Word: sackings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NEWLY RELEASED film about the life of the Virgin Mary, Hail Mary, which portrays her as a modern-day gas station attendant and shows her nude, was originally to be shown by the Sack cinema chain. However, under intense pressure and scattered threats of violence from religious protesters after the movie was denounced by the Pope and other Catholic officials, Sack, which owns most of the major theaters in the Boston area, dropped the film. Sack owner A. Alan Friedberg's decision was cowardly. Friedberg expressed compassion for the sentiment of offended Catholics, fear for the safety of audiences...
...official Whammo Hacky Sack is made of plastic beads coated with animal hide. "If you don't eat meat, it's hard to justify playing Hacky Sack says Lerdow. "That's the only trouble--thinking about all the dead animals the went into...
...goal of hacking seems straightforward enough: participants toss the sack up in the air and begin a binge of "hacking." According to the World Footbag Association, the object of the sport is merely "to keep the Hacky Sack off the ground using the lower part of your body, mainly your feet and knees...
Sinton explains that this consists of "hurling the sack at various parts of your body, the exact part depending upon the seriousness of the infraction...
...rules of Hacky Sack are ambiguous, the criteria for a "win" or "loss" are even more so. "Hacking is a noncompetitive, team-oriented game," says Cohen. Adds Spence, "It's like Yin and Yang, winning and losing--even on the worst hack you do something, and even on the best hack, you lose...