Word: hacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guessing Brown early in 1965. Under their direction, Reagan turned the issue of his inexperience, which could have been a liability, into an asset; he claimed to be a "citizen politician," which somehow implied that Brown was not a knowledgeable pro but merely a used-up, corner-cutting political hack. And although Brown's staff unearthed every right-wing statement Reagan ever made, the issue of his "extremism" became irrelevant. After all, is a candidate "extremist" if most of the electorate is just as "extreme...
...that was-the extent of the book's flaws, though, this one out of many ghost-written hack autobiographies would be merely a drag. But there is something more, an uneasy aftertaste. Sadler was set up in 1966--in the press, among veterans' groups, probably in the minds of tens of thousands with relatives in the jungles--as the image of the American soldier in Vietnam. His book is dedicated to "my friends I left across the sea," and concludes with a five-page list of the names and dates of death of the 143 Special Forces soldiers who were...
...styles produced an improvement in quality. Better directors and writers were drawn to spy movies once they stopped being farcical exursions into the world of Ian Fleming. Michael Anderson directed and Harold Pinter wrote The Quiller Memorandum, easily the best of the lot. But more recently the Bond hacks have begun to get their hands in to the new field. Guy Hamilton, a hack if ever there was one, has directed Funeral in Berlin, a clumsy, convoluted, illegitimate offspring of The Ipcress File in which agent Harry Palmer, again played by Michael Caine, proves a powerful bore. The direction...
John Frankenheimer is a hack, an ex-television director obviously more comfortable composing shots within squares than he is filling rectangles. Unable to compose good shots, he frequently employs a split-screen technique, puttting two or more different images on the screen simultaneously, separated by black dividing lines. This enables him to avoid the challenge of coming to grips with Super Panavision. Unable to put shots together with any art or precision, he resorts to tricks; Grand Prix is filled with multiple image shots and dream shots done with prisms. His over-all use of trick photography is never relevant...
...Free Democrats intend to hack away at the joints where basic Christian Democratic-Socialist differences have been papered over in favor of the coalition, and to concentrate their attack on any signs of political difference. Differences there are sure to be. The two parties of the coalition are still far enough apart to provide considerable checks and balances on each other's actions...