Word: flops
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...politician. As leader of the left wing of the small Free Democratic Party, he served five years as Development Aid Minister through two governments; his staying power was such that he dubbed himself "the Mikoyan of the F.D.P." It was he who led the F.D.P. to flip-flop from right to left, and was instrumental in forming the coalition that brought Willy Brandt to the chancellorship last October. His only concession to the formality of his new post was to forsake his sporty blue BMW for the properly ministerial black Mercedes limousine...
...more cynical theories of stock-price forecasting is that when Wall Streeters finally become unanimous in their opinions, the market promptly does the exact opposite. That theory might help explain the market's spectacular flip-flop last week. On Monday, prices fell faster than on any day since the assassination of President Kennedy; the Dow-Jones industrial average sank 21 points. By Tuesday night, after another large drop, the average was down to 63], its lowest since 1962. Brokers and investors, who had watched stock values drop $280 billion in the long bear market, expressed their total gloom...
...romance turned out to be just what Middle America was yearning for. Love Story now tops the bestseller list and Segal is deluged by offers for movies, plays and more books. But he bridles at any suggestion that he is some kind of Wunderkind. "I worked and learned from flop to flop. Everything I've got has been a hassle...
...told him that I thought there was little chance Boys in the Band would be a total flop. "I guess that's what Otto Preminger said after Hurry, Sundown, " he answered quickly. "Let's put it this way: If it's a hit, I'll get another job. And if it's a dog, I won't even be able to get Zanuck's maid on the phone." He started to laugh again, catching my eyes as he did so. Crowley and I were both still laughing-tipsily, loudly-when the press agent came to take him away...
...besides being commercial failures, these shows all have one other-far more important-common denominator. In nearly every case. their scores were influenced most by one man, the granddaddy of forgotten musicals, Kurt Weill. In other words if you are going to write a good flop musical, you had best throw away your Rodgers and Hammerstein albums and start tuning into The Threepenny Opera. And, even if you are not planning to start turning out such wayward masterpieces, you should turn on to Weill, because, quite simply, he has written some of the great songs of this century...