Word: hammered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with bunny scent. A girl put her pet on springs that jiggled its feet. A device that pulled dogs along was propelled by an ingenious power plant: the energy was created by the dog's barking into a speaking tube. Only one machine threatened punishment, using a hammer to whack a dog on the back if it refused to exercise...
...high-rolling film business, seven of every ten releases are box office flops. Financing is drying up, and most studios have cut back to a handful of new productions a year. What would Hollywood make, then, of a brash little outfit called Hammer Films on a second floor in London's Soho district? Hammer is riding a streak of nearly 100 straight moneymaking movies. Last month it began shooting its tenth new production of 1971. So successful has it become at exporting its wares that it is a winner of the Queen's Award for Industry-a grateful...
...films that have made Hammer, in its words, "accepted as a branded product all over the world" are largely girl-and-ghoul flicks and caveman epics, with titles like Countess Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde, One Million Years B.C. and Blood from the Mummy's Tomb. Each is turned out on a near-strangulation budget and schedule ($500,000 and 25 shooting days). The plots, usually lifted from some Victorian romancer like Bram Stoker or Sheridan Le Fanu, are as creaky as the doors of Castle Dracula. The starlets who flit through prehistoric landscapes or quaint Transylvanian villages...
...cubbyhole office in Boston. Eager for business, he agreed to help Red Sox Pitcher Earl Wilson negotiate his baseball contract. A few fast deals later and Woolf suddenly realized: "Oh wow, this is an area that's been virtually untapped." Tapping away like a trip hammer ever since, he has become the most successful of the new and growing breed of sport lawyer-managers. He now has a stable of 200 pro basketball, baseball, football and hockey athletes. "I have to pinch myself," he says, "to believe a local attorney like me has a national business like this...
DeMars, who tosses the hammer for Harvard during the outdoor track season, started this season at fullback when Steve Hall suffered a sprained ankle in preseason practice...