Word: raye
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...orange sky). And they give a vertiginous kick to the fight scenes. A mile-high car chase has cool dips and speed bumps. An arena battle begins as a Gladiator knock-off and then escalates, with lumbering monsters that recall the peerless work of stop-motion master Ray Harryhausen. A light-saber duel in the dark has loads of drama and glamour...
Take the tracks to pieces, and they don't seem like much. The lyrics are average, the instrumentation capable. But Moby's great gift is for feeling. He tailors 18's melancholy cuts, Great Escape and Harbour, around vocals from the female singers Azure Ray and Sinead O'Connor. Both songs start almost a cappella, and Moby surrounds each voice with keyboards that rise like warm bathwater. The music gains tension yet never overwhelms the sad beauty of the voices. On 18's playful radio hits--We Are All Made of Stars and Jam for the Ladies...
Brett Wells, director of operations at QAC Inc., an electronics-manufacturing contractor in Pelham, N.H., says his employer is being drawn deeper into a network of shifting alliances with designers of X-ray machines, computers and cell phones. "They're becoming virtual manufacturers," Wells says, "while the real manufacturing is done by the contractors." QAC's customers are sending teams of auditors to the firm's factory to scrutinize its machinery, measure its capacity, ask about its other customers and even examine its financial statements...
Teen Mania wants to move teenagers beyond complacency, as it did with Jessica Ray. "Our attendance has grown 15% over last year. It's indicative of a spiritual hunger," says Luce. "We're not a bunch of hype. We're helping kids to feel real with God, and we're doing it in teenage language." And those who have the pierced ears to hear the message are listening...
...DIED. OTIS BLACKWELL, 70, prolific songwriter whose compositions have sold more than 185 million records and provided hits for such performers as Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Otis Redding and Billy Joel; in Nashville. Among his greatest songs were rock 'n' roll classics like Presley's All Shook Up and Don't Be Cruel, Jerry Lee Lewis' Great Balls of Fire and Peggy Lee's signature Fever. DIED. ANTOINE RIBOUD, 83, founder of Danone, one of the world's largest food manufacturing groups; in Paris. The maverick businessman began his career at his family's glass company before switching his sights...