Word: sweeter
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...happy ending or even a resolution, each one points to a struggle to keep writing, a decision not to give up. New York, therefore, becomes through the essays a city of hope that overcomes loneliness; Caitlin Cheevy, looking down at her newborn baby, writes: "Never have I felt a sweeter love." Her emotion redeems her city and breaks through the detachment of New York's generation of writers. Personals, like the ads that the book is named after, faces loneliness head on and tries, by all possible means, to overcome...
...Delaney-Smith insisted that for some reason, this year would be different. Feaster's off season workouts had improved her game--and her sculpted triceps--exponentially. Her shot was sweeter, her box outs more forceful, her sights set higher...
...independence of the state of Israel to be the most monumental event in 2,000 years of Jewish history," says Rustin C. Silverstein '99, one of the co-chairs of Harvard Students for Israel. "Especially given that these 50 years have been tumultuous, it makes the anniversary that much sweeter...
...there anything sweeter than the perfectly executed hoax? DAVID BOWIE, novelist William Boyd and others nearly pulled one off with the launch of the first book from Bowie's new publishing venture. It's Boyd's biography of little-known Abstract Expressionist painter NAT TATE, who, at 31, committed suicide after meeting Picasso and Braque and destroying most of his work, except the painting above. At the book party, English journalist David Lister asked guests if they had heard of Tate. Many had. Bad call. After very little digging, Lister discovered that Tate, photo and all, was a fiction. Boyd...
Full of such grace notes, A Little Sweeter (Verve) is nevertheless a curious album, and not just because it opens with an ambitious but maudlin version of Eleanor Rigby (is there such a thing as a non-maudlin Eleanor Rigby? Could one even be possible given the known laws of art?). Recorded with the pianist Kenny Barron and his regular rhythm section (Ray Drummond on bass and Ben Riley on drums), this is such a simple, straight-ahead shot of vocal jazz that it could have been made 40 years ago, and yet it couldn't sound newer. This...