Word: rays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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EQUITY FUNDING CORP., now Orion Capital Corp. Record high stock price (1969): $86. Low before suspension of trading (1973): $14. Last week: $5. Los Angeles-based Equity was a darling of the insurance industry until March 1973, when Ray Dirks, a Wall Street insurance analyst, was told by a tipster that many of Equity's outstanding policies, perhaps $1 billion worth, had been sold to people who did not exist. In three wild weeks, Dirks raced around the country, confirmed the tipster's story, and told clients to get out of the stock. Equity declared bankruptcy...
...fishnets and doilies, and one lay down naked on it while the other went over the paper with a portable sun lamp, making giant prints. Only one of the works survives: the blue roentgen ghost of a nude, eerily transparent. Later, Rauschenberg put a similar motif?a sectional X ray of his own body?in the largest and most spectacular of his lithographs, Booster...
...former professor of zoology at the University of Washington, Dixy Ray, an admitted political neophyte, was a surprise winner of last September's Democratic primary. Ray, a small, chunky woman who lives with two dogs in a pre-fab home on an island, waged an energetic, 18-hour-a-day campaign on a skimpy budget to defeat the less colorful, pipe-smoking Spellman. As Governor, Ray is expected to pursue a generally conservative course, trimming the state budget and considering an income tax to replace other levies if the need arises. Predictably, she favors development of nuclear energy...
...took a turn with former Ohio Congressman Wayne Hays because of his power "and because he was the sharpest dresser I ever saw," says Liz Ray, 33, onetime Playgirl of the Potomac. Now that Hays has been retired from power and Liz has become a Thespian of sorts, she has discovered someone new. He is Carl Stohn Jr., 55, a producer for the playhouse in St. Charles. Ill., where Ray is appearing in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? "I love everything about him," gushes Liz. "He's always directing me and teaching me, like My Fair Lady. I hope...
...been a pop album this good or this diversified since Wonder's Fulfillingness's First Finale in 1974. Stevie growls at times like an old delta blues shouter, but for the most part he sings in his distinctive black/white style, which occasionally echoes Paul McCartney or Ray Charles. The broad range of musical styles is equally absorbing: those Beatlesque strings in the austere Village Ghetto Land, the swinging blues underpinnings of Black Man, the Latin glee of Another Star. As Stevie puts it in his Ellingtonian tribute Sir Duke, "Music is a world within itself/With a language...