Word: surf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Interior, vocals, "Poison" Ivy Rorschach, guitar, Bryan Gregory, guitar, and Nick Knox, drums compose the Cramps, a most unusual foursome. The absence of bass gives the music that trash quality inherent in surf music and early rockabilly. The sound outperforms all contenders in establishing that certain reckless abandon which lay at the heart of the earliest rock and roll. Yet everything is updated for the 1980's, starting with increased speed and ending with atonal, buzzsaw guitar work and demented lyrical concerns...
Reagan is watching his campaign slowly slip away, the sand crumbling under his feet, like a kind trying to stand in the backwash of the surf. There are still hopeful signs; Reagan speaks of a "national constituency" explaining that Iowa (and, perhaps, New Hampshire) aren't as important as America. And downstairs, a middle-aged woman tries to get into the "security area" the Secret Service man have set up around the candidate. She is armed with a Canon AE-1, 200 mm lens firmly attached. "I don't know how to use this...
...psychodrama of the Rams began last spring when Owner Carroll Rosenbloom drowned in the surf off the Florida coast. Rosenbloom was a man fiercely determined to have things his way: when he wanted to move to Los Angeles, he simply swapped his Baltimore Colt franchise with then Rams Owner Robert Irsay and also managed to make a tax-free $4.4 million profit on the deal. Going it alone was a quality Rosenbloom taught his son Steve, 35, and his second wife Georgia, 52, who was to become his widow, and therein...