Word: flopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...VISIT to a bad show doesn't have to be a total loss. For one thing, you can learn the difference between a flop and a failure. A flop, in the words Walter Kerr used a few years back to describe a fiasco called Kelly, is "a bad idea gone wrong." Such a show, through its total ineptitude, can often be very funny. (A knowledgeable friend of mine who saw Kelly's one and only Broadway performance counts it among the most hilarious evenings he's ever spent in a theatre.) A failure, on the other hand, is a good...
...North Vietnamese batted the ball right back to the U.S. Said Hanoi's Nhan Dan: "The U.S. propaganda campaign about a so-called breakthrough in Paris will end in a flop." In Paris, Colonel Lau complained: "The Americans' formulas change, give the appearance of being more supple. But in reality, they all boil down to the same thing-reciprocity. And we can't accept this...
...obviously skirt the issues. Nixon doesn't really dart his eyes about, but I do it to show the way his mind is working. Imagine him being asked his views about NATO." Abruptly Frye's voice drops into the familiar singsong baritone, and his arms flop up and down like a marionette's: "I'm glad you asked me that question. I'll tell you exactly what I think of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. I think the same of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as I do of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization...
Pianist Vladimir Horowitz likes a relaxing television show as much as the next man, whether it is baseball, or a panel discussion or Bonanza. But when TV tries to get in tune with classical music, Horowitz tunes out. "Everything I've seen on music has been a flop," he says. "There are too many things that distract the eye at the expense of the ear. With a symphony orchestra you jump around the sections. With a singer you see tonsils...
...Mary Wells (now the wife of Braniff President Harding Lawrence), who dressed stewardesses in Pucci-designed uniforms and painted planes in vivid hues. By contrast, TWA's decision to doll up stewardesses on transcontinental domestic flights in "foreign accent" uniforms has proved something of a flop. Having hired the Wells agency away from Braniff, TWA next month will instead start outfitting its girls in what it calls "modernistic nonuniform uniforms." These will consist of casual mufti ensembles, with accessories to suit the individual stewardess' taste...