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...talking about who originated the idea. But somehow, back in 1968, the Navy began experimenting with those saucer-shaped toys called Frisbees, ostensibly to find a better way to keep flares aloft. Last week, after spending $375,000 on the Frisbee project, the Navy admitted that it was a flop...
Permanent as the printed page may seem, the life of a book is often precarious. Nothing is harder to find than last year's literary flop, and the classics of yesterday seem to drop from view with unsettling regularity. The bottoms of the Great Lakes are said by some to be tiled with the dumped overstock of paperbacks that cannot be obtained anywhere, even in libraries. But there are mysterious cycles of resuscitation too. This fall Viking and Scribners have chosen to revive two marginal but interesting literary remains...
...Stade was thrown out of ROTC when he took the first term of his senior year off to tour South America with an international polo team, which, he recalls, "turned out to be pretty much of a flop." Returning to Harvard to graduate, he was offered a job as a master at St. Paul's. He accepted the job, and then two years later, took another offer to come to Harvard...
They are all dead behind the eyes, but vividly, wincingly alive in the theater. Playwright Jason Miller, 33, whose only previous full-length play, Nobody Hears a Broken Drum, was a quick flop, has chiseled out each role to give it the clean profile of humanity and of pity. The actors do him proud, seeming to have traveled every step of the way, from adolescent victory to middle-aged defeat, laughing and crying together. Director A.J. Antoon, who directed Cymbeline in Central Park last summer, has wrung a triumph of ensemble acting from these splendid players. To Joseph Papp, "Bravo...
None of the three has been a box-office flop; two of them --French Connection and Straw Dogs--have collected more than their share of critical praise. French Connection was a top grosser across the country, and the movie industry showered it with awards on Oscar night. Bad as it is, it is the least pernicious of the three. Unlike the other two, French Connection cannot be called a fascist movie. Instead, it is merely a celebration of authority, brutality and racism. The hero of the movie, Popeye Doyle, is a tough detective; his excesses, it is implied, must...