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...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...
...After hacking away at Washington politicians all day, what does Investigative Columnist Jack Anderson do for relaxation at night? Hack away at boards, of course. "I began doing the sport about three years ago," says Anderson about his interest in karate and the martial arts. "It's good exercise and of course that's important. And I enjoy doing things with the kids. We horse around in the basement with this stuff and have fun." To show how much fun it is, Anderson teamed up with a fellow karate enthusiast, Washington Redskins Coach George Allen, for a board...
Cold Turkey. The middle portion of the movie shows Doyle trying to go cold turkey, and it is here that Hackman does some of his finest work. Many actors have tried to get under a junk ie's skin, but when Hack man weighs in, the subject might as well never have come up before. He gets it all: the desperation, the gargoyle fantasies, the sickness and the terror...