Word: smashingly
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...After failing to turn Eyes Wide Shut into an art-house blockbuster, Tom Cruise has returned to safer ground, teaming with much-worshipped action director John Woo for a high-octane sequel to his 1996 smash Mission: Impossible. Although it might seem as if Cruise is abandoning his lofty artistic ambitions in favor of instant box office, he actually continues his admirable tradition of seeking out the industry's top directors. Woo is an absolute master at bringing a graceful touch to epic action sequences, and much of his Hong Kong work, such as The Killer and Bullet...
...special effects, look extremely promising, though there has been some Internet outrage from traditionalists who prefer the blue-and-yellow uniforms of the comic book over the Matrix-esque black leather used in the film. Nevertheless, there is every indication that X-Men will be one of the smash-hits of the summer...
That is why, inside a secret factory in Tucson, Ariz., U.S. scientists are crafting 55-in.-long, 120-lb. missile killers. These "exo-atmospheric kill vehicles" are designed to smash invading weapons 140 miles above the earth's surface, long before they can reach a U.S. city and kill thousands, if not millions. At the Pentagon, military officers are drafting plans for sky-scouring radars designed to stand perpetual guard against just such an attack. At the western tip of Alaska's Aleutian Islands, military surveyors assess sites at which construction of the most critical of those radars...
...Broadway smash comes to life on the Loeb Mainstage...
...going by Church St. in the Yard. In this area, one common type of crime is the smash-n-grab. Perpetrators will smash a window or store display with a brick, or even a car, and grab the merchandise that they...