Word: triumphant
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Nonetheless, this revival is triumphant. In the theater there are, ultimately, two kinds of drama, the quick and the dead. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? belongs articulately and terrifyingly among the quick...
Messing had the lowest goals against average in the NASL last year and is one of the top Americans in the league. He makes a triumphant return to Harvard, which he led to the NCAA semi-finals in 1972. "It's like a dream to me," says Messing. "When I was there, we always imagined what it would be like to play in the stadium...
...bitch." He argued on the set that All the President's Men could have used one such uncool and cathartic moment, a moment when all the emotion it so carefully suppresses is allowed to burst through. Yet that moment's absence should not mar what must be a triumphant moment for Redford. For the first time he has fully mobilized all the forces within him "to let the bear out," as he once put it. That the end product so closely reflects his first vision of the film is a tribute to what a friend calls his "bulldog tenacity...
...trial's semi-retired judge, Julius Hoffman, 80, who had handed down 123 contempt citations to the defendants for such actions as blowing a kiss to the jury, felt triumphant: "I've been vindicated...
...attempt to draw a larger crowd. The management retrenches, closing the club at two now instead of four a.m. The lavish vases of fresh-cut flowers--crisp white carnations and crowds of blue irises the color of twilight--are gone. The bare walls have emerged from behind them, triumphant. Heavy and silent, they tolerate the denim-bedecked transient dancers and ache from their loud stream of music. The smaller inanimate objects--little glass tables, sculptured plastic chairs, ashtrays that bear no name--huddle in groups, almost afraid: their conspiracy against the walls is over. 15 Lansdowne Street is waiting...