Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Duty can be frivolous as well as stern, and it is a pleasant enough to report that the production of The Pirates of Penzance now at the Agassiz is nothing short of triumphant. It is no paradox that the Gilbert and Sullivan Players present the very best in Harvard theater with admirable consistency: they draw consistently on the same, very talented mix of regulars to play analagous parts in show after show...
...woman haunts a region somewhere between autobiography and fiction. Yet it hardly matters whether the woman who tells (or muses) the book's five stories is literally Maxine Hong Kingston. Art has intervened here. The stories may or may not be transcripts of actual experience. They are, unquestionably, triumphant journeys of the imagination through a desolation of spirit...
...Girl Friday. Of the two Howard Hawks pictures playing around this weekend, this is the equally triumphant. In his man's world, Hawks and his screenwriter Charles Lederer twisted the tension in Hecht and MacArthur's wildman farce The Front Page by turning Hildy Johnson into a woman, and one who was trying to excise herself from the male society she had tailored herself into. She can't do it. Hecht and MacArthur's play proved that it was not indestructable when Billy Wilder made it move like a sludge barge. His Girl Friday is louder and faster than...
Borowczyk, also the screenwriter, does not stop Ewa's fall here. Within the next 45 minutes, and to the triumphant strains of Mendelsohn's Violin Concerto in E Minor, Ewa stuffs her illegitimate child down an outhouse hole, pull a love-sick count by the nose all the way to Paris, and finally succumbs to a shifty-looking criminal who uses her charms to defraud the hapless count. "Isn't this going too far? we begin to wonder...
Ford had tried so hard that Jimmy Carter's narrowly triumphant Election Night was a haunting, suspenseful replica of his entire amazing, tortuous drive for the presidency. Just as he had broken out of the Democratic pack in the primary elections to win his party's nomination and hold a seemingly insurmountable 33-point advantage over Ford in the opinion polls last July, Carter was propelled into an early election-tabulation lead by the regional pride of his nearly solid native South. Then he seized two large states that had seemed doubtful: Texas and Pennsylvania. Once again...