Word: bittersweetly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...would not inherit the same problems that have nagged Thomson for so long, he is hoping for a guarantee from the unions of future cooperation. Said Thomson last week: "Frankly, we've had more cooperation in production than we've had for years. It's rather bittersweet." So far, no potential buyer has stepped forward. Times Editor William Rees-Mogg, 52, is trying to organize a consortium of management and journalists to buy the daily, and has even received pledges of up to $480,000 from readers. But as the "Thunderer" itself editorialized: Potential proprietors are like...
Avery Gorman's favorite flavor is bittersweet. It may be his only one In Oh, God! he presented the deity as an old man amused and appalled at his creation. In Kramer vs. Kramer he made Splitsville an interesting place to spend marriage. His newest tale concerns the mid-life-style of Steve Robbins, a child of The Bronx circa 1944. Steve grows up indifferent to everything but basketbal played in a schoolyard. But his parents do not include jump shots as a requisite of upward mobility, and the dutiful son soon drifts off court to City College, Equipped...
...capable of handling so many other musical genres that night. She ventured into European cabaret balladry with "Party lights" and "In the Winter," singing with a Continental touch of theatrics over her melodramatic piano work. "Silly Habits," a warm supper-club blues tune, was equally charming. Her encore, the bittersweet show business ode "Stars," presented her at her finest, revealing great songwriting craft while ringing true emotionally...
Despite the occasional bursts of glory, most of the counselors say the experience has left a bittersweet taste. "One mother made us spaghetti; one said thank you; and one asked us to come back," Parrette said, "but most of the parents saw us as babysitters. It was discouraging, but then we were there for the kids. We wanted to say to them, 'You can be like your brother, your counselor, or the man at the aquarium.' Maybe we can't see the effects now, but in ten years when one of the kids comes back from the University of Michigan...
...green-bannered forces of Jimmy Carter flexed more muscle and organized brilliantly to prevail in New York City's Madison Square Garden. But the blue standards of Edward Kennedy waved in defiance, then blazed across the floor in a bittersweet celebration of the vanquished Senator's finest hour?an impassioned call to the Democratic Party not to abandon its compassionate past. The masterly address set even some Carter delegates to weeping. In a convention devoid of suspense but filled with personal drama, the President won renomination yet lost much of the glory to the man he so handily defeated...