Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wild-eyed Denver merchant corners Milgrim in a hallway and through clenched teeth mutters, "Don't think I don't know what's going on here. The filth, the filth." A legal secretary from Long Island expresses her distaste for Greek cuisine by insisting upon ham sandwiches and malted milks, and one cynic suggests that the ship is really a floating mental hospital, the stewards actually keepers, the passengers patients. They are doomed to sail forever...
Football was changing in 1909. The forward pass was starting to break in on the scene; and Harvard's own All-American Ham Fish was leading the way. In naming Fish to his 1913 All-time All-American team, Walter Camp termed him "a leader of men. He is six feet four, and the stretch of his arms into the air, as can be readily appreciable, is considerable," Camp said...
Naturally, Marya Mannes, thinly disguised as a bright, sixtyish, musically inclined writer named Kate, winds up like that, in her family's year-round beach house. Along with her is an aging cross section of the New York cultural scene: a ham-fisted objective painter and his ex-model wife, a famous composer of Broadway show tunes, a celebrated ex-Viennese conductor...
...that Negroes are just like whites beneath the skin is more than an embarrassment now. And Rainbow's light-headed whimsy is now done better by television, with its dreamed-of genii or married witches. Even so, the movie might have survived were it not for the ham-handed direction of Francis Ford Coppola, 29, whose only previous Hollywood feature was the moderately comic You're a Big Boy Now. Astaire and Clark are saddled with threadbare brogues, and both talk as if they were dictating letters to a tape recorder. Tommy Steele's hyperthyroid performance mistakes...
Darkened Offices. The fight against Fortas was stepped up on two fronts. One was being carefully led on the Senate floor by Michigan Republican Robert P. Griffin. The other was pressed within the Senate Judiciary Committee by Republican Strom Thurmond, the gentleman Torquemada from South Carolina. Thurmond continued to ham mer at an emotional, if elusive issue: pornography. He condemned the fact that Fortas had voted with the court majority in a 5-to-4 decision holding that a Los Angeles exhibitor did not violate the law with his raunchy films. The ruling made it easier for U.S. exhibitors...