Word: smashingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...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...
Saddam Hussein is feeling lucky. As well he might, since rising oil prices and Israeli-Palestinian violence have combined to turbo-charge his campaign to smash international sanctions against his country. Iraq Airways on Sunday flew its first domestic flights over the "no-fly zones" maintained by the U.S. and Britain since the Gulf War, and it repeated the gesture on Monday. Official spin from the White House: We have no problem with civilian air traffic; those zones are to protect Kurds and Shiites from Iraqi military planes. Still, nobody doubts the significance of the gesture. Not when airliners carrying...
...want the world to come to you, look no further than the Loeb. Shelagh Stephenson's The Memory of Water, the smash hit of London's West End, continues its run in the Experimental Theater. For more information, check out the review on today's theater page...