Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shout it out, as culture exploited every renegade adolescent impulse. The escape into elegance was replaced by the fun house of sensuality. In the new gross-out culture, bad taste was the official taste. Sit-com kids, once kittens and princesses, went rampantly rude. The inner child was triumphant--hear him roar...
...remember where we were sitting--about halfway up, on the third-base side. I remember the triumphant look on the face of Carl DeRose, a righthander who'd been troubled with a sore arm all year...
...produced the hits Flashdance, Beverly Hills Cop and Crimson Tide before his 1996 death from an overdose. Aside from his obvious pop-culture smarts, Simpson's main contribution to cinema was his dictum that a blockbuster must have an easily described plot with three acts: explosive incident, impending crisis, triumphant resolution. His own story, however, was far more complex. Though colorful tales of Simpson's trollops and narcotics abuse have been documented in the past, Fleming cleverly uses Simpson's life to explore Hollywood's entire dark side, which has spawned such troubled figures as Heidi Fleiss, O.J. Simpson...
...season, which has included a brisk Li'l Abner and a triumphant version of the Gershwins' Strike Up the Band that deserves to go straight to Broadway, concludes this week with Williams and Charles S. Dutton in St. Louis Woman...
When is this triumphant day of spring, the day Massachusetts comes alive? It is the third Monday in April--this year, Monday the 20th. The Red Sox won, the 102nd running of the Boston Marathon brought its traditional crowd and prestige, the area public schools began spring break, businesses observed the state holiday, and numerous college students from Boston University, Wellesley, Tufts and M.I.T. enjoyed the festivities...