Word: smashingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...everyone is making a fair profit, or intended to. The admission-free pavilions of the U.S. and foreign countries were not designed to earn anything except prestige. (But one Belgian baker has become a smash success, turning out diet-demolishing waffles piled high with whipped cream, strawberries and powdered sugar.) Some marginal carny operators on the fair's "Gayway" are described by Fair President Joseph E. Gandy, 58, as "sick cats," since the fair has proven to be more of a family occasion than a peep show...
...show, called Poupees de Paris, is modeled after the revues at Paris' Lido and Folies Bergere, and it is the smash hit of the Seattle World's Fair. Costing $200,000 to produce, it is a spectacle bathed in dancing waters, fireworks and rain. The puppets-131 rubber and plastic females, seven wooden males-are about three feet high, and no expense has been spared in fitting them out; some of the miniature gowns cost as much as $2,000 apiece and were designed by Balmain. Star puppets resembling such people as Mae West, Charles Boyer, and Liberace...
...first they behave in the traditional manner. They serenade the bride with dirty songs impugning her chastity. They hold a "cats concert," in which cats and dogs are tied up and encouraged to fight to the death, snarling and whining, under the bridal window. But then the pranksters smash the windows. Luciano is stabbed, staggers back to the bedroom, and dies deflowering his bride. As a commentary on the modern Spanish scene, The Wedding provides tourists with a useful tip: rural weddings can be as bloody as bullfights...
...terrain itself provides the ultimate drama, beauty and terror of the film: cascading rock-strewn rivers that can smash an outrigger like a coconut shell, the green deep-pile carpeting of the rain forest, so dense that only needles of sunlight ever filter through to the dank jungle floor, the incessant droning whine of insects, and the voracious, slimy leeches, the size of amputated little fingers, that have to be burned off the skin. In New Guinea, the cruelest headhunter is still Nature...
...course "at least 200 times" before. Winner of 33 tournaments, including the 1960 U.S. Open and last year's British Open, golf's reigning king was having his best year. With $60,331 already in the bank, he was-and still is-a good bet to smash his alltime money-winning record of $75,262, set in 1960. Having won his third Masters title in April, he now had visions of a one-year "grand slam," winning all four of pro golf's major championships-Masters, U.S. Open, British Open and Professional Golfers' Association. Nobody...