He wrote lyrics for "Sweet Smell of Success" and "Imaginary Friends" and contributed four songs to "Working".
His later theater scores included "The Goodbye Girl" (1993), "Sweet Smell of Success" (2002) and "Imaginary Friends" (2002).
The introduction to a special issue of Politique africaine on 'Figures of success and political imaginaries' opens by stating that the figure of the functionary – salaried, state-employed and formally educated – has lost its value as an image of modern, urbane, social and material achievement (Banégas and Warnier 2001; see also Nyamnjoh 2005).
Where can we find an alternative imaginary about something other than competitive success?
In the mainstream imaginary, every city has to chase competitive success in a league table where it secures prosperity by getting ahead of others.
While the episode described above was imaginary, there have been less dramatic real-life successes with computer-aided crime detection.
Buoyed by my success, I checked the status of an imaginary flight I was taking to San Francisco.
In conversation, he frequently anticipates imaginary accusations of flippancy in the face of his success: "It has been totally bewildering and strange and brilliant.
Again, it's a stunning indictment of the austerian, anti-Keynesian position that those who hold it have to claim Ireland and Latvia as success stories, and have to invent an imaginary version of Keynesian economics to claim that it has failed.
It's a position someone always occupies – whether it's 50 Cent, Maino or Uncle Murder – but besides the imaginary throne and scepter, it's not a foolproof indicator of future success.
