Word: smackdowns
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...time it probably seemed that rock music was entirely yours, a thing that you could imagine grew out of your own fevered brain. Now a good slice of it apparently belongs to somebody else, somebody who likes gangsta rap and tinny kid pop and fight songs from WWF Smackdown! It doesn't help that this week the Grammy for album of the year may go to Eminem, the white rapper who wants to rape his mother, or at least he says he does on the album that may get the Grammy. Hey, you're probably old enough...
...Rock, because we need someone to put the smackdown on the Ad Board's candy asses...
...Ravens talk smack with the best of 'em. And after their defense sent Super Bowl favorite Tennessee home unexpectedly early, it's clear they lay the smackdown with the best...
Back then, the "biggest case" was an arcane smackdown between two huge oil companies, Pennzoil and Texaco. This year his efforts have had direct, determinative impact on the antitrust case against Microsoft, in which he represented the U.S. government; the half-billion-dollar settlement of a suit by his art-buyer clients against the world's two leading art-auction companies, Sotheby's and Christie's; the essential meaning of copyright on the Internet, which he is trying to establish on behalf of the music website Napster; and, supremely, the Tallahassee passion play. Back at the time of the Pennzoil...
...CHER could turn back time, if she could find a way, she'd really like to kick the stuffing out of some nuns. On Sisters of Mercy, a song from her Internet-only release not.com.mercial Cher gives the lyrical smackdown to nuns that ran an orphanage where she stayed as a child while her mother waitressed at an all-night diner. The singer calls the sisters "mothers of shame," "masters of pain" and "twisters of truth," which doesn't quite rhyme, but makes the point. The Catholic League is unimpressed. "Much like the rest of Hollywood," says a spokesman...