Word: smashingly
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...Orbison, who would not fully flower till the '60s, did an early stretch at Sun, recording some goofy rockers and writing a hit song (for the Everly Brothers) about his girl friend Claudette. Charlie Rich came in as a staff songwriter and soon had his own smash, "Lonely Weekends." All of these performers got the can't-miss slapback echo-chamber treatment, and all eventually bolted Sun. By the end of the '50s the revolution was over for the bright yellow label with the sun-ray stripes, the rooster and the encircling clef notes...
...burned on Broadway once before, with their 1988 musical Chess) simply sat back and let a bunch of other folks take Abba's hit songs, graft them onto a flimsy story about a girl looking for her real dad on her wedding day and turn Mamma Mia! into a smash hit on Broadway--and just about everywhere else in the Western world...
...debris from an earthquake or the natural erosion of nearby cliffs. Archaeologists are debating whether to dig for the Buddha in an area covered by land mines. Some argue it is an important cultural relic that should be unearthed, but others fear that more Taliban-like fanatics could smash this Buddha as they did the others in March 2001. Scholars and donor countries working through the United Nations are discussing the broader goal of repairing Afghanistan's war-shattered culture, including rebuilding one of Bamiyan's destroyed Buddhas, which could cost up to $50 million. Excavating the reclining Buddha would...
...scowl that fades as Sawitree explains her story. "Come in, come in," he smiles, calling his wife. They were once dancers at the King's palace, Saengau explains, and he is related to Jau Phaendin. "Very sad, very sad," he says. "I had to run when they came to smash the palace...
Indeed, if Russia and the former Soviet republics are able to hobble the OPEC cartel and smash Saudi dominance, American interests in the Middle East would be the first to benefit. Not only would the despotic House of Saud likely lose power, the ability of dictators such as Iraqi President Sadam Hussein to produce weapons of mass destruction would be seriously degraded. The Saudi monarchy is already contending with a young and restive populace that sees little opportunity in a sclerotic oil-based economy. Without a steady flow of oil money, the totalitarian governments in the Middle East would...