Word: floppings
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...musicians expect the coming tour to be considerably more successful than their 1950 effort, which was, Delbanco remarked, "An incredible flop--we went everlastingly into debt." He based his optimism on "greater enthusiasm among the players and vastly improved aid," principally from Harvard Clubs...
...young man's autobiography did not follow the plot. Although Mailer continued to write prodigiously, he never again came close to his first great acclaim. Barbary Shore, his second novel, was a flop. His third, The Deer Park, a study of the tribal sex practices of Hollywood, was a bestseller largely because the word got around that it was dirty (it was), but the critics frowned. By the time his Advertisements for Myself-a threadbare collection of past and future projects, loosely stitched together with some narcissistic autobiographical notes-appeared, late last year, it was all too clear that...
...season long, the stubby little coach had worked over his beefy team with the blunt tongue he had developed as a paratrooping major in World War II. Nothing helped. Though undefeated, Syracuse squeaked through game after game, was the flop of the football year because it seemed to be living on its reputation as last year's national champion. Last week Coach Ben Schwartzwalder even threatened to demote some of his stars, including 215-lb. Fullback Art Baker, a preseason All-America candidate. Snapped Coach Ben: "If any of you boys sulk about being put on the second team...
...best cartoonmaker since Walt Disney and U.P.A. The stars of Hanna-Barbera are sprinkled all across the animal kingdom-from Quick Draw McGraw, the only horse who is the hero of a western, to Yogi Bear, who lives in Jellystone Park. Hanna-Barbera's Huckleberry Hound, whose flop-eared hero is one of the alltime favorites of American children, last spring won TV's Emmy Award for children's programing...
...though, to see Lahr flop, because he has been and still is a very funny man. But with Shakespeare, Lahr faces a special difficulty: he is unable to create an image of himself different from the one he has built up over the years, and the usually funny personage doesn't fit into the play Shakespeare wrote. Lahr overacts, as does almost everyone in this production. His most irritating mannerism was an overuse of the forefinger. He brandished it and he gesticulated with it, to no purpose or effect. He was sometimes funny in the final scenes, when the offending...