Word: hammerism
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...Somerset, who conspicuously signaled his bids with a large red pencil-and Norton Simon, the California industrialist and art collector (TIME, May 29, 1964). Finally the price leveled at $2,175,000. Four times Christie's auctioneer, I. O. Chance, repeated the bid; then he brought down his hammer, announced: "Sold to Marlborough Fine Arts." Applause scattered across the room for what seemed to be the Rem brandt's retention by the British. Then it abruptly stopped...
...betting, however, take Indiana. In addition to five of the six best divers in the country, the Hoosiers have Fred Schmidt, unquestionally the best butter-flyer in the nation, and Pete Hammer, possibly the best backstroker...
...small beach house in a remote suburb of Montevideo. Inside on the floor were two large pools of dried blood, and the walls were a smear of bloodstains. Heavy tracks of blood led into a second room, where police found a locked yellow trunk containing a hammer and the battered body of a man. The head was crushed to a pulp. An air ticket and passport thumbprint identified him as Herberts Cukurs, 65, a resident of São Paulo, Brazil...
...hundred metronomes went ticktack, ticktack during the 15-minute performance of Györgi Ligeti's composition, Poème Symphonique. A toy gun popped, a yellow umbrella flipped open, while Soloist David Tudor banged directly on the piano strings with a hammer, executing John Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra. The movie collage Breathdeath offered a drawn foot coming out of Richard Nixon's mouth. In French Playwright Eugene lonesco's one-acter, Bedlam Galore, for Two or More, "She" and "He" quarreled, and quarreled some more, while a civil war went on outside...
...this wretched world. It is high time we confront the fact that we are often responsible ourselves for a lot of bad things that happen to us; that blacks, at home and here in Africa or in Haiti or where have you, are just as capable of dropping the hammer on each other, of shooting, killing, and maltreating each other in the brutal and stupid ways that human beings have dealt with each other since they rose up from the apes...