Word: exultation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tone as well as her careful musical phrasing was more than able to compensate for her occasional lack of projection Susanna's most memorable aria, coming late in the fourth act ("Giunse alfin il momento che godro senza affanno"--"At last the moment is near when carefree I shall exult") was quite beautiful and an exercise in difficult stage acting as well. Nelman's Figaro was an equally dashing figure with a formidable presence...
...Iran-contra. Although last week's vote against Tower ran strictly along party lines, Gorey hastens to point out that the flap is not as partisan as it may seem. "Senators are co-workers who see one another daily, travel together and become friends," Gorey explains. "Senators do not exult in the fall of a colleague." Nor, contrary to popular opinion, do journalists such as Gorey. "No one finds joy in the misfortune of politicians. Members of Congress are pretty much like the rest of us," he says, "but less fortunate in one respect. Most of us are not compelled...
...game began in 17-degree temperatures and a wind-chill factor of minus-26, leading the scoreboard to exult "Bearrrrrr Weather" between warnings to the 64,830 fans to watch for signs of frostbite...
...Both Dukakis and Gore invested heavily in negative ads to define themselves in opposition to the pseudo populism of Richard Gephardt. The get-Gephardt pincer attack worked: the Missouri Congressman carried only his home state and faded from contention. While Dukakis, Gore and Jackson all had ample reason to exult in their Super Tuesday delegate flow, their brags should be tempered by major red flags...
...flowers, grass, birds and squirrels to coexist on top of and among security alarms, underground cables and rooms. The battle is constant, but he loves it. There is Grover Cleveland's Acer palmatum dissectum (Japanese spiderleaf) and Franklin Roosevelt's Tilia cordata, the little-leaf linden. They whisper and exult in the breezes and hunker down for the storms. They make grand harmony. "No politics here," says Williams, who moves among the 66 species of trees, pruning, feeding and enticing life to its fullest...