Word: flopping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conductor, Legrand remained virtually unknown to the buying public, partially because he was not clearly identified with any single popular school. Maurice Chevalier changed that, when he hired Legrand to conduct the orchestra on one of his series of U.S. TV Spectaculars last spring. Legrand's loose-jointed, flop-haired conducting style intrigued TV audiences, and when he returned to Paris, he was greeted by a crowd (and a batch of publicity handouts depicting him as a man who had taken the U.S. by storm). Since then, Legrand has worked an around-the-clock schedule...
...Work of Handicraft. Divided into classical and modern sections, the show opened with 25 exhibits, drew hordes of admiring students and scores of professors who were torn by mixed emotions. In Suárez' opinion, the modern section was a bit of a flop: "A chuleta, to be worthy, must bear the imprint of the student's personality and be a work of Spanish handicraft...
...much of the old troupe--many of whom gave up better-paying jobs to return to the Brattle. Once again, the season was artistically successful--both Henry IV, Part I and Othello made two-week stands at New York's City Center. And once again, it was a financial flop, just as Haliday and the other organizers had realized it would...
TIME April 2 erred in stating [Harold Hecht and Burt Lancaster] made Marty because we "needed a flop to write off as a tax loss." Indeed, had Marty failed, we'd have had nothing to write it off against, because it was optimistically made by a specially organized Marty partnership, which owned no other properties...
NAVY'S DEMON JET FIGHTER, which was a $200 million flop with underpowered Westinghouse engines, is finally getting airborne. Six planes with Allison engines have passed flight tests and joined the fleet. The Navy, which was sharply criticized by a House subcommittee for its part in the fiasco, along with Planemaker McDonnell, now thinks all the bugs are licked, will spend another $55 million for more Demons...