Word: smash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After her smash debut in a. New Dance Group recital, Pearl danced in Manhattan nightclubs, where she was a sensation, and as Sal and Dahomey Queen in Showboat. But after eleven months, she quit the show for more study. Since then, she has made concert appearances throughout the U.S. Wrote the New York Times's sober dance critic John Martin: ". . . It would be unfair to classify her merely as an outstanding Negro dancer, for by any standard she is ... outstanding . . . her dances are all fine and authentic in spirit, well composed and danced with great technical skill as well...
...neck, barber-chair fashion; and above all 3) placing his hands on a lady customer's shoulders (Chinese barbers consider this a grave breach of professional ethics). "We will fight unto the death," declared the barbers, "until the insulting parts of the film are cut." They threatened to smash the film studios, raid theaters showing the film, go on strike...
...Sample smash: an arsenic atom (atomic weight: 75) had 21 particles knocked off by a single blow, and was reduced to radioactive cobalt (atomic weight: 54). When the new cyclotron bombarded an oxygen atom (atomic weight: 16) with neutrons, the light atom split into five pieces (see cut; the arrows point to the five-way split of the oxygen atom, the streaks indicate the path of atomic chips...
Your review of Cineguild's production of Great Expectations [TIME, May 26] omitted a very interesting sidelight. The men responsible for the newest English smash hit not only read Dickens; they looked over a print of the American version of this same classic, made some years ago with Henry Hull as star. The gulf between was so wide that they decided in justice to Dickens that it was imperative that the wrong be righted. As your article points out, they have succeeded admirably...
...football fever swept Cambridge early and stayed late right up to that final, windy afternoon in November when 57,000 fans jammed into the Stadium to watch a once-beaten Crimson eleven smash across two quick, first-period touchdowns and then knuckle under to superior Eli power, as the script had specified. There was always next year, of course, and with seven of the Varsity regulars returning, it was fairly easy to start looking ahead...