Word: clinkering
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...JONES puts a musical clinker into Broadway's Christmas stocking. Set in the golden canyons of Wall Street, the libretto manages an occasional up-tick of humor about stocks, bonds and mutual funds, but in general the proceedings are as cheery as Black Friday...
...soared 681 ft. through the air. That cost him a basal skull fracture and a $4,500,000 car-$112,000 of which was his own money. In 1964, he scored another first, setting records on both land (403 m.p.h.) and water (276 m.p.h.), but again there was a clinker: his land-speed mark applied only to direct-drive automobiles, because the U.S.'s Craig Breedlove had already clocked 407 m.p.h. in a free-wheeling jet-powered vehicle...
...takes, she was the old Julie, cutting an incongruous figure in her postulant's costume and behaving like an old busker: hammering out a furious Hawaiian War Chant, whistling through her teeth, clacking out a frenzied flamenco, tossing off bawdy songs, warbling Indian Love Call, and hitting a clinker at just the right moment...
Barbra couldn't sing a clinker either. Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home brought tumult. He Touched Me touched everybody. Autumn Leaves, in French yet, wowed 'em, and People knocked 'em out. For encores she wailed her tearful Happy Days Are Here Again and, patting her bulging tummy, crooned Silent Night. And that was that. With thunderous cheers chasing her, Barbra tripped backstage to her house-trailer dressing room. There, in a symbolic act, her private hairdresser sheared her customary complicated coif into a modified Mia Farrow cut that Barbra could tend herself. Then...
...taste make the export business as tricky as it is lucrative. The Flintstones are No. 1 in Sweden and the favorite viewing of Rhodesia's Sir Roy Welensky, but they were ignominiously reduced to background characters in a fly-spray commercial in Italy. Perry Como hit a clinker on Germany's Infratest ratings, Andy Williams on Britain's TAM's. And even blockbuster Bonanza was clobbered by Rawhide in Korea. Another complication in foreign-syndication sales is that U.S. shows come in awkward lengths (a half-hour program has only 26 minutes of action) for nations...