Word: floppings
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...success will probably earn for its creator, Group Vice President Lee lacocca, the presidency of Ford some day. G.M.'s scarcely competitive Corvair has been damaged so badly by criticism of the safety of its 196,063 models that sales are off 55% to 38,156, and its flop has hardly helped the ambitions of its creator, G.M. Executive Vice President Ed Cole. Nobody in Detroit would be surprised if G.M. eventually should drop the Corvair altogether. General Motors next September will bring out a stubby-tailed, moderately priced (about $2,500) sports car, tentatively named Panther, to compete...
...relentless campaign to resurrect the least-known works of the best-known composers, some of Verdi's early operas are being given a fresh hearing-with unpredictable results. Gianna d'Arco (1845), performed this month by Manhattan's American Opera Society, was a thundering flop. But Attila (1846), as staged last week by the enterprising opera company of Graz, Austria, proved to be a rough diamond...
...shopping, the housewife should be able to switch on to the local supermarket on the video phone, examine grapefruit and price them, all without stirring from her living room. But among the futurists, fortunately, are skeptics, and they are sure that remote shopping, while entirely feasible, will flop-because women like to get out of the house, like to handle the merchandise, like to be able to change their minds. Not everything that is possible will happen-unless people want it. One thing they almost certainly will want is electronic "information retrieval": the contents of libraries and other forms...
...children tumble downstairs on Christmas morning, breathlessly expecting the unexpected present. But too many lemons showed up in the theatrical stocking, and audiences became wearier and warier. Production costs jumped, and off-Broadway found itself increasingly prey to the worst of Broadway's ailments, the hit-or-flop syndrome. So the off-Broadway theater is in crisis-an un-fabulous invalid. Luckily, this decline has zapped most vanity productions and self-indulgent exercises in beatnicknack-ery. The remnants, plus some earnest repertory and some irreverent topical comedy, still offer venturous playgoers a measure of dramatic experiment and serious theater...
...here please go see King Lear and get outta here," the A and R man announced. Not one of the thousands of teenie rockers packed into Brandeis's Shapiro Athletic Center was about to leave, and for the next hour-and-a half they sat through a series of flop warm-up acts waiting to get a look at the three super Supremes. Finally at the half, with the gym's scoreboard reading "visitors zero," they came, Diana, Mary...