Word: triumphant
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...like the shrouds of death. But once he has been given such prominence, he is a hard character for even his creator to control. In Star Wars, Vader was soundly defeated, and there was a rousing celebration of good over evil, with an appropriate flourish of John Williams' triumphant music. With Vader dominating, perhaps even more than Lucas intended, The Empire finishes on a less satisfying and more ambiguous note...
DIED. John Culshaw, 55, English record producer, who pioneered recordings as a distinct art form; of undisclosed causes; in London. As manager of Decca/London's classical division in the 1950s and '60s, Culshaw presided over a triumphant first complete disc version of Wagner's Ring cycle. His innovations, including echo chambers and speeding up and slowing of tapes, are standard procedures today...
...jumped at it. Although it would be five more years before the orchestra would summon him from the podium of the Minneapolis Symphony to take over in Philadelphia, Ormandy remembers that first time he stepped onstage at the Academy of Music as his greatest thrill. After all these triumphant years, after all the honors and premieres and tours (including the first by a U.S. orchestra to Communist China), after making the Philadelphia probably the most recorded orchestra in history (many hundreds of LPs, three of which have topped sales of $1 million), he still looks back to that first encounter...
...sidewalks or streets; their families gathered around the bulletin board where the times were posted (almost 20 runners from Cambridge finished the race in less than three-and-a-half hours); the police had to escort away pedestrians who simply refused to move. One group of students roared in triumphant cheer the Notre Dame fight song. Families set up picnic lunches on the sidewalk outside Lord and Taylor to catch the sunlight. Other spectators waited along the finish line to cheer on the marathoners for more than three hours after Bill Rodgers, the winner, came...
Following Bougas' triumphant first singles match, Martha Roberts suffered a 6-1, 4-6, 6-0 three-set defeat to Pam Banholzer. The Dartmouth second-slotter shocked Roberts' victory hopes by totally dominating the third set for an easy...