Word: dudly
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...Afghan traders. First they talked about how their investment in opium had taken a beating (the price dropped from $700 a kilo to $200 since Sept 11th, because the Taliban commanders who'd stockpiled tons of opium were nervously selling it off), and then the conversation turned to the dud Cruise missiles which had landed around Kandahar. These traders shifted eagerly on their stacks of plum-dark Bokharas and somber tribal Baluch carpets...
...decided it was time to put the spoofs behind him. "I got tired of satire," he says. "It was fun, but I didn't feel like doing it again." So he directed Ghost, the hit 1990 supernatural romance that won Goldberg an Oscar, as well as First Knight, the dud 1995 Arthurian epic starring Sean Connery and Richard Gere. He also produced 1997's My Best Friend's Wedding, but not until Rat Race did he get back behind the camera to make another madcap comedy. "It took me a while to get over First Knight," Zucker says. "I like...
JACK WELCH GE's $45 bil bid for Honeywell too sticky for Euro regulators. Rare dud for Neutron Jack...
...Last season CBS had the market cornered, rolling out "Survivor" and "Big Brother" and coming up with one phenomenon and one dud. The rest of television spent the summer boning up, and since then "The Mole" came and quietly went, "Temptation Island" drew viewers but scared away advertisers, "The Weakest Link" took "Survivor"-style ruthlessness into the lavish confines of the game-show studio, and "Boot Camp" proved that slavish imitation of a business model can still pay off in this business...
...none of them seem particularly up to the job, mentally or morally. The viewers will live - Rodger is starting to make me a little uncomfortable with his very friendly hugging of the nearest comely lass. Nick's a dud. And Elisabeth - well, she's a peach, but the I-just-want-to-stay-here-with-my-friends-a-while-longer stuff is simply not helping a show that could use a little more scheming these days...