Word: damn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flimsy stairs for the opening production number, The Prince Is Giving a Ball. "It'll never hold the way it is," said one. "Better put a brace under it." Through ganglia of cables down from a remote eyrie came the cry of an electrician: "The damn lights haven't any numbers on them." A large reflector crashed to the floor. "It's the only CBS color studio outside of Hollywood," said a stagehand between bites on a sandwich. "Those RCA color cameras-four of them-they weigh 500 lbs. apiece and are handled by one to four...
...first time after their triumphant Broadway travels, seemed to fear that the end would be confusion. They presided over the production as if it were another Broadway show. (Their budget: $375,000, four times what they had to stage Oklahoma! Their take: $100,000.) "You have to be damn careful with TV," said Rodgers. "If you're not-it's murder. One mistake, and 60 million people see it. Someone figured that if this show played the Morosco Theater it would have to run 107 years to get the same audience...
Just then a pained cry floated out of the plywood-and-canvas palace garden. "Oh God, Julie, your foot's too big; that damn glass slipper fits everyone in the cast...
Argues Dr. Vossmenge: "In order to triumph over the world-this vulgar, gay, impulsive creature that is the world-you Christians have first to damn it." Retorts Pastor Degenbruck: "What do you know of the soul? The Greeks called this thing which has given you your professional label: psyche or anemos. Anemos means breath or wind . . . They wanted to express that there was something in man which was both intangible and beyond the grasp of reason-like the wind...
...performances, pouring back profits to CBS, its sole angel ($401,000), which got exclusive television rights. Except for stray seats, My Fair Lady is dated up until September. Other hits from past seasons that are still flourishing are Frank Loesser's operatic The Most Happy Fella, and Damn Yankees, a rollicking tale of sex, baseball and the devil...