Word: flopping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...YEAR'S RESOLUTION] Remember the flop Boris and Natasha...
Throughout Another City, Not My Own, Dunne has threaded his personal story. After arriving in Los Angeles in the late 1950s, he led an A-list social life but was a B-list producer, making The Boys in the Band, The Panic in Needle Park and the Elizabeth Taylor flop Ash Wednesday. "I hated Nick in the old days," says Sue Mengers, the most powerful agent in Hollywood at the time. "I thought he was superficial and arrogant." Dunne would agree...
...local Blockbuster video store. His brother (Peter Gallagher of sex, lies and videotape fame), on the other hand, is a smooth talking well-dressed I-banker in London. Wallace decides to drop in on his brother for his birthday (thankfully Gallagher saves us a reprise of his recent flop To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday). The brother, James, freaks, being on the cusp of a multimillion dollar deal with the Germans" (soon virtually every nationality's stereotype will be played out). He decides to send Wallace out on an evening of participatory theater, "The Theater of Life...
...bill's rousing bipartisan success, assured since President Clinton's October flip-flop, leaves Republicans with a new problem: How to keep their lead on taxes, which, with the 1998 races looming, has fast become politics' most attractive issue...
...Meier had their disagreements about its display--Walsh liked sober, richly colored walls as a background for the art and insisted on "period room" effects for the furniture, whereas Meier wanted neither. The period decor, which was handled by the New York City architect-decorator Thierry Despont, is a flop. But Meier served the art very well, with a series of generously proportioned, plain, high-ceilinged and top-lighted galleries that don't clamor for attention and do create a feeling of undistracted serenity. They recall the enfilade effects of older museums, but Meier has cunningly provided the links between...