Word: smashingly
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...second career start, where would Pizzotti go? He’d go 42 yards downfield to a streaking Matt Luft, who made his defender miss before beating everyone to the endzone. “Chris hit the young freshman on a shallow cross on what we call a smash route,” Murphy said. “Matt Luft made the exact adjustment.” Now down just 24-14, a direct snap out of a punt formation on a similar fourth-down situation on the next possession saw sophomore defensive tackle Matt Curtis scamper eight yards past...
...early 20s ("we were road racing and I drove my car into a ravine") gave him the limp that he still walks with at 45; in his head are two drainage holes, covered merely by a thin layer of skin, bored during brain surgery, the legacy of another smash that almost killed him. He will sit and drink Scotch after Scotch with disconcerting ease and tell of a bluesman's life-of scrapes with jealous musicians wanting to cut his fingers off, and of playing to audiences of gun-toting triads in Kuala Lumpur nightclubs. And like so many...
...sentimental Disney hegemony of fairy-tale movies. But today the outlaw is king: parodying fairy tales has become the default mode of telling them. 2005's Hoodwinked! reimagined Little Red Riding Hood as a crime Rashomon, while this year's Happily N'Ever After sent up Cinderella. Broadway smash Wicked posits that the Wicked Witch of the West was misunderstood. This fall Disney (et tu, Mickey?) releases Enchanted, in which a princess (Amy Adams) is magically banished by an evil queen to modern New York City, where she must fend for herself, parodying her princess foremothers as she goes. (Snow...
...what? Well, anything. Sports would be great—the national biking champion, for example. Or maybe the national competitive eating champion, putting away 50% of my body weight. I’d even settle for being the national champion of Mario Kart: Double Dash or Super Smash Bros. Anything, really, that would get me a sweet belt like those guys from...
...explain that you (and other swimmers) quite often smash world records by half a second, sometimes even one or two seconds, while world records in track and field hold much longer and are beaten by narrow margins? Jeremie Clevy, PARIS...