Word: epic
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Iceman Cometh No one may ever surpass Jason Robards' Hickey, the salesman who descends from periodic benders into coldly lethal nihilism, but in Chicago's Goodman Theater production of O'Neill's epic tragedy, Brian Dennehy was unforgettable too -- a big man crushed into pathos...
...CREOLE CHRISTMAS (Epic Associated). Splendid holiday doings, rhythm-and- blues style, with some heavy New Orleans seasoning...
...other emotional pole, the depressive version presents itself, all darkness: a memory of Vietnam's self-delusions and waste, its follies on an epic scale, its nightmares of the unforeseen...
...sobs that shook Michael Milken in Manhattan federal court last week punctuated the most dizzying fall from power in modern Wall Street history. They came as federal Judge Kimba Wood sentenced the financial wizard, whose junk bonds fueled the epic 1980s takeover wars, to 10 years in prison. Said the tearful felon: "What I did violated not just the law but all of my principles and values, and I will regret it for the rest of my life. I am truly sorry...
...took an hour's worth of textual cuts, the leading man's miraculous survival of a freak onstage accident, and blessings by five Shinto priests, but James Clavell's epic musical has arrived...