Word: batted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...America's impotence in the face of past horrors--provides one clue to the decline of their relationship. Kubrick begins to play with sexual imagery just as the film starts to thrust toward a climax. In a sequence that reveals Wendy's sexual dominance, she wields a phallic baseball bat at hip level, thrusting it rhythmically in Jack's face as he grins maniacally and moves closer. Only when Jack takes up the ax does his sexual strength return...
When things had quieted down again, E had got the better of the "queer-bashing" attacker whose mouth was very bloody. The attacker, embarrassed at being bettered by a Black man, called E a nigger. E, livid with anger, left Tommy's to get a baseball bat out of his car to use to beat the townie senseless...
...wanted to get a bat. I was trembling with anger. I know and understand the hate E felt when he heard that word, "NIGGER...
While E was outside being persuaded to put the bat away, the "townie" tried to enlist the support of his fellow homophobic racists. He said it was not right to let a nigger beat up a white man. He said he could not believe that a room full of white people would stand by and let a Black man hit "one of us." One (and only one) white Harvard student had the guts to respond...
Suddenly the demonstrator lunges forward, boltcutter in both hands; "Create a diversion," someone has yelled, and he does, poking the tool through the fence, pretending to cut, trying to keep the cop on the spot. The trooper has something in his hands too--a four-foot wooden bat, which he swings with all his might at the cutter. Back and forth they go, five or six times, the protester poking and taunting, like a child at the zoo; the man in the cage white-hot with anger, swinging and screaming. Finally, he stops, and reaches to his side...