Word: flopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...executioner, Adolf Eichmann was a flop. He got queasy at the sight of corpses, and when a fellow Nazi invited him to peep at some Jews being gassed in a truck, he ran away in terror. "If today I am shown a gaping wound," he declared, "I can't possibly look at it. I am that type of person...
Chateaugay is a good horse: his Derby race was phenomenal. But he's going to be a real flop in the Preakness. I've seen too many horses run one brilliant race over their heads and then go sour to take Chateaugay's chances too seriously...
With a fat $150,000 to spend on La Scala's new production of Aïda, Director Franco Zeffirelli soared off into Cinerama dreams of Oriental glory. Unabashed by what his fine Italian hand had done to the recent Broadway flop, The Lady of the Camellias, he went into positive paroxysms of production. And when the curtain rose on each new scene of his masterpiece, the astonished audience forgot the forlorn presence of Soprano Leontyne Price and Tenor Carlo Bergonzi to shout "Stupendo! Bravo, Franco...
...reveal its mission. The size of Lunik IV (1½ tons) led some Western scientists to believe it was designed to carry out a soft landing on the moon. But after 3 ½ days in flight, Lunik IV missed the moon by 5,281 miles. Was Lunik IV a flop? Tass reported only that experiments "had been carried out," then curtly added it would have nothing more to report about the flight...
This is a first novel by a playwright with a considerable off-Broadway reception (The Prodigal, Gallows Humor) and a recent on-Broadway flop (Lorenzo) to his credit. In it, Richardson plays hide-and-seek with the questions of freedom, reality and life's purpose. Despite the author's overfondness for obscure-and sometimes misspelled-words, such as lachrymator, ecdysize, catasta, edacious and vibrissae,* Filmore's wide-eyed discovery that stone walls do not a prison make has some fine moments of upside-down humor. When his rollicking stay behind bars is ended by an untimely parole...