Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...performance deteriorates into a caricature of The Beautiful People of that period. Michelle Phillips passes for the leading lady in Valentino, but not very well. At first, she greets Valentino's Latin love with a mixture of nonchalance and sassiness, a staged prelude to the actor's ultimate triumph. But Phillips's acting is always passive; like Nureyev, the former member of the Mamas and Papas finds herself in the midst of an unfamiliar medium of entertainment, and only a director completely in command of his work could have furnished the guidance that Phillips so badly needed...
...FOREIGNERS living there, turn-of-the-century Peking remained a "Forbidden City." The pleasures of the hidden quarters, lying in wait for the foreign touch, only suggested the more refined, if more hidden, pleasures of the Imperial count. With their triumph over the native Boxer rebels in 1900, Westerners penetrated the political decadence of Peking. But beneath its new mask of subservience to the West, the reality of the old court, filled with power-hungry eunuchs, stocked with useless riches, was preserved...
...Crimson had delivered the knockout punch early, withstood numerous Big Red efforts at resuscitation and walked off the field with an important 17-7 triumph that sets up a first place battle of unbeaten Ivy leaders next Saturday at the Stadium. Dartmouth will be in town, and that means...
...Deacon Blues" is the blues of this album, at the same time it is the album's triumph. It is sad Steely Dan left its rock and rollpulpit for the endless plane of jazz; it is one of a handful of bands which can do justice to a rapidly whithering art. But Aja comes across as Steely Dan's "breaking on thru"; their growth is so limitless and their potential so boundless that it way only a matter of time before Aja had to arrive. Becker and Fagen are all that's left of the original Dan. Their everpressing musical...
Last night, Dusty Baker provided the Dodgers with their second grand slam home run in as many post season games as Los Angeles evened its series with the Philadelphia Phillies with a 7-1 triumph...