Word: bittersweet
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...Womb Existence. With this sardonically bittersweet tragedy, the book begins to shift from a comic, rather hip tale into a complex and moving novel with sharp historic resonances. The grieving Graff delves into Siggy's notebooks, which contain a somewhat fictional history of his parents and of the marks laid upon their lives by experiences during and immediately after World War II in Yugoslavia and Austria. Siggy calls these notes his "prehistory," and his recollected stories seem touched by the bizarre influence of Gunter Grass. On the day in 1938 when Austria capitulates to Hitler, for example...
...Bittersweet Taste. Manhattan's Robert Kulicke, 45, has studied even more closely the gargantuan canvases of the abstract expressionists; he frames them...
...when Kulicke sits down to paint, he produces minute still lifes in a nostalgic, bittersweet style that he calls "more 17th century than 20th...
...could wander off key in every bar, yet the song's content remained pure and intense. Andrews is ten times the musician Lawrence was; her voice never varies a hemisemidemiquaver from the written notes. In the exuberant comic numbers, person and impersonator coincide. But when Julie attempts a bittersweet ballad, like Do, Do, Do or My Ship, the styles collide. Lawrence always suggested a melancholy sensuality; Andrews continually gives the feeling that beneath the lyrics, everything is just supercal-if r agilisticexpialidocious...
...writes slowly and meticulously. He began perhaps his best-known work, Snow Country, in 1934 and did not consider it completed until 1947. A bittersweet, erotic story of the doomed affair of a deteriorating geisha and a Tokyo dilettante, the novel shows Kawabata at his best, sensually describing the darker aspects of life, suffering, love and death. Both Snow Country and the later, highly praised Thousand Cranes have been published in the U.S. and Europe. But many of his score of novels are barely known abroad...