Word: duds
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...SUGAR! David Merrick's gone and made Some Like It Hot into a musical and boy is it a dud. Now in pre-Broadway tryouts. Sugar has been on the road for over two months, trying to get up enough guts to show its face in New York. But by the looks of things Wednesday night, even if this show took a forty-year detour by way of the Sinai Desert it still wouldn't know where to go next...
Unfortunately, the revival is a dud. To break the news gently to those around 50: the show is unlikely to remind you of the heady days when the nation sent Lucky Strike Green to war. It will prove to you how bald, paunchy and pooped a show can get in 27 years...
...book by his favorite novelist, P.G. Wodehouse, and looks like somebody's kid brother home for the long hols. If fame and fortune have not yet disturbed them, it may be because so much of it has come in the U.S. "The LP record is an absolute dud in England," Rice explains. "Only three weeks ago a friend of my mother's said, 'Wouldn't it be wonderful if Tim could make a living out of that song...
...Robertson. He had not hit a home run in the last six weeks of the regular season, but he belted three of them in the second game to power the Pirates to a 9-4 victory. The surprise in the third game was Pitcher Bob Johnson, a self-proclaimed "dud" during the season (nine wins, ten losses). Tapped as a last-minute replacement for ailing Nelson Briles, he held the Giants to four hits during the first seven innings. Then in the eighth, with two outs, two men on and the score tied 1-1, Pirate Pitching Coach Don Osborn...
...officials, President Nixon ordered the FBI to investigate the bombing. But since he had signed the bill after the blast, the FBI's function was never precisely defined. Bureau spokesmen would alternatively state that the FBI was, and was not, involved in the case. Their activity, too, was a dud...