Word: exulting
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...moved to Paris at the beginning of 1886 and, as the show's curators note, "underwent one of the greatest transformations in the history of art." In the Paris museums he could see original paintings, including Delacroix's Christ Asleep During the Tempest, and his letters abruptly start to exult about color over content: "Christ in the boat ... with his pale lemon-yellow aureole, luminous in the dramatic purple, dark blue, blood-red patch of the group of disciples, on that terrible emerald-green sea ... what an inspired conception!" He had read about Impressionism, too, but imagined...
...football match is a football match no matter who plays it, and Thailand's jailhouse version has all the ingredients of the genuine article: passion, pain and simply the opportunity to exult in the beauty of the game. "This is our chance to salvage some national pride?and some pride in ourselves as men," says Jovenal Prince, Nigeria's strapping midfield general and team captain. He's 35, and has spent more than a third of his life behind the bars of Thailand's biggest prison. "One day starts to feel exactly like the one before," he says. "You start...
...pure as that of baseball in Brooklyn would have survived the various corrupting influences of modern professional sport. I wonder if the days of walking down Flatbush Avenue and hearing Dodger broadcasts blaring from a million windows would have lasted through those four lost decades. Aging fans now exult at the sight of a Brooklyn ballpark and relive old memories; I wonder what my memories would have been...
...none too subtle Dining In section ("Tonight, my lord, we shall attempt to eat in our very own home!") and just came out and said it. In a front-page story about the Bruce Springsteen concert was this comment: "Many people seemed, for a day at least, to exult in the fact that they too were from New Jersey...
...would be wrong to exult. NATO miscalculated when it entered the war and waged it with self-imposed limits. The armed confrontation failed in its primary aim. Air strikes were undertaken to save Kosovo's Albanians from Serbian wrath, but the offensive that NATO launched gave Milosevic the opening to rampage through the province. It took 72 days of death and destruction to arrive back where the combatants had started: at the original precarious prescription for safeguarding the Kosovars. Except that now 855,000 of them have been expelled from their wasted homeland, thousands have died, and untold others have...