Word: fiascoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...performer can stay at the peak of popularity forever. In Here's Lucy's last season, ratings dropped abruptly. Although specials featuring Ball proved popular, an attempt at a sitcom comeback in 1986 was an artistic and commercial fiasco. Audiences were uncomfortable watching a senior citizen drop hammers, stub toes and otherwise attempt a pallid imitation of the pratfall past. But if the Lucy of her final years was limited to Oscar and Emmy appearances as a cherished memory, the eternal Lucy of the reruns remained imperishably funny and tender. At the news of her death last week, millions...
...chances of winning the 54 seats it needs to retain a majority are less than certain. Finally, Takeshita's own lease on party and government office comes due in October, and he wants to reclaim it for another two-year term. Should he fail to do so, the Recruit fiasco could be the reason. April may yet prove the cruelest month for Noboru Takeshita...
...bright side of the Tower fiasco may be that it woke up the White House. "It has got Bush's attention focused," says an Administration official. An outside adviser says, "They've got a major bailout operation under way right now." On Tuesday night chief of staff John Sununu, ever confident and combative, sought advice from an informal group of outsiders that he occasionally convenes: a dozen former Bush campaign officials and political consultants who gathered for dinner in the Roosevelt Room and discussed how to recover from the debacle...
...difficult to see how Bush could emerge a winner from the Tower fiasco. Whatever the outcome, his personal and political judgment has once again been called into question. He insisted on appointing Tower, a longtime political ally, over the objections of aides who knew the nominee's vulnerabilities. The decision was all too reminiscent of Bush's selection of Dan Quayle, who as Vice President still comes across to many people as a lightweight. Other debatable appointments were those of Boyden Gray, the ethics chief with ethical problems of his own, and chief of staff John Sununu, ! an abrasive former...
...least suggest themselves: one is to eliminate our Saturday night games, or, if that can't be done, insist that our opponents play on Friday and Saturday as well. Otherwise, we don't play. That may be a tough stand to take, but better that than this cruel fiasco of asking our players to go in there and be humiliated seven years out of eight...