Word: flopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scheduled to convene in Budapest next month. With Rumania and Yugoslavia boycotting the conference, and with a new and perhaps more freewheeling regime in Czechoslovakia, Ulbricht and Gomulka are left as the Kremlin's most trusted friends in its flagging campaign to isolate the renegade Chinese Communists. Any flop in the Budapest meeting, which is designed as a prelude to a larger assemblage in Moscow, would be a serious setback for Russian foreign policy...
Castro's art exhibit was the highlight of an eight-day international cultural congress that ended in Havana last week. Though the congress was a flop as such affairs go-only a few of the big names invited showed up*-it was part of an old Castro strategy: when things go sour, divert the people's minds...
...whole boring saga confirmed a long-held suspicion that the Beatles are four rather pleasant young men who have made so much money that they can apparently afford to be contemptuous of the public." In reply, Paul could only say: "Aren't we entitled to have a flop? Was the film really so bad compared with the rest of the Christmas TV? You could hardly call the Queen's speech a gasser...
This reasoning proved fallacious for Playwright Kyle Crichton, who had a 1956 Broadway flop with The Happiest Millionaire, which was based on the Philadelphia childhood reminiscences of Cordelia Drexel Biddle. The formula fails again in Walt Disney's movie musical. The main trouble this time is that Fred MacMurray's impersonation of Colonel Anthony J. Drexel Biddle is eccentric but not lovable. He is, in fact, a boor...
...antidote to Broadway's bruising hit-or-flop economy is the regional theaters' desire to nurture new plays and playwrights. Up to now they have been pretty timid about it. The tendency is to cater to the subscribers' varied tastes by dividing a season between classics, proven Broadway hits of recent vintage, and such fashionable avantgardists as lonesco, Beckett, Pinter and the ubiquitous Brecht. More ambitious than most, Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum is genuinely trying to offer original plays. One such experiment, Oliver Hailey's Who's Happy Now?, opened last week...