Word: bittersweets
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Denniston is only the third player in Harvard history to reach the mark and the first junior to ever do so. However, the achievement was bittersweet considering it came during the weekend's second loss...
Leaving Adams House strikes Fithian as a "bittersweet" prospect...
...brings a disarmingly bawdy and slapstick flair to the more subdued trappings of the period. The second, which whimsically documents the liberation fantasies of a 1950s housewife, manages to disperse comic relief so widely that the result is not tragedy punctuated by humor but a remarkably entertaining dose of bittersweet...
...rallies] are bittersweet," said Allen St. Pierre, an executive director of NORML. "When people turn on their televisions, they won't hear me; the news seeks out the most 'freakazoid'-looking person to fit a cultural stereotype. The major networks continue to focus on negative images...
...Blanche Dubois; now it's Dead Man Walking, with superstar mezzo Susan Graham as Sister Helen Prejean, the spiritual adviser who brings salvation to a death-row inmate, the role for which Susan Sarandon won an Academy Award. The score is by Jake Heggie, a gifted purveyor of bittersweet art songs, and the libretto is by playwright-opera buff Terrence McNally (The Lisbon Traviata, Love! Valour! Compassion!). Will this brand-name opera be agitprop or art--or both? Whatever the results, the timing of the premiere at the War Memorial Opera House on Oct. 7, less than two months after...