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3 March 1978. ( 1978-03-03) Bobby Dazzler was an Australian television sitcom produced by Crawford Productions, starring pop singer John Farnham as the title characters, up-and-coming pop music star Bobby Farrell. The other regular cast members were Maurie Fields as Bobby's father Fred, an old vaudeville performer; and Olivia Hamnett as Bobby's ...
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Bonkbuster (a play on "blockbuster" and the verb "to bonk") is a term coined in 1989 by British writer Sue Limb to describe a subgenre of commercial romance novels in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as their subsequent miniseries adaptations.
Headlamp. A motor scooter 's front with an impractical number and variety of headlamps, added for decorative purposes and characteristic of Mod culture. A headlamp is a lamp attached to the front of a vehicle to illuminate the road ahead. Headlamps are also often called headlights, but in the most precise usage, headlamp is the term for the ...
Early years. Warner was born in the small town of Vinton, Iowa, where his father was a lawyer.His mother was descended from a line of prominent missionaries (the Riggs family), who worked extensively for years with the Dakota Sioux Indians, translating and preserving their traditional language.
London Assurance (originally titled Out of Town) is a five-act comedy co-authored by Dion Boucicault and John Brougham. [1] While the play was collaboratively written by both playwrights, after the play's initial premiere Broughman, who originated the role of Dazzle, relinquished his authorship rights to the work in a lawsuit settlement and ...
Fire performance is a group of performance arts or skills that involve the manipulation of fire. Fire performance typically involves equipment or other objects made with one or more wicks which are designed to sustain a large enough flame to create a visual effect.
Beam riding. Beam-riding, also known as Line-Of-Sight Beam Riding (LOSBR), beam guidance or radar beam riding [1] is a technique of directing a missile to its target by means of radar or a laser beam. The name refers to the way the missile flies down the guidance beam, which is aimed at the target. It is one of the simplest guidance systems and ...