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...first few years of writing will be a war of attrition said De Rochemont, but he advised that any huckstering or hack writing job is better than not writing at all. He warned that good writers are often ruined when they take jobs in business...
Technically, the novel is weak. The loose, rambling prose does out take hold of the reader until the genuinely rich plot begins to move by itself. Lamkin falls to take advantage of the dramatic situations he has devised, and much too often he uses the hack writer's crutch of divulging information about one character through the lips of another. It is true that this indirectness of style produces a wispy, unrealistic effect that is appropriate to the subject matter, but at times it becomes apparent that Lamkin does not yet know how to explain a character's motives effectively...
Though trickily performed on two stage levels, The Bird Cage is all written at one. It has the arid, conscienceless professionalism of the hack; yet it fails less from being no good than from being no fun. The villain has almost every aspect of villainy except its fascination, the play every ingredient of melodrama except its punch...
Hopper did not hit his stride until he was past 40, and his matter-of-fact manner of putting paint on canvas still recalls his long apprenticeship as a hack illustrator; it has no dash, humor or surface charm. But a man who has taught himself to transcribe the shapes and weathers of a real world into pictures need not charm; he convinces...
...exam-time layoff over the Crimson hockey team skates hack into action tomorrow night against BU at the Arena with a team lacking two big punches...