Word: hammerism
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Medieval France, a cleric boasted, was covered with a "white mantle" of churches. So is America, with museums. Nobody can say for sure which museum is the worst. But now we know which is the vainest. It opened in Los Angeles last November. It is the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center. It cost nearly $100 million -- paid for, to their now deep resentment, by the shareholders of Occidental Petroleum Corp., whose chairman Dr. Hammer...
...avert the battle by frightening Saddam into retreat. Bush's brinkmanship strategy assumes three things: 1) Saddam wants to survive, 2) he can change his mind if he thinks his survival depends on it, and 3) he will not act until the gun is at his head, with the hammer cocked and the trigger finger already squeezing...
Joining Collins in the competition for record of the year were last year's winner, Bette Midler, for "From A category were Melissa Etheridge, Distance;" Sinead O'Connor for "Nothing Compares 2 U;" M.C. Hammer for "U Can't Touch This;" and Carey for "Vision of Love." Midler won in 1990 for "Wind Beneath My Wings...
Jones' "Black on the Block," Collins' "...But Seriously" and Carey's self-titled effort were nominated for album of the year, along with M.C. Hammer's "U Can't Touch This" and Wilson Phillips' eponymous debut...
Even today, deception in music exists. Artists like M.C. Hammer routinely recycle past hits in the form of "sampling" to garner fame and glory for themselves...