Word: smash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overflowed the banks of its 23 federally assigned channels, filling the air with errant electromagnetic waves. Complaints from TV, radio and even stereo users are flooding Federal Communications Commission offices across the land. Some vigilantes with axes and sledges have invaded base stations (home-based CB transmitters) to smash offending sets...
...million Crown Center is almost complete, in effect a small downtown in itself, with offices, shops and a strikingly handsome 20-story hotel (architect: Chicago's Harry Weese). Financially, the shops have not yet drawn a crowd of customers, but aesthetically Crown Center is a smash hit. Its existence is one reason Kansas City was chosen as the site for next month's Republican Convention...
...Actor Mitsuyasu Maeno starred in until he died a kamikaze's flaming death crashing a Piper Cherokee onto the home of Lockheed Lobbyist Yoshio Kodama (TIME April 5). Box office receipts were deceptively high, totaling $390 million. But more than half the revenue came from a succession of smash-hit imports: Earthquake (which reminded Japanese of their own killer quake of 1923), Towering Inferno, Emmanuelle and Jaws...
...Convinced that the movies' future lay in full-length dramas, Zukor in 1912 split with Loew, who later became one of the founders of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and invested $35,000 in Queen Elizabeth, a cranky, French-made potboiler that starred an aging Sarah Bernhardt -and was a smash success. Zukor maneuvered his Famous Players Film Co. through a series of deals to form Paramount, the first film company with its own theater chain, and began turning out scores of movies, beginning with The Count of Monte Cristo in 1913, counting on high-paid stars, such as Mary Pickford...
...worldwide rentals. Jaws (production cost: $9 million) probably will bring Universal and its corporate parent. MCA Inc., $180 million by the time it completes its first runs worldwide. Warner Brothers' All the President's Men (production cost: $7 million) has started off like the box office smash of all time; in its first six weeks it has earned $14 million in rentals in the U.S. and Canada, breaking The Godfather's record for initial success...