Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anti-China legislation in the run-up to Clinton's departure, now concede that the President's trip has been a success, and it's failed to produce the election fodder they had anticipated. Newt Gingrich, who had earlier called for the trip's postponement, admitted Clinton's triumph and approved of a closer U.S.-China relationship through gritted teeth. "It's less expensive to be friends than to be enemies," he noted. And with the Wall Street Journal leading a chorus of praise from traditional Clinton critics as the President was preparing to leave China, White House press flak...
...remains a strong and (sigh of relief) graspable addition to Amos' musical career. Plus, as any true Tori fan knows, her albums--however wonderful or perplexing-- increase in meaning and enjoyability through time. In this sense as well, choirgirl hotel is undoubtedly destined to be a triumph...
JOEL SIEGEL, film critic, Good Morning America: "There are evil movies, like Triumph of the Will [1934], and incompetent ones, like Plan 9 from Outer Space [1958]. But then there are plain dreadful movies, like The Bonfire of the Vanities [1990; photo...
...battle for racial justice during the 1960s; he never flinched as he suffered arrests and beatings during the lunch-counter sit-ins in Nashville, Tenn., the Freedom Rides and the brutal police assault on "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, Ala., that paved the way to the movement's greatest triumph, the Voting Rights...
...Dolores. Ambitious and sprawling, I Know This Much Is True is a monster of a tale about twin brothers, one schizophrenic and one healthy, that covers a Forrest Gump-like time span and touches on issues ranging from Native American rights to child pornography. Lamb's ending is a triumph of simple beauty; unfortunately, many readers simply will not get that...