Word: flopping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...festival did not flourish at the box office, it was not the artistic flop that some local critics claimed it was either. Robert Ward's opera Minutes Till Midnight, which took as its theme the moral dilemma of an atomic physicist, is less than exciting, but it has a serviceable tonal score and a singable libretto. Albee's The Man Who Had Three Arms, though wordy, is an intriguing, often hilarious parable about the hazards of fame in the TV age, with excellent performances by Robert Drivas, Patricia Kilgarriff and Wyman Pendleton. Williams' A House Not Meant...
...crews; preservationists have staged all-night vigils; private security guards have barred the Gordon Group from access to the grounds. City Councilwoman Peggy Stevenson, who led last year's fight to declare the Garden Court Historic-Cultural Monument 243, decided later that the building should go-a flip-flop that, she insists, has nothing to do with CD's $2,500 contribution to her campaign...
...finding out that the price has changed." Trying to make the point that the U.S. had not engaged in a maneuver designed to placate both Britain and Argentina, White House Spokesman Larry Speakes said, "This does not indicate any change in our basic position." Still, the embarrassing flip-flop was hardly an impressive show of U.S. resolve...
Kennedy has already responded to the Michelman Report, which he says does not go far enough, with his own New Model Curriculum proposal which calls the current second-and third year program "a flop...
...works for a while, as Martin weaves his own plot-web into the 18 old movies, but pretty soon he's traveling on old good will and flop sweat. I'll say this: he travels in good company. Rachel Ward, his femme fatale in this activity, has taunting cheekbones, eyes like veiled promises and a body that speaks in languages not yet discovered. Miss Ward, just because I have to collar your pal for creative fraud is no reason we can't be friends. My number's in the book. The name is Marlowe. -By Richard...