Word: triumph
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Following closely on the heels of Harvard students' triumph racking up Rhodes Scholarships, yesterday eight Harvard students won British Marshall Scholarships...
...Michael) is a rotten, unfeeling, abusive cad, and inflicts a humiliation upon a naive and innocently hopeful young woman. 2)Instead of a Havisham withdrawal, however, the young woman goes vividly public with her trauma and plays the story out in the media, turning her shame not only into triumph but into revenge. Thus Nicole paraded her drama all over national television last week. Broken dreams make you a star. The contemptible non-groom was holed up in Tahiti, where the honeymoon was to have been. The louse did not get to the beach much, because a cyclone blew...
...this sounds as if it could be the stuff of which melodrama is made--or as if it could be a heart-wrenching and uplifting success. As it happens, it's neither. Bent lies somewhere in between, neither a failure nor the transcendent triumph it aspires to be. The film suffers from a number of structural problems which distract from its central themes. It's too slowly paced, weighted down by scenes consisting either entirely of dialogue, or of silent, slow and repetitive motion--there's little action and much less spectacle. And, since most of the movie's lines...
...memory of which he must recover. This brings on Robin Williams as--what else?--the humanist shrink, himself a troubled soul, but, like Will, redeemable (they are both baseball lovers). Hearts sinking, we are obliged to endure much pseudo-serious gabble as we head toward another painfully predictable triumph of the human spirit. There must be some better way of hunting our--and Oscar's--goodwill...
Four additional touchdowns, coupled with a solid defensive performance, cemented the Bulldogs' first triumph of the 1997 season...