Word: floppings
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...Successo. At 38, Giulio considers himself a flop. He is a college graduate, a good-looking loser employed by a real estate firm in a job he describes as "unemployment on the executive level." A comfortable apartment, a beautiful working wife (Anouk Aimee) and a faithful friend (Jean-Louis Trintignant) cannot change his status as one of the lesser people at Rome's better parties. Other men drive up in Maseratis and Jaguars; Giulio (Vittorio Gassman) arrives in a Fiat so humble that he won't admit it is his, even after hearing that it has been dented...
Wilson danced backwards for most of the fight, trying to stay out of reach of Lord's windmill. At one point early in the second round, Lord cocked his arm and threw a roundhouse right which missed Wilson completely causing Lord to lose his balance and flop to the canvas...
...organization of life within the city itself." Bell's evaluation is concise: the social costs with which New York has paid for each of its new "faces" can only be minimized by central planning. But, as in most cities, master-planning in New York has been a flop, and decisions are still made by "a calculus of individual economic costs." Bell's concluding imperative is strong: "If the city's economy makes sense today only in regional terms, so must policy." But backed by reason alone it has the hollow ring of all academic imperatives which purport to be solutions...
...direct aim of qualifying Negroes to vote, Martin Luther King's two-week registration drive in Selma, Ala., was a flop. Despite a federal court injunction against interfering with orderly registration, Sheriff Jim Clark and his deputies arrested 56 more applicants and civil rights workers last week, bringing the total to 282. And during the two weeks not a single Negro was added to the registration rolls...
...opera had all the makings of a flop. The set designer had never designed a set before. The male lead had never sung outside the shower. The conductor could not see the singers onstage...