Word: smash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lines with that crisp, ironic, haughty precision that an entire generation of actors subsequently learned not to imitate lest they sound like feebly envious parodists. By 20 his first frothy comedy, I'll Leave It to You, was on the boards, and at 25 he had his first smash hit on both sides of the Atlantic, The Vortex. In this play, he portrayed a neurasthenic drug-addicted son with a Hamlet-like fixation on his mother, while she in turn paraded her young lovers before him. The press hurled epithets of "decadent" and "degenerate" at him. He half resented...
Almost as often as the wars of Ireland have erupted and receded in tidal flows of violence over the past century, so has one particular fantasy recurred to strategists of the Irish Republican Army: to smash the cool, imperious face of London, the symbol of everything that frustrated their dreams...
LIFE, metaphysicians of the record industry will tell you, is a super-monster smash; dig it. It is performed in an illogical world that is both flat and round, where 33? r.p.m. exerts a fearful centrifugal force. The U.S., particularly that extensive tribe of its citizenry under 30, is electronically in thrall to the thrumming, incessant sound of music, a phenomenon that has handed the record business a supremely marketable mania. Every week, hundreds of records are poured into radio stations by promoters trying to crack the crucial list of Top 40 hits that get saturation air play. Every year...
Last year those purses responded to the galactic, 16-track, monster-smash tune of nearly $2 billion in records and tapes ($3.3 billion worldwide), making music, for the first measurable time in history, the most popular form of entertainment in America. The television may drone on in the living room, but there is little that youth wants to hear from Archie Bunker or Marcus Welby?especially since it has found both relevance and escape in magical sound...
...fence a weak team like this, you should smash them," Marion said. "There was no zing to our performance. It was all lead--there was no silver...