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...Shrew, of which we have a very large percentage," said Burton. And no worry about the family coffers being depleted. The Burtons are tucking another $2,000,000 under the mattress in Sardinia, where they are making Goforth, the hopeful new tide of Tennessee Williams' two-time Broadway flop, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore...
...most damaging thought about Governor Romney's Viet Nam flip-flop via the brainwashing cop-out is not that he could be so easily "brainwashed" but that he is just another wheeler-dealer seeking a popular opinion to stand on and lacking true conviction. He is a good actor, but there are better ones in the arena. What we need now is an honest...
...Flop Society. Announcing her candidacy for the congressional seat vacated last June by the death of Representative J. Arthur Younger, Shirley -whose second husband owns an experimental and commercial oyster farm-told a news conference: "Our country is in deep trouble. The Great Society has become a Great Flop." Although she dodged specific questions with her famous dimpled smile, she did offer some strong general opinions on two inescapable issues. "It is not progress for the largest, strongest military power in the world to be mired down in an apparently endless war with one of the smallest and weakest countries...
...opera at Vienna's Theater an der Wien was a flop. The orchestra fumbled, the soprano bumbled, the tenor went flat. Critics dismissed the score as long, repetitive and gnarled with outlandish complexities. The production closed after three nights, reopened the following year, folded again after four more performances. The talented 35-year-old composer set the work aside for eight years. Then he undertook extensive revisions. "Hardly a musical number has been left unchanged," he wrote to a Vienna newspaper, "ard more than half the opera was composed anew." Finally, in May 1814, Ludwig van Beethoven...
Hamburg's approach sounds like a formula for box-office harakiri, but, as General Manager Rolf Liebermann says: "Our job is to try out new things and to find new directions. In such a context, a flop or a hit today is of no consequence whatever." In practice, the company has many more hits than flops, selling out a seasonal average of 86% of its 1,670 seats, attracting opera buffs from around the world to its occasional week-long programs of contemporary opera, and having its pick of top festival tours...