Word: smashingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remark "If the show plays to empty seats, the failure will not belong to the Royal Shakespeare Company or the importers but to the Broadway audience" is as ridiculous as the exorbitant $100-a-ticket price. While your article notes that Nicholas Nickleby was a smash in London, it does not mention that there theatergoers could pay a measly $14 a seat...
Early last week Gwiazda blasted the compromise as "a deplorable political mistake" and accused Solidarity's leadership of "no longer talking to the grass roots." Rulewski said that "this union was not created to make compromises, but to smash the totalitarian system in our country." Finally, by a vote of 348 to 189, the delegates reprimanded their leaders for "a violation of the principles of union democracy" because so few people had taken part in the decision. At week's end, however, the delegates overwhelmingly adopted a resolution accepting the new government laws on worker self-management...
...singing in local piano bars. When the couple returned to New York City, she worked in cabarets and clubs, evolving her tough-as-nails performing style. In 1978 two executives from Los Angeles-based Chrysalis Records signed her; Heartbreaker was her breakthrough single, followed the next year by her smash Hit Me with Your Best Shot. The days of living on rice and beans were over...
...walks sandwiched around a Jim Gantner single loaded the bases and again, as in Wednesday's game, Gossage was called in to shut the Brewers down. A pop-up and a strikeout ended the threat, and a two-run smash by Reggie Jackson in the top of the ninth put the game...
since 1968?and director of the current smash London musical Cats?visited the U.S.S.R. "The director of the Gorky Theater told me that for the next six months his company would be working on the Pickwick Papers," Nunn, 41, recalls. "It emerged that such large-scale adaptations of Dickens are commonplace in Soviet theater. In a sense, that shamed me into it." The following year, inflation devoured much of the R.S.C.'s government grant (the company receives almost 40% of its approximately $12 million budget from the Arts Council). It could afford to stage only one additional new work instead...