Word: flopping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Adam has made life tough for Coleco. The company will take an estimated $110 million write-off against 1984 earnings because of the flop. Indeed, Adam might have driven Coleco to its knees were it not for the company's success with another product: the Cabbage Patch Kids. Coleco last year sold $500 million worth of Cabbage Patcheria, and the pudgy dolls have been the hottest toys for the past two Christmas seasons. Coleco hopes that it will now do better by staying in the cabbage patch...
...high court's flip-flop in the Stephens case reflects a deep fitfulness over capital punishment. "It takes its toll psychologically, and that spills into nasty memos," says one Supreme Court law clerk. Last year in one dissent, Justice William Brennan was especially bitter. "The court has once again rushed to judgment," he wrote, "apparently eager to reach a fatal conclusion...
...loon's "maximum air speed is 60 miles an hour, and his stall-out speed must be 59. Anyway, he scarcely slows up, apparently because he thinks he will fall." Big fat feet out behind them, they crash-land on their bellies, an avian comedy. On land, they flop along on their stomachs. When it rains, they mistake highways for lakes, come down like thunderbolts. People are always tending their abrasions and taking them back to ponds. To take off, they need as much as a quarter-mile of liquid runway, and no one can watch the spectacle without...
...than the sci-fi 25th; Salieri is a loser from Loserville; and Mozart, he's the guy who wrote Elvira Madigan, and his first name is Mostly, isn't it? The film's $18 million budget may be less than is spent on many a teenpic flop, but it still makes Amadeus a ricochet roll of the dice; the film will have to bring in more than $40 million at the box office just to break even...
...Pulitzer Prize), Bus Stop (1955) and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1957). Never a master of plot or construction, Inge was incomparably tender, a poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-aged longing. An honored place in theater history seemed assured. Then all went sour. Flop followed flop; drink and depression overtook him. When he committed suicide in 1973, the New York Times obituary appraised him as a man who had "lost his gift...