Word: smash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...event, the ultimate fate of a play depends on the producer. David Merrick has proved that conclusively by keeping plays alive that every critic has panned. As co-producers of the smash musical Applause, Kipness and Kasha are rolling in money. Kipness is also a restaurant tycoon who owns Pier 52, Hawaii Kai and Dinty Moore's. Yet he and Kasha cravenly folded their theatrical tents in a single night and silently skulked away. Following is an account of the play they killed...
Ever since Du Pont scientists in the 1930s mixed coal tar, air and water to produce nylon, the wizards of Wilmington, Del., have been searching and researching for another equally profitable synthetic smash. By 1964, Du Pont chemists thought that they had found it: a porous polymer that looked and felt like leather, yet wore like armor plate. The company thereupon introduced Corfam, a weatherproof shoe material, predicting that by 1984 every fourth foot in the country would be encased in it. Du Pont stock rose to an all-time...
Protesters from Boston, including members of SDS, PL and the Welfare Mothers' Committee to Smash the Flat Grant, planned the break-away attempt on the bus trip down to Washington, Tom Antenucci '72, a march participant, said yesterday...
Chanting, "Same Enemy. Same Fight, Workers of the World Unite," the protesters marched from Howard University to the Ellipse behind the White House. They carried signs saying, "Power to the Workers," "Fight for Socialism," "Smash Racism," and "Let's All Eat at Nixon's House...
...Smash or flop? We should guess that the play has to be tightened in the beginning and at the end before it has a reasonable run on Broadway, but do not take our word for it. This comedy provides an enjoyable evening and a chance for the playgoer to know whether or not he is in tune with the New York audiences...