Word: hammerism
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Some directors lay on their heavy messages with a trowel; Ken Russell goes at you with a jack-hammer. Women in Love somehow enjoys a reputation as this one man wrecking crew's most meaningful work, but here, as in all his other films, Russell's only evident meaning lies aching behind his zipper. "Was it too much for you?" Oliver Reed asks Alan Bates after they finish a wrestling match in the raw, the homosexual hints dripping off their bodies faster than sweat. Then the line pops up again, this time after Reed has been rollicking in the snow...
...effect, for the moment at least, was exactly the reverse. A gigantic labor rally in Rome, called to express outrage at the kidnaping, produced the unusual sight of white banners, with the crossed shield of the Christian Democrats, flying silk-to-silk with the red flags and the hammer and sickle of the Italian Communists...
...traditional, all-forks-barred banquet and decreeing: "Anyone who refuses to wear a kimono will not be invited." Delightedly, the eminent musicians swapped tails for robes. Then, they watched wide-eyed as their kinetic conductor swatted open a keg of sake with a lusty downbeat from a hammer. When the festivities were over, one veteran B.S.O. member opined: "We didn't have this kind of thing the last time we were here...
Meanwhile, the ACSR has been meeting inside the building to hammer out a suggested University policy towards South African-related investments, which it will present to the Corporation Monday...
...Troy, N.Y., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute was leading 6-5 until B.C. co-captain Rob Riley slipped a rebound past RPI's netminder at 14:35 of the third, prolonging that tilt. Fourth-ranked RPI couldn't get it back as the Eagles' Paul Hammer got the game-winner at 0:44 of the extra stanza...