Word: hammerism
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...Englanders were bracing last night for a major nor'easter that is predicted to hammer the coast with high seas and strong winds, while dumping a dangerous mix of ice and snow inland through tomorrow...
...fact, it's a home video. It all sounds incredibly benign, except that the movie in question is Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson Lee's sex video. And they did not intend it for public consumption. As the story goes, the two megastars, to the background crooning of M.C. Hammer, filmed themselves having sex over the course of a number of days. Somehow, the film was stolen from their home and promptly copied and sold on the streets of Los Angeles and beyond. Not surprisingly, the movie--minus the sound effects--got picked...
...39th district, Blondie was notorious for a version of Russian roulette he used with those he arrested--evidence or no evidence. Colbert fit the bill. Blondie cocked the hammer on what he now says was an empty pistol. "If you don't tell us what we want to know, I'm going to blow your head off," he said. Colbert wouldn't budge. Even today, Blondie--who fears for his life in prison if his real name is disclosed--defends the tactic. "I viewed it as kind of a humane alternative," he says. "It was less hurtful than beating...
This week, as delegates from more than 170 nations meet in Kyoto, Japan, to try to hammer out a new global-warming treaty, it is clear that this cautious attitude has completely turned around. Melting glaciers, hotter summers and migrations of plants, animals and even deadly microbes have convinced virtually every climate scientist on earth that human activity has indeed started to warm the planet. Even business and labor leaders whose livelihood depends on the production and use of fossil fuels acknowledge the problem. "The science would indicate," says United Mine Workers president Cecil Roberts, "that there is something happening...
...stylistic quirks similarly mar otherwise breezy and enjoyable prose. Benfey has a tendency to hammer metaphor into oblivion. A similar tautological impulse marks his usage of apt and striking details. The New England ice shipped to New Orleans for use as refrigeration is mentioned prominently three times in fewer chapters. And phrases like "we will have more to say in coming chapters" are irritatingly common, tantalizing us as Benfey rambles down some other tangential avenue...