Word: smashingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than he had ever thrown it in his life. He set a Games record and became the first trackman ever to win his event in four successive Olympics. Beamon, the precocious newcomer, competing in his first Olympics, leaped 29 ft. 2½ in. on his very first try, to smash the world long-jump record by an improbable margin of almost...
...blatant props, the intricate plot, these are no more than smash door-prizes to draw us into the moments of the movie. I suggest that Tim Hunter does not really care about telling a story. If he puzzles us with the mystery trail, it is only to involve us in seeing. (Problem, of course: some will lose the present moments in anticipation of the future moments. That is how most of us live our lives. That is how some will watch this movie. Tell us a story, please. Lead us to the end. Perhaps my purpose here is to insist...
...people, decided to keep the 8,000 imported garments off the racks and out of sight for the opening. Nobody minded. For at the age of 32, Saint Laurent is a celebrity's celebrity. Tapped eleven years ago to inherit the mantle of Dior, he scored such a smash hit with his first collection, featuring his trapeze line, that crowds gathered outside the Dior headquarters on Paris' Avenue Montaigne, crying "Au balcon!" until he emerged on the balcony to wave. Branching out under his own name, he scored again, producing 1962's long tunics. Successive years brought...
...state of mind of these men. They have sacrificed improved Soviet-U.S. relations, dealt the antiwar faction in the U.S. a severe blow, lessened the chances for a peaceful end to the Viet Nam war, and even blackened themselves in the eyes of other Communists, all to smash a growth of freedom that was in no way a threat to Russia's security. The invasion was conceived in panic and carried out in hysteria. The hope for peaceful coexistence rested in the good sense and rationality of the Soviet leaders, but men controlled by fear have neither...
...vision of man's folly is acted out against the Nazi takeover of Central Europe, and the cast is varied and larger than could possibly be packed on a stage. The hero Stanley is a young Jewish playwright from Ohio, talented but vain, who is battening on the smash success of his first Broadway comedy. He falls in love with Stephanie von Arnim, a beautiful, aristocratic Austrian actress, and goes to live in her Salzburg castle with the hazy intention of fashioning a comedy for her talents and her accent...