Word: bittersweets
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Chair of the Faculty Executive Committee William Wyatt, who introduced Gregorian, described the "State of the University" as "bittersweet"--both the reinstitution of an old tradition and the only time that it would be delivered by Gregorian...
...Goldmans and the Browns, the verdict was bittersweet. The two families have never been close, and they did not savor the verdict together. At the Doubletree, the Goldmans popped champagne and celebrated. Fred Goldman, standing on a chair in what used to be the clean room, thanked lawyers and friends. "Finally there is justice for Ron," he told the gathering. Patti Goldman and her sister Kim answered the constantly ringing phones, fielding congratulatory calls...
There is a certain pleasure to listening to the record, don't get me wrong, but it is a gooey kind of thing, like eating molasses cookies or bittersweet chocolate mousse. Over all, it is an album better suited to high school, or immediately after, when emotions run hard and deep, and we take melodrama in stride...
Goldfinger failed to have the never-ending energy and musical potential of Reel Big Fish or the comic fare of the Blue Meanies' cartoon quality tunes. Maybe the band should have remained true to its ska influences or instead trailed down a more creative musical path. Despite the bittersweet performance, Goldfinger certainly knew how to handle a live audience, which is more than what some bands could ever offer...
...seem less creations of music than excavations of the soul. A kind of gray, rainy day alternative folk; soundtracks to uninvited solitude between cold, stupid bedsheets. To watch them perform, while indignantly immured in a crowd, hovels away from the sacred gloomy-wombiness of the old bedroom, is a bittersweet and some-what discomfiting experience...