Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quite as well as his head. A pantomime that just falls short of being a ballet, Baptiste has a gay, floating, slightly intermittent charm, with more unusual comic effects than choreographic ones. For real substance from the troupe, Broadway had still to wait: their first bill was rather a triumphant avoidance of it, an exercise in sheer airiness and grace...
...them for what was, in fact, an overwhelming switch to Eisenhower. A New York grocer named Vincent Goluch took it hardest, turning in five false fire alarms the morning after election (as he turned in the sixth, police arrested him). In San Antonio, a Democratic boarder, annoyed by the triumphant smirks of his Republican landlady, set fire to her house. "I just didn't like her attitude," he explained to firemen...
...both sides of the Atlantic. Even those who did not like Charles Chaplin's self-conscious new film, Limelight, showered Claire, his leading lady, with such adjectives as "poignant," "delightful," "brilliant," "touching," "charming," "perfect." This week in London, Claire is winding up the second month of a triumphant Romeo and Juliet at the historic Old Vic theater. She has been hailed as the most enchanting Juliet in memory...
...members of Blevins Davis' Porgy and Bess company are more sensitive than most to such snubs: all but three of the 65 in the cast are Negroes. From the American cast's point of view, one of the best things about Porgy's current triumphant tour of Europe has been the relative absence of discrimination. Then last month the Porgy company arrived in London, and became a prompt smash hit (TIME...
After a few brawls and beatings, both justice and love emerge triumphant. Obviously, the "confidential" of the title does not refer to the picture's plot, which is a very model of transparency...