Word: flopped
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Today, Wacker says, the statistics are exactly the reverse: freshmen are the least common class to seek psychological help, and seniors are the most common. Wacker offers two possible explanations for this flip-flop: the increasing uncertainty of finding a desirable job or place in graduate school on the senior end, and improved secondary-school counseling on the freshman...
...embezzlement scandal. But Author David McCintick, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, does not think his book had much to do with Begelman's latest downfall. "There is only one law of the Hollywood jungle," says McClintick, "and it is box office. Begelman made a string of flop motion pictures." And that is that, until, as many expect, some new company produces The Return of Begelman...
...GROUP of Harvard students revived the Sixties rock-revue Hair this year, and even people in the cast agreed that it was a flop. Staged at the Institute of Politics Forum, the show featured a soupedup title--Hair for the Eighties--and a totally rewritten script to match. Nukes and social spending cuts replaced free love and Vietnam as the subjects of song and dance, but no perceptible effort was made to explain the changes of the past 15 years or the wilting of the flower power generation...
...flop, the news travels fast these days. "With most Hollywood movies opening in 500 to 1,500 theaters," notes Industry Analyst Lee Beaupre, "their commercial fates are generally determined in the first week." Art Murphy, Variety's box-office expert, explains: "Because it costs so much to advertise in the newspapers and on television-and because of sky-high interest rates-an expensive picture has to strike big and fast. A movie in 1,500 theaters will make its money quickly and then drop off. Even a hit can use up its audience in 25 days. These movies...
Fortunately, Disney will have an opportunity to set this flop aside; Tron is destined to obscurity. Those not afflicted with video disease should have no interest in going. And for those who are wrapped up in the craze, there are much better things to do with four dollars--that's 16 quarters--and an hour and a half...