Word: smash
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This year business executives must look to midsummer releases for a word-of- mouth smash. If nearly all the June movies could be called Total Recall (so reminiscent are they of previous action hits), the films of July and August could be labeled Presumed Interesting. Moviegoers are looking for something different, and they may have already found it in the postmortem romantic thriller Ghost or the eye-spider horror comedy Arachnophobia. Presumed Innocent hopes to corner the serious market. Even David Lynch is invading summertime with his bizarro-world Wild at Heart. Each hopes to duplicate the surprise-hit status...
...remarkable unevenness of the film is the fault of director Jerry Zucker. Zucker just had too much success with his smash-hit comedy Airplane, and now he tries to make everything funny. This movie admittedly should have some light moments, but sometimes it seems giddy on helium. Ghost is often funny, but it is more often ludicrous...
...lyrics: rueful, nasty, funny. The collaboration with Ricketts collapsed shortly after this incident, and it took Baerwald two years to get himself back in working order. But then -- and here life takes a sharp left away from art -- things started to come around. In 1988 Childs made a smash debut album, co-produced by Ricketts and featuring a beautiful, spooky ballad called Where's the Ocean. And Baerwald finished a solo project, his just released Bedtime Stories, that makes a worthy companion piece to Boomtown. That's what they call a wow finish...
...sign reflects what Harvard Square merchants said yesterday is increasing frustration over a lack of police and community response to a recent wave of "smash and grab" burglaries of local shops...
...fast and often bumpy grass at Wimbledon. With only two weeks between the tournaments, there was too little time to shift gears. Clay-court players typically stay back near the baseline and trade shots until an opponent makes an error. Grass-court players rush the net and smash unplayable returns low along the sidelines. On clay there is always one more chance to win the point; on grass it's now or never. The surfaces are so different that, among men, only Bjorn Borg in the past two decades -- and no one since 1980 -- has won the French Open...