Word: hacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...COMMITTEE on Rights and Responsibilities is like an earthworm: No matter how many times you hack off its head, it just grows back...
Jesus Christ Superstar. A hack neyed film, based on the Broadway musical that tagged along with the Jesus revival. Director Norman Jewison sets to film the rock cantatas of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. Beacon Hill Theatre. 10-10 every 2 hours...
...group reneged on its campaign pledge to fire City Manager John Corcoran, who one CCA councillor had described as a "political hack." The CCA councillors were divided over their choice for a new City manager for nine months. They could not come to a compromise...
...Georges Pompidou to describe that drop, accurately, as constituting in effect "a third devaluation of the dollar." Though money trading is actually a ruthlessly non-nationalistic affair, it seemed that everyone from oil sheiks to Swiss bankers to Japanese businessmen had agreed to gang up on the dollar and hack away at its value. On Wall Street, the barometric Dow Jones industrial average sank on Monday to 886, down 16% from its historic high five months...
...master spell is love. The book's narrator is a 58-year-old failed writer named Bradley Pearson. Grinding his teeth in silence, Bradley has been waiting for the moment of absolute inspiration. Nothing less will do. His cursed Doppelgdnger, his best friend, is Arnold Baffin, a fluent hack who turns out popular novels with religious overtones while Bradley grubs away in a tax inspector's office. Freedom is the cruel lure of Murdoch novels. Opting for early retirement, Brad ley believes his time of freedom, his time of inspiration, has come: "I can be a great writer...