Word: hammering
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Plain Rap basically sums up the new album from the Pharcyde. The L.A. group spent the '90s putting out a catalog of conceptual, just-a-little-bit-over-the-top hip-hop albums and proving that they were some of the only MCs that Hammer didn't scare away from dancing on stage. The concept for this new release, though, is no concept; the Pharcyde want to tone it down and just "rap for hip-hop's sake...
...formal training, the burly carpenter had an intuitive feel for creating dramatic, bustling environments that complemented rather than competed with the food. By the time his '50s-style Fog City Diner (in his home base of San Francisco) caught critics' eyes in 1984, Kuleto had thrown away his hammer and turned full time to restaurant design, a field that had barely existed before then...
...closest friends and retainers at some distance to avoid all that dynasty talk. But the moment the battle was over and the war began, it was the fabulous Bush and Baker boys all over again. Hughes described Baker as "a calming presence." His nickname in Washington is the Velvet Hammer...
...bluntly: If Bush loses, he will have made the American media look like a bunch of dumbasses, and they will hammer him for it - if nothing else to mitigate their own embarrassment. What was confidence yesterday has become questionable today and will be called arrogant tomorrow. The afternoon jogs. The naps. The relatively early finish to the campaign, compared with Gore's marathon. And above all, that party: As I write, you can bet a dozen political scribes are trying to find new ways to describe it as the Frat Party That...
...error is on the side of severity, as Burgess's Willis breaks George through boot camp discipline combined with asylum methods. His role in the production is not that of foil for the king's will, but, at best, of disciplinarian. Burgess's Willis is a tool to hammer reason back in George's head, an unsympathetic character who completes the range of the play's spectrum at the black-and-white...