Word: smashingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next night brought a new production of The Consul, Menotti's classic statement against fascism, red tape and human indifference. It was a smash hit on Broadway in 1950. Directed again by the composer, with Keene conducting, The Consul remains Menotti's most powerful stage work. Any performance of The Consul lives by its Magda, the woman who batters her heart and soul day after day at the consul's office in search of a visa, and who in the end commits suicide. Menotti has chosen her wisely. Marvellee Cariaga, of the San Diego Opera...
...suitable spot where I could await the opening of the doors. In any case, my eyes flitted about the stuffy lobby, packed to the gills with presumably affluent moviegoers who could say two hours later that yes, they had attended the Boston premiere of the prospective Box Office Smash of 1977, Star Wars. So this is how a big commercial film presents itself to the public these days, I mused. No sky-scanning spotlights, no jewel-bedecked starlets traipsing out of glossy limos, no obligatory horde of autograph hounds hanging out their tongues in anticipation of the next celebrity...
...universe of plenty-as audiences can discover beginning this week in Star Wars, a grand and glorious film that may well be the smash hit of 1977, and certainly is the best movie of the year so far. Star Wars is a combination of Flash Gordon, The Wizard of Oz, the Errol Flynn swashbucklers of the '30s and '40s and almost every western ever screened-not to mention the Hardy...
Brown came in with the score 5-3 and pitched well (despite walking four), but made one mistake in the sixth to Davis, who clocked his second homer of the day, a solo smash to right. Three runs down, two innings...
After a short break, Lundy and Waldman teamed up to smash Yale's first doubles squad of Leeds and Matt Doyle, 7-5, 6-3. The Elis now trailed, 4-3, and it appeared as if the early Yale lead had been a fluke. The Harvard tennis bandwagon, temporarily slowed, was once again rolling, and the Crimson's fourth league victory in as many tries seemed ripe for the plucking...