Word: hacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Walker was more than a metronome; his conducting was sensitive as well as precise. He had an uncanny feel for what was most important in the music. His attention to dynamics was meticulous, and he had the Band produce some fantastic effects by dropping down suddenly where any hack might have let it go blaring...
...framework of archy's little satire is altered by the same slight over-acting of the Boss (Belden Crane Johnson), the journalist who keeps archy supplied with typing paper and apple peelings. He delivers his story not in the style of the unperturbed old hack, calling 'em as he sees 'em, but with dramatic pauses and grimaces of amazement. He most clearly regards a literate cockroach as a big deal; an obvious, flat point of view...
JOHN CLELAND was a luckless little hack who in 1748, destitute and desperate, scribbled Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure for a flat fee of 20 guineas. He went on to become an inept philologist, ducked creditors much of his life, and died aged and unsung. If the poor fellow were only alive today, he could be a Big Writer, for critics on both sides of the Atlantic have acclaimed his ability to describe repetitive fornication with elegance and grace. He could wear hand-sewn Italian loafers, sell his still unwritten books to the paperbacks...
...meeting is shaping up a battle between Maryland's field event performers and Villanova's runners. The Terrapins will build up a solid lead in the afternoon, and the Wildcats will hack away at it as the night rolls...
JACKIE'S FIRST PARTY! HER PRIVATE INVITATION LIST, promised Inside Movie. Inside Inside Movie, some anonymous hack noted that Mrs. Kennedy had concluded her mourning period, and then went on to surmise exactly what kind of party she might now properly throw: "Hot and cold hors d'oeuvres ... a table set with the finest silver, china and crystal...