Word: hacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aimless Man (look for him in Vitteloni, The Cousins, Shadows, l'Avventura, and La Dolce Vita is young (25 or 30, unemployed, i.e. graduate student, hack writer, skilled car theif, etc., handsome (Continental, plenty of hair, dissatisfied (you don't know quit why, and good with women (evidently. Every Aimless Man chain smokes, drives fast, and expresses a weakness for classical music...
Participating with Frankl will be Dr. Walter E. Barton, Superintendent of the Boston State Hospital, Massachusetts Department of Health; Dr. Hack R. Ewalt, professor of Psychiatry at the Medical School and Superintendent of the Massachusetts Mental Health Center (Boston Psychopathic Hospital); George Goethals lecturer on Social Relations at the University; and Dr. Harry C. Solomon...
Alakazam the Great! (Toei-American International) is a wild, nonsensical, hack-chop-you're-dead fairy story, cartooned in Japan and dubbed in the U.S. It is not as well drawn as the cartoons Walt Disney used to do, but Disney has neglected the field for live films and amusement-park management, and six-year-olds should howl happily at the replacement. The hero is an emetic little monkey (U.S. adapters thoughtfully assigned Crooner Frankie Avalon to provide his voice) who sets "out to conquer the world. Along the way he collects some traveling companions, including a prince...
...tears and laughter. He wanted to make his theater a crucible of social change, and he merely convinced theatergoers of the tenacious durability of man's unchanging nature. If he had succeeded, as Biographer Martin Esslin points out, he would have been merely "a flat and boring party hack." Failing, he became a great moral puzzle, a seething controversy, and one of the most significant writers...
...play offers a plethora of variations, added to by hack writers for more than half a century. Presented with a wide choice of scenes--farcical and tragic, relevant and irrelevant--a director must choose among them to carry through single theme. Word Baker, who is directing the Boston University production, uses everything and the result is rather disunified to say the least...