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...gently taken him aside and encouraged him to consign it to that great literary recycling bin into which unwritable novels go. As a writer Hornby is one of the great welterweights-lots of comic flair, good with the voices and the pop culture, always ready with a dash of bittersweet pathos-but he's not generally thought of as swinging a heavy bat, intellectually speaking. There's a reason his books get turned into movies starring John Cusack (High Fidelity) and Hugh Grant (About a Boy) and not Sean Penn and Russell Crowe...
Millardi’s comments were a bittersweet farewell to a space she has used for 40 years. She lauded the studio as an integral part of the dance community...
...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...