Word: hacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting last night, members of groups supporting Affirmative Action called government proposals to revise Affirmative Action laws an attempt to "hack them to death...
Democrats have rarely lost elections in Boston. Republican Senator Edward Brooke carried the city over his Democratic opponent in '72 because he was an incumbent running against an ineffectual party hack. Then Congresswoman Louise Day Hicks lost her seat to independent John Moakley who immediately returned to the Democratic Party. Even George McGovern carried Boston...
Still worse, Burgess cannot decide what style handled black humor and lyric descriptions of Rome in the fading twilight. The dialogue is virtually indefensible on any level, except perhaps that it befits Burgess' protagonist the hack screen writer (who talks like his scripts), but that defense falters, for it can't encompass all the other characters...
While personifying some of the worst characteristics of the city hack, O'Neil lacks the political sophistication that usually makes urban machines work. He has no allies, contacts or organizations. Former Boston Mayor James Michael Curley is his idol, he says, and Dapper claims to have been a good friend of Curley's. Representative Frank, perhaps remembering that Curley was once elected from a jail cell, commented, "Curley was a pretty indiscriminate fellow, so it's quite likely...
...Agatha Christie used to be called the mistress of the last-minute switch. For years before her death a year ago at 85, her publishers let it be known that they held two novels "in a vault"-naturally-for posthumous publication. The rumor ran that, not wanting any literary hack to mishandle her characters, Agatha Christie had left books satisfactorily killing off her legendary sleuths, Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple. Sure enough, Poirot came to a violent end in Curtain, when it was finally exhumed and published last year...