Word: hackes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...couple of times. Boccacio first used this trick in the Decameron, upon which Chaucer modeled Canterbury Tales. The idea is to get some people together in a place where they will reveal themselves through some telling story or action. Usually a new perspective breathes life into this old hack's trick. But in Philadelphia, Anyone? the perspective seems almost as old as its technique...
...exist. Now if the President really wants a $395 billion budget, he ought to send it up." Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey dismissed Ford's proposal as "a subtle ploy but not hard for people to figure out: give 'em a tax cut in January and hack the budget after the elections...
...inside California prisons. After being released, some former family members have gravitated to other underground radical groups but have found the transition difficult. Explains a state law official: "They often bristle at the notion that the leadership is likely to be female. Some of them just can't hack it and move out of the radical scene...
...size (181,000 sq. mi.) and population (almost 3 million), Papua New Guinea is roughly equivalent to New Zealand, but there the resemblance ends. The population is scattered among more than 700 tribes, each of which has its own dialect. Most of the people hack out meager livings as subsistence-level farmers in remote rural areas. The country has no railroads and few paved roads, relying for transportation on bush pilots and 476 air strips...
Robert Hughes comments: "Kline was a figurative painter to the end of the 1940s. The point, however, is that Wolfe presented Kline 'in the '30s' as a party hack, 'dutifully cranking out' paintings of social-realist cliches at the dictation of unnamed 'drillmasters.' No such body of work by Kline exists. To support his thesis, all Wolfe can produce is one picture from the 40s-and even it is too expressionist to fit the strict canon of social realism...