Word: flopping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fellow actors had seldom seen and generally resented. One screamed at her: "You're a freak of nature-you'll never last!" She played stock in Baltimore, studied dramatics in New York under Frances Robinson-Duff, landed a bit part in These Days, a Broadway flop. For six months she understudied Hope Williams in Holiday. Sculptor Robert McKnight, who wanted to marry her, took her to the country for an afternoon. She talked so continuously of love, life, art and Katharine Hepburn that he never had a chance to interrupt with his proposal...
Divorcement was an unexpected success. The nation's moviegoers took to the nasal voice, the angular face, the Bryn Mawr accent. Kate's second film, Christopher Strong, was a flop. But then she won an Oscar for her acting of the stagestruck girl in Morning Glory. As Jo in Little Women, her performance was so moving that Tallulah Bankhead knelt to congratulate...
...another and showing his leading men how to sing songs and make love to the leading lady (Jane Wyman), he is throwing gay first-night penthouse parties, where he croons such ditties as Zing a Little Zong. But Widower Bing is so busy being famous that he is a flop with his teen-age children. His daughter (Natalie Wood) winds up in jail with her drunken governess. His adolescent son (Robert Arthur) resents Bing's critical attitude toward his songwriting attempts, and tries to beat his father's time with Jane Wyman...
Republicans had a victory in New York City, a Democratic stronghold. Researchers of Pulse, Inc. last week reported that the Republican Convention had average New York City ratings of 43% a night compared with only 32% for the Democratic Convention. Pulse suggested three explanations for the flop: 1) a long heat wave that kept people out of doors, 2) baseball competition, 3) the fact that the Republican Convention came first...
...Communist L'Humanité, chagrined over France's bad showing (eighth place) in the Olympics, found an alibi. After scanning the French team roster, it discovered that capitalist weaklings had gummed the works in Helsinki. L'Human-ité's excuse for France's flop: ''Of 275 team members . . . there were only 28 workers and four peasants." Undoubtedly the correct Commie line...