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Word: smashes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Christopher W. Bruce, crime analyst for the Cambridge Police Department (CPD), said, "One or two [break-ins] seem professional, while the others seem rather crude, just smash and grabs with not much savvy to them...

Author: By Aby. Fung, | Title: String of Crime Plagues Mass Ave. Businesses | 3/8/1997 | See Source »

...first-night shows sell out a week in advance and the lines run out the doors of the theatre. I used to wish that I had been able to see Star Wars in the theatre in 1976, when it opened bigger than Batman and made the kind of unexpected smash that one almost never sees in any business...

Author: By Benjamin Cavell, | Title: THE EMPIRE FALLS SHORT | 2/27/1997 | See Source »

...suitable spot where I could await the opening of the doors. In any case, my eyes flitted about the stuffy lobby, packed to the gills with presumably affluent moviegoers who could say two hours later that yes, they had attended the Boston premiere of the prospective Box Office Smash of 1977, "Star Wars." So this is how a big commercial film presents itself to the public these days, I mused. No skyscanning spotlights, no jewel-bedecked starlets traipsing out of glossy limos, no obligatory horde of autograph hounds hanging out their tongues in anticipation of the next celebrity to step...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: "Graffiti" Director Delivers Cliched but Dazzling Epic | 2/6/1997 | See Source »

...marvel the weight of trouble a family can buoy you through. I like her best when she admits, "I would come home from the office some days and want to smash the laptop over his head," rather than read his manuscript over Indian food, as she often did, carefully excising references to herself. But I admire that she honored the "for worse" part of her vows instead of running to Oprah when the world came crashing down around her. She turned down all television offers. "I didn't owe anyone an explanation of who I am." She's barreled through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I'M OLD ENOUGH TO NEVER SAY NEVER | 1/27/1997 | See Source »

...surprise then that the world--or at least the world's allowance-bearing teens--are beating a track to Nintendo. The 64-bit machines show every sign of being the over-the-top smash-hit consumer-electronics item of the year. Released on Sept. 29, the machine has sold half a million units in just over a month; in its first week alone, it sold as many units as its competitors combined did in all of September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 64 BITS OF MAGIC | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

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