Word: hammerism
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...Absence of reflexes. The dilated pupils must not contract when a bright light is shone directly into them. There must be no eye movements in response to pouring ice water into the ears, no muscular contractions after hammer-tapping the tendons of the biceps, triceps or quadriceps...
...pals, out on Long Island shooting some scenes and pow!-Norm got into a fight with Actor Lane Smith and broke Smith's jaw. Next day, Mailer and Actor Rip Torn were doing a scene-and pow again! Torn whammed Mailer over the head with a toy hammer, to which Mailer responded by chewing away on Torn's ear. "I was making a movie on a violent subject," said Norm. "Obviously you can't always control violence." True, but not necessarily beautiful...
...editorial offices. There he converted a conference room into a bizarre workshop. The staff watched with growing curiosity as he collected an improbable mess of dismembered store-window mannequins, overturned cornflakes boxes, scattered cigarettes and disarrayed lingerie, and began to stuff it all into a gutted TV set. With hammer and saw, glue and plaster, Scarfe concocted a many-armed "assemblage." For a final fillip, he managed to attach a serving of spaghetti- which was no mean trick, since the soft strands kept slithering off the plate under the hot photographic lights...
...people in the cotton fields. Before it got the name of soul, men were sellin' watermelons and vegetables on a wagon drawn by a mule, hollerin' 'watermellllon!' with a cry in their voices. And the men on the railroad track layin' crossties?every time they hit the hammer it was with a sad feelin', but with a beat. And the Baptist preacher?he the one who had the soul?he give out the meter, a long and short meter, and the old mothers of the church would reply. This musical thing has been here since America been here. This...
Waldeck Rochet's tactics showed the remarkable transformation of what only a decade ago was Western Europe's most rigidly Stalinist party. Nevertheless, the Gaullists continued to hammer home to French voters that they have only two choices: De Gaulle or totalitarian Communism. "The danger is still there," warned Premier Georges Pompidou. "If the opportunity should present itself anew, the totalitarian party is ready to start again to seize power." Though this view was rejected by De Gaulle's opponents, it had an undisputed appeal to conservative Frenchmen, especially those in the provinces, who are shocked...