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...still unresolved grievance claiming that killing the team would violate the league's collective-bargaining agreement. That agreement has expired, and after the 2002 season, so will the Expos. In the meantime, they must play 162 games knowing that no matter what they do--win the World Series or flop--they'll be dissolved, or at best relocated, in November...
Even smaller, creative gimmicks can sometimes flop...
...Success' destroyed us all," said Mackendrick, who would never again direct a major Hollywood film. But that's press-agent reverse-spin. In the projector lamp of history, no one cares whether the film's makers had a good time or whether the film was a commercial and critical flop. (TIME did put it on its 1957 Ten Best list.) What matters is the creepy, elevated pleasure it gives today. The movie proves how savory and nourishing a cookie full of arsenic...
...Henry Hook cryptic crossword-puzzle clue - "shining silver trash" - for which the answer is "aglitter" (silver = AG; trash = litter); the movie gleams like a diamond trying to pass itself off as a rhinestone. A truck dumps a pack of newspapers in front of a newsstand, and they flop, like a bunch of fish the papers will soon be wrapping, just as Bernstein's horns scream to a finish...
...have run out of tunes. But it could be I'm too possessive of the movie, too reluctant to give credit to those who have tampered with it - sorry, elaborated on it. Get back to me in 45 years; maybe we'll see another classic in another "Sweet" flop...