Word: bittersweet
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...lady didn't sing last night at Briggs Athletic Center after the Harvard women's basketball team lost the Ivy League title to Dartmouth 72-48. She conducted an entire orchestra--complete with thousands of fans, two bands and teary-eyed players--in a bittersweet requiem...
...package got a bittersweet reception in Mexico. While Mexicans were thankful for the money, many expressed embarrassment at their country's continuing reliance on Washington. Particularly galling was the fact that Mexico pledged revenues from its oil wells, the country's proudest asset, as collateral for the loans. At a news conference last Tuesday, suspicious reporters badgered Finance Minister Guillermo Ortiz with questions about whether Mexico had made any other promises (he said...
Ulrich was a graduate of the University of New Hampshire, received her Ph.D. from there and has been on its faculty since 1980. It will be bittersweet, she said, to depart from a place she has known so long and so well...
Turbulent Indigo, her first album in three years, is steeped in an even deeper shade of Blue. The hallmarks of Mitchell's signature sound are abundantly evident -- the crystalline arrangements, the unorthodox guitar tunings, the fluid, bittersweet melodies. Her voice, which has taken on a smoky flavor, can still soar through clouds of bass and piano. There are flashes of wry humor -- as in her depiction of a comically inept Lothario in Yvette in English...
...especially costly. At 51, Albert had emerged as one of the leaders of the neo-conservative traditionalist movement, a position cemented by his winning the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for his first symphony, RiverRun, a work that was by turns lyrical, witty and sardonic. So it was a bittersweet occasion last week when the New York Philharmonic premiered Albert's Symphony No. 2: the music was first rate, and that made the loss of its composer seem all the more dear...