going out on him after years in the kitchen, tapes them up each morning before going to work. "Standing on your legs every day for 16 hours a day for 17 years, it's like Michael Jordan running up and down the basketball court...