Word: drumbeats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nemesis -- while offering ostensibly sympathetic prayers for him -- did not satisfy Gorman. Now he is suing for wealth he believes would have been his were it not for Swaggart's vendetta, which Gorman says was motivated by business rivalry rather than morality. As proof, he argues that the drumbeat of rumor from Swaggart only intensified after Gorman quit their shared faith...
With millions of dollars in royalties at stake, sampling has become a legal quagmire. U.S. copyright law protects a composer from having his work duplicated by another musician. But what happens if the second party samples only a few seconds of a melody? Or just a fragment of drumbeat? "The latest copyright law went into effect on Jan. 1, 1978, and it was out of date pretty much the day it was passed," observes Jeffrey Light, a Beverly Hills-based entertainment lawyer. "Sampling is just another instance of the law not keeping up with technology...
...been blamed for just about everything from a decrease in attention span to an increase in street crime. Cartoons are attacked for their violence and sitcoms for their foul language. Critics ranging from religious conservatives to consumer groups like Action for Children's Television have kept up a steady drumbeat of calls for reform...
Likewise, American society has, in the past generation, abandoned its commitment to providing a world-class system of secondary education. Education Secretary Lauro Cavazos himself calls student performance "dreadfully inadequate." From both the inner cities and the affluent suburbs comes a drumbeat of stories about tin-pot principals who cannot be fired, beleaguered teachers with unmanageable workloads and illiterate graduates with abysmal test scores. If they can possibly afford to, parents choose private or parochial schools, leaving the desperate or destitute in the worst public schools. Teachers, meanwhile, are aware that they are often the most powerful influences...