Word: triumphant
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...Teatro alla Scala's sparkling inauguration in Milan on Dec. 7 was a triumphant return to form. Italy 's bel mondo turned out to see maestro Riccardo Muti conduct Italian composer Antonio Salieri's Europa Riconosciuta (Europa Revealed) - which hadn't been performed since its original production for La Scala's inauguration in 1778. If you didn't manage to snag a 32,000 super-prima ticket, there are repeat performances until mid-January. But it was the renovated theater, restored to its 18th century magnificence and technologically catapulted into the 21st century after $81.3 million and 30 months, that...
...product of the grassroots backlash against the corruption and cronyism created by Yasser Arafat in his reliance on the politics of patronage to run the Palestinian Authority. It was the first intifadah, which raged from 1987 to 1991, that did more than anything else to ensure Arafat's triumphant return to the West Bank under the Oslo agreements, but the local leadership of Fatah in the West Bank and Gaza, who had risked and sacrificed the most to wage that struggle, were largely overlooked when Arafat staffed the new administration with cronies from Tunis, who in many cases conspicuously used...
...leave in the next four months. European allies who backed the war despite overwhelming domestic opposition suffered a major credibility blow when the weapons of mass destruction cited as the reason for invading failed to materialize. Even more damaging was the fact that the occupation, far from a triumphant liberation celebrated by most Iraqis, has turned into a bitter and bloody war of insurgency and counterinsurgency...
Yasser Arafat loved the cartoon Tom and Jerry. Learning on the eve of his triumphant 1994 return to the Gaza Strip that the show didn't air there, he joked that in that case, he wasn't going. He adored the program, he said, because the mouse, not the cat, always won. All his life, Arafat was the little guy of the Middle East, scampering feverishly to avoid one lethal trap or another. While he never quite prevailed over any of the region's heavies, he did have the indestructible quality of an animated figure. Or so it seemed until...
...triumphant junior effort of the experimental math post-rock group Battles, is as intelligent and compelling as it is weird. The quartet, featuring John Stanier of Helmet and Ian Williams of Don Caballero, is not your ordinary band, with perplexing track names, a record called EP C that came out before B EP and whose website biography is a series of scrawled diagrams, pictures and drawings. Not content to be merely strange, they also produce incredible musical compositions—the instrumental songs on their latest album are strikingly diverse, both internally and against each other, with track lengths varying...