Word: hacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...After hacking away at Washington politicians all day, what does Investigative Columnist Jack Anderson do for relaxation at night? Hack away at boards, of course. "I began doing the sport about three years ago," says Anderson about his interest in karate and the martial arts. "It's good exercise and of course that's important. And I enjoy doing things with the kids. We horse around in the basement with this stuff and have fun." To show how much fun it is, Anderson teamed up with a fellow karate enthusiast, Washington Redskins Coach George Allen, for a board...
Cold Turkey. The middle portion of the movie shows Doyle trying to go cold turkey, and it is here that Hackman does some of his finest work. Many actors have tried to get under a junk ie's skin, but when Hack man weighs in, the subject might as well never have come up before. He gets it all: the desperation, the gargoyle fantasies, the sickness and the terror...
...point. The bear Shardik has such an awesome destructive force that it is perceived as a god of conquest and bloodshed by humans who set up an empire based on the enslavement of the conquered. Brutality is commonplace in this society: slavers drown a little girl, for instance, and hack off a boy's hand. The great bear finally kills the chief slave trader, but undergoes great suffering in doing so, and ends the book perceived as a god of sacrifice. The empire disintegrates, and the hero is reduced to ordinary business, "picking up the pieces," what Adams says...
...House votes against Nixon. But any other Majority Leader would probably have been equally effective, and Breslin presents no clearcut evidence that O'Neill had anything more to do with Nixon's demise than other more publicized figures--Jaworski, or Sirica. O'Neill is really just an above average hack politician, risen to a position of power through a certain measure of talent, political knowhow, and luck. But because Breslin identifies so heavily with O'Neill (they are both Irish, fat, and aggressive), he tends to make O'Neill seem a more important force last summer than he actually...
...Mandingo's makers had permitted themselves even a moment of genuine feeling, a single honest insight into the historical conditions they pretend to examine, they might have destroyed the distance their hack mentalities place between film and audience. As it is, derision finally gives way to numbness. There is not the slightest danger that this animated comic book can do anyone, of any race, any harm-unless Mel Brooks is looking to the Old South for his next subject...