Word: binge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indeed? It was a good question. Why does the U.S. public like him better than Betty Grable, Bing Crosby or Martin & Lewis? His legs are not as pretty as Betty's; his voice is not as sweet as Bing's; he is nowhere near as funny as Martin & Lewis. And he is not the best of Hollywood's actors. In fact, it is an open question whether he can act at all. "How often do I gotta tell you (thus Wayne to a persistent interviewer) that...
...Back in Rudolph Bing's good graces after nine ignominious months of exile from the Met was singer...
...been scheduled for months to make her debut as the doomed Desdemona in the matinee of Verdi's Otello. When she told General Manager Rudolf Bing that she also would sing her new hit role of Fiordiligi in Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte the same night, Bing's eyebrows went up. "You must be crazy," he said...
Death by the Window. When General Manager Rudolf Bing decided to overhaul Carmen last spring, he handed the staging job to Tyrone Guthrie, topnotch director of London's Old Vic, and Designer Rolf Gerard. From the start, they decided on "naturalism," e.g., the workers in a Seville cigarette factory ought to look, for a change, a bit like factory workers...
...Gianni Schicchi was just half of Bing's troubles that night. The second short opera on his double bill was Richard Strauss's lurid Salome, and this time the ear fared better than...