Word: smashingly
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...also an image that Barak is fighting desperately to smash. The image and reality of Sharon have become the main battleground of the election campaign. Though Barak went further than any other Israeli leader in offering concessions to the Palestinians, it is Sharon whose campaign jingle says he will bring peace. In his television spots, Sharon cuddles a lamb on his Negev farm and lovingly lifts his grandson into his arms as the sun sets over his wheat fields. Says Yossi Beilin, Barak's Justice Minister: "Sharon prefers the image of Grandma, rather than the reality of the wolf...
Barrymore also earned critical acclaim for her roles in Gun Crazy and Irreconcilable Differences. She founded her own production company--Flower Films--which has produced many notable films including the box office smash Never Been Kissed. Most recently, she tried her hand as a producer in the box-office hit Charlie's Angels...
...NONRECALCITRANT TOASTER: Somebody soon is bound to smash the worldwide small-household-appliance cartel's plot to foist $50 toasters built with 10[cent] engineering on a groggy breakfast-time America. The prospect of a toaster that quickly pops up perfect golden-brown slices every time is to be dreaded. Will the toaster swallow the slice, then hold it in its stubborn grip until it's a hunk of smoking charcoal? How many times in a row will you have to insert a slice, only to see it instantly pop back up again? Set the dial to WELL DONE...
...relative dilettante on the instrument who happened to play the steel break on Crosby, Stills & Nash's "Teach your Children." Garcia got by on his marvelous musicality rather than any real technique, and it's one of the enduring ironies that his performance on the CS&N smash, probably the best-known song to feature a pedal steel, is widely reviled among purists. Then again, half the people playing today probably started after they heard him, including...
...season half shot, football junkies, bloodlust barely sated, are already suffering proleptic pangs of withdrawal. And this year, cruelly, a false hope has been raised: the XFL. Right after the Super Bowl, Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation, in alliance with NBC, will kick off its brand of super-smash-mouth football. Vince and the WWF's think tank have come up with some rule changes to make the game more exciting, i.e., more violent. There will be no fair catches. No touchbacks on the kickoff. No "in the grasp" rule to protect the quarterback...