Word: smashingly
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...anyone who has played the smash-hit video game Tomb Raider can tell you, Croft Manor is the home of Lara Croft, the aristocratic female archaeologist with an eye-popping physique and an Indiana Jones-size taste for travel and adventure. Croft aficionados, though, have never known the place to look this high-tech, or this highly detailed. They have also never met its other inhabitants: the butler, the sardonic tech geek who lives in a trailer out back, or Lara's late father, Lord Croft, who will appear in his manor's observatory packed...
...buried in their place, dig up the remains of one fellow's late wife. She turns out to have a huge gash in her skull, implying that her husband might have murdered her. Much of this, believe it or not, is played for laughs (in one scene the pair smash a skeleton to smithereens), but McDonagh's comedy, unlike Lonergan's, never seems pasted on, or patronizing. We never lose sight of the dark drama beneath it: the harrowing picture of human beings driven half-mad by lives of crabbed, inbred isolation...
...destroy these statues and countless other archeological treasures. Why? Because they are un-Islamic, since they are idols, sculpted in man's image, say the Taliban. "We do not understand why everybody is so worried," declared Taliban Supreme Leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, who issued the decree last Monday to smash all pre-Islamic idols around the country, "All we are breaking are stones...
President Ahmet Necdet Sezer, who cultivates the common touch, has his car stop at traffic lights. He still found himself involved in a devastating collision last week, a sudden political smash-up with Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit-over corruption and banking reform-that has left the International Monetary Fund's inflation-cutting program for the country a twisted wreck, the lira in free fall and Turkey's 66 million people facing even more inflation. By week's end both officials, chastened, had left the crash scene to attend international gatherings...
...Your book has been a smash hit for three years. Has it been enjoyable...