Word: fiascos
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Coca-Cola has always been the world's most popular soda. But in 1985 its Atlanta-based makers decided to replace it with New Coke, a sweeter concoction designed to challenge perennial opponent Pepsi. New Coke became the marketing fiasco of the decade. Within three months, soft-drink sippers loyal to the old formula forced its return; it reappeared as Coca-Cola Classic. Since then New Coke's market share has shriveled. Last week, in an effort to resuscitate the comatose cola, the company announced plans to test market New Coke under a new name: Coke...
...falls in love with an agoraphobic library assistant, Tissy, a delicate, nervous creature whom he hopes to nurse to a normal life. Abetted by her mother, a "Messalina of the suburbs," Tissy turns out to harbor the tyrannical selfishness of the very weak. Their marriage is a fiasco. Lewis falls under the spell of Emmy, a passionate and extraverted actress who is the opposite of his wife in every way except relentless self-absorption. Although he resists Emmy's advances, his wife leaves him anyway. He drifts passively through decades of wistful misery, unable to attain pleasure or please others...
Instead he reverted to his earliest version of his conduct during the Iran- contra affair, insisting that he knew little or nothing about many key aspects of the fiasco. He provided a scrambled account of the origins of secret arms shipments to Iran that contradicted the testimony of other witnesses and evidence assembled by various investigations. He asserted, for example, that the idea had been broached by "a group of individuals, citizens of Iran," who wanted to lay the groundwork for better relations with the U.S. after the Ayatullah Khomeini died. Both the Tower commission and congressional investigating committees concluded...
These embellishments were just plain boring after the initial oohs and ahs. and they tended to take away from otherwise good numbers (for example, the white glove fiasco in the midst of "I'm Getting Married"). Also, I really can't think of anything more heinous than day-glo pink and yellow Can-Can outfits that turn bright orange under the strange glow of the black lights...
...grand jury, ten when she told it to a judge, and eleven when she finally told it to the jury that rendered its verdict last Thursday. Perhaps the only thing of value that has come out of this case is the determination to ensure that such a fiasco can never occur again...