Word: smashingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...ample time to write his remarks, and there is not a soul on his staff, among his friends or in the press corps who doubts that the convention's final act - Obama's address to 70,000 people in a football stadium - will be anything but a smash. That should leave plenty of time for Team Obama to worry about everything else...
FULL-BODY SWIMSUITS help smash world records, ruin Games for female viewers...
...Americans jumped out to a small lead in the second set, then the Chinese tied it at 18, prompting a joyous roar from the home fans. But the U.S. reeled off three unanswered points - capped by a quick Walsh smash down the middle - to claim the match 21-18, 21-18. It was the 108th consecutive victory for Walsh, 30, and May-Treanor, 31, a winning streak that's more than a year...
...movies since girlhood, and the 22-year-old Sharif, a recent college graduate making his first film, in Siraa Fil-Wadi / The Blazing Sky / Sky of Hell. This Romeo-and-Juliet drama set on sugarcane plantations was Egypt's entry at the Cannes Film Festival, and a pan-Arabic smash. It established the two actors as the great love pair of their time; their marriage the next year was a star alliance akin to that of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton...
...sado-catechism, enjoyed a frenetic first-day sale in bookstores but quickly reached climax, then rolled over like a sated lover and went to sleep. It's true that her current caravan, traversing four continents and 20 cities (including New York last week, Philadelphia and Detroit this), is a smash. Biggest thing since the Who tour, you hear; biggest thing since the Rolling Stones. Alas, these fossils of Jurassic Rock are the merest nostalgia items; a fan wants to see them before they break up or crack up. Madonna sets herself the sterner challenge of being forever new, pertinent, shocking...