Word: botched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flying red flags and shouting "A bas De Gaulle!" voted Gaullist. Having won big wage increases and other with concessions, they reasoned- again with a certain logic-that De Gaulle was better prepared to defend their gains than the Communists, who, with no experience in running the country, might botch up the economy and nullify their improved status. In all, the Gaullists attracted 1,300,000 new voters to their cause...
...treat, however, as always, was at the plate. After a series of mediocre sounds it was announced that the Ill Wind was going to play. Those in the know approached the bandstand before the tourists could botch up the best listening space between the loud speakers. Connie, Carey, Richard, Kenney, and David the drummer made up quite a crew...
...Edward Mulhare, elegant head of Femina cosmetics? Is it his roughneck rival at May Fortune cosmetics, Jack Kruschen? Is it Chemist Ray Walston, who plays his part so broadly that his dialogue seems to be dubbed? Or is it really the men who wrote and directed this bleached botch of a comedy drama...
Dead playwrights can expect to have their work manhandled by succeeding generations, but no thing that ever lived deserves the thrashing Shakespeare is receiving from the Leverett House Drama Society. Their production of Twelfth Night is, alas, a graceless botch...
...only hope that everything in my career I manage to "botch" as much as you reported I did at the recent Venice Film Festival [Sept. 16]. For thanks to the festival, Italy's famed film director