Word: triumphalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although it is quite obvious why Jean and Ray are having this affair--from childhood they have relied on each other in order to survive the abuse they have gone through, "holding on to each other" as Ray puts it--it is still difficult to see it as a triumphal moment when they finally run off together after a dramatic scene as they are leaving Billy's funeral. Their story is a great love affair, but it is also an incestuous escape from the outside world, which with few exceptions had chosen not to help the Johnson children...
This game was supposed to be the triumphal return of senior captain Brendan Bibro. Instead, Bibro joined the front line in time for a thrashing...
...mission. Once again there will be the program-pre-empting coverage; once again Annie Glenn and her family will be seen watching anxiously as the rocket that carries the head of the household explodes off the ground and falls back to Earth; once again there should be the triumphal return...
...about China's drive to catch up with the U.S., the ferry draws alongside a large, modern cruise ship. "There, you see! That big cruise ship is America: big, comfortable, but slow. Our boat is like China: dirty, poor, but faster. We are developing more quickly." He gives another triumphal tug on the horn...
...clinic on the architectural structures in the museum's surrounding art-works -- in this case the architectural prints featured in the "New York/Rome" exhibit. The roof of the clinic structure, for example, is modeled on the temple depicted in a 17th century print by Gerard Audran of the Triumphal Entry of Constantine into Rome.. By merging his installation into the museum's high-brow art works, Avery intends to enshrine the clinic. He wants to recreate the medical world within the traditional temple of the museum...