Word: hammerism
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Carter, like Spillane's Mike Hammer, is a homicidal knave, and in dealing with him the film takes on the very qualities it is trying to portray. It wallows in its ceaseless bloodbath and emerges like its protagonist - sleazy and second-rate...
CLUM chairman Roy Hammer said that the suit was part of an American Civil Liberties Union drive to inform citizens of the surveillance techniques used by various agencies of government and to limit the use of these procedures. The police chief and the department have thus far declined comment on the case...
...Bushnell Memorial Hall when she opened her musical, Coco, there last week. "It's very emotional being here," she added, her voice trembling. Then Kate went home to another emotional encounter. A female chauffeur whom she had fired for rudeness was discovered hiding in a closet with a hammer, and it took the 61-year-old actress, her stepmother, 70, her secretary and another chauffeur ten minutes to subdue her. Kate emerged from the fray with a new memento of Hartford-a finger that was fractured and bitten to the bone...
Tattletale Gray. Many marketers are rushing in with phosphate-free detergents under brand names like Valley Dew, Nature and Concern. Sears, Roebuck is selling Sears Non Polluting Laundry Detergent; Purex is promoting Instant Pels; and Church & Dwight is out with Arm & Hammer Laundry Detergent. North American Chemical is distributing its Ecolo-G in almost every state. A magazine specializing in product information, Consumer Bulletin, reports that Ecolo-G is "not recommended," largely because of its poor performance in soft water...
HAVE YOU heard of Joe Orton? Tate? Joplin? Hendrix? Separating individual merit from phantasmagoric death-legend is the whole problem in these cases. If you are asked who Orton is, you had better be ready with information: he was a homosexual, a British playwright killed in a ritual hammer slaying in 1967. What comes up second when Orton's name is mentioned is the fact that he wrote Loot, Entertaining Mr. Sloane and several other black comedies. Loot, you see, has a corpse for its focus, just as Orton's life, ironically and grotesquely, had in the final tally...