Word: gunness
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...crime; yet those who have studied his work do not elevate him to the company of history's monsters, despite the monstrousness of what he has done. It is easy to turn grievance into violence; that takes no genius, just a lack of scruple and a loaded gun. The killers he dispatched were braver men than he; he has a lot of money and a lot of hate, and when he is gone there will be others to take his place...
Early in the administration, Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld had a conversation with his boss. "A lot of people in the world had come to conclude that the United States was gun-shy, that we were risk averse," Rumsfeld told TIME. "The President and I concluded that whenever it occurred down the road that the United States was under some sort of threat or attack, the United States would be leaning forward, not back...
...then a three-syllable word in "I Love a Piano." A devilishly intricate rhyme a la Stephen Sondheim ("We'll have Leontyne Price to sing a/ Medley from 'Der Meistersinger'") was not Berlin's style - to Sondheim's caviar, his lyrics were Spam - but in "Annie Get Your Gun" he did a triple rhyme ("You can't shoot a male in the tail like a quail") whose comic force quickly escalates musically and in the singer's volume. And he could pay cheeky tribute to friend Kaufman's failed play "The Deep Tangled Wildwood" in a complex rhyme...
...composer, perhaps no figure in show business, gave more money away: to the Boy and Girl Scouts, the Army Emergency Relief Fund and several cabinet agencies. (The royalties to "Always" were a wedding gift to Ellin.) He could be generous to his colleagues as well. On "Annie Get Your Gun" Berlin was to receive 5% of the royalties for his score, to 4% for the libretto by Herbert and Dorothy Fields. Grateful for the clever song cues in the musical's book, he gave the brother-and-sister writing team a half point of his share, so they...
...Anything You Can Do" (1946), by Judy Garland and Howard Keel (1948), on "Irving Berlin in Hollywood." Garland was to star in the "Annie Get Your Gun" movie, but frazzed nerves forced her withdrawal. The nerve shows in this duet of rivals, sung at a faster-than-usual tempo, and with an antagonism that ends up somewhere between alarming and awe-inspiring...