Word: floppings
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There was only one thing wrong: everyone already knew that the British critics were dismissing Auntie Mame as a sad, soggy, American-style flop. But the party was (as even the British have learned to say) socko...
There are two side-swipes at the lost art of satire, and both flop for the same reasons. Felicia Lamport's "By Henry James Cozened" begins with a light touch, lapses into gray elaboration, and drags on to repetitive dreariness. Maura Cavanaugh (a Radcliffe History major) embarks on a twenty page slash of Samuel Beckett in a vindictive farce called "Waiting for God." Both satires lack any self-substance beyond the parody. Both blunder on after the comic veneer has worn thin enough to recognize their paucity. And both conveniently ignore or unhappily miss a good deal of their victims...
...week long Louisville was a country carnival, happily clipping the customers. The town belonged to hotelkeepers with five-buck rooms sold out at $25 a flop, to hash houses peddling 60? breakfasts for $2, to taxi drivers with their meters off, charging fat, flat fees. It belonged to loud, lubricated crowds, to light-fingered dips tiptoeing daintily among the juleps. But right up to post time, the 84th running of the Kentucky Derby belonged to a big-barreled California colt named Silky Sullivan (TIME, March...
...satellites, the reunification of Germany. ¶Foreign Minister Gromyko's formal charge that the U.S. Strategic Air Command constitutes "a threat to peace," because it sends bombers armed with hydrogen weapons flying toward Russia whenever an unexplained "blip" appears on U.S. radar screens, proved a dismal flop before the U.N. Security Council. Since the U.S. was easily able to prove the safeguards in its "Fail Safe" technique-which prevents any U.S. plane from actually proceeding to a Russian target without personal orders from the President-Russia found no supporting votes for its accusation in the eleven-nation Security Council...
...movies were successes. Alexander the Great was a flop and lost $1,000,000; so was St. Joan, which U.A. somewhat reluctantly backed because the leading lady was unknown. But U.A. has taken the big loss on St. Joan without a murmur because it feels that Producer Otto Preminger was a moneymaker before-with The Moon Is Blue-and will be again. So U.A. will back...