Word: 88s
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...shoddy or shiny, those rocket 88s did let him blast off. He sold records by the millions, induced puberty in America's young and shrugged off the charge by Jerry Lewis (born Joseph Levitch) that Jerry Lee had stolen his name! He also refuted the skeptics by proving that a man could still make concert-stage mayhem from a sitting position. Jerry Lee's one condition for business and pleasure: "Just give me my money and show me where the piano...
...period is not arbitrary. World War II and its aftermath provided fantasy heroes with real villains. Superman interceded at critical moments to pretzel the barrels of German 88s. Captain Marvel punched Japanese Zeroes out of the Pacific skies, and Wonder Woman not only deflected machine-gun slugs with her bracelets but also offered future feminists an early model of the female as an empowered single...