Word: smashingly
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Most notably, they produced Daddy Yankee’s smash single “Gasolina,” which brought reggaeton to MTV in 2004. American listeners who couldn’t quite catch Yankee’s rapid-fire Spanish lyrics were mesmerized by Luny Tunes’ weightlessly hammering synthesizer beat...
...there is a vast difference between the lame NSA thriller and the religion-questioning smash...
...genre, which had been a B-movie fad in the 50s. Back then, the kids who gorged on s-f were a Saturday matinee minority. Star Wars arrived just as teen culture was taking over movies. Lucas? film proved that a movie could be a smash by creating a textural density that lured a part of the audience back through the wickets a dozen times. This wasn?t your uncle?s, and aunt?s, hit movie; but if they didn?t get it, who cared? The kids (mostly boys) were pouring all their disposable income into return visits. Thus Star...
Walter E. Howell ’09 and Robert I. Padnick ’09 have developed a new, efficient mode of communication. “I’ve called up Robert before and said, ‘Smash,’ and he says, ‘Done,’ and two minutes later, we’re smashing,” Howell says.“Smashing,” in this case, doesn’t refer to drinking games or car windows; it’s their code for playing the cartoonish Nintendo...
HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE HAYAO MIYAZAKI This Oscar-nominated antiwar fable was an art film in North America (box office: $4.7 million) but a popular smash worldwide ($229.6 million). That was nothing new for Miyazaki. His hand-drawn animated fantasies (Porco Rosso, Spirited Away) have long appealed to kids and connoisseurs alike. Here he has transported his gift for alchemizing the mundane from Japan to Western Europe a century ago. A spell instantly ages the heroine, Sophie, from 18 to 90 and lands her as a housekeeper inside the walking wonder house owned by a dishy shape shifter. Following...