Word: hammered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the set has been designed, the technical director and the producer must find a crew to help with the final building. Often, actors pitch in to hammer and paint...
...INFERNO LIKE DRESDEN MUST NEVER BE REPEATED! proclaimed one banner, its white letters imprinted on a scarlet background. EUROPE WANTS NO EUROSHIMA! exclaimed another; SOCIALISM, PEACE, FREEDOM, declared a third. In the streets, toddlers waved tiny red flags with the hammer and sickle, and huge portraits of Marx, Lenin and Soviet President Konstantin Chernenko bobbed above a crowd of some 150,000 gathered at the Theaterplatz. From a platform emblazoned with the dove of peace, East German Communist Party Chief Erich Honecker faced the blackened ruins of the city's cathedral and, without a trace of irony, intoned: "Today Dresden...
...acting school. The first was the work ethic, which he had not grasped while growing up in the protected world of a Chicago suburb. Once so lazy that he had flunked out of Wisconsin's Ripon College in his senior year, he became accustomed to picking up his hammer and saw early in the morning and continuing until the job was finished. "Now I find it difficult to enjoy myself when I'm not working," he says. "And I am not able to distract myself when I'm waiting around on a set. I sit and stare at the walls...
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger was deep into a lengthy report before the Senate Armed Services Committee on the new Pentagon budget. He had just pointed out that the Department of Defense was the first to uncover such military expenditures as a $400 claw hammer and a $9,000 wrench when Maine's Republican Senator William Cohen said, "I'm fascinated to hear all this, but I'm told there's now a problem with a $600 toilet seat." This, Cohen deadpanned, "gives new meaning to the word throne...
...many farmers are not getting by. Foreign markets are disappearing, land values are tumbling, banks are hesitant to extend loans. The auctioneer's hammer is falling on land and buildings held for generations by the same farm families; white crosses are appearing in Midwestern courthouse squares to commemorate the growers forced out of business. And in Washington the Government is absorbed in a fierce debate about federal assistance to farmers. The issue: do most programs any longer make sense or, as the Reagan Administration contends, have they become an unjustifiable burden on taxpayers while serving to undermine the economic security...