![]() ![]() In the term's history, it's been subverted and stretched, giving rise to some excellent, enduring work. Sky-affixed diamonds have been showing up in songs for centuries now, evolving from what once was a metaphorical description for stars-which themselves are a hack's symbolic standby-into an evocative but empty phrase all its own. And last year, scientists found what they believe to be a planet made entirely of diamonds, 4,000 light years away from our own.īut the "diamonds in the sky" that Rihanna sings about on her brand-new single " Diamonds" belong to a more earthly category: the cliche. ![]() In 1981, for example, Smithsonian researchers wrecked their sawtooth blades when they tried to cut through an iron meteorite and hit a deposit of what was then the hardest material known to man.
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