Word: floppings
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...like a list of about scholarly books that come out," Wilcox reflected. "It got wide critical acclaim but was a financial flop...
After playing the dying young ballerina Niki in last year's cinema flop Six Weeks, Katherine Healy, 14, might have been hesitant about dancing again in public. Not a bit of it. The New York City native was back on her toes most recently at the celebrated International Ballet Competition in Varna, Bulgaria, where she became only the second U.S.-born gold medalist. The first, in 1974, was Fernando Bujones, 28, who is now an established American Ballet Theater star. Healy has been rumored to be interested in A.B.T. too, but she says it is premature to make...
...once grandiose and controversial: shrinking the national debt by selling off excess federal buildings and land. Announced with some fanfare by the Reagan Administration last year, the plan had the goal of raising $17 billion over five years. But the stuffily named asset-management program has been a conspicuous flop from the beginning. By the middle of this year, it had succeeded in peddling only $150 million worth of buildings and a scanty 4,600 acres of land worth $4.8 million. Even worse, it has proved a disaster politically, antagonizing conservationists and even some of the Administration's staunchest...
...apparent explanation: Tereshkova's highly touted odyssey, which seems to have been ordered by Khrushchev personally, was a technical flop. A millworker by profession, she was poorly prepared (she had done only some amateur parachute jumping) and, according to word from Soviet defectors, became severely ill during the flight. Indeed, even as she was being strapped into her Vostok capsule, as a last-minute replacement for the original woman candidate, she complained of feeling sick and dizzy. But with Khrushchev looking over their shoulders, Soviet space officials sent the reluctant Tereshkova...
...this. Children, for god's sake, don't doubt your elders. I may be the first Harvard student to get two summa readings and a prize for a separate essay and yet fail his orals. I'm still graduating honors, but not before being forced to realize what a flop I'll be at cocktail parties. As of now I'm unemployed, but I think I have a future writing Salada tea bags...