Word: triumphale
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...1990s sometimes look like the '80s turned inside out, as if the nation had been wearing a reversible raincoat. The gaudy, triumphal colors flashed during the Reagan years are suspect now. Or else they are remembered somewhat wistfully. The full national regalia was last worn when the troops came home from Desert Storm, which seems a while...
...what about Cuba? El Fidelissimo is just 90 miles from exiles who are stepping up their plans for a triumphal return from Florida, while he's 12,500 miles from the nearest country whose ruler still calls him Comrade. The only suspense is whether his political demise will precede his physical one (he is 64 and has smoked too much...
...draws no particular political symbolism from the text, and his harmless, rather charmless tonal score simply galumphs forgettably along. Far more Ubu-like are the sets and costumes by artist Roland Topor, which achieve startling new depths of vulgarity through their persistent evocation of feces and entrails. Is a triumphal arch crowned by a defecating man waving toilet paper black humor, or does it go beyond post-funny and into the realm of merely disgusting...
...moment, there is giddy elation, as returning Desert Storm troops touch down on American soil to a triumphal welcome of balloons and bands, spouses and children. "As far as I'm concerned, he is a hero," says Bonnie Cutts, 22, of her husband David, also 22, a naval engine mechanic who is expected to return to Charleston, S.C., in the next few weeks. "He'll be a hero for the rest of his life...
...uttered at the end of the movie, after Patton's dazzling tank dash across Belgium and Germany to defeat Hitler's armies in 1945: "For over a thousand years, Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of a triumph, a tumultuous parade . . . The conqueror rode in a triumphal chariot . . . A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning that all glory is fleeting." One imagines that if there had been a voice whispering in Bush's ear, it would have sounded like Richard Nixon's -- confiding, sepulchral, full...