Word: smashingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...garde London? After presenting 15 ballets in six performances at Sadler's Wells, the triarchy established itself as the most explosive event in British ballet since Martha Graham's London debut in 1954. At week's end the company had proved such a surprise smash that it transferred to another theater for 18 more performances...
...French photographers to hot spots from the Left Bank to the Champs Elysees. As a cherry bomb burst in the air outside one boite, a French news-poule asked, "Is that a game for middleaged men?", to which Frankie glared redly, "Say that again and I'll smash your face in." She didn't, but the pack routed the rabble anyway with drawn knives, a gin bottle and a couple of clubs, leaving some Frenchmen thinking wistfully: Quel dommage the Bastille was ever torn down...
Richard III was a smash hit from the start. The Elizabethans loved it, and it was printed several times before the 1623 folio collection. Henceforth over the centuries the title role worked as a magnet on the greatest actors more strongly than any other Shakespearean part...
Wozzeck was a smash. "How long," mused L'Express, "has it been since L'Opéra de Paris has offered its public a work of such strength, executed with such care, love and precision down to the slightest detail? Not since the war certainly." Hiking the cost of tickets up to a high of $16 for Norma and brazenly importing big-name, high-priced foreign artists in excess of the legal quota (by government decree not more than 10% of the singers can be foreign), Auric mounted new productions of Tannhäuser, Don Carlos...
...maturing before they are ready to lay claim to the authentic "Stuttgart style" label some critics have already begun to discuss in glowing, enthusiastic terms. But one thing is already certain: not since the city's celebrated Ballet Reformer Jean-Georges Noverre set out two centuries ago "to smash the masks, to burn the wigs, to present a spirit which ranks high in the realm of the creative arts" has old Stuttgart seen so much style...