Word: exultancy
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...theater's premiere, directed by Timothy Mayer, is if anything too faithful and tame. Shakespeare's play depicts a civil war brought about by a usurper King and the self-serving pretenders to his throne. Some productions emphasize the martial valor of the King's ablest rival, Hotspur; others exult in the merriment and dissipation of the Prince of Wales' favorite companion, Falstaff. The closest that Mayer comes to taking a point of view is to underline the play's presumption that history is made by men, not social forces: he ends many scenes with one or two figures frozen...
...Taliesin West's matriarch Mother. She also fell in love with the distinguished-looking, 6-ft. 4-in. Peters, then 57. Soon Svetlana was pressing for an early wedding, and less than three weeks after her arrival in Arizona, she and Peters were married. Mrs. Wright was heard to exult, "Now I can say again, 'Svetlana...
...look and talk tough. Chest heaving and frowning become measures of character. Entrapment, humiliation, accusation and scorn rise above sympathy and understanding. The debates and their breathless aftermaths demand a winner. If there is none on first viewing, one will be created. One contender is expected to exult and preen, the other to scowl and slink out of town, like Floyd Patterson after his K.O. by Sonny Listen in Chicago. It is the heavyweight championship of politics, and in the ensuing days the air waves are filled with videotape highlights. It is a lousy way to choose a President...
...President Bush decried, that was not for Dallas. Caution, timidity, they were not for Dallas. Why, don't people say that Trammell Crow, the warehouse king, added a $160 million wing to the Loews Anatole Hotel just to get Reagan to stay there? And didn't Reagan exult upon arriving, "I've always felt I carried some of that Texas spirit with me 365 days a year...
...information. We find ourselves mired in such phrases as "that she could embrace his flaws was in the fabric of her passion." A best friend of Jean Harris's, elsewhere sympathetically portrayed, has this stereotype forced upon her. "Ever after, she used the same phrase...'Instant take!' she would exult, tossing back her handsome white-blond head and whinnying like the very expensive palomino pony she much resembles." Alexander's efforts to push this initial descriptive segment of the book to artistic heights falls flat...