Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play, these songs ended up being forgotten. Nightcaps attempts to showcase some of them in an anthology of would-be hits. The result is an enjoyable glimpse of the good entertainment available in historical oblivion, but the production, like the songs themselves, falls just short of total success...
...what sense are Wheaties the breakfasts of champions? Do sports heroes owe their success to a lifetime diet of the cereal? Or is it merely that the folks at General Mills pay the stars to eat their flaky product for the cameras? Those weighty questions were faced squarely last week by Olympic Decathlon Medalist Bruce Tenner, who does commercials for the cereal and whose picture appears on the box. San Francisco District Attorney Joseph Freitas slapped General Mills with a truth-in-advertising suit, charging that Tenner's Wheaties ads falsely imply a causal connection between his taste...
...Meistersinger; after a long illness; in Amersham, England. Schoeffler sang in Vienna during and after World War II and regularly made the operatic grand tour during the 1950s. At New York's Metropolitan Opera he was popular as Scarpia in Tosca and as Don Giovanni. Despite his success, he complained that "this business of dressing up in a silly costume, putting on a wig and paint on the face and getting killed or poisoned or drunk every night" made for a less than ideal profession...
...YEARS AGO Boz Scaggs was not attracting much attention. Despite a long career as a prominent session man and several well-respected albums, the beginning of '76 found him virtually nowhere on the all-important scale of commercial success. Several of his songs--"Loan Me a Dime," for example, and "Dinah Flo" were FM classics, but FM airplay is a notoriously poor way to pay the rent. It was the old story--a critical acclaim and cult following which did not translate into anything tangible and preferably green. His gradual evolution from rock to a bland middle-of-the-road...
...Lost Cookies," an original play by Tommy Kramer '79 and Adam Bellow (Princeton '79), is a satirical and thematic success because it holds up a mirror to each of us, a window into the past; it helps us to laugh at the traumas that once caused us to cry in bewilderment...