Word: binge
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brought the Met to the brink of disaster. In 1961 its opening was ensured at the last moment deus ex machina (when President Kennedy intervened). But this time, New Yorkers were realizing with shock, there might be no opening at all. Worried, tired and gaunt, Met General Manager Rudolf Bing told TIME, "We don't know where to go. It is now a matter of life and death...
...began singing his own songs for his supper at an East Side night spot. That led to the Broadway revue, The Illustrators (1936), for which he wrote five songs. The show was a flop, but it earned him a Hollywood offer. With Hoagy Carmichael, he wrote Small Fry for Bing Crosby and Two Sleepy People for Bob Hope. Loesser later wrote both words and music for such hits as / Wish I Didn't Love You So; Baby, It's Cold Outside; On a Slow Boat to China and the ultra low-brow Bloop, Bleep, a rhapsody...
...time, Canada's Joni Mitchell had much the same problem. She ranked as one of the best young composers in the business, and her tender ballad, Both Sides Now, was successfully recorded by Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Judy Collins. But she never recorded the song herself, even though she has a fluty, vanilla-fresh voice with a haunting, pastoral quality...
...sour. Among other things, she has been irked by his insistence on unusually time-consuming rehearsals and is not too keen about his dark, brooding lighting effects, which often keep the singers in the shadows. "I could walk out for coffee sometimes," Miss Nilsson once complained to Rudo. lf Bing, general manager of New York City's Metropolitan Opera, "and no one would know the difference...
Still scarred by memories of his war with the tempestuous Maria Callas, Impresario Bing tried to absolve his conductor and soothe his diva. Miss Dernesch, he explained, had merely been engaged as an understudy: "Even Madame Nilsson, as immortal as she is, can get sick occasionally." But since the Austrian soprano was coming all the way to New York, he added, she at least deserves the chance to give one performance in Von Karajan's critically acclaimed production of the Ring. From Vienna, the conductor supplied an obbligato of support to Bing's explanation...