Word: bittersweets
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...They were busy buying up all of Allston,” Rees said last Friday. “I had just moved from Allston so it was really bittersweet to see these people planning the chess board of taking over this great neighborhood...
Presson, who represented both boys, found it "very bittersweet" when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week that it was cruel and unusual to sentence anyone to death for crimes committed before the age of 18. "I'm happy for those on death row, but it came six years too late for Sean and two years too late for Scott," says Presson. "We've been arguing for decades that kids don't have the same moral culpability that adults have, and finally, finally, they listened...
...opera, Lost, performed onstage. Shortly after her death in July 2003, Lost, an adaptation of the children's tale Hansel and Gretel, debuted at the New York International Fringe Festival. The sold-out audience was filled with weeping friends, colleagues and admirers. For family members, the experience was bittersweet. "She desperately wanted to see the opera performed before she died," says Jessica's mother Jennifer Schneider. "One of the most painful things to me is that she missed it by only three weeks." Schneider attended many performances and had a professional DVD made of the show. "It connects...
...Pornographers, with soaring melodies and charming boy/girl harmonies weaving in and out of every song. “We will always be in love,” guitarist Amy Milan croons on “Ageless Beauty,” a gorgeous, dreamy number that paints a bittersweet contrast to the heartbreak that wells behind the opener. “You look so good in the shoes of the outcast / I kiss your throat every time we say it won’t last / But then I need you, I need you, I need you / I really need...
Despite his impressive numbers, the return was bittersweet for Callahan, however, as he missed a long three-point shot at the buzzer that would have won the game for the Big Green...