smashup

Before the smashup began, the Indian Plate varied in thickness and composition, which helps explain the crescent shape of the 2500-kilometer-long Himalayan front.

Because the event likely battered Uranus’s interior, an orbiter that can detect fluctuations in the planet’s gravitational field would be able to map any internal anomalies created by the giant smashup.

Several valuable vehicles are arriving at — or leaving — the museum today, a coincidental calendar smashup that has Yates ping-ponging between projects.

And they’re lessons that underscore just how the Cubists plunged into a new world, without fear, and gave us a vital example for a contemporary culture desperate for its own smashup.

In “Dodi & Diana,” Kareem Fahmy’s new two-hander at Here, car crash is the rather crass operative metaphor — as in, Samira and Jason’s relationship of seven years is headed for a smashup.