Word: smashingly
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...success. Champion, born in Geneva, Ill., had played supper clubs when he was just out of high school, danced with his first wife Marge through a succession of movie musicals (Show Boat, Jupiter's Darling). Although he won his first Tony Award in 1949, Champion made his big smash as a director with Bye Bye Birdie (1960). Subsequently he did much of his most successful work on Merrick productions (Carnival!, I Do, I Do) and in 1964 gave the producer his biggest hit, Hello, Dolly!, one of the most spectacular theatrical bonanzas of all time. In return, Merrick...
...Jennifer Shull, Lynn Stalmaster or Joyce Selznick? Almost 50,000 members of the Screen Actors Guild, that's who. For these are the casting directors, the silent powers who put the sparks into most of those stars way back when and who often mean the difference between a smash and a bust at the box office...
...attack on Bakhtiar took place Friday morning. According to French police, three armed terrorists posing as journalists tried to break into his apartment in the fashionable Paris suburb of Neuilly. They opened fire on two French police guards, killing one and wounding the other, but were unable to smash through Bakhtiar's armored door. The attackers also shot and killed a woman neighbor and exchanged gunfire with police as they tried to flee the building. The three gunmen were arrested, and police hauled in two other suspects the following day. A militant Iranian group calling itself the Guards...
Like the censors who battled Oh Calcutta! and the judges who smothered Caligula, President Carter and Associates have been searching for a way to close the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's smash hit. An attempt to airlift the 53 performers en masse from the theater wings failed when a pulley strap of the deus ex machina snagged on a piece of scenery...
When the new edition hit the bookstores late last year, 100,000 copies were snapped up in a matter of days. The smash seller? A revised and expanded version of the Atheist's Pocket Dictionary, first issued in 1973 and put out by a state-run political publishing house called Politizdat. The 280-page paperback, though "designed for propagandists, lecturers and organizers of atheistic work," has some of the appeal of forbidden fruit; few books are ever published in the U.S.S.R. that deal with religion, even in a backhanded...