Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...indeedy, that was your good friend Dr. K Flashing smiles and working her. little tush to get into the hottest parties in the city. Since Dr. K Knows you itch with curiosity, she'll fill you in. The scene this Spring was triumphant com-pared to the miserable post-fashion party scene this November. But the rebirth was may be a bit too much. Even hard core party girls like Dr. Know couldn't move fast enough-there were simply too many parties! Last weekend, new venues like 2 seven 7, Moomba, Lot 61 , Bondst, Veruka and Odeca...
...played by Liza Minnelli in the 1972 movie. Richardson (The Handmaid's Tale onscreen; Anna Christie onstage; Vanessa Redgrave's daughter in real life) doesn't belt out the Kander and Ebb numbers a la Liza; she acts them. The climactic title song, most startlingly, is no longer a triumphant anthem. Richardson clutches the microphone and grits through the lyrics ("Start by admitting/ From cradle to tomb/ Isn't that long a stay"), shouting her defiance even as she struggles to keep from flying apart...
...battered and bewildered Democrats responded to the reality of a Republican congress not with an alternative to triumphant conservatism, but with a myopic anti-Gingrichism that evolved into desperate Clinton/Gore boosterism. Despite the fact that many blamed Clinton for his party's big losses in '94, Democrats paradoxically viewed Clinton as their only hope for survival. By the time of the '96 campaign, "Four more years!" became more important than taking back the Hill...
When he returned to the Vatican after his triumphant visit to Cuba [WORLD, Feb. 2], Pope John Paul II likened his pilgrimage to his first trip back to his native Poland. We can only hope the Cubans who have endured communism for 39 years will eventually experience the same positive results the Poles did. If history repeats itself and Cuba follows the example of Poland, Castro's evil empire will also fall. STEPHEN HILLEY Fort Lauderdale...
...socially undesirable sophomores, juniors and seniors had lost their place of instant acceptance and belonging, but at least the Major heard the unrestrained roar of all first-years in conversation morning, noon and night. He could rejoice with the triumphant undergrad whose well-flung butter pat hit his relatively inexpensive ceiling. As the decades went by, and the voices of women and minority students began to contribute to the din, I like to think the old boy was grinning under that mustache...