Word: hacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taxi driver is a metaphor for modern, urban man. The taxi driver will go anywhere for money, and is forced to see everything, all the degredation and cruelty men are capable of, but always with the understanding that he will remain outside, uninvolved and untouched. This is the hack's code: be deaf and you will hear everything; be blind and you will see everything. Travis does eventually learn the rules, but only after one last, desperate, misunderstood attempt to remake the world in his image...
Arnold Schoenberg once said "My works are not modern, just badly played." He was speaking of performers who, in a struggle to hack their way through a dense undergrowth of notes and rhythms, lose sight of the larger terrain...
Hapgood says such a frustrating loss haunts him for weeks. "There's so much subtle tension--sometimes it's hard to hack the pressure," he says...
These considerations were outweighed by apprehension among CIA officers that Bush may also try to use his new job as a steppingstone to the vice presidency. Some CIA officials called him "a pol," "a hack" or "a p.r. man." Said one officer: "It's understandable why the President couldn't pick someone from the profession itself, but did he really have to pick someone who is so much the opposite of a professional...
...stone face himself, who looks like a push-up. The most popular actor in the world, and possibly the worst. We shake our heads at the French for liking him so much, along with Clint Eastwood, and Weudstoc (Woodstock), and the worst type of American AM music. A real hack...