Word: hacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called priestitution. A young American (Steve Forrest), on his way to study for holy orders, stops over in Paris to take in the sights. Pretty soon he takes one of them (Anne Baxter) for a ride in a cab; from there the picture goes to heaven in a hack...
...example of iron and steel pieces used to decorate the bare walls of Spanish homes. The armor and mustache of the "Christo" unmistakably belong to the cabellero de trista figura. When people remark that No. 14, "Horse Head," looks like Rocinante, Gusils reportedly denies he had Don Quixotc's hack in mind. It seems less likely that he was unaware that he was putting Don Quixote on the cross in this "Christo...
...readers who find the novels of social protest a bore, and U.S. writers who frequently hack the life out of such themes as Dutourd's, The Best Butter is a highly entertaining reminder that in good social criticism, the pin is mightier than the sword...
...lexicographer," says he, "needs to have a systematic method. He must be more than a hack. He must be a judge of what is current and accepted." And he must be a scholar...
Back in newspaper work, he became editor of the New York Aurora two months before his 23rd birthday, lost the post two months later. Young Whitman's writing was prissy and preachy. His first and only novel was a hack temperance tract. Walt's stock advice: "Swear not! Smoke not! And rough-and-tumble...