Word: bleep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 to a leaky faucet...
...play is an open letter announcing esthetic impotence, and its dramatic distress signal is that of the faint bleep of an SOS sent from an enemy-occupied country. Staggering about the hotel bar, the painter hero (Donald Madden) spends all of his stage time in an unrelieved agony of mental and physical disintegration that ends in death. His bitchy, sex-starved wife (Anne Meacham) is addicted to plaintive monologues and a frustrated effort to seduce the Japanese barman. The barman (Jon Lee) is a model of stoic restraint and may represent serenity. He also represents something Williams does not admire...
...home in Bronxville, N.Y., Jerome Kern would call up Hammerstein in Great Neck, L.I.; then he would set the phone on his piano and bang away at the keyboard while the greatest American operetta grew along the wires, as Oscar picked out the pure Kern from the blip-blap-bleep of the Bell System, and made preliminary notes for such Showboat masterpieces...