Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Billie Holiday was no butterfly to be broken on such a greasy wheel. As this triumphant 10-CD collection demonstrates, she still had greatness in her. She was leading a reckless life when she laid down her great Columbia sides in the 1930s and early '40s, and by the time she got to Verve, the price she was paying for her excesses was becoming more damaging. You can hear the bills coming due. In a "Jazz at the Philharmonic" session from 1945, Holiday's debut at Carnegie Hall, she follows a sexy, freewheeling Body and Soul with a heart-riving...
...ready for--will overtake us if we fail to maintain our childlike interests. (Ashbery's most optimistic poems usually take place indoors, in safety, in environments which preclude endlessness.) The same blending of the scholar's voice with the inquiring child's takes over in this book's most triumphant poem, "Notes From...
...justly proud of his studio's work in reviving the American cinema's unique contribution to 20th century art. Aladdin, with its headlong, death-snubbing herobatics, is a cartoon Raiders of the Lost Ark. Today's best animators, excavating and restoring the medium of Walt, Tex and Chuck, are triumphant raiders of the lost...
...People in my age group have pretty much grown up under the leadership of Reagan and Bush, but this election shows that America truly has the potential for change," Cooper said. "We're all feeling very triumphant, after having smelled victory in the air for so long...
There's a reason why this always happens--it's your halftime talks. Kids these days don't respond as well to triumphant tales of Iwo Jima and stories of the Gipper. (In fact, by the time my generation got to know Ronald W. Reagan, he was in the early stages of Alzheimer...