Word: smashingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Burly (6 ft. 3 in., 242 Ibs.) Lieut. Bill Nieder, 26, hurled the 16-lb. shot 63 ft. 10 in. in an invitational meet at Stanford University to smash the official world record of Los Angeles' Parry O'Brien (63 ft. 2 in.), and the pending mark of the University of Southern California's Dallas Long (63 ft. 7 in.). On the record, it looked as if U.S. shotputters might finish one-two-three at the Olympics this August in Rome...
...Ritchard went Around the World on 80 Pounds, at one point carrying his valet in his valise. Best of all was Songstress-Comedienne Tammy Grimes, summing up the history of American women in popular songs; her smoky voice got everything but the filter feedback out of that 18th century smash, Tobacco's but an Indian Weed...
...French Revolution. La Fille Mai Gardee is the world's second oldest ballet (the oldest: The Whims of Cupid and the Ballet Master, which beat La Fille to the stage in 1786). In its present incarnation, La Fille not only provides the Royal Ballet with its biggest smash of the season but brilliantly demonstrates the versatility of a convivial, pink-cheeked, 53-year-old ex-R.A.F. officer-Choreographer Frederick William Mallandaine Ashton...
Needle Stab. After the fashion of Pirandello, Author Gelber takes an ax to the footlights, tries to smash all barriers between the play and its audience. Two characters in The Connection are moviemakers doing an avant-garde film of the supposedly real junkies in their pad, and another is the "author," who loses control of his characters, gets a fix himself and falls in drugged stupor while the actors continue on their own. One actor gestures toward a couple in the audience, says that there are other addicts, "people who worry so much-aspirin addicts, chlorophyll addicts-hooked worse than...