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Word: smashes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...executive with a neatly trimmed beard. One thing his 21 years in the TV business have taught him is that it doesn't pay to be a sourpuss. He claims he used to "crack up" at Letterman's on-air gibes, even when Letterman went so far as to smash a Tiffany candy dish Littlefield had given him as a gift. As for the Late Shift portrayal, Littlefield laughs it off, though he points out that "I don't wear boxer shorts. I wear briefs." He shrugs, "But it's television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: STILL STANDING IN BURBANK | 3/18/1996 | See Source »

...transform scientists' understanding of the asteroids. According to prevailing theory, asteroids are remnants of the very earliest days of the solar system, when chunks of rock clumped together to form hundreds of small planets known as planetesimals. These objects--hundreds but not thousands of miles across--would frequently smash into one another; then the fragments would reassemble under gravity only to smash again. Eventually, a few grew large enough to resist breaking up, and they swallowed up the smaller pieces and became the planets. The asteroids are believed to be the few pieces that escaped being swallowed--some of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NASA'S CHEAPEST SHOT | 3/4/1996 | See Source »

...emerged to the world in 1991 with its smash hit, the violent and blood-filled Wolfenstein 3-D, one of the first games to provide some form of virtual reality, as players felt immersed in a Nazi dungeon...

Author: By Kevin S. Davis, | Title: techTALK | 2/27/1996 | See Source »

...sale of environmentalism supposed to signal a newfound greenness in America? Not anymore than the sale of missile defense systems is supposed to promote peace. The unintentional effect of Secretary Christopher's speech was to smash illusions, and it seems that the great majority of the audience was in full compliance with the new revelatory attitude...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: On State Business | 1/19/1996 | See Source »

...short, Exhale demonstrates that it is no longer necessary for a book or movie to be targeted for whites to be a smash. The black audience alone can make it one. That could mean a further Balkanization of the mass-entertainment market, as the movie, book and music industries turn out new products designed to exploit each sufficiently lucrative ethnic niche. Says McMillan: "I told the executives at the studio, 'Watch and see after the holidays how many scripts you have on your desk about middle-class black people who go to the grocery store and live regular lives.' There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEAVY BREATHING: WAITING TO EXHALE | 1/15/1996 | See Source »

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