Word: hacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...callow youth, Nanki-Poo, but his first song ( A wandering minstrel I/a thing of shreds and patches... ) established Nanki-Poo as a totally different character from that of the traditional interpretations. Alan Abrams, as Pooh-Bah, the Lord High Everything Else, was marvelous as the proud but corrupt political hack. But the undisputed star of the show was Josh Rubins, as Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner. Following the opulent train of reverent courtiers, he wore a ludicrous robe decorated with axe-heads and carried a headsman's axe several inches taller than he is. It was enough to bring...
...company's plays offer criticism of the contemporary morass they see about them in America today, the Pagcant Players seek also, in their mode of theatrical presentation and the public affirmation of their collective lifestyle, an alternative system of joyous human inter-relationships-a "pageantry" of life. Says Nadine Hack, a new member of the group, "We will dance and make music and fight and make love and make the revolution...
Whether subtle or simplistic, black poetry often makes the poetry of the streets come alive. If four-letter words are used (and they appear often), it is because they are not only weapons to hack away protective layers of deadening sophistication, but they are also the words of the common people...
...feelings in Neponset on the stadium were made perfectly, if somewhat emotionally, clear last week during a public hearing in which every ward-heeler and political hack in Dorchester and South Boston took the dais to contribute his share of abuse...
Since Nixon has ruled out a budget deficit, there are only two things that he can do to produce a balanced budget in the neighborhood of $200 billion. He must find new taxes to add to federal revenues, and he must hack away with determination at the spending requests that his department heads have put before him. He can hardly ask for a surtax extension beyond June 30, since he himself campaigned to end it; even if he changed his mind, moreover, Congress would hardly vote it in an election year. Nixon is intrigued by the idea of a value...