SHAFT! (1957)
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They say this cat Shaft is a bad mother
SHUT YOUR MOUTH!
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The great Gordon Parks (director of SHAFT and popular photographer and so
much more) has died at age 93.
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What do OED and HDAS have for "shaft"?
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Well do I remember playing tuba in the high school band, and the tune from
SHAFT! that went like this...
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Gordon Parks
1912--2006
Social critic was armed with lens
By Michael Wilmington, Tribune movie critic. Tribune staff reporter Mark
Jacob and Tribune news services contributed to this report
Published March 8, 2006
"I chose my camera as a weapon against all the things I dislike about
America--poverty, racism, discrimination."
So said Gordon Parks in his searingly powerful 1966 autobiography "A Choice
of Weapons," a bold statement that aptly revealed two sides of this complex,
brilliant and ultimately heroic artist: the outward anger against injustice
and the love that lay beneath it. Both helped fuel his rise from Kansas rural
poverty to world fame.
Parks, who died Tuesday in his New York City home at the age of 93, was a
true Renaissance man who had an astonishing array of gifts and talents. He
excelled in many areas and lived an improbably full, inspiring and productive
life.
He was a subtle and luminous photographer and poet and was director of the
action-packed 1971 hit movie "Shaft."
Above all, he was a photographer, one of the legends of his profession. He
was the first African-American staff photographer for Life magazine, and later
became the first black to direct a major Hollywood movie.
Parks' perfect eye and sensitivity to light and dark revealed themselves in
many other fields as well. He was a novelist, poet, journalist, composer of
both film scores and classical music (including the 1989 ballet "Martin,"
about Martin Luther King Jr.) and even, for a while, a semi-pro basketball player.
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(OED)
10. In various slang uses. a. The penis. Also shaft of delight.
[1719 _T. D'URFEY_
(http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-d2.html#t-durfey) Wit & Mirth IV. 72 It is a Shaft of Cupid's cut, 'Twill serve to Rove, to
Prick, to Butt.] 1772 _G. A. STEVENS_
(http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-s4.html#g-a-stevens) Songs, Comic, & Satyrical 11 For Cupid's Pantheon,
the Shaft of Delight Must spring from the Masculine Base. 1971 _B. W. ALDISS_
(http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-a.html#b-w-aldiss) Soldier Erect 45
It was never enough merely to lower your It was nthey had to come off,..so
that you could crouch there naked but for your shirt, frantically rubbing your
shaft.
b. A human leg. U.S.
1935 _A. J. POLLOCK_
(http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-p2.html#a-j-pollock) Underworld Speaks 103/2 Shaft, a woman's leg. 1939 C. MORLEY Kitty
Foyle 95 If anyone showed a good shaft Pop would wink at me.
c. U.S. An act or instance of unfair or harsh treatment; slighting,
rejection, ‘the push’; esp. in to give or get the shaft
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1959 Amer. Speech XXXIV. 155 A girl or boy who makes a play for another's
date is snaking... If he succeeds, the loser gets the shaft (sometimes with
barbs), the purple shaft, or the maroon harpoon, depending upon the degree of
injury to his pride. 1960 _WENTWORTH_
(http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-w2.html#wentworth) & FLEXNER Dict. Amer. Slang 461/1 Shaft.., an act or
an instance of being taken advantage of, unfairly treated, deceived, tricked,
cheated, or victimized; a raw deal. Usu. in ‘to get the (or a) shaft’.
Fig., the image is the taboo one of the final insult, having someone insert
something, as a barbed shaft, up one's rectum. 1964 Mad Mag. July 14 Looks like
somebody gave him the shaft! 1977 Amer. Speech 1975 L. 65 She gave him the
shaft after he broke their date last weekend. 1979 Mod. Photography Dec.
86/2, I would give more of my business to Minolta but for the company's
uncooperative, anti~consumer thinking. Doubtless there are many such as myself who
have gotten the shaft.
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(OED)
4. To treat unfairly or harshly; to cheat, deceive; to take advantage of; to
slight, reject. slang (orig. and chiefly N. Amer.).
1959 Amer. Speech XXXIV. 155 A raw deal from any other source may also be
referred to in this way; for example, one may be shafted or jabbed by the
opposite sex, a professor, a policeman, parents, or anyone else for any real or
imagined injury. 1966 _‘E. LATHEN’_
(http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-l.html#e-lathen) Murder makes Wheels go Round xiii. 108 He was a menace to
Wahl... He'd railroaded Orin Dunn into jail... He was shafting Buck
Holsinger! 1970 Deb. Senate Canada 1 June 7551/2 As I have told my constituents in
Hamilton, Ontario, which seems to have been continually shafted by this
government. 1971 _B. MALAMUD_
(http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-m.html#b-malamud) Tenants 19 Rent control..is an immoral situation. The innocent landlord
gets shafted. 1976 _M. MACHLIN_
(http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-m.html#m-machlin) Pipeline xxxv. 397, I think how they're shafting us with
this whole deal.
5. = _FUCK_
(http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/crossref?query_type=word&queryword=shaft&first=1&max_to_show=10&sort_type=alpha&search_id=vVLd-mrV5gp-10861&resu
lt_place=5&xrefword=fuck&ps=v.) v. 1 trans. coarse slang.
1970 G. LORD Marshmallow Pie xxi. 185 There was this young girl among
them, not even sixteen yet..like as not being shafted by every dirty long-haired
crud in town. 1971 _B. W. ALDISS_
(http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-a.html#b-w-aldiss) Soldier Erect 82 How sinful he looked, squatting there by
the water while his wife was being shafted by some dirty big Mendip only a few
feet away! 1971 _J. WAINWRIGHT_
(http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-w.html#j-wainwright) Last Buccaneer II. 228 He was Jimmy He was that's
all...and the rest of the world could go shaft itself.
Hence shafting vbl. n.
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1971 _B. W. ALDISS_
(http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-a.html#b-w-aldiss) Soldier Erect 124 Hello there, gran! What do you do? Gobble? Where are
the birds? We want three as are fit enough to stand a gude shafting. 1972 _J.
WAINWRIGHT_ (http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-w.html#j-wainwright)
Requiem for Loser iii. 50 What a monumental shafting he'd deliver to some lucky
bint. 1973 Farm & Country 20 Nov. 23/3 Hugh Blaine charged that farmers ‘
suffered a shafting at the hands of feed dealers last year’. 1975 _R. H.
RIMMER_ (http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-r.html#r-h-rimmer) Premar
Experiments i. 94 After double-dealing with his own people and selling them to the
slavers, some slaver gave the king and his family a shafting and enslaved them
too.
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JACK CURNOW. Los Angeles Times (1886-Current File). Los Angeles, Calif.: Jul
14, 1957. p. C4 (1 page)
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_The Shaft_
We got the shaft pretty good at a party the other night at which some
skippers were among those present.
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JACK HEFLEY. Los Angeles Times (1886-Current File). Los Angeles, Calif.:
Oct 16, 1958. p. C4 (1 page)
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California got the shaft when the all-star track team for 1958 was selected
by Scholastic Coach magazine that's distributed to all high schools in the
nation.
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_The Post Standard_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Viewer.aspx?img=3YGl/Jks4m6KID/6NLMW2nyJHCLEejBuFnl6nMCXW6I/NGCAyj03oUIF+CsZYmrz) _Sunday, March 02,
1958_
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York_
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time your young hopeful tells I GET SHAFTED on that ... ..
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