heterocentric

[James Landau]

Re the movie "Bareback Mountain" (I prefer that title), I ran across the
word "heterocentric" in a Web page about one of my favorite actresses,
Ellen deGeneres.  She was saying that something should be done about
Hollywood's only making "heterocentric" movies.

Google gives 9,190 hits on "heterocentric", but at least one is not about
gender roles:
      A heterocentric arrangement of optical radii in surgical contact
lenses and the
      extremely eccentric ...
      www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&
db=PubMed&list_uids=2395306

James A. Landau
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> [Original Message]
> From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Date: 12/21/2005 6:20:14 PM
> Subject: Re: Sam Hill (1832?)
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> Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject:      Re: Sam Hill (1832?)
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> I can't tell whether your comment is facetious or not, Barry, but isn't
Sam
> _Hall_ the labor guy? There was a story featuring (a folksong about) him
in
> Astounding back in the '50's, IIRC.
>
> -Wilson
>
> On 12/21/05, Bapopik at aol.com <Bapopik at aol.com> wrote:
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> > Subject:      Sam Hill (1832?)
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> > What does OED, HDAS have? I think I just saw Sam Hill on strike  today.
> > ...
> > ...
> > ...
> > _A  JOCKIED FRENCHMAN._=3D20
> > (
> >
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=3D3D2&did=3D3D752121462&SrchMode=3D3=
> D1&sid=3D
> >
> >
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> TS=3D3D1135202961=3D
> > &c
> > lientId=3D3D65882)=3D20
> > Boston Masonic Mirror  (1830-1834). Boston: Jan 7, 1832. Vol. 3, Iss.
28;
> > p.=3D
> > =3D20
> > 221 (1 page)  :
> > Sare, de gar, you be one grand rascalle--you lie like Sam--like
> > Sam--vat  yo=3D
> > u=3D20
> > call the leetle mountain?"
> > ...
> > "Sam Hill, I suppose you mean."
> > ...
> > "Oui, Monsieur--Sam de Hill--yes, sar, you lie like two Sam Hill."
> > ...
> > ...
> > ...
> > (OED)
> > Sam Hill
> > N. Amer. slang.
> > =3D20
> > A euphemism for hell; used especially  in expressions of impatience
or=3D=
> 20
> > irritation preceded by in or the  with an interrogative word. =3D20
> > 1839  Havana (N.Y.) Republican 21 Aug.  1/4 What in sam hill is that
> > feller=3D20
> > ballin' about? 1868  _J. T.  TROWBRIDGE_=3D20
> > (http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-t2.html#j-t-trowbridge)  Three
> > Scou=3D
> > ts vi. 26 When you  might a'married!why=3D20
> > in Sam Hill didn't ye, then? 1894  _=3DE2=3D80=3D98MARK
TWAIN=3DE2=3D80=
> =3D99_=3D20
> > (http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-t2.html#mark-twain)  in St.
> > Nichola=3D
> > s Jan. 257/2 Hateful =3D20
> > people..giving me Sam Hill because I shirked. 1909  N.Y. Even. Post. 10
> > Apr.=3D
> > (Sat.=3D20
> > Suppl.) 3/5 How in Sam Hill can she do it? She's just as hot when she
get=
> s
> > t=3D
> > o =3D20
> > bilin' p'int as she'll ever be. 1918  _M. E. FREEMAN_=3D20
> > (http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-f2.html#m-e-freeman)  Edgewater
> > Peo=3D
> > ple 314 What in Sam  Hill=3D20
> > made you treat him so durned mean fur? 1927  W. R. JAMES  Cow Country 77
> > Wha=3D
> > t=3D20
> > the Sam Hill  do you think we are out here, servants? 1948  Salt Lake
> > Tribun=3D
> > e=3D20
> > 18 Dec. 10/7  He wondered who the Sam Hill the
=3DE2=3D80=3D98senator=3DE=
> 2=3D80=3D99
> > was=3D
> > . 1962  _H. =3D20
> > GREEN_ (http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-g2.html#h-green)  Time
to
> > pa=3D
> > ss=3D20
> > Over xii. 147 Why  in the samhill didn't you step in and stop them,
> > Mike.  1=3D
> > 973 =3D20
> > B. BROADFOOT Ten Lost Years xxiii. 262 He  probably never could have
> > figured=3D
> > =3D20
> > what the Sam Hill was going  on.
> >
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>
>
> --
> -Wilson Gray