Word: hacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crime boss Dan Swanson will start a jump center against Davis. The Chicago leftist predicted yesterday that his backcourt combination of Sue "Big Boo Yoo-Hoo" Kinsley and Dale "But Don't You Dare Call Me Frail" Russakoff would run Steiner and Mass Hall hack Chuck Daly off the floor. Up front, where it counts, the Crime plans to go with Bob "Daddy D" Decherd and Leapin Liz Samuels, a high school teammate of former Marquette great. Bob Lackey...
...disappointment, as in the movie version of his novel The Fixer, "Horrible. That thing went to five different writers. Edward Albee was one of them but he would only do it if he had full say over it. Dalton Trumbo finally wrote the screen play and he's a hack. The film should have been done as a sort of fable, in black and white. Instead, it was all galloping Cossacks and dancing girls: an overdone fake. And that sickens a writer--to see his book faked...
Moving into Richardson's old job at HEW will be Caspar Weinberger, currently director of the Office of Management and Budget. Weinberger is less renowned for his social vision than for his budget-cutting proclivities. He is expected to hack away at the overgrown tangle of New Frontier and Great Society programs, many of which are not working the way they were supposed to. His philosophy: "Money isn't the essential element in improving social conditions throughout the country." A man of similar outlook succeeds Weinberger as budget chief. Roy Ash, president of embattled Litton Industries, is charged...
Maria (Tuesday Weld) passes her days wandering about the grounds of a psychiatric hospital where she is a patient. "Nothing applies" she scrawls across the battery of psychological tests they give her. Her husband Carter (Adam Roarke) is a pompous young hack who makes motorcycle movies and discusses the auteur theory. His producer B.Z. (Anthony Perkins) tries both to meddle with and mend their broken marriage. Maria has already had one child-Kate, herself disturbed-and aborted a second. In her sickness and despair, she clings to Carter, who humiliates her with the kind of bitter brutality she usually heaps...
...Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey's bughouse novel stagified. Most critics call the dramatization hack work but some Kesey fans swear...