Word: floppings
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...Smash or flop? We should guess that the play has to be tightened in the beginning and at the end before it has a reasonable run on Broadway, but do not take our word for it. This comedy provides an enjoyable evening and a chance for the playgoer to know whether or not he is in tune with the New York audiences...
...interest development loans. The government sometimes helps finance private speculation in overseas raw materials. Tokyo is setting up a $1 billion fund for that purpose with an unusual feature that absolves unsuccessful prospectors of any risk. If a project such as drilling for oil turns out to be a flop, the government will simply write off the loan as a loss. If it is a success, the private developers will repay the money that they borrowed for the venture at a high interest rate to replenish the fund. No less an effort, and probably a far larger investment, will...
...addition to those rather well-known and wealthy groups listed above, there are many others who release equally fine records every year that flop. I don't know why nobody buys these records; it may have to do with bad promotion or bad timing, but it clearly has nothing to do with the quality of the music. Several such records have worked their way into my hands in the last year or so. Many of them are worth spending your money on as much as any other recent white rock albums...
...when he "saw the brutality perpetrated against the demonstrators and thought it unjust. It was then that I began seeing myself as a violent revolutionary." From a follower to a leader was a short step: he helped organize an antidraft demonstration in April 1968. It was "a pathetic flop. I felt impotent and very militant. I joined a commune; I cut off ties with moderates, liberals, anyone who didn't agree with me totally. It's so easy to resign yourself to violence as the only effective way to combat a system you conceive to be fascist. Once...
...Flop like a damp gate...