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implode verb bankrupt, blow-up, cave, cave in, close, collapse, deflate, disintegrate, end, ended abruptly, fold, fold up, terminate |
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The star's core implodes while its outer layers blast into space. Heist films come in two flavors: films noirs like The Asphalt Jungle and Dog Day Afternoon in which the well-laid plans of a crew of thieves unravel and implode, and cunning capers like To Catch a Thief and The Thomas Crown Affair in which a clever thief outwits both the cops and the audience. American culture, mixed with Brazil's, completely formed the way I am, and I've always felt the need to implode that influence--eat, digest, and vomit it back where it came from, avaf and many of my contemporaries are bored with the personality-driven art world that Warhol so famously embodied. |
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