Word: smash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Weather people tried to 'smash the state' by breaking windows in cut-rate department stores in Chicago. PL continued to come up with gems of analysis; they attributed the hardhat attack on the peace demonstrators as provoked by the demonstrators' support for Ho Chi Minh--who the hardhats knew to be a sell-out because he was negotiating at Paris...
After striking for three goals in the first four minutes only to see the margin vanish in the next three. Harvard's hockey team exploded for eight goals without a reply to smash Penn 11-3, in the Ivy League opener for both squads...
...week of Leap Year day, the calendar has tips on feminist wedding ceremonies-omit the word "obey" from the traditional vows, write your own marriage ritual: "We promise to love, cherish, and groove on each other and all living things. We promise to smash the alienated family unit . . . We promise these things until choice do us part." For the second week in April, there is a self-defense karate lesson: "To use this right-foot snap-kick . . ." Nature hints: "Some fish reverse more than just sex roles-they actually consume the other gender." Nonviolent put-off for a masher...
...fission-the familiar process of splitting unstable radioactive atoms by bombarding them with small, fast-moving particles called neutrons. As the atoms disintegrate, they release large amounts of heat that can be converted into steam and used to drive conventional turbogenerators. They also release additional neutrons, which in turn smash neighboring atoms and thus continue the heat-producing chain reaction inside the reactor...
...suspect that, since most of the play's humor is sadly dated in a late fifties-early sixties sort of way (there are jokes about psychoanalysts, coffee bars and Kismet), the play's real interest lies in the fledgling hints it gives of Shaffer's present London and Broadway smash Sleuth. Suffice to say that director Liz Coe has struggled valiantly to keep things moving (though when the blocking finally resorts to sending the actors up and down ladders exhaustion might have legitimately claimed the better part of valor) and Peter Kazaras as the insatiable detective has some bemused...