Word: smashes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still Alive. Threepenny Opera's pedigree is two centuries old. Its original was The Beggar's Opera, John Gay's satire on the Italian operas of his day. Gay's comedy turned out to be the smash hit of the 18th century, so popular that it forced London's chief composer of Italian opera, George Frederick Handel, to shutter his own fashionable opera house and ultimately turn to writing oratorios. The Weill version took little but the characters from John Gay, was itself a satire on grandiose German operas. It so inflamed musical conservatives...
...growing horror that it would be seen by armies of viewers on ten-inch television screens. He spent two extra days of shooting to achieve an effect which has become one of his trademarks: in every possible situation he told his story with closeups. The Human Bomb was a smash hit-with his sponsors, the critics and the public. In the 2½ years since-years of increasing success and acceptance-Webb has achieved Dear miracles in combining speed and cheap operation, with realism and the look of quality...
Heyday of the Authentiques. Black Haiti entered a time of tumultuous transformation. For his peasants, his "authen-tiques," (his "real" Haitians) Estime schemed to smash the elite and create a new ruling group of rich, powerful blacks. The authentiques quickly caught the idea: the soul of Africa began to show itself in novels and paintings. A written form of Creole was devised. Voodoo, which elite laws passed under Catholic pressure had driven underground, was openly tolerated again. Estime dreamed big: schools, hospitals, roads, docks, industrialization. He did succeed in raising wages for black workers. But all he really built...
...Hemingway said the blue and white Cessna crashed when it dived at low altitude to avoid hitting a flock of flying ibises--jungle birds big enough to smash the canopy of the plane. . ." (N.Y. Times, January 26, 1953, page 25, section...
...another circle." For half a mile the crippled Scorpion labored for altitude. The gamble failed. In one last bid for life, Townsend headed toward an open field. It was bordered by houses, and for a tense second or so, as the plane settled, observers were certain that it would smash through them. Then Townsend nosed down. He had made his choice. The Scorpion crashed head on into a railroad embankment just short of the houses. Pilot Townsend, airborne for only five minutes, was dead when the fire trucks arrived...