Word: hammerism
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...ONLY MAJOR problem with this stirring masterpiece is the Tavinis' occasionally heavy-handed use of symbolism to hammer home a point. During the funeral procession for a slain Mafioso, pall-bearer Gavino fantasizes a statue of his father in place of the sculpted saint perched atop the coffin. And if that does not constitute laying it on with a trowel, consider this: before settling down to the business of lovemaking, a young man persuades his partner to smoke his cigar with the ash end in her mouth. A hint of things to come, perhaps...
...hardly escape the many reminders of how quickly allegiances can change on the Horn. The Ethiopian soldiers still wear American-supplied uniforms; their weapons, ammunition and even their slang are mostly U.S.-issue too. Only a few have the new caps, supplied by the Soviets, that sport a hammer and sickle...
...control of Financial General Bankshares Inc., the second largest bank holding company in Washington, D.C.; with assets of $2.2 billion, it controls the Union First National Bank of Washington and close to a dozen other banks in Maryland and Virginia. At a meeting set up by Armand Hammer, who is chairman of Occidental Petroleum and a Financial General board member, Lance told the bank's senior officers he was acting for the London-based Bank of Credit & Commerce International, which specializes in managing Arab funds. At week's end, a group of Financial General shareholders filed suit accusing...
...Knesset, free-speech advocates decried Hammer's decision, while conservatives supported it, regardless of party. The expulsion of the Arabs, said the Labor Party's Amos Hadar, "is the heart of the [Middle East] problem. The film will be a weapon in the hands of Arafat." Said Kalman Kahane, a member of the Poalei Agudat Israel religious party: "I'm definitely for democracy. But when there is an excessive democracy which harms the state's interests, I'm ready to put up with some sort of limitation...
Though Israel's press and TV are routinely subject to military censorship, the Hirbet Hiza incident marked the first time a fictional work had been suppressed for political reasons. Premier Menachem Begin defended Hammer's decision, but Author Smilansky was irate. "I didn't write this story as a conflict between Jews and Arabs," he insisted. "I wrote this as a man who was hurt by what he saw. This story is about Israel, it's about Viet Nam, it's about any place where someone is suddenly caught in war. Instead of covering...