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Word: hacks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...directors still weren't satisfied. Having plied the public with promises that wide screen photography would add new breadth to the screen, they just had to figure out some useful thing to put in the new or at least, extended-dimension. When photographing a Roman chariot, the hack director would merely requisition a few more horses. But this was not Art, and Oscar was considered a step brother to art (their mother wasn't married-giving an indication as to what kind of Art we are discussing). Adding more extras to fill in the blank spaces was no real innovation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Broad View | 12/11/1954 | See Source »

Miss Clarke's favorites are the 100 members of the 'Cliffe Athletic Association. This ten percent of the student body is not discouraged by the $1.50 A.A. dues or smokers' hack. "These," she professes glumly, "are far too few." Runner-up for Miss Clarke's approval are her beginning classes of freshmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 12/7/1954 | See Source »

Whatever credit Horton Foote earns as a playwright not for being a hack, he tends to forfeit from not being a craftsman. Writing of small town Texans, he gropes among their crotchets and habits and heartaches, and at his best achieves touching moments about touching characters. But, in general, he has a certain sense of the blundering mischance of life without knowing how to project it. All too often, he writes muddled scenes involving muddled people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 8, 1954 | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

...fellow playwrights went absolutely Gorky ("Dawn over Mexico, and the lone voice of a heartbroken whore singing in a cribhouse"), but one production after another lost money. "It's the goddam critics' fault," Jed sneered. When the theater folded. Jed went to hack in a hell called Hollywood: "His heart jumped in his chest. For the first time it occurred to him that now he was going to be rich." He got rid of his first wife ("a peasant") and married his second (who gave his life a "Brahmin note...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unmaking of an American | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

...room. Every page she wrote passed under Willy's practiced editorial eye ("Have I married the last of the lyric poets?" he would snarl, if the prose was sappy). By 1904, Colette was a trained craftsman-and fed up with the life of a tormented hack. At 31, after twelve years of marriage, Colette broke with Willy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Perfumed Jungle | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

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