Word: smashes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Safe to say that expectations ran high for this event. Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches is, after all, one of the uncontested dramatic triumphs of the decade: a box-office smash, a genuine epic and the recipient of four Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize. One might say, then, that the transcendence of director Leah Altman's production is somehow inevitable, that it "comes with the territory...
...wasn't that far advanced," he says. "We felt they could be big, with a little work and grooming." Iovine and Interscope president Tom Whalley sharpened the band's songs and encouraged Stefani to take a much more prominent role. No Doubt's third album, Tragic Kingdom, became a smash, selling 8 million copies...
WHEN GALAXIES COLLIDE! A stunning smash-up in space. E.T. may want to phone home, but is anybody left to answer...
...million that Congress had allocated for the Clementine II project next year. Clementine is a spacecraft that was to be launched in 1999 to approach an asteroid named Toutatis and send a camera-equipped rocket barreling toward it. The missile, after taking close-up pictures of Toutatis, would smash into its surface while Clementine recorded the impact flash and analyzed any ejected material. The goal was not only to test our ability to rendezvous with an asteroid but also to determine Toutatis' composition and mechanical strength--important considerations in designing weapons to ward off incoming comets and asteroids...
...like smash-mouthed, high-action football, Saturday did not disappoint. As a team, the ninth-rated Crimson offense churned out 623 yards and 33 first downs Saturday, both all-time Harvard records...