Word: floppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Does Album's box-office flop mean that Broadway and closed-circuit TV are financially incompatible? On closed-circuit TV, the Metropolitan Opera (TIME, Nov. 25) did poorly; championship prizefights, e.g., the Marciano-Charles bout (TIME, Sept. 27), fared better. With stepped-up promotion and the advent of color TV, can Broadway whet a new, nationwide appetite for the theater? Or will Broadway hits suffer on Broadway and on the road after being shown on TV? Said Trade Sheet Variety last week: "Whatever the effects, they loom as revolutionary...
...song entitled "Flip, Flop and Fly" the line occurs "When I get lonely, I jump on the telephone." ON first hearing, this sentiment seems somewhat ridiculous, if not downright neurotic. You try to visualize someone stamping and kicking and jumping on the telephone because he is lonely. It just doesn't seem right. Then you think of substituting "at" for "on," and the line begins to take on new meaning. When you visualize a person "jumping at" the telephone, it is an easy step from there to the final explication, "When I am lonely, I jump up from where...
...year later, Khrushchev, as party chief, with the power in his control, was able to show that the "new life" was a flop. In a series of speeches he showed that: 1) housing had not materialized; 2) the consumer-goods program had failed; 3) there was a nationwide food shortage. There were some other failures he did not have to point up: the first suggestion of relaxed control had been followed by the East German riots and by a ten-day strike of slave laborers in the Vorkuta prison camps. Attempts at "honest art," e.g., Novelist Ehrenburg...
...investigate the Mayor's charge, Cambridge-Arlington officials made a 30 minute inspection tour in a special MTA bus Tuesday, but Foley called the trip a flop...
Fosca wanted to unite all Italy in the 15th century. He failed. He took service under Emperor Maximilian (1459-1519) in the hope of uniting Europe. This was a flop, too. As adviser to Spain's Don Carlos (1500-1558), Fosca decided that the New World was the future's best bet; instead, he found it was nothing but an extension of the Old, smirched with the massacres of Indians. When the Age of Reason dawned. Fosca took fresh courage, but found that Revolutionary France was just a rational washout. In the end, Fosca can't imagine...