Word: hacking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...continued to rebel at Communism's strictures, and this collection of essays and short stories is a gauge of how far they have carried their new independence. The best of these writings are quite profound probings of the human soul; the weakest are a far cry from political hack work...
...once dismissed as a refugee from the Grand Guignol is now widely considered to be Britain's most exciting painter. At 52, Bacon deserves his success, for he has resisted every trend and fashion in art to hack out a path all his own. Though shaped by such old masters as Rembrandt, Daumier and Velasquez ("He haunts me so much I can't let him go"), he has been as much influenced by the here and now of the photograph as by anything else. War, terrorism, gory accidents-these fleeting instants of agony fascinate Bacon. His torn...
Nature branded a curse on the Northeast. Except in a narrow coastal belt, rain is so scant that 87% of the area consists of parched, brown sertāo, a rolling hinterland matted with cactus-tough scrub where peasants hack at the hard soil with primitive hoes. Two months ago, the first rains in eight months brought a green fuzz to the sertāo. But drought had already ruined this year's crop of beans, corn and manioc-root flour, mainstays of the peasant diet. Famine swept the sertāo, sending thousands of camponeses to the towns...
David Fairchild has made a valiant effort to hack out a set in the Common Room, but the split tableau has an unfinished look that is probably not intentional. The lighting arrangement is fine as a concept; hopefully, the effects will be better executed than they were last night. It is evidently quite hard to exit from the stage, and there were several embarrassing waits last night, both between and during scenes...
Chancy Shots. In similar danger is the do-it-yourselfer who has gashed himself with a dirty hack saw. Since too few people ever have a tetanus booster, and fewer can remember when, his doctor often recommends a shot of antitoxin, designed for emergency use on nonvaccinated patients...