Word: smashingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fresh start" for American society. In April 1969, a Marxist splinter group of the fast deteriorating SDS led a forceful takeover of Harvard's University Hall, telling the majority of the campus leftists, who had opposed the occupation. "You and the administration are the same thing, and we will smash you both...
...with delusions of grandeur. Palmer does not blink at Cruz's venomous ethics, but he sinks this character in a landscape of almost unrelieved corruption. He portrays a Miami and environs where the heat is always on: "The sun was a bludgeon hanging over the landscape, poised to smash whatever might attempt to set itself above the level, and nothing larger than a dragonfly dared to venture into its sight; not from lassitude but out of a strict fear...
Vreeland's ten previous collaborations with the museum's Costume Institute have been both hot tickets and publicity bonanzas, and "La Belle Epoque" shows every sign of being a smash too. The women's gowns of the era, which by Vreeland's chronology developed in the last half of the 19th century and ended on the eve of the first World War, were opulent and imperial. They may have been the most extravagant fashion since the court of the Sun King. Worth, Doucet, Callot Soeurs, Poiret: the great fashion houses are all represented with gowns...
...Said one acquaintance: "It was a very unhappy situation, which is not unusual in this business." She was overruled by superiors, for example, in her attempts to get Chariots of Fire distributed by Fox. Instead, it was distributed by Warner Bros, and the Ladd Co., became a box-office smash and won an Oscar as best picture of 1981. With The Verdict, a film about an alcoholic Boston lawyer's malpractice case against a Catholic hospital, she guided the project from start to finish and deserves credit for its success. That accomplished, Lansing announced her departure. Said she: "What...
...even as the world economy weakened, some businesses boomed as never before. Americans by the millions escaped to the charms of E.T., a 3-ft.-tall space creature lost in suburbia. The movie of his odyssey, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, became by far the biggest smash in motion picture history, bringing in $305 million at the box office by mid-December...