Word: succeedings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...untried locales: Finian's Rainbow in a mythical Southland; Guys and Dolls in and around the classier sewers of New York city; Pajama Game in a factory; West Side Story as close to the ghetto as Leonard Bernstein could manage without being overcome by the stench; and How to Succeed several hundred feet above lower Manhattan...
Just as Johnson's libretto ignores the differences between '40's movies and '60's musicals, Styne and Harburg's songs are ancient in their inspirations. Harburg seems to have completely missed the lyrical revolution epitomized by Frank Loesser's How to Succeed, in which words like "Some irresponsible dress manufacturer" were set to music. The lyrics to Married Alive are still drawn from the same preposterous vocabulary (love, tree, rainbow, etc.) that dominated the worst of Hart and Hammerstein...
Some of the Ginger. The change was "Chick" Ireland's choice. Woolworth Heir Kirby, who not only holds 60% of Allegheny's voting stock (worth $58 million) but is also one of the biggest single stockholders in ITT, has been incapacitated since a stroke last spring. To succeed him as chairman, Alleghany's board chose Son Fred Kirby, 48, who had been an executive vice president. There was no upheaval, Fred and Younger Brother Allan Jr., a vice president, urged Ireland to stay on, but Ireland clearly felt that much of the ginger had departed with Allan Sr. He confided...
Failure meant the end of the world. I had to succeed or we'd all die. Agonizing seconds ticked by on the studio clock as I waited for the decision of the New Zenith ministers...
...necessarily." The double-meaning here is central to Warhol's cinema, as it reveals the ease with which two people can escape one another completely. In Warhol's films, people talk at one another, strive for self-definition and expression, and are either too emotionally bombed-out to succeed or else posses too weak a vocabulary. In his dealings with language breakdown, as well as in being prolific, Warhol is our Godard. But where Godard treats subjects with increasingly pedantic seriousness, Warhol still makes grimly hilarious comedies. It is fashionable to accuse Warhol of making identical films...