Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Then 1947's Brigadoon spread the L. & L. tartan down Shubert Alley. In 1951 they achieved a sluggish eight months' run with Paint Your Wagon, a mining-camp western with an awkward book and a rousing score. Lerner, meanwhile, had been moonlighting on his partnership with Loewe, won an Oscar for the movie, An American in Paris. The partners came together again in 1954 to see if a musical could be made from George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. The answer, 19 months later, was My Fair Lady the best and most successful American musical ever written. It has grossed...
...years he has set up a number of semi-fast rules for himself: avoid s sounds, avoid eer sounds above A above middle C, etc. As a lyricist, Lerner lacks the ultrasophistication of a Cole Porter, on the other hand would never commit the more cloying sentimentalities of Oscar Hammerstein. At their best, his lyrics are like expertly cut glass, as in these lines from My Fair Lady...
...some 50 supporters had been arrested the week before by Atlanta police for picketing and sit-in demonstrations at downtown department store lunch counters that refused them service. It was a touchy situation, and Atlanta's Mayor William Hartsfield hoped not to inflame it. But hard-bitten Judge Oscar Mitchell of De Kalb County's criminal and civil court decided that King's arrest in Atlanta violated a year's probation imposed on King in late September, along with a $25 fine, for driving in Georgia with an Alabama license. King's lawyers argued that...
Before the season's start, the stars in the National Basketball Association wondered privately just how good the kid really was. True enough, Oscar ("The Big 0") Robertson, 21, had been the highest scorer in the history of college basketball, averaging 33.8 points per game for his three years as a forward at the University of Cincinnati. But at 6 ft. 5 in. and 205 Ibs., Robertson was too small to play forward with the pros, would have to be moved back to the strange position of guard. This week, after only a fortnight of play...
...playmaking has given the Royals a balanced attack. Even so, Robertson frets about making mistakes against the pros: "I have a big ways to go, but I hope to get there before the season ends." In the eyes of the Royals, Robertson is there already. Says Jack Twyman: "Oscar's got it made...