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...leaders. The anthrax scare may have emptied offices on Capitol Hill last Wednesday, but Representatives J.C. Watts of Oklahoma, Diane Watson of California and Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, among others, demonstrated a heretofore unrecognized capacity to get jiggy with it in a new music video by rapper MC HAMMER, filmed by the Capitol's reflecting pool. In keeping with the song's inspirational message, which Hammer described as "take it head on, be strong, stand up and fight," the pols were at their feistiest: "I was the one who was rivaling Hammer," says Representative CORINNE BROWN of Florida...
...demystify art by initiating viewers into their particular mode of experience. More tangible examples of such interactivity include the “Painting to Let the Evening Light Go Through” (1966), which makes nature the object of wondrous contemplation, and the famous “Painting to Hammer a Nail” (1966), a white plaster-board which is only completed once the viewer has pounded in nails using an attached hammer. Ono is said to have fallen in love with Lennon when, at a 1966 exhibition, he asked her permission to add a nail to the work...
...goal,” said Brady, “is not to hammer miscreants who burn flags but to hammer the Supreme Court. They are the miscreants in this case...
...going anywhere beyond the moderate positioning rallies (and selloffs) we've seen since that Sept. 21 low - they're just pacing the green room, biding their time, making small bets on the near future. Waiting for the Pentagon - for the bombs to drop, the tanks to roll, the hammer to fall - or waiting for the terrorists to strike again. Or at least for Congress to cut a few checks...
...soldiers' sacrifice: "How could anyone ever know the price paid by soldiers in terror, agony and bloodshed if they'd never been to places like Normandy, Bastogne or Haguenau?" This is the unofficial credo of Brothers. If you weren't there, it is determined to put you there--to hammer you with explosions, jargon and blood until you cry uncle, until at last...