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Word: smash (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Indeed, if the Crimson struggles offensively tonight, the game might get ugly. Coach Peterson had no qualms letting his squad smash...

Author: By John B. Trainer and Jay K. Varma, S | Title: Icemen Battle Team USA | 11/8/1991 | See Source »

Well, so what? Before Kevin Costner's smash Dances with Wolves opened, the town's grumble bunnies were calling it Kevin's Gate. Which is not to predict that Billy B. will be a hit; it lacks, by design, the grapefruit-in-your-face impact of most gangster classics. But this is superior filmmaking, as handsomely conceived and realized as Dick Tracy, but darker, more resonant. It has a grace and a gravity rare just now in American films. Oh, and Willis, as a high-living hoodlum, is one dandy dandy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Extra! Billy Bathgate Lives! | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY AND THE ASBURY JUKES: BETTER DAYS (Impact). Juke-joint Nirvana, with Southside smoking his way through 11 smash tunes, mostly written by Little Steven Van Zandt, and holding his own with some heavy company, including Jon Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen. When Springsteen joins Johnny and Little Steven to sing It's Been a Long Time, you can hear friendship recalled and solidified -- and a touch of history being made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Oct. 21, 1991 | 10/21/1991 | See Source »

SHOW BUSINESS TV's American Gladiators is a smash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 10/21/1991 | See Source »

...always traces of repression. And you can find it in a Democratic government too. People who are "right-minded," you know, are always with us. But I think so long as we can move along with the economy, we're all right. It's just if there's a smash, a crash -- that's when I'm not at all optimistic about what's going to happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: His Punch Is Better Than Ever | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

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