Word: hammerism
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When the Irishman matriculated at Harvard in 1987, he was already viewed as a top prospect. He joined the Crimson because he shared a coach with then-Captain James Russell, who threw the hammer...
...rapper's groove, or the recycled '60s riff in a current dance- floor hit. It's the steam heat of the early '80s hit Under Pressure recycled in the vanilla-rap hit Ice Ice Baby, and the streak of the funk classic Super Freak revived for M.C. Hammer's U Can't Touch This...
...Queen threatened a lawsuit, the rapper eventually added them to the composer credits. Two years ago, the rap group De La Soul was slapped with a $1.7 million suit by the '60s group the Turtles for using an uncredited bite of their 1969 song You Showed Me. M.C. Hammer avoided such problems by sharing credit with Rick James, who wrote Super Freak, before sampling the song for his platinum single, U Can't Touch This...
...photographs are passed around the table, a police officer states the gruesome facts of each case: a 67-year-old white woman found tied up in her bathroom, her face beaten; a black woman, 55, lying in the hallway of her home, her head bashed in, apparently by a hammer; an 83-year-old white woman discovered on her bed, possibly smothered, her lower body nude . . . In all, 12 middle-aged and elderly women killed between 1985 and 1988, all of whom dwelled within a 2.6-sq-km (1-sq.-mi.) urban area...
...hole and sliding perilously close to a mammoth personal bankruptcy, the brash New York developer had no choice but to accept the dismantling of his vast holdings. Meeting round the clock at secret Manhattan locations, Trump's lawyers and bankers by week's end had begun to hammer out a complex series of agreements on the distribution of some of his assets...