Word: raying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Randy Newman. If you close your eyes and listen to Randy Newman, you might think you are listening to Ray Charles's brother. You might think that, that is, unless you listen to the words. Newman is not exactly the piano player Charles is, and the blues he sings are a white man's blues. But Newman is probably the most novel and perhaps the most intelligent lyricist cutting records today. Occasional songs, such as "Mama Told Me Not to Come," have been popularized in dessicated AM hits by other performers. But nothing is like listening to this...
...superfan idea," says Fine. "Seats in the press box, chatting with the general manager or the farm-system director." Miller was a college fullback (Notre Dame) until he was sidelined by an injury; his father, Ray T. Miller, was one of the organizers of the Cleveland Browns. "I've always wanted to be an owner like my father," he says. Tippit was a boyhood baseball freak who wanted to keep Cleveland a major-league city. With the authority of a $250,000 in vestment, he helps run the town's base ball team, the Indians...
Every year of her life, Brenda, 13, had been coming to St. Louis' Cardinal Glennon Memorial Hospital for Children, to have kidney tests. Terrified that new X-ray pictures would show her chronic condition to be getting worse, she lay rigidly on the examining table, her eyes brimming with tears. But she began to smile when Dr. Armand Brodeur, the hospital's chief of radiology, entered the room dressed in a smock covered with pictures of Snoopy and other characters from the Peanuts comic strip. Using the time-honored gestures of the magician to assure her that...
Brodeur began by redecorating his department. He placed a sign reading ROENTGEN STREET (after the discoverer of X rays) in the corridor leading to the radiology unit. Bare hospital walls were covered with giant murals of characters from children's books and television programs-Dr. Seuss's Cat in the Hat, Charlie Brown and his friends, and the Flintstones. The X-ray machine was labeled "Batman's Superanalyzer," and nurses were given brightly colored smocks...
...Cornell is pretty good this year,"Harvard coach Ray Essick said Thursday, "and we are going to have to be careful not to be caught on a downswing...