Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...city not known for its musical progeny, the man called 'Q' found a kindred spirit. His name was Ray Charles and he became a lifelong friend...
...Ray Bradbury's hero had been Ernest Hemingway, and Bradbury could not understand or cope with Hemingway's suicide," McCaffrey says. "Bradbury wrote a marvelous story, "The Kilimanjaro Effect,' in which Hemingway is killed by a tiger as a way to deal with his death in real life. I realized that in writing that story, I had done much the same for my father...
...first three weeks of May. Although McDonald's chairman Jack Greenberg dismisses stories of franchisee unrest as "a guy with a fax machine and eight guys with lawsuits," the corporation has found relations with local operators increasingly hard to digest. The company that used to closely follow founder Ray Kroc's dictum that McDonald's would only be as successful as the local restaurant owner is now oriented to pleasing the stockholder, often at the expense of the franchisee. McDonald's has pushed hard to increase the number of stores on the theory that the company would collect more royalties...
DIED. ART HANES, 80, die-hard segregationist Southern mayor; in the city he ruled for a single, notorious term, Birmingham, Ala. In 1962 Hanes shut down Birmingham's parks rather than open them to blacks; in 1968 he became James Earl Ray's first lawyer...
...Shame on You, a wordy, rambunctious number that evokes early Springsteen, Ray sings of restlessly driving the roads only to be stopped by police "looking for illegal immigrants." In the piano ballad Leeds, Saliers sings of being drunk and depressed in a hotel room watching "16 black churches burning on the TV." The album is rarely preachy, and the sociological context--plus some canny rock-guitar riffs--give the Girls' music even more bite than it's used...