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Epps says "The Beggar's Opera," starring John A. Lithgow '67, was only one of many smash hits the Adams House theatrical team produced during this period...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...