Word: smashingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students in Afro-American Studies 142b, "Communism and Marxism in Black American Life," that Blacks must abandon peaceful efforts toward liberation, and stop working within a hostile system. Nazis and other right-wing groups are now organizing many whites into violent hate-groups, and will threaten Blacks "unless we smash the hell out of them." Aaron Estis '80, a representative of the Communist Workers Party, told an audience of about...
...masks, armed with rifles and riot sticks, charge University Hall in systematic thrusts. State police drag bloodied protesters out of the building, where they will arrest nearly 300. "If you don't stay there I'll break your fuckin head," a cop shouts. Still the students chant. "Smash ROTC...
Robert Benton, 48, the writer-director of last year's Oscar winner and surprise box-office smash Kramer vs. Kramer, agrees that the challenge is to work on small budgets (Kramer cost $6.6 million). "The cost of movies is astronomical now," he says, "and that's dangerous. It makes it difficult to take creative risks. If it continues, fewer pictures will get made. With stakes so high, directors can't afford to fail. I just don't know how Hollywood will bounce back. The person who comes up with the answer has my nomination...
Daniel Bricklin, 29, and Robert Frankston, 31, a team of new-wave composers, have penned a dynamite disc that has grossed an estimated $8 million. It is not a punk-rock smash, but an unmelodic magnetic number called VisiCalc, the bestselling microcomputer program for business uses. The featherweight sliver of plastic is about the size of a greeting card, but when it is placed in a computer, the machine comes alive. A computer without a program, or "software," is like a $3,000 stereo set without any records or tapes...
...hands shriveled into a kind of angular cupped shape, somewhere between a claw and a crotch, and he started throwing off lines from Amadeus. He became, in almost supersonic succession, the man at the neighboring table, then the character he has been playing in Peter Shaffer's smash Broadway play and, finally, some wonderfully stylized hybrid of them both. Then, suddenly, McKellen laughed and turned back to his meal. It was a day off, after...