Word: boomeranged
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...months the regulation has been in effect, it has been an almost perfect boomerang. Instead of promoting original programming, it has sent the local station managers scurrying to producers who imitate hits of the past. Instead of promoting TV production round the country, it has been a boon to Canadian and British producers, who can usually deliver programs for much less than their American counterparts...
Retreating to a farm near the tiny town of Mudgeerebar in the northeastern state of Queensland, Hawes designed a boomerang that incorporated modern principles of aerodynamics. He insists that his boomerang comes reliably back to the thrower, whereas the aboriginal product often does not. Be that as it may, Hawes has become Australia's boomerang king. He employs seven workers, who turn out 60,000 boomerangs a year. Most are sold in gift shops in major Australian cities, but a quarter of the output is shipped to North America and Europe for sporting clubs and wives whose husbands have...
...this is too much for Hawes' biggest competitor, the Queensland Department of Aboriginal and Island Affairs, which every year sells 40,000 boomerangs made by aborigines living on missions. Department spokesmen insist that only aboriginal boomerangs can make two complete circles in the air before dropping at the feet of the thrower. Senator Neville Bonner, an aborigine, has introduced in the Australian Parliament legislation that would in effect restrict boomerang making to his race. It has got nowhere-partly because Bonner had no success trying to demonstrate the superiority of the aboriginal product. At a press showing in Canberra...
...detected in the work of Hitchcock, who has been a heavy and not entirely salutary influence on him. Everything is rather uninterestingly out of control here, including Orson Welles. When Welles arches an eyebrow he undergoes such convulsions that it appears he is trying to launch a great hairy boomerang off his face and into the stratosphere...
...when the standard of living falls in this country, then those class contradictions are going to rebound, like a boomerang. They are going to hit America right back in the face. What our job as black people has got to be is likewise exporting the contradictions in the black community right back to the white. Imagine when they don't have niggers in this country any more. And the white workers become the niggers of the ruling class, and those white workers realize that there is no longer another class for them to look down upon. Then the class struggle...