Word: raye
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...summer of '57 was a blistering time for primal rock 'n roll. At a million places like South Jersey's Avalon Ballroom (admission: 25 cents), kids worked up a sweet sweat jitterbugging to Bobby Day's "Rockin' Robin," Elvis' "All Shook Up," Ray Charles's "Talkin' 'Bout You," the Crickets' "That'll Be the Day," Little Richard's "Good Golly Miss Molly," the Coasters' "Searchin'," Buddy Knox's "Party Doll," Ricky Nelson's "Be Bop Baby," Fats Domino's "I'm Walkin'," the Everly Brothers' "Bye Bye Love," the Diamonds' "Little Darlin'," the Dell Vikings' "Come Go with...
...staff songwriter and soon had his own smash, "Lonely Weekends." All of these performers got the can't-miss slapback echo-chamber treatment, and all eventually bolted Sun. By the end of the '50s the revolution was over for the bright yellow label with the sun-ray stripes, the rooster and the encircling clef notes...
...remote but able to power down the whole world. The kids have to recover it before it falls into the wrong hands. But this movie's delight is in its homey details, personified by the scary creatures they encounter on their quest. These are retro-hip homages to Ray Harryhausen's charming stop-motion animations of an earlier era. Their presence signals Rodriguez's desire to sustain his innocence - and evoke ours. Be prepared for enchantment. -By Richard Schickel...
...REAL RAY GUNS Further out on the horizon, the line between weapons development and science fiction becomes perilously thin. Mission Research Corp. of Santa Barbara, Calif., is working on a pulsed energy projectile (PEP) that superheats the surface moisture around a target so rapidly that it literally explodes, producing a bright flash of light and a loud bang. The effect is like a stun grenade, but unlike a grenade the PEP travels at nearly the speed of light and can take out a target with pinpoint accuracy. Or picture this: a flashlight-size device, currently in development at HSV Technologies...
...series of books, which is based on the Book of Revelation. "It just proves the old saying that there's a sucker born every minute," declared a Tennessean. A fellow Volunteer Stater paraphrased H.L. Mencken: "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people." But spying a ray of sunshine in the rumors of impending doom, a sports-minded Californian quipped, "The world is coming to an end? The Chicago Cubs must have won the World Series...