Word: triumphant
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...years ago for starting the Mau Mau revolt, they thought they were putting "Burning Spear" away for good. To offset any lingering loyalty among his supporters, they put out reports that he was growing senile and increasingly alcoholic. But in the wake of Kenya's February elections, the triumphant African leaders made clear that Kenyatta was not forgotten. They demanded his immediate release. British Governor Sir Patrick Renison refused. The Africans responded by refusing to take their seats in the new government. The governor began to retreat, moved Kenyatta from his desert detention village to a guarded home closer...
Back from last fall's triumphant tour of Russia, he has concerts booked a year and a half in advance. But more than most young pianists, Janis knows the value of occasionally limiting his concert schedule. Sometimes, he believes, a pianist grows best when he leaves the concert hall alone...
...lightning speed as Subtle and Face deceive victim after victim; and at the end of the play the victims must converge on the house in a thunder clap of righteous indignation. The audience should be allowed to catch its breath only in the final moments, when Face miraculously stands triumphant after his final deceit. If Mirsky speeds the action and limits the number of actors who lasciviously roll their tongues around their lips and ostentatiously finger their crotches, the production may cohere. The resounding blast of broken wind which opens the show may lead to bigger and better things, instead...
...part for the first time at the Metropolitan Opera last week. Soprano Leontyne Price brought to Anna a vitality that she rarely had before, gave as fine a reading of the role as present-day operagoers are likely to hear and see. As in her previous appearances in this triumphant debut season-Leonora in Il Trovatore, Aïda, Cio-Cio-San in Butterfly-Soprano Price was setting new standards by which to judge some of opera's classic roles...
Pablo Picasso roared with triumphant laughter. "I promised to have it done without any newsmen around, and for once I won," he said. Not until last week did it come out that on March 2 in the Riviera town of Vallauris the 79-year-old master had secretly married Jacqueline Roque, 35, his brown-haired longtime model...