Word: raying
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...Kramler Building, "faced with stone the color of a stained shirt collar." Sheldon P. Anapol, the "likable and cruel" publisher and novelty peddler, succeeds with a combination of "hard-won cynicism, low overhead, an unstintingly shoddy product line and the American boy's unassuageable hunger for midget radios, X-ray spectacles and joy buzzers...
DIED. STANLEY TURRENTINE, 66, soulful blues-based tenor saxophonist whose 1970 crossover hit, Sugar, inspired today's "smooth jazz"; of a stroke; in New York City. A three-time Grammy nominee, Turrentine played with Ray Charles, Max Roach and Herbie Hancock early in his career and in 1953 replaced John Coltrane in Earl Bostic's band. He also made forays into pop music, including a 1976 jazz interpretation of Stairway to Heaven...
...didn't want Ray Miller to have to sweat during the offseason about playing me next year." That would have been fine. "I was just tired and wanted a day off," would have been perfectly acceptable also. But Ripken didn't say that either. Then again, maybe he didn't have...
Madonna collaborates with French electronic producer Mirwais on the new record--and he's much edgier than William Orbit, her Ray of Light producer, who's more commercial, more wedded to the harmonious melding of synthesizer and voice. Mirwais isn't a big believer in coherence--he wants sounds you've never heard before, Music with a capital M. But it's not completely unfamiliar. Listen and you'll hear the cool, chilly beats of Erotica, mixed with the warm melodies of Bedtime Stories, tinged with the gurgles and blips of Ray of Light; all stirred together into a rich...
...favorite song on the CD is Impressive Instant simply because it's the most explosive dance track Madonna has ever produced. Remember that giddy scream at the end of "Ray of Light"? "Instant" is four minutes of that kind of energy--a cosmic frenzy that interweaves melodies and distorts Madonna's voice so unrecognizably that the song seems to fracture in four at one point. If "Impressive Instant" could be written out on a page as poetry, it would look something like this...