Word: flopped
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...models don jeweled or plain bras that allowed the one-shoulder evening dresses to drape as they pleased. Even that had to yield to Ognibene-Zendman's show-stealing suit: one quick tug at its hidden waistband controls and the skirt's pleats reverse themselves, flop over from blue to green...
...spirit resists evil. As for the spectacle of the supine young Adonis having his flesh and heart beaked out by grotesque female vultures, the ritual is overly familiar and more than a bit of a drag. Lolling in this effete bordello of his imagination, Albee achieved his first quick flop (seven performances) and his tiniest play...
...nearly awestruck at the achievement, which is perfectly fine since the only other reactions the film could possibly produce are boredom and fury at having paid the whopping three dollar admission. Paris is so interminably long, so badly acted, so deliciously incoherent that it could very well be the flop of the year, nay, the decade...
...mishap hit the headlines back home, all Italy chuckled. Fanfani had hardly smoothed down his dignity and limped away when the next blow came. He found himself involved in a Hanoi "peace feeler" to the U.S. that turned out to be a dismal flop. Of course, he felt he was only doing his duty-that it was the responsibility of any statesman to pass along to the President of the U.S. the slightest intimation of an end to the bloody Viet Nam war. The folks back home, however, were less impressed than amused at this "amateur peacemaking." Particularly since Fanfani...
...been extensively checked on the ground, fired in a test stand, put in a vacuum chamber to simulate operating altitudes, started and restarted until all the glitches seemed gone. The fact is, says one of the country's top rocket-motor experts, that "sometimes these birds just flop-even though the chances are something like 9 in 10 that it won't happen...