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Sweeping out of last week's press conference like Errol Flynn in a gray suit, the triumphant Turner embarked on a twelve-block march to his law firm's Madison Avenue office. It seemed almost like a nose-thumbing gesture toward doubters in New York City's media and financial communities. "Hey, it's Ted!" cried star-struck pedestrians. Said one admiring businessman to a colleague: "That guy's got a lot of nerve...
Some things, clearly, they would rather not have changed at all, no matter what any market surveys seem to predict. "Baseball, hamburgers, Coke--they're all the fabric of America," cried Gay Mullins, the much quoted Seattle real estate man and triumphant noisemaker who filed suit to prevent the company from depriving him of the pause that refreshes...
Ridolfi and his triumphant ways have transformed the men’s volleyball program...
Just as they are today, political philosophers, historians, and public commentators were triumphant in their analyses; they predicted that Russia would soon develop and become democratic, that Germany would not threaten the balance of powers, and that the massive growth of international trade would render a general war impossible. As historian Nial Ferguson noted, anti-militarism was politically ascendant throughout Europe, and the prospect of war looked slim...
...none of his work did Caravaggio incorporate the idea of his own sufferings more fully than in the picture of David. Maybe Goliath has been converted here into a symbol of the artist's martyrdom. Or maybe this is the face of Caravaggio's subordination to a triumphant younger lover. Either way, can anybody refuse this man who tore himself to pieces...