Word: freaked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nearly 70 hours of deliberations over nine days, jurors could not unanimously agree that videos like Animal Tapes 1-6, which depicts bestiality, and Dr. Bizzaro, a film that includes incest scenes, were obscene. Sturman, a cleanliness freak who attended the trial in a surgical mask, claims he is the subject of a vendetta by prosecutors and the IRS, which previously seized his Rolls-Royce as part payment for the more than $15 million he owed in penalties stemming from a 1989 tax-evasion conviction...
...first it seemed like a freak accident. As the usual lunchtime crowd jammed Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, last Wednesday, a blue Ford Ranger pickup tore across the parking lot and barreled straight through the restaurant's plate-glass window. A few startled customers ran to help the driver. To their horror, a muscular young man in a green shirt sprang from behind the wheel with a semiautomatic pistol and began firing. "This is what Bell County did to me . . . This is payback day!" he shouted as he made his way through the crowd, pumping bullets in every direction...
Granted, the Crimson has suffered some tough breaks. Freak missed shots down the stretch and the absence of players because of red cards has cost the Crimson wins...
...that I've exhausted the ideas/food metaphor, let's talk music. MC Hammer admitted that the "Dowmp, Da-Da-Dowmp, Da-Dowmp, Da-Dowmp" riff in "U Can't Touch This" was lifted from Rick James's "Super-freak," and gave credit where credit was due. But I could swear I've heard the first four notes of the riff in Falco's "Der Kommisar" and Paula Abdul's "Cold-Hearted Snake," too. Who's plagiarizing whom? How many possible notes and rhythms are there? Isn't copycatting inevitable...
...according to Cathy Bell, a Houston environmental communications specialist who was once married to "a redneck control freak" and found the courage to dump him after a liberating weekend trip with a girlfriend, "like seeing my life played before my eyes...