Word: hammerism
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...four are charged with assaulting a man with a hammer after a meeting at the Ohrenberger School in Hyde Park...
...contrast, the minor roles are handled with a much greater sense of what Shaw is about. Cynthia Cardon is just right as Prossy, Morell's secretary and admirer, snapping out her consonants, as Shaw once suggested she should, with a "ten pound gun hammer spring." Thomas Champion, as Burgess, Candida's father, has a laudable Cockney accent, and Mariani himself oozes idolatrous servility as the cleric Lexy. One of the most successful scenes in the production is the comic encounter between Prossy, Burgess and Marchbanks; in this run-in with characters who have the outlines of caricature, Marchbanks' own exaggerated...
...that something has to be done, and fast, but what that something is, nobody seems to know." Vice President Nelson Rockefeller was being primed to lead a counterattack against Carter this week in hopes of putting the Democrat again on the defensive. The G.O.P. plan is for Rocky to hammer away at Carter's finances, raising questions about his campaign contributors and the tax records of his family-held peanut farm and warehouse. Some of Ford's advisers recommended that Republicans should point to Carter's use of tax benefits, notably the tax credit on capital improvements in his business...
After an Illinois public aid worker first reported his suspicions, U.S. Attorney Sam ("the Hammer") Skinner, 38, put two lawyers and three FBI agents on the case virtually full time. They found a tangle of doctors, clinics, medical labs and pharmacies that hauled in fat Government payments and fed kick backs to one another for unnecessary or fictional patient examinations, clinic visits, tests and prescriptions. The investigation was maddeningly difficult because both patients and personnel at the ghetto health centers tended to be transient, and the fraudulent paper work involved was hard to track in the disarray of federal...
...Roman goddess of wealth and marriage, and it took plenty of the former before Armand Hammer, 78, could latch on to Rembrandt's Juno. The perdurable Occidental Petroleum Corp. chairman, who recently received a $3,000 fine for making illegal contributions to the 1972 Nixon campaign, bought the 17th century masterpiece for $3.25 million from Navy Secretary J. William Middendorf II. The most highly priced Rembrandt ever sold, the painting will eventually land in the Los Angeles County Museum. "The seller was asking $5 million," said the magnate philosophically, "so I think $3.25 million is a bargain...