Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there are wonderful moments, too: the Doctor, clearing the sofa in one glorious leap, or running stones through his hand like shekels; his wife and daughter, peeping round the doors curiously as he speaks to visitors. But the chief strength of this production lies in its huge enthusiasm. The vigor of the cast and crew turns what might have been a turgid morality play into engaging entertainment...
...narrow calculus of television ratings, the four Kennedy-Nixon debates were a glorious success. But for those who longed for something grander, for rhetoric that might rival the Lincoln-Douglas encounters of 1858, for crystal- clear arguments over relevant issues, for clues about potential for presidential leadership, those inaugural debates were a bitter disappointment. The tenor was set with the first reporter's question, a classic softball lobbed right at Senator Kennedy: "Why do you think people should vote for you rather than the Vice President...
...blood at the end of "Scarface," Pacino had become a hero to the dispossessed. He was the toughest bad guy in Hollywood, and only a wave of submachine-gun fire powerful enough to crack the USS New Jersey in two could bring him to his final, glorious swan dive...
When the seniors and juniors of the Harvard field hockey team think of Brown, they may remember a glorious day two years ago, when with a 2-0 win over the Bears, the Crimson captured its first ever Ivy crown and catapulted Harvard hockey to new heights...
...most important task, of course, is mental. The Columbia game was disheartening, but the glorious memory of Army still lingers...