Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These elements detract from some of the better performances. Jennifer Sun is excellent as Medea. Her portrayal of the sorceress as a strong, driven and bizarrely triumphant woman is convincing. She succeeds at the difficult feat of making an unrepentant infanticidal mother a compelling and even sympathetic character. J.C. Wolfgang Murad, as Medea's wayward husband Jason, is a little hesitant in the early sections, but reaches a convincingly enraged pitch by the final scenes...
...Taillights Fade," got the crowd pensive. Janovitz's guitars, Chris Colbourn's bass and Tom Maginnis's drums slowly rework the same few chords while Janovitz pleads to his ex-girlfriend that he'll get over her rejection. It's the same old story, but his raspy voice sounds triumphant in lines like "I've hit the wall, I'm about to fall...Watch my taillights fade to black." "Porchlight," also from their current album "Let Me Come Over," isn't any happier. With a folky bounce, Janovitz tells the story of--surprise--an unhappy relationship...
...resurrect the dead ((and)) preach glad tidings to the poor." The passage closely resembles the words of Jesus in the Nazareth synagogue (Luke 4) ty concern is simply to find out what this text means." He asserts that here and in parallel passages, the Dead Sea Messiah "appears as triumphant -- as is usually the case. That is the normal Jewish tradition." Eisenman says either translation is possible, whereas Wise concludes that the matter will always remain uncertain because of textual problems...
...tabloid rush to invade every area of formerly forbidden turf. The palace guidelines approving appropriate press coverage of family pageants, such as Charles' investiture as Prince of Wales and the royal weddings, have failed to keep curiosity about other royal activities off limits. But a family that promotes its triumphant moments on TV cannot expect that the cameras will refrain from focusing on less attractive episodes...
...advent of penicillin drugs in the early 1940s ushered in a triumphant era of medicine. With stunning speed, pharmaceutical chemists armed doctors with one antibiotic after another, giving them an arsenal of magic bullets to knock out the germs that cause everything from pneumonia to gonorrhea. It was only a matter of time, it seemed, before all infectious diseases would be conquered...