Word: hammerism
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Boston teachers had a long and difficult negotiation this past October, while its firefighters are in the midst of a protracted effort to hammer out a contract with the city...
...Hitting—a futile attempt to begin with—only requires that you played some Little League baseball, and have the necessary hand-eye coordination to occasionally hammer a flat screwball...
Junior Nicky Grant won the hammer at 51.50 meters, and placing second in the shot put right behind Gibson at 13.25 meters. She will in contention to win her first ndividual Heptagonal title at Princeton next week...
...within the framework of a person selecting films from an archive, History Lessons has very little dialogue but makes up for this fact with attention-grabbing visual effects. Hammer uses her artistic license generously as she dubs in lesbian-rights messages over women’s voices in old films of a roundtable discussion. This effect, which Hammer uses throughout the film, provides a bit of needed levity. Her presentation of antiquated photographs, transposition of negatives and reverse negative images, and carnivalesque background music creates an interesting mixture of the serious and?...
...negative statement about lesbians. Though it seems odd that such derogatory images should be used in a film that is a celebration of being a lesbian, the juxtaposition of these divergent images is a stark, but very effective, contrast. In doing so, Hammer challenges the “traditional” notions of lesbians as being “butch” and “she-males.” Overall, History Lessons is a compelling, sometimes offensive, but always unpredictable journey into the roots of lesbianism back...