Word: whammed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rochester's radio station WHAM broad cast unverified reports of wholesale looting in the heavily Negro sections where the bloody, three-day riots occurred in July 1964. Squads of police rushed into the area, found only a few broken windows...
...fashioned a crude ball of the goo by compressing it under some 3,500 lbs. of pressure per square inch, discovered that it had a fantastic bounce. But Bettis Co. was not interested, mostly because the ball tended to fall apart after five minutes. So Stingley took it to Wham O Manufacturing Co. in San Gabriel, Calif., the company that made juvenile history by producing the Frisbee and the Hula-Hoop. For the next year, Stingley and Wham-O worked to make the ball more durable (it is still apt to chip or shatter on rough surfaces), then dyed...
...Wham-O, it is simply crossing its collective fingers. Well aware that fads are a sometime thing (where are the Hula-Hoops of yesteryear?), Executive Vice President Richard P. Knerr optimistically comments: "Each Super Ball bounce is 92% as high as the last. If our sales don't come down any faster than that, we've got it made." And if they do-well, that is the way the ball bounces...
Other times the mistranslations are on purpose. In Moslem Kuwait, government censors changed the villain's order to: "Give me a glass of milk." Kissing scenes are also deleted outright in Kuwait, limited to a wham-bam five seconds in Lebanon. At the same time, a Danish programmer complains that "American shows are too Victorian in their morals...
...With a wham and a bam, a sock and a pow, Director Edwards' accumulation of cliches explodes around the world, pausing for Curtis to demonstrate his torso and his skill with the epee, and for Lemmon to do a tedious bit as a faggish Mittel-European prince. No pastiche of the old masters would be complete without a pie fight. This one is the Ben-Hur of pie fights-it splatters more than 2,000 real cream pies of assorted flavors, and took five days to shoot. The scene even has a plot: Will Tony Curtis...