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Deciding the time had come to ice it, middie Rich Doyle scored the Crimson's winning goal. And then one final drive for the Bruins fell a tally short with midfielder Jeff Hacker giving the home team one last marker for a final...
...author is still a pro at milking emotions out of his characters' complicated personal relationships, and still a hacker when it comes to pumping life into his historical props. An overripe description of the Statue of Liberty, for example, ends with the line, "Across the water, there was the mass of buildings on the battery, but the lady of liberty was something else." It is a long way from Emma Lazarus' New York to Howard Fast's Beverly Hills, where descendants of immigrants cater to huddled masses yearning for TV. -R.Z. Sheppard
...neck. Wolves howl on the moor. Bats rustle in the window curtains. "We suspect the wounds are the result of an accident with a safety pin, used when fastening her scarf," remarks the good doctor Seward, our man of science.) Soon to arrive on the scene are Jonathan Hacker, Lucy's fiance (tall, freckled, devoted) and Dr. Van Helsing, a colleague of Seward (fat, Dutch, intellectual...
Lucy feels some aversion to Hacker, but she does warm to her new neighbor, Count Dracula. The caped leech has been visiting more regularly than anyone realizes--and not to borrow cups of sugar, either. It is only a matter of time before the heroic trinity of Seward, Hacker and Van Helsing realize what evil, half-human force they must fight in their quest to save Lucy. Two and a half acts later, they will nail...
...Trek (destroy the Klingons before they capture the starship Enterprise). Other tasks-reporting on water seepage in the basement, watering the lawn when it reaches a given aridity, locking the front door at night -require the addition of various switches, sensors and motors that can send a house-proud hacker's outlay soaring. Says James Warren, a California microcomputer consultant: "You keep adding components until you exceed your yearly income...