Word: flopped
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Later that evening when Holmgren returned and was informed of the visitor, he jokingly commented that it would be funny if the bat were in one of his shoes. Holmgren then proceeded to pick up his shoes one by one to prove his point. When the bat actually did flop out of the fourth shoe he’d grabbed, one of the roomies let out with a “girly scream.” “I’m not going to say it was me,” Holmgren attests...
...Crimson’s latest first-half flop came on the heels of a sloppy first half against Princeton last weekend in which the Crimson committed three costly turnovers and trailed...
...measure the success of literary work not so much by the good opinions of their few most intelligent and discerning readers, but rather by entirely commercial yardsticks - by the size of publishers' advances and by sales in the stores. A nice story, Mr. Melville, but I expect a commercial flop. You might mention the make of the sails...
...fright, and flight, from the story of a Martian colonization of America. And in 1941, five days before Welles? 26th birthday, RKO released "Citizen Kane," a sensation that publisher William Randolph Hearst tried to stop because he believed it was a libel on his life. The film, a financial flop when released, is now commonly called the greatest ever made...
...mean the word in its fullest sense. I mean to sug-gest excitement, exhaustion and exultation; flop-sweat and red tempers, endured or even provoked because the participants knew they were creating some-thing wonderful. "Shows were created week after week under conditions of soul - and health - destroying pressure," writes Houseman. "Two simultaneous dramas were infolded each week in the tense, stale air of CBS Studio One: the minor drama of the current show and the major drama of Orson?s titanic struggle to get it on." By Monday afternoon Houseman had written the adaptation and an introduc-tion about...