Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...final: eat a lot of aspirin and drink a Coke; eat spoiled mayonnaise; polish off a quart of Charles River water; swallow chunks of chewing tobacco; say you're hearing voices (how can they tell?). One guy had his roomate smash his finger with a hammer. "It seemed like a good idea at the time," he says...
...idea of sharing leadership responsibility, of course, is not new in U.S. corporations. Many firms have informal "inner cabinets" that hammer out difficult decisions. But until recently the arrangement was only rarely made formal. Even now it is used most often as a device to lend continuity during a period when an older chief is stepping down and a fresh leader is taking over...
...market by offering two monstrosities for the price of one (Frankenstein Meets Wolf Man) and finally turned the grand old ghouls into shambling straight men for the giggle brigade (Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein). In the '50s, and '60s, horror was further debased by Britain's Hammer Productions, which starred Christopher Lee in blood-splotched shockers. Their strongest claim to originality was the introduction of the crimson contact lens...
Sophomore teammate Ed Ajootian nailed down the runner-up slot, propelling the bulkage 59 ft. 1 1/2 in. Eagle Joe Dray salvaged third place for the visitors, launching the hammer-like object...
...Barbara Hammer is a feminist filmmaker with a rather bizarre sense of humor. Her short film, Menses, supposedly takes a wry, comic look at the disagreeable aspects of menstruation. There are, indeed, a few amusing moments in it, but for the most part the film consists of naked women standing on a hilltop, legs spread apart, with a most unusual, watery, lurid pinkish substance gusing down their legs. The humorous highlights are a mock communion scene in which codeine tablets are taken in place of wafers and menstrual blood is drunk in lieu of wine, and when some woman with...