Word: flopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Deeper than Woman. Ardrey is a playwright who went to Africa in 1955 to concoct magazine articles and lick his wounds after a Broadway flop (his Shadow of Heroes, a play about the Hungarian Rebellion, opened to mixed reviews last week). He was fascinated by South African Anthropologist Raymond A. Dart, discoverer of Australopithecus, a man-ape who lived about 750,000 years ago. Ardrey was deeply impressed by Dart's contention that the small-brained Australopithecus used antelope bones as clubs and that these weapons changed him from a vegetarian into a successful predator and allowed...
...cherche une fille!" the crowd roars back, and plainclothesmen throughout the hall go up onto the balls of their feet for fear the next quiver may start World War III. Singing easily, about half the time in English, he is more reserved than Presley ("I used to flop down on the floor, but I stopped that because I didn't think it was respectable"); but his diction is remarkably similar: somehow, in French, he has acquired a unique hillbilly accent...
...office, you have probably had to wash your curtains once a month-a total of 96 times-to keep them only reasonably clean." At a home rally, Lefkowitz asked: "Would any of you dream of hiring a man for four more years when he's been a flop for eight?" Time and again, Lefkowitz accused Wagner of indifference to New York's crime rate. Cried he: "The decent people of this community are sick and tired of being human footballs for the hoodlums, punks, sex degenerates and drug addicts who terrorize our streets and parks at night...
...Instant Flop. In an era of football specialization, versatile Paul Hornung, 25, seems as obsolete as the drop kick. He cannot rifle a pass with the artistic precision of a Unitas. He cannot crunch through the encircling arms of defensive linemen with the raw power of a Brown. He does nothing perfectly-but he does everything well. He runs, he passes, he kicks field goals and extra points. And he does one thing better than anyone else in pro football: scores points. Last year Hornung scored 176 to break an 18-year-old N.F.L. record; in five games this season...
...Heisman Trophy winner and two-time All-America, Hornung was drafted by the last-place Packers in 1957 as a quarterback-the same position he had played so successfully at Notre Dame. But in the pros he was an instant, dismal flop. "I couldn't even make the fourth string," he says. Because his handoffs were too slow, his passing mediocre, Hornung was used only sparingly in Packer games, was permitted to call only five specific plays. "In one game," he recalls, "a player saw me coming in and yelled, 'Look who's here-rollout right...