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Austin, a gilded hack writer, has taken a mini-sabbatical from his wife and children to sweat out a movie script. Since his mother has gone to Alaska - symbolic remnant of the last frontier - he has holed up in her home in suburban Los Angeles. Like an anchorite, Lee spends time communing with the desert, but he certainly knows his way around town when it comes to filching TV sets for ready cash As he puts it, he and his brother are both "city coyotes." Lee is also enough of a raconteur and Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, etc., golfer...
Both Holtzman and Javits find D'Amato deeply offensive. Members of Javits' staff have called D'Amato a "political hack" and the Senator himself said that D'Amato was "temperamentally and intellectually unsuited to the Senate...
...dares to deflate poet-turned-ideologue Adrienne Rich, who's always screeching things like, "It's the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the father in us is only a hack." Harrison diagnoses in Rich a "fossilized moral imagination," parochialism, whining, polemicism, and a penchant for boring the reader. She says "the tender conscience and the tough mind alike are confounded by this diatribe." Making a plea for intellectual generosity and open-mindedness, Rich's rhetoric leaves no room for a more complex truth. It's refreshing to hear one feminist speak of another with...
...practiced contract murders at the behest of an "Old Man of the Mountains." We have had Three Days of the Condor, one Day of the Jackal, even a Day of the Dolphin-all equally preposterous and plausible, thanks to the strapped imaginations of real-life bureaucrats. Who but a hack could have thought up 1978's Bulgarian defector "poison umbrella" caper in London? The first time a dolphin is hauled in for questioning, who will giggle...
...cover girl who pioneered the bobbed look. Other stars who have exited Elite are Anna Andersen (Opium perfume) and Cover Girls Kim Alexis and Lisa Taylor. Among the few stellar models who have remained faithful to one agency are Cheryl Tiegs, Lauren Mutton and Shelly (Charlie's girl) Hack, all longtime Ford belles...