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...three lawyers. Future installments will include an examination of Arizona Governor Raul Castro's activities and an analysis of the traffic in drugs and stolen goods. Bill Hazlett, an investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times, says of the series so far: "The writing is kind of hack and it has a screaming or vigilante tone to it that detracts from the fine work the group has done. Their real purpose is not to say Barry Goldwater is a crook but to show the atmosphere of arrogance and poor regard...
Specific allegations about patronage are numerous but almost impossible to prove. Danehy says Ralph engineered the appointment of his "right-hand man" as superintendent of buildings. McLaughlin calls that man "nothing but a political hack and Ralph's campaign fund-raiser." Yet one of Ralph's partisans in the courthouse claims the superintendent "put in more hours in this building than any department head ever has or ever will." Ralph refers to him as "one of the most decent and capable gentlemen I have ever met since being in government...
...reasons--The Rules of the Game for its seering social satire, Grand Illusion for its flawless humanity--but this film ranks as the French director's most endearing work. For once Renior lets us unabashedly sympathize with his protagonist, a dreamy, doe-eyed printer who stays up nights writing hack Westerns. The corrupt, sybaritic publishing boss closes his eyes to the printer's serial, "The Arizona Kid," and monopolizes the woman who the poor dreamer worships from afar. But Renoir slips a little social message into the revenge against this meany; the printer and his fellow workers triumph by taking...
...meeting last night, members of groups supporting Affirmative Action called government proposals to revise Affirmative Action laws an attempt to "hack them to death...
Democrats have rarely lost elections in Boston. Republican Senator Edward Brooke carried the city over his Democratic opponent in '72 because he was an incumbent running against an ineffectual party hack. Then Congresswoman Louise Day Hicks lost her seat to independent John Moakley who immediately returned to the Democratic Party. Even George McGovern carried Boston...