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Though it is an aesthetic dud, A Doll's House is a sold-out hit for its seven-week run. Joseph Papp engineered it that way by settling for star power. This is faintly amusing considering his long and loud castigations of Broadway commercialism. Too bad he didn't consult a Broadway producer before casting the play. ∙T.E.Kalem
...handle the publication. But the book had minimal impact on the campaign. Rocky thought so little of the book that he did not get around to reading it until two days before his appearance before the Rules Committee. "It has got to be the most overrated, misrepresented, innocuous political dud ever perpetrated in a partisan political campaign," he said...
...newcomer to the intricacies of buying a jet, Moss was swindled out of $45,000, spent another $125,000 on a jet that turned out to be a dud, invested $400,000 in cash, and finally bought a six-year-old DC 8 from National Airlines...
...celestial object that had been widely billed as "the comet of the century" had indeed turned out to be a disappointing dud. Looking with unaided eye into the southwest sky after sunset, most observers in well-lighted, smoggy metropolitan areas could find no trace of Kohoutek. Even with binoculars, they saw only a faint smudge near the bright planets Venus and Jupiter. From their orbital vantage, the Skylab astronauts found that the comet had suddenly become bewilderingly faint; only a few days before, they had enthusiastically described it as glowing "yellow and orange, just like a flame...
...time when advanced military technology is rendering certain traditional weapons obsolete, Broadway continues to rely on older and older bombs. The latest nostalgia dud is Molly...