Word: hacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disadvantage. She can only spout whatever middle-Americanisms that the New York Jewish quipster-author felt right for the moment. I would for the life of me like to recount some dialogue for the record, but it is all so inert, so clearly the work of a hack intent on a string of easy laughs without sustained character, that it slips through the memory as swiftly as my last trip to the supermarket. (There is one joke about cherry pie or apple pie or something being as American as blueberry pie or something else...
...Governor Rockefeller proposes to continue protecting murderers by offering them safe abortions. It seems only right to let these women take their risks from a hack doctor...
...root of our very conception of him and his meaning. To have accepted from the U.S. government the bit and blinders he would not take from the Communist party, one feels, would have transformed him at one stroke from a vibrant apostle of honesty in politics into a pathetic hack...
Despite the Instant Analysis and the Effete Snobs, the Silent Majority supports Vietnamization, and the steady Winding Down has allowed our allies to Hack It. On the domestic side, though, the Game Plan could use a little Benign Neglect...
...Film, of course, is a collaborative medium, and a popular one, and its most interesting aspects usually range over nations and eras and industry trends rather than the small detail of a well-shot sequence. But once you assign responsibility to a director, label him an artist, propagandist, or hack, you can deal with issues mixed with flesh and blood, making for more than a lively read: a critic tries to guide the intelligent subject, or scourge the dolt. One of the best traditions James Agee set was bringing whole biographies to bear on points that matter...