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Among Broadway?s musical classics, South Pacific has long had a special mystique. An instant critical and popular smash when it opened in April 1949, it swept the Tony awards, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama and ran for a then-extraordinary five years. For a generation of postwar theatergoers, it was cherished like almost no other American musical. In my own parents? rather sparse record collection, it was the one original cast album that got played over and over - the Broadway show music that provided the soundtrack of my childhood...
...three 1-lb. (0.45 kg) tubes of butter? A liter of olive oil for $182? A $120 bottle of beer? I am an intolerable food snob, but I am also from middle-class New Jersey, and the upper reaches of the grocery aisles can make me want to smash something, like a tiny bottle of $145 balsamic vinegar that comes in a box with a 106-page book...
...quiet street in the small, high-desert town of Playas, N.M., just north of the Mexican border. Suddenly it is alive with action. A heavily armed SWAT team races toward two adobe houses where terrorists are holed up, according to reports from a confidential informant. The troopers smash down the door of one, blow open two doors of the other and disappear inside...
While some teams preferred to chop or smash avocados, Miles, who is an inactive Crimson photographer, said that her team had used their hands...
...play the right way he did, unleashing powerful forehands and climbing back to 5-5. At this decisive point, Omodele-Lucien controlled a long rally by running his opponent side to side with hard forehands and eventually put the piont away with an overhead smash. Omodele-Lucien won the set on the next point and ran away with the next set, giving him a 7-6 (5), 6-3 victory in the decisive match.“If there was a highlight of the day, it was the way Aba finished off his singles match,” Kumar said...