Word: smashingly
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Among Broadway?s musical classics, South Pacific has long had a special mystique. An instant critical and popular smash when it opened in April 1949, it swept the Tony awards, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama and ran for a then-extraordinary five years. For a generation of postwar theatergoers, it was cherished like almost no other American musical. In my own parents? rather sparse record collection, it was the one original cast album that got played over and over - the Broadway show music that provided the soundtrack of my childhood...
...three 1-lb. (0.45 kg) tubes of butter? A liter of olive oil for $182? A $120 bottle of beer? I am an intolerable food snob, but I am also from middle-class New Jersey, and the upper reaches of the grocery aisles can make me want to smash something, like a tiny bottle of $145 balsamic vinegar that comes in a box with a 106-page book...
...play the right way he did, unleashing powerful forehands and climbing back to 5-5. At this decisive point, Omodele-Lucien controlled a long rally by running his opponent side to side with hard forehands and eventually put the piont away with an overhead smash. Omodele-Lucien won the set on the next point and ran away with the next set, giving him a 7-6 (5), 6-3 victory in the decisive match.“If there was a highlight of the day, it was the way Aba finished off his singles match,” Kumar said...
...film was just the latest in a hugely popular series spanning back to the original 1978 film, Bienvenu chez les Ch'tis has been a bolt-from-the-blue phenomenon. Its simple, sex- and violence-free tale about normal, unappreciated people has many critics comparing it the 2001 French smash hit Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain (Amélie in the U.S.). In light of its strong first week, some French film experts expect les Ch'tis to break the record for a domestic film or even better the all-time 20.7 million viewers mark...
...have been immediately struck by the sound. Years later, after applying to a music and arts school, Fleck once again heard the sounds of the banjo when the movie “Deliverance” was released and the song “Dueling Banjos” became a smash hit. Shortly thereafter, Fleck’s grandfather bought an old banjo for his brother, which Fleck immediately took possession of. Fleck, who learned the banjo by moving to Nashville and mimicking the masters of the time, candidly discussed his lack of formal education. He admitted that his inability...