Word: hammerism
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...rush made little sense. No burning crises divide the President and the men on his summit calendar. Administration officials say that the summits are "not a carefully constructed scenario," that they happened "by osmosis." The purpose of the sessions is not to hammer out agreements, but simply to be noticed. The meetings themselves, a McLuhan-minded diplomat might say, are the message...
...Army's hammer was beaten into a plowshare, and its pole into a pruning hook at the bubble Saturday as Harvard's track team won an overwhelming 72-46 victory over the Cadets...
...deny Nixon these votes, the Democrats are mapping a senior strategy of their own. It will hammer at the inflation that squeezes the fixed incomes of retired people, Nixon's threat to veto a Social Security increase, and the fact that the Administration asked for less money for old-age programs in 1972 than...
...Camping. Unlike its prime competitor, American International Pictures, Hammer refuses to pander to the younger drive-in crowd (the bulk of the horror market in the U.S.) with more fad-conscious pictures like Was a Teenage Werewolf. Out of respect for the Karloff-Chaney-Lugosi classics of the 1930s, Sir James would never permit a Vincent Price to camp up the Gothic genre. While piling up its $100 million-plus grosses over the years, Hammer has been able to attract-if not get the best out of-such expert directors as Joseph Losey, Guy Green...
...after all those profits without honor in the serious film world, Hammer is attracting a cineaste cult following. This fall the prestigious British Film Institute showed a retrospective "Tribute to Hammer Films" at London's National Film Theater. The month-long festival came complete with solemn program notes (the portrayal of a Cornish voodoo cult in The Plague of the Zombies is seen as symbolic protest against oppressive modern mineowners). The changing critical climate seems to make Sir James uneasy. "I hope our public realizes that we're not going to change in the same way," he says...