Word: triumphant
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THIS IS ONE instance where black and white would have been better than color. The Color Purple, an adaptation of Alice Walker's gritty but triumphant novel and Steven Spielberg's debut directing a "serious" film, suffers from too much technicolor, too much flash in the face of the book's grimy realism. Spielberg transforms scenes that portrayed the grim existence of Southern agrarian Blacks into fields of dreamy and idealistic color that resemble an explosion at an Izod Lacoste factory more than they do images of rural life in backwoods Georgia...
...that it is wrong. Second, such a statement is attributed to Sephen J. Gould. In fact, neither implication is accurate. The theory of evolution by means of natural selection has been flourishing for the last two decades and at present is better off than at any time before. The triumphant march of Darwinism across the fields of biology and through the quagmires of social science has been advanced by, among others, Professor Gould himself. Gould's indefatigable efforts to present Darwin's views to the public (see his monthly essays in Natural History magazine gathered together in Ever Since Darwin...
Perhaps this film is a metaphor for the myth of the triumphant post-war America, and the subsequent disillusionment that left Americans feeling "arid." Perhaps the Old Country is sending us a message to renew our strength by returning to a simpler lifestyle, and then renew our striving for our old ideals. Perhaps Robert Traven represents the hero of our own lives that we were all meant to be. And, perhaps, this is all a bit much...
...Triumphant, the 'shmen sang their song and returned to the visitor's side of the field...
...teams have been alternating victories in the series since 1976, and since the Minutemen took a 21-7 decision two years ago in the last meeting, the Crimson should emerge triumphant today...