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Word: teariest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nine years after Cosette and company immigrated to the United States, it is safe to say that Alain Boubil's epic adaptation of Victor Hugo's 1500-page toms has a death grip on popular culture. It is the great international cry-fest, the teariest tear-jerker of them all. Its every laugh is tempered with reminders of the pre-revolutionary tribulations of France's lowest classes; and the jubilation of Valjean's victory over his past is mitigated by the despair of the students' doomed rebellion...

Author: By Matthew L. Kramer, | Title: Les Miserables Marches On | 4/27/1995 | See Source »

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