Word: beep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cambridge-based "New Voice Jazz Sextet," the rhythm and blues ensemble "Little Frankie and the Premiers," the sixties folk group "Battery Park," and the Caribbean band "Salsa Nova" played for the busy shoppers. For younger fairgoers, the fair featured Beep the Clown, pottery demonstrations, cotton candy, scooter rides and a merry-go-round...
This summer the companies will offer -- zap! -- the G.I. Joe-Lazer Battle. Like the original Lazer Tag, the $29.95 Lazer Battle includes a plastic gun that shoots out an infrared light beam and a target worn on the body that makes a beep when hit by a shot from an opponent's weapon. Both parts will have the red-white-and-blue G.I. Joe logo. Worlds of Wonder, which will produce the set, wants its Lazer toys to start reaching the eight-and-under audience, where G.I. Joe's name holds sway. Hasbro, meanwhile, gets...
...Currier resident recorded a variation on that theme. His message started off innocently enough asking callers to leave a message at the beep. But Siegal used the pushbutton tone on his hallmate's phone to record a fake beep...
...callers began to speak, the recording interrupted with "what did you say your name was?" and another beep. Then the message requested the caller to "speak up and maybe a little louder," and again added a fake beep. It ended with "If you're not going to speak up you can just go"--another fake beep--"yourself," Siegal says...
...beep machine was soon neutralized, the telephone was buried under a pillow and--by my best calculations--my next blood pressure reading was at least half an hour away. I was ecstatic--20 minutes of glorious sleep seemed to lay ahead. But it was not to be, for Marian was missing...