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...wrote Samuel Beckett, whose plays and novels are no more depressing than your average country lament. John R. Cash (his first producer, Sun Records boss Sam Phillips, dubbed him Johnny) had every right to sing the country blues. Demons found him even when he wasn't looking for them. He dressed like a hip coroner and sang like a gunman turned Pentecostal preacher. His haunting songs perfectly matched his haunted voice. Rarely before Cash had a singer taken vocal pain--not the adolescent shriek of most rock singers but the abiding ache of a veteran victim--and made...
After high school, Cash worked at an auto plant in Pontiac, Mich., and in 1950 joined the Air Force. He came home, married Vivian Liberto and settled with her in Memphis, Tenn. This was in 1954, and by the next year he had a deal with Sun Records, which had launched Presley's career. Hey, Porter, backed by Cry, Cry, Cry, was his first hit. Around that time, with the help of Phillips and producer Jack Clement, Presley (who would shortly move on to RCA Victor and megastardom) and two other young men, Perkins and Lewis, would create the rockabilly...
Here's a clever solution for parents who wish their video-game-addicted kids would play outside more often. Konami's Boktai: The Sun Is in Your Hand ($35) is the first video game to require outdoor sunlight. Designed for the Game Boy Advance and due out Sept. 16, the Boktai cartridge has an embedded sensor that detects how much sunlight is present. Then it uses that light to charge up the virtual solar guns that kids fire at vampires and ghouls in the game. Of course, vampires tend to hang out in dungeons, so the ones in Boktai...
...time. Controllers will plan in advance any expedition the rovers attempt, then transmit an entire bundle of instructions, telling them every turn they are to make on the trip. Says Joy Crisp, the project's lead scientist: "In the morning, after each rover has woken up and gotten some sun on its solar panels, we'll send up a set of commands with instructions for what it's supposed to do the rest...
...night, a voluntary curfew envelops Kathmandu as its ancient alleyways and smoothed brick squares empty the moment the sun slips over the mountains. The fear is on everybody's lips: the Maoists are coming, the Maoists are coming...