Britons saw loop after loop of images of buildings on fire, smashed glass, streets in raucous refusal.
Anarchists in hoods and motorcycle helmets threw Molotov cocktails at the police, set a television van on fire, smashed shop windows and ignited trash bins.
Fired up by the civil rights movement and demands for open admission at CUNY, the students protested by throwing a lampshade from the second-floor balcony, setting mail on fire, smashing an end table and ripping out phone wires.
I remember one time being pinned down for about half an hour behind a balustrade wall in front of the national museum at the top of Wenceslas Square while a tank in the street below riddled the front of the museum with machine- gun fire, smashing every window and knocking chunks out of the masonry.
As I ate a giant slice of apple pie I tried to imagine the scene: 2,000 rioters lighting vans on fire, smashing the post office and throwing rocks at responders.
Sure-fire smash, electro-swing, sassy and catchy!
Office Space (2001) was released with little fanfare, died immediately, and then became a genuine prairie-fire smash on DVD, perplexing his Fox bosses.
Point being, Paramount seemed to be doing okay, so the question becomes why did they basically give away the distribution rights to two sure-fire smash hits?
We'll know more after its second weekend, when it will attempt to use positive buzz to overcome the sure-fire smash weekend debut of Sherlock Holmes.
Throughout Friday and into the early hours of this morning, hundreds of protesters set fires, smashed shop windows, hurled cobblestones and charged police officers in riot gear.
