Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Interior, vocals, "Poison" Ivy Rorschach, guitar, Bryan Gregory, guitar, and Nick Knox, drums compose the Cramps, a most unusual foursome. The absence of bass gives the music that trash quality inherent in surf music and early rockabilly. The sound outperforms all contenders in establishing that certain reckless abandon which lay at the heart of the earliest rock and roll. Yet everything is updated for the 1980's, starting with increased speed and ending with atonal, buzzsaw guitar work and demented lyrical concerns...
Officially, the runners were divided into two groups--those who had met the qualifying time of 2:50 for men under 40 and 3:20 for women under 40 and those who had not. Yet a less obvious and perhaps more poignant division lay between those participants who were shooting to beat the clock and those who merely wanted to finish...
...British forces, none too keen on marching by and leaving an unprotected flank that trigger-happy colonials might pepper, marched on to the Common. Their commander ordered the farmers to lay down their weapons and disperse--and, since the alternative was to be shot, most of the Minutemen began to do just that. But as they walked slowly off the Common, someone fired a single shot. Whatever its source, it incited the British-- disobeying orders not to fire, the regulars leveled one volley and then charged across the green, shooting and bayoneting the colonials...
...underground parking lot at the Pru looked like Yankee Stadium after a World Series win. Thousands of paper cups lay crushed on the wet cement, illuminated by the glittering blankets crumpled against posts. Families wandered around looking for runners; marathoners ambled back and forth to keep their legs from cramping...
Stevens turned the job down. No matter. Liddy, who had become the counsel for Nixon's re-election committee as a front for his intelligence assignment, was soon asked to lay out his million-dollar operation. With handsome, 3-ft. by 4-ft. charts provided by the CIA, he readied a Madison Avenue-style presentation for Attorney General John Mitchell...