Word: flopping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finest achievement of his whole career. "I never felt better on any stage that I did that night," he said. The next day the critics unanimously panned him because "I was not ferocious enough, and I did not rave and rant." Realizing this was his first critical and commercial flop in 13 years, he decided toward the end of the play's brief run to act the role as the critics wanted. He "tore through the performance like a madman, and hammed the part within an inch of burlesque," as any adolescent could have easily done. The result was that...
Without Links? Such a "head-in-the-sands" policy, charged Kennedy in a full-dress speech, has proved a dismal flop, with the U.S. standing by, the costly Algerian war has dragged on and on, weakening France, dimming French prospects of salvaging some economic links with North Africa out of the wreckage of empire, and enfeebling the NATO defense against Communism by tying down 400,000 French troops. Worst of all, the U.S.'s "retreat from the principles of independence and anticolonialism" has damaged "our standing in the eyes of the free world, our leadership in the fight...
...Flop. In only one business venture-the tourist trade-has the dictator proved a flop. He spent $25 million erecting a gigantic "International Fair for Peace and Progress," opened the doors for business only three months before the Galindez kidnaping. The strongman was splashed with a storm of bad notices unequaled since he ordered the massacre of 15,000 Haitian migrant farm workers in 1937. As he steadily blocked FBI investigation of the double crime, magazines, newspapers, radio networks and U.S. Congressmen denounced him. The tourist traffic jerked to a halt...
...trial was a public-relations flop for Kadar, aroused widespread sympathy for tearful, blonde Ilona Toth. An embarrassed Communist woman judge brusquely sentenced Ilona, the army lieutenant and one other to death. The comparatively mild prison sentences handed down to Obersovszky and Gali were later reversed; both, together with a third defendant, were on appeal condemned to death...
...styled artists' colony. Just in back of Beacon Hill is Scollay Square, which is not, anyone will tell you, what it used to be. After the war there weren't as many sailors, and then one Thursday night the Crawford House burned down, and Boston lost its best-known flop-house. Now the Old Howard has shut down, where Jenny Lind once sang and Rose La Rose more recently appeared. Boston still has an all-night movie house, the Rialto, which opens and shuts sporadically on Bowdoin Square...