Word: hacking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HACK by Wilfrid Sheed. 279 pages. Macmillan...
...Manhattan's April in Paris Ball politely went along with it. But it wasn't wonderful at all. It was a disaster. Glaring klieg lights wrecked the party mood. Camera cables crisscrossed the floor, making dancing treacherous. And faulty equipment on the six cameras made a hack of the schedule. The soup and salad courses never got out of the kitchen, and the entertainment by such as Jacqueline François and Frank Sinatra Jr. finally ended at 5:15 a.m., five hours late. By that time hardly anyone was left. Rose didn't last through dessert...
When director James Walker came to Harvard four years ago the Dartmouth concert was a disreputable collection of hack marches, cliched tone poems and loud football songs. Gradually, however, he has made the event into more than a pep rally; last night's program was thoroughty musical in both content and performance...
...Norman Mailer. why don't you try some fresh images? Why don't you experiment with some new metaphors? In all these years of writing hack stories for Esquire and Playboy, haven't you gotten the thrill of "contraceptive jelly" out of you? Evidently not. When Mailer asks himself if "Mary" has succeeded in writing a good novel about her odory heroines.... the answer is that she came just far enough to irritate the life out of us... She get just so far symbolically as the episode in one of her scenes where the butler comes in to whieper...
...stump-thumping vote getter. For that reason, many Venezuelans had hoped for a continuation of the joint front between A.D. and the Social Christian COPEI party led by Rafael Caldera, 47, an able and personable Caracas lawyer. A.D.'s insistence on Leoni, whom COPEI regards a party hack, diminishes the chance of a united democratic ticket against the left at election time. Even so, Leoni goes into the campaign a clear favorite...