Word: hammerism
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...waltz with some naked wiring, Eva sleepwalks her way fixedly toward suicide. She tries to jump out a window, impale herself on a knife, throttle herself with a rope, electrocute herself and take poison. Half dead with fatigue, she ends the act conducting the others, with a waveringly insistent hammer for a baton, in a chorus of The Twelve Days of Christmas...
...drinking too much milk-the spot on his lung X ray was a calcium deposit. When 31% of the rats exposed to one type of asbestos dust in a medical experiment developed lung cancer, an industry researcher argued that it must have been caused by metal tracings from the hammer used to pound the material into dust. "Nobody ever said to me that the stuff could hurt you," Hubert Thomas, who had worked at the Tyler plant and now cannot walk a block without stopping to catch his breath, told Brodeur. But then he recalled one warning from J.W. McMillan...
...even offensive. Those who admire the documentary realism of Edward Weston, Eugene Smith and Paul Strand--artists who sought the "perfect negative"--may find Karen Truax's handcolored photographs of surrealistic landscapes or James Friedman's mixed media collage made of multiple images of a woman's face, a hammer and a broken window, irritatingly enigmatic and uncommunicative...
...saying. Indeed, there seems little reason to make the testimony itself public if it would discourage open discussion. But it is important that the alternatives that the committee is discussing and the gist of their deliberations over each be disseminated to the public before the committee begins to hammer out its final recommendations this fall. Strauch strongly emphasizes that while he and most others on the committee have preferences, they are no where near any group resolutions. Discussions with other members of the committee tend to confirm this. However, it also appears that at least a plurality...
...most controversial and extended debates the committee faces are expected this fall when the members attempt to hammer out a workable program they can recommend to Bok and Horner. The committee will then have to wrestle with the many problems posed by any increase in the size of Harvard's student body...