Word: smashes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Alex Haley's mini-series Roots is a worldwide ratings smash...
Animal Kingdom boasts other shows: a zesty Jungle Book presentation, with gaily colored puppets; and a Festival of the Lion King (the fourth stage show Disney has spun off from its 1994 animated smash) that blends audience participation with tumbling, stilt-walking, Cirque du Soleil-style big-topicality. In Dinoland U.S.A. there's a dinosaur thrill ride, Countdown to Extinction, that uses the technology of the popular Indiana Jones ride in Disneyland, California. But the best spectacles are the ones visitors create, discover or stumble into on their...
Some kids fixate on toy cars or trucks or guns. When David Bohnett, founder of the surprise smash-hit Website GeoCities www.geocities.com) was a little boy, his obsession was the telephone. "I still think phones are the coolest," he says. He remembers when touch-tone phones first came to Hinsdale, Ill., his hometown. "I told my parents I'd give up my allowance if they got one," he says...
...wonder about this kind of ambition--The Birdcage was a world-wide smash, but that film was grounded in the novelty of exaggerating gay stereo-types. The Object of My Affection, on the other hand, aims for tenuous realism. Ultimately, this reality is fatally compromised. In trying to make a romantic comedy/melodrama that will be universally loved, the audience is left with a fluffy, unsatisfying corpse of a movie that barely registers...
...resented his journalistic barbs at their incompetence; party rivals, who found him too zealous a supporter of the united front with the Kuomintang nationalists; landlords, who hated his pro-peasant rhetoric and activism; Chiang Kai-shek, who attacked his rural strongholds with relentless tenacity; the Japanese, who tried to smash his northern base; the U.S., after the Chinese entered the Korean War; the Soviet Union, when he attacked Khrushchev's anti-Stalinist policies. Mao was equally unsinkable in the turmoil--much of which he personally instigated--that marked the last 20 years of his rule in China...