Word: flopping
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...Crimson’s latest first-half flop came on the heels of a sloppy first half against Princeton last weekend in which the Crimson committed three costly turnovers and trailed...
...measure the success of literary work not so much by the good opinions of their few most intelligent and discerning readers, but rather by entirely commercial yardsticks - by the size of publishers' advances and by sales in the stores. A nice story, Mr. Melville, but I expect a commercial flop. You might mention the make of the sails...
...fright, and flight, from the story of a Martian colonization of America. And in 1941, five days before Welles? 26th birthday, RKO released "Citizen Kane," a sensation that publisher William Randolph Hearst tried to stop because he believed it was a libel on his life. The film, a financial flop when released, is now commonly called the greatest ever made...
...mean the word in its fullest sense. I mean to sug-gest excitement, exhaustion and exultation; flop-sweat and red tempers, endured or even provoked because the participants knew they were creating some-thing wonderful. "Shows were created week after week under conditions of soul - and health - destroying pressure," writes Houseman. "Two simultaneous dramas were infolded each week in the tense, stale air of CBS Studio One: the minor drama of the current show and the major drama of Orson?s titanic struggle to get it on." By Monday afternoon Houseman had written the adaptation and an introduc-tion about...
...There are, of course, some logical inconsistencies in the fact that conservatives, who for years have fought against anything resembling national testing standards, appear to have no problem whatsoever with scripting a national no-sex ed curriculum. This flip-flop would be slightly easier to swallow if a) there was a groundswell of support for the approach (parents, on the contrary, in survey after survey support teaching abstinence in concert with birth control) or b) there was convincing evidence that this program works...