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Word: nicks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jolly St. Nick picks his Christmas gifts well...

Author: By B. K. Wenceslaus, | Title: Crimson Beneficence | 12/19/1989 | See Source »

...character is normally a guarantee of literary disaster, it sometimes seems that stories about his arch-opposite just can't miss. Presumably there is a sound theological basis for all this: virtue could hardly be considered virtuous if it were also indisputably fun, while a patently offensive Old Nick would have trouble procuring the ruin of souls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Having A Hell of a Time | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

Directed by Nick Moschovakis...

Author: By Kelly A. Matthews, | Title: Romantic Movement? | 12/15/1989 | See Source »

...Cenci is Shelley's dramatization of the 16th century legend of Count Cenci, an evil old man who, as Percy Bysshe Shelley (Matt Schuerman) tells the audience at the opening of Nick Moschovakis' production, "having spent his life in debauchery and wickedness, conceived at length an implacable hatred towards his children...

Author: By Kelly A. Matthews, | Title: Romantic Movement? | 12/15/1989 | See Source »

...this is not a professional cast. Although a few actors--Nick Raposo (Cenci), Jim Marino (Orsino) and Schuerman--make noble attempts to salvage the performance, most others have difficulty escaping the tendency to recite rather than act their lines...

Author: By Kelly A. Matthews, | Title: Romantic Movement? | 12/15/1989 | See Source »

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