Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wand attached to the disc over books that contain not only pictures and words but also bar codes on pages similar to those that now appear on grocery items, magazines and other goods. The wand reads the codes, and the unit makes the appropriate sounds. The machine can also sing, bark or even say "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious." Texas Instruments this year will publish at least eight coded books, including Stranded E.T.'s Adventure, a spin-off from the new Steven Spielberg movie. The Magic Wand costs $120 and each book...
...capacity for enjoyment is helpful too. "There are more golfers today, but they aren't any better than we were, and they aren't near as much fun. What the heck, they don't seem to sing as many songs any more, or tell as many jokes any more. They make more money." And how much would Sam Snead have made if his prime were now? "What the heck, $10 million or SO." -By Tom Callahan
...Star Trek and The Thing will tempt old adherents. The Road Warrior and Blade Runner will offer up eye-catching punk-rock apocalypses. Robin Williams will attempt to enter The World According to Garp. Clint Eastwood and Woody Allen have new movies, and Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton will sing and dance their way through The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Even so, Poltergeist's intelligence in confecting disaster, its honest laughs and spine-snapping chills-from upended kitchen chairs to ghostly vapors and a gaping, horrid hell mouth-should lead it to the head of the class...
...flat-out rock 'n' roll: John blow torching his way through a couple of Arthur Alexander scorchers, Soldier of Love and A Shot of Rhythm and Blues; Paul lighting into That's All Right Mama and striking sparks off Carl Perkins' Matchbox. George gets to sing at least once on his own (a very snug version of Nothin' Shakin' but the Leaves on the Trees); and Ringo turns in an exuberant rough-house performance of I Want to Be Your Man. These songs all have the blind energy, nerve and joyful rowdiness of genius...
...Charley proudly observes, the Prizzi family "runs this country just the same as the Senate does or General Motors or Alexander Haig, junior." The Mob is funnier. When the Prizzis give a testimonial banquet for one of their number, they hire the world's greatest tenor to sing one song: the number is an aria from Verdi's Les Vépres Siciliennes recounting the slaughter of the defenseless French by Sicilian patriots. The overcrowded hall is set afire by a rival gang, and 89 guests are parboiled. "Miraculously, the Congressmen and the judges came through the fire...