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When Ingmar Bergman fails, he does it not with a flump but a crash--a crash because his mastery of film technique is so complete that his movies consistently reach the heights of visual excellence. And from such heights, one can achieve a searing success or a crashing failure...

Author: By Paul Williams, | Title: The Silence | 3/17/1964 | See Source »

...insurance companies, desire for burial in hallowed ground and insurance payments to heirs, constrain many a suicide to disguise his act. Commonest disguise is to "fall" or "jump" from a high place, an act for which the New York Times has suggested the ambiguous, legally safe portmanteau word "flump" (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Suicide Time | 6/13/1932 | See Source »

...Flump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: City Editor | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

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