Word: hammerism
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...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...
...last time I picked up a hammer was in seventh-grade workshop. I invented split-level knock hockey because I couldn't get my plywood to stay even. If my shop teacher hadn't sent me to the library to avoid any major accidents, I might never have ended up an English major at Harvard...
...planters grew a diverse array of crops. Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee is convinced that the decline of diversity is one of the greatest threats facing world agriculture. "We may see a significant number of crops become functionally extinct," he says, "enjoying bumper crops until one day the hammer falls in the form of a blight they cannot handle...
Last week officials of the Justice and HHS departments were struggling to hammer out a compromise. The likely outcome would permit AIDS-infected foreign nationals into the U.S. for up to 30 days but require them to inform officials that they are carriers of the HIV virus. Another policy under consideration: permitting people with AIDS to immigrate if they can prove that they will not be an economic burden. In other words, the wealthy infirm would be waved through...
...former Dahmer house in Bath, Ohio, for the remains of Steven Hicks, who may have been the murderer's first victim. In 1978 Hicks, 18, was hitchhiking when Dahmer, also 18 at the time, took him home, killed him with a barbell and smashed his bones with a hammer. So far, about 100 bone and three tooth fragments have been recovered from the grounds. Investigators plan to test them against a lock of hair and dental records that Hicks' parents provided in the hope of proving a match. In a statement issued last week, the Hicks family said, "We have...