Word: bittersweetly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worse sex. Josie, the daughter of his Connecticut tenant farmer, has adopted the manner of a slut in order to hide her Madonna's heart. Their tragedy is that their one night of (sexless) love comes too late. From it they achieve not redemption but a brief, bittersweet memory; not" I enough, one suspects, to light their separate darkening paths into the future...
...curmudgeonly voice that could be coming from the next after-hours bar stool, Wambaugh makes his message clear. Lines and Shadows shows a bittersweet concern for illegal aliens, but the author's most passionate prose concerns the troops at the front. When the shooting stops, he says, policemen are still the most alien-and alienated-of all. -By LD. Reed
...historic touchdown ends Challenger's bittersweet journey...
...breathtaking landing, amid Florida's marshes and palmettos rather than the baked sands of California's Mojave Desert, was a stunning finale to a flight that was, at best, bittersweet: a dazzling display of the space shuttle's tremendous potential and yet a dismal reminder of the continuing frailty of technology in challenging the cosmos. The troubles ranged from the disastrous loss of two highly sophisticated communications satellites, valued in excess of $150 million, to a rash of lesser mishaps: a clogged toilet, the mysterious blowup of a ballyhooed navigational experiment, and a sudden case...
...later in a gentle gospel anthem for the whole town, Beautiful Music. The pop-music style of the '40s is nostalgically evoked in The Birds, a soft-shoe love song for the assistant telegraph operator, Spangler (Rex Smith), and Diana (Leata Galloway). Most effective of all is a bittersweet canonic letter duet for Marcus (Don Kehr) and his home-front brother Homer (Stephen Geoffreys) that develops into a touching antiwar choral...