Word: roll
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ROCK 'N' ROLL...
...Colonel could be right. Radio stations around the country are trying "rockumentary" programs of "oldie but goodie" rock 'n' roll sounds of the '50s. These draw a surprising response from teen-agers as well as the late-twenties and over-thirties at whom they were originally angled...
...Quagmires. Not only that, but many of the new groups are reaching back into the past for their material. Cat Mother and the All Night News Boys' Good Old Rock 'n' Roll is on the charts. Creedence Clearwater Revival (TIME, June 27) has recut Screaming Jay Hawkins' I Put a Spell on You and Little Richard's Good Golly Miss Molly, and Bobby Vinton is redoing To Know Him Is to Love Him, Phil Specter's first hit, recorded originally in 1958 by the Teddy Bears...
...refused to chill at all. Mariner 7 caused even greater concern at Mission Control when it went off the air entirely for seven hours. Apparently struck by a tiny meteoroid, the spacecraft lost its fix on the star Canopus and its directional antenna spun away from earth. A new roll-and-search command went up from Pasadena. Mariner 7 obeyed, and though performing at less than capacity, its radio functioned again...
...particular trouble conveying the blunt, even coarse speech of Masha, but she has not sufficiently plumbed the poetic sensitivity that lies beneath. It is not a bad performance; it just leaves a great deal yet to be explored. The problem of Masha's and Vershinin's drum-roll exchanges ("Tram-tam-tam ... tra-ra-ra"), the shortest mutual love scene ever written for the stage, has been effectively solved by substituting complementary phrases from the aria "All men should once with love grow tender" in Act II of Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin...