Word: binging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hope's Road to Hollywood, an NBC special set for this week, the comedian has dusted off a ton of old film clips from many of his more than 55 feature films, including the seven Road pictures he did with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour, 68. And so, to say "Thanks for the memories," Hope gathered a chorus of his past leading ladies. Lined up from left to right, Virginia Mayo, 62, Janis Paige, 60, Jill St. John, 42, Martha Raye, 66, Rosemary Clooney, 54, Lucille Ball, 71, Rhonda Fleming, 59, Lamour, Jane Russell, 61, Dina Merrill...
Among the Tuvinian people of the Soviet Union, an individual can sing two melodies simultaneously. That has wonderful possibilities. Might one cross in the Tuvinian mind two simultaneous numbers, like, say, Bing Crosby's Mississippi Mud ("It's a treat to beat your feet.. .") with Rock the Casbah by the Clash? Would the Tuvinian stay sane if that happened...
During the struggle for power at the Met that followed Sir Rudolf Bing's retirement as general manager and the death in 1972 of Göran Gentele, his successor, in an automobile crash, two men emerged triumphant. Bliss, whose father had been the Met's chairman of the board, became executive director and, later, general manager. Levine became music director. His boyish grin remained undimmed, even during the bitter labor dispute that postponed the opening of the 1980 season; it was, says Sue Thomson, "the closest I've ever seen him to being depressed...
...house at Broadway and 39th Street, which was built in 1883, was outmoded, and Bliss became a chief proponent of a move to a new structure in Lincoln Center. He won his argument, and the company journeyed north in 1966. But following a feud with Rudolf Bing, the Met's impresario from 1950 to 1972, he was pushed aside as board president. When Bing's successor, Schuyler Chapin, failed to curb the escalating deficits, Bliss was brought in as a salaried executive to put the house in order...
...move about the world rapidly. The second is the change in the recording market. It used to be that the largest number of classical records was sold in the U.S., so that every singer wanted to develop an American audience. Now the major record market is overseas. In the Bing era, casting was done a year or two before the season. Now we have to negotiate as much as five years ahead...