Word: flopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shrew, of which we have a very large percentage," said Burton. And no worry about the family coffers being depleted. The Burtons are tucking another $2,000,000 under the mattress in Sardinia, where they are making Goforth, the hopeful new tide of Tennessee Williams' two-time Broadway flop, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore...
...Bobo. Peter Sellers, his fans may be happy to learn, is alive and living in Barcelona. There he sallies forth as a singing bullfighter impaled on the horns of a dilemma. A fop as a matador, a flop as a troubadour, he has decided to leave the corrida and seek a stage career. Down to his last peseta, he desperately accepts a dare by the local impresario (Adolfo Celi), who agrees to book him into his theater on one condition: Sellers must seduce Britt Eklund (Mrs. Peter Sellers offstage), an ice-cold big-league golddigger whose favorite phrase is "Mine...
...raid on a six-room apartment, 17 hippies were arrested on narcotics charges. One unfortunate--who arrived shortly after the raid to look for his sunglasses, was booked for vagrancy. In his press and television statements, Hayes laid primary emphasis on the squalor in which these hippies lived. "A flop-house," he said. "I never saw such a filthy situation. There are terms which I could use but I would not use in public...
...most damaging thought about Governor Romney's Viet Nam flip-flop via the brainwashing cop-out is not that he could be so easily "brainwashed" but that he is just another wheeler-dealer seeking a popular opinion to stand on and lacking true conviction. He is a good actor, but there are better ones in the arena. What we need now is an honest...
...Flop Society. Announcing her candidacy for the congressional seat vacated last June by the death of Representative J. Arthur Younger, Shirley -whose second husband owns an experimental and commercial oyster farm-told a news conference: "Our country is in deep trouble. The Great Society has become a Great Flop." Although she dodged specific questions with her famous dimpled smile, she did offer some strong general opinions on two inescapable issues. "It is not progress for the largest, strongest military power in the world to be mired down in an apparently endless war with one of the smallest and weakest countries...