Word: flopping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...courage to change is often the very definition of leadership, and this particular Clinton flip-flop is better yet because the President expressed his new position without the legalistic fudging that has too often characterized his tenure. This time a foolish and failed policy was forthrightly acknowledged to have outlived its "usefulness," and squarely junked...
...records, but industry analysts estimate that last year the stores' revenue was $465 million for Disney, $380 million for Warner. These are robust figures; they amount to 54% of Disney's total domestic box-office take and 39% of Warner's. Not bad for a fledgling industry where the flop factor is reduced and the stars aren't paid $10 million a picture...
Having testified at the Rodney King criminal trials that fellow officers bashed King in the head with their clubs, Theodore Briseno did an about-face at King's $9 million civil trial, stating this time that the blows actually hit King's arm. Why the flip-flop? Briseno said watching an enhanced version of the 1991 videotape changed his mind...
...ambition, hubris and nostalgia still inspire many of the most talented American filmmakers to try the form. Steven Bochco, after creating the hit series L.A. Law but before creating the hit series NYPD Blue, created the very expensive flop series Cop Rock, a weekly musical about police. "It was the most fun I've ever had in television," says Bochco, whose father was a Broadway pit musician. The audience regarded Cop Rock as a curious taste not worth acquiring -- "I think people sitting at home alone," Bochco figures now, "were embarrassed" -- and ABC canceled it quickly. James Brooks, the director...
...social issues, flaunts his low-down obsession with sexuality. "You should be ashamed," said a very powerful entertainment executive who has made millions of dollars producing smutty, antisocial television and movies. "Howard Stern is a pornographer!" another prominent diner screeched. Still another predicted Stern's book would be a flop, since nobody but semiliterate white trash listens...