Word: flopping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Early in "We" Shapiro quotes me claiming I was ahead of my time, that I originated student activism, and so on: that is he makes me sound like a real jerk. This is the "communists are megelomaniacs" bait. However a little later on, Shapiro does a complete flip-flop and, as if he'd never hinted I was so self-centered, says: "Jared strongly dislikes talking about himself." Shapiro then goes on to attack me for this, saying I've dissolved my personality into the party, that I give "we" answers to "me" questions, and so on. This...
...Richard Schickel and I agree that the made-for-TV movies are perhaps the change of pace that TV needs [April 1]. However, I must disagree with his assessment of The Execution of Private Siovik. I believe that what Schickel calls "the mightiest flop of the year" was one of the most moving TV stories of the year. That "pathetically masochistic G.I." didn't want to kill or be killed. That's crazy...
...book adds fresh detail. For example, in one of their periodic raids on their homeland, the hardy Tibetans helped resolve a debate that had been going on in CIA headquarters in Washington: they captured documents showing that Mao Tse-tung's Great Leap Forward had been a flop...
...Rape attracted a record-breaking audience for a realistic, if dramatically ill-resolved, study of the one crime in which the victim can almost count on being further punished by the legal system. Finally, with The Execution of Private Slovik, NBC managed to flack its way into the mightiest flop of the year. Mistaking sober intentions for genuine achievement, the network promoted the film heavily. It turned out to be a long, soggy script about a pathetically masochistic G.I. who became the only American to be shot for desertion in World...
...medley relay, we did a flip-flop with a couple of swimmers," Harvard coach Ray Essick said yesterday. For Harvard, George Keim swam the butterfly portion instead of Hess Ynetma and Wes Raffel was the anchorman in place of Keim...