Word: triumphale
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...sideshow. At the entrance to the new "What About China?" exhibit at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Feng Mengbo's life-size video game invites visitors to jump or stomp on a plastic mat; sensors underneath connect to a huge monitor where guns go off and gore flies. Beyond, a triumphal arch of polystyrene take-out food cartons leads to a vast gallery filled with dozens of movie and video screens, paintings, photographs, sculptures, installations and other objets d'art - a swirling kaleidoscope of color and sound. Anticipating by six months France's 2004 cultural "Year of China," the exhibit offers...
...assured them that the Defense Secretary's memo - which suggests a somewhat farfetched alliance with China to topple Kim Jong Il - was not U.S. government policy. But the North Koreans may not be convinced by the soothing assurances of a State Department appointee over the growls emanating from the triumphal Defense Department...
...Sunday's World Cup climax?it was about more than a quick-thinking 67th minute finish and a beautiful 79th minute shot. Yes, those two goals clinched him the Golden Boot award as the World Cup's top scorer, and drove Brazil to victory. But they also marked his triumphal return to the highest echelons of the sport after years in the wilderness...
...Sunday's World Cup climax - it was about more than a quick-thinking 67th minute finish and a beautiful 79th minute shot. Yes, those two goals clinched him the Golden Boot award as the World Cup's top scorer, and drove Brazil to victory. But they also marked his triumphal return to the highest echelons of the sport after years in the wilderness...
Reading in the Norton Lecture Hall of Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum marked a triumphal homecoming for John Ashbery. A contributor and member of the executive board of The Harvard Advocate, Ashbery composed one of his best-known poems, “Some Trees,” while still an undergraduate. Since his graduation and his selection as Class Poet, Ashbery has won nearly every prestigious poetry award in the nation, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry for his 1975 volume Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror...