Word: hack
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...today is what they remember from the movie; the definitive biography, by W.A. Swanberg, is titled Citizen Hearst. But Welles lost too. His next film, The Magnificent Ambersons, is a magnificent shard in its surviving form; RKO pulled Welles off the film, cut it by a third, hired a hack to shoot a new ending. He was now "Hollywood's youngest has-been," condemned to haunt Hollywood and other film capitals till he died looking for work. People knew him only as the fat man, a butt of lame jokes. Unable to finance his dream projects (including a film about...
...version of its latest browser software. Under the so-called Bugs Bounty program, the first person to identify a "significant" security flaw wins $1,000. Lesser bugs earn smaller prizes ranging from $40 sweatshirts to $12 coffee mugs. The idea, explains a company spokesperson, is to get hackers to hack when it will do the Netscape some good--before the product is officially released...
Neil Rudenstine falls ill and makes the cover of Newsweek. Alan Dershowitz helps defend O.J. Simpson. Professor Hack gains notoriety by legitimizing the notion of outer space sex offenders. The omnivorous appetite of the mass media and its allure have fed on and been fed by the Harvard community. Where once we were a breeding ground and intellectual wellspring for leaders today we are becoming an adept player and purveyor in the mass media game...
Cooper says the town gossips didn't bother themmuch. The two friends spent many afternoons aloneat the Shawnee Bend golf course, playing thenine-hole layout. "At the beginning at least, wewere hack golfers, though Brad was on the highschool team. It was a good break from the rurallife...
...Leer, who as a fledgling writer excites his protective instincts. Grady and James share what Grady calls the "midnight disease" of the writer, a sense of their own strangeness that isolates them from the world. This dark side of writing is introduced in the person of Albert Vetch, a hack horror writer whose suicide Grady witnessed as a child. Vetch floats over the book as a symbol of the true artist, the estate to which Grade aspires: "He was the first real writer I knew, because he was the first to have the midnight disease; to have the rocking chair...