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Moving into Richardson's old job at HEW will be Caspar Weinberger, currently director of the Office of Management and Budget. Weinberger is less renowned for his social vision than for his budget-cutting proclivities. He is expected to hack away at the overgrown tangle of New Frontier and Great Society programs, many of which are not working the way they were supposed to. His philosophy: "Money isn't the essential element in improving social conditions throughout the country." A man of similar outlook succeeds Weinberger as budget chief. Roy Ash, president of embattled Litton Industries, is charged...
Maria (Tuesday Weld) passes her days wandering about the grounds of a psychiatric hospital where she is a patient. "Nothing applies" she scrawls across the battery of psychological tests they give her. Her husband Carter (Adam Roarke) is a pompous young hack who makes motorcycle movies and discusses the auteur theory. His producer B.Z. (Anthony Perkins) tries both to meddle with and mend their broken marriage. Maria has already had one child-Kate, herself disturbed-and aborted a second. In her sickness and despair, she clings to Carter, who humiliates her with the kind of bitter brutality she usually heaps...
...Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey's bughouse novel stagified. Most critics call the dramatization hack work but some Kesey fans swear...
...Green Mountain State give Nixon its there electoral votes and 63 per cent of the popular vote, but Democratic nominee Thomas Salmon upset the expected winner. Luther Hack in the gubernatorial race...
...more. Even in today's hack westerns, dynamic forces are at work. The old settler vs. Indians and ranchers crises have been multiplied: brothels vs. churches, robber barons vs. entrepreneurs, California and Texas vs. Mexico (as last outpost frontiers), and one theme above them all-the cussing, whoring, rootless, indomitable old rider (be he gunslinger or lawman) vs. the encroaching complexity of modern society...