Word: laments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Newley's cry, clown, cry songs provide errant moments of appeal, most notably a tuneful lament called Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me). A floppy band of little girls clad like the urchins in Oliver! scamper about the ramplike setting to create illusions of dance numbers. One grownup girl (Joyce Jillson) lusciously blessed with beauty distracts the playgoer briefly from the show's glacial pace and Sir's ultimate comedownance...
...sewers, over the roofs, and into transvestite dens. For some Parisian reason, all the bad guy's spies are chestnut vendors. Another nice Gallic touch: as the heroine is about to be chained to the wall and whipped by a neo-Nazi sadist, she takes time out to lament that she missed her lunch...
...wind, and time, the dripping of blood and the hanging of a man. The music pounded along its atonal course without proper variation in color for the different verses. Borden did demonstrate his sensitivity to the poem, once, with his treatment of the reiterated "And I am dumb ..." lament, but only there...
...resignation of an Assistant Secretary of Commerce. The defendants in the case included Claude O. Stephens, the president of Texas Gulf; Charles F. Fogarty, the executive vice president; Richard D. Mollison, a vice president; two company geologists, Walter Holyk and Kenneth H. Darke; and a director, Thomas S. Lament, the former vice chairman of Morgan Guaranty Trust...
...kept just as much in the dark as the public. After telling the directors, they called in the press at 10 a.m. and announced a "major discovery." In the hour between the disclosure to the press and the first publication of the confirmed news on the Dow-Jones wire, Lament got on the phone and called Morgan Guaranty, his old employer. Hearing the news, the bank immediately bought 8,000 shares of Texas Gulf. Lament bought no stock for himself, said that he gave the news to Morgan Guaranty because he believed it had become public with the announcement...