Word: flopping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eccentrics. Hepburn was dogged for years by Dorothy Parker's famous put-down of her performance in the Broadway play The Lake: "Katharine Hepburn runs the gamut of emotion from A to B." If her parents, heirs to the Corning Glass fortune, had not bought her out of that flop and she had not secured the rights to The Philadelphia Story, she would not be summoning reporters to her house today...
...long list of Administration officials has already appeared before the Gonzalez committee to admit that the effort to woo Iraq was a flop. "I have said 15 times today that it didn't work," Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger acknowledged wearily at the end of one session. But Administration spokesmen have also denied they were subject to undue pressure to favor Iraq. The combative Gonzalez has moved to counter their claims by reading into the Congressional Record a cloak of secret documents, mostly concerning White House efforts to secure the loan guarantees, which have become the subject of lengthy...
...million drama. "That could be a very big, expensive problem." The movie, set in Ireland and the U.S. in the late 19th century, means to have a David Lean sweep. But the one epic Lean filmed in Ireland was Ryan's Daughter -- Erin go flop...
Three attractions -- one flop, two smashes -- are new to the world. The Visionarium film, shown on nine curved screens that wreathe the audience, is the least of the lot: a wan drama, with few aerial thrills, that puts Jules Verne (Michel Piccoli) into the time machine of his friend H.G. Wells (Jeremy Irons), with help from a friendly baggage handler (Gerard Depardieu). In the dungeon of Sleeping Beauty's Castle, a powder-puff piece of surreal estate inspired by Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, reposes a fabulous Audio- Animatronics dragon that snorts steam, flashes its stoplight eyes...
...broader vision (although in presenting the award, Audrey Hepburn tagged India with that ancient stereotype "mysterious"). It was a year for fiction, but for outrageous and shocking fiction. It wasn't a year for the sweet and docile fiction of Fried Green Tomatoes. Of course, the Academy may flip-flop next year and nominate a remake of the Sound of Music, but this year will go down as a fairly radical one in the history of Oscar...