Word: hammerism
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...between the kit and caveman, one of the centerpieces of the set, lasted a good 15 minutes. The kit looked set to implode on the drummer under the influence of his jackhammer strikes, while the caveman leapt about like a man who is certain that he left his rock hammer here only a moment...
...playwrighting as “something that everyone interested in theater should at least understand, and the only way to do that is by trying it out.” In his monologue The Watermelon Project, which he performed last Thursday and Friday nights, his only props were a hammer, a watermelon and a stand-in picture of an ex-girlfriend that developed from his “desire to bend the rules of ‘theater’—to actually freak the audience out for a second in a way a straight play cannot...
...which LL hit his commercial stride, was the world's freakiest cocktail party. The liberal humanists of the Native Tongues mixed with the neo--black nationalists of Public Enemy and the ghetto-crime reporters of N.W.A. while LL Cool J flirted with the ladies and Bushwick Bill and M.C. Hammer kept things from getting too weighty. Some of these performers ran out of things to say; most were subsumed by the wave of gangsta culture that swept over rap in 1993. By the time Snoop Doggy Dogg's Doggystyle became the first rap album to debut at No.1, record labels...
Home improvement is like cooking: if we spent as much time doing it ourselves as watching others do it on TV, there would be no need for KFC or contractors. So why is it that you can't swing a hammer on cable TV nowadays without hitting, well, a hammer? In one of the homilies that end his Discovery Channel show, designer Christopher Lowell offers a hint. "I hope I've given you some great ideas," he says, "so the next time you have guests, they'll feel as if they've walked into a warm and loving environment...
Manager Driscoll described the negotiations as “arduous and sometimes contentious” and negotiators for both sides said that the details—even after the sides reached agreements in principle—took longer to hammer out than anyone anticipated...