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Word: tragically (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Segal got the idea for writing the play when he read Cicero for his own edification. "It occurred to me that the end of his life was a ready-made tragic drama," Segal says...

Author: By Jennifer L. Mnookin, | Title: Bailey Goes to Broadway | 10/16/1986 | See Source »

...asked to talk about women in political camps. I didn't speak about the human rights activists who were in the camp, but about Maria Semyonova. This woman, a member of the True Orthodox Church, had spent almost her entire life in camps. I referred to her "tragic fate." While I was not speaking of just or unjust sentencing or anything else about the verdicts, I did use the word tragic. This was said to be a "slander" because Semyonova had been correctly sentenced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At War with the KGB | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

From the Impossible Dream of 1967, to the heart-wrenching 1975 World Series, to the tragic one-game playoff with the New York Yankees in 1978, the Boston Red Sox certainly have tormented their fans...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: after the facts | 10/3/1986 | See Source »

...appear in lights this fall on theater marquees, programs and announcements ranging from the Hasty Pudding to the Loeb Mainstage to Boston's New Ehrlich Theater. Playwright, actor and director, this Harvard junior pushes himself to experience everything associated with the dramatic arts--be it writing musical comedy or tragic drama, performing bizarre caricatures and serious dramatic roles, or directing conventionally staged and avant-garde performances...

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: All His World's a Stage | 10/2/1986 | See Source »

...adventurers -- that had seen it all and was not easily impressed. A fond parodic cynicism rode the crest of every inflection; a suspicion of all things posh lurked in the slurs and slang. This was the perfect voice to carry pop culture through the mid-'60s, till things went tragic and the Beatles turned into eminences cloistered enough to be their own parodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Liverpool After the Beatles | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

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