Word: drumbeat
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...need it." Man, is it bad! I like good hardcore, like Minor Threat or Negative Approach, but these guys sucked. It sounds like they were having fun, but it's no fun to listen to. The last song, "Cookypuss," shows their shift towards rap: it features sampled horn and drumbeat, and has a lot of voice over crank calls to Carvel's. It was even fun to listen to, for about thirty seconds...
...allowed. Parody, however, goes unmentioned. Should send-up artists, whose ranks have included everyone from Lewis Carroll to "Weird Al" Yankovic, be included too? More specifically, can Campbell, best known for his group 2 Live Crew's 1990 victory over obscenity charges, appropriate Orbison's famous bass intro, his drumbeat and his first line without permission from the song's publisher...
...adverse life circumstances that spawn criminality. These things are not quick, and they're not easy, but they're effective. Politicians think that's too hard a sell. They want to be on record for doing something now, something they can point to at re-election time. So the drumbeat goes on for more police, more prisons, more of the same failed policies...
...salve was probably warranted, but most Americans did not require it. They had long since accepted the need to close the books on their country's most anguished 20th century war. "The drumbeat of history is moving in the opposite direction," declared Jan Scruggs, one of the movers behind the Vietnam Memorial, the black, V-shaped granite wall that draws thousands of poignant pilgrimages every year to Washington, "and we have to catch up with the rest of the world...
...incessant drumbeat of episodes like these has Americans increasingly concerned that their country is under siege and, in the popular phraseology, "has lost control of its own borders." In a study published last June, Bard College economist Dimitri Papadimitriou concluded that new laws were needed to head off "a bitter struggle between these new immigrants and disadvantaged segments of the U.S. population for increasingly scarce low- skill, low-wage jobs...