Word: hacks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maybe small-market teams inherently deserve small-money leagues if they can't hack it in the big time. A radical suggestion, yes, but is it any more radical than cancelling the World Series because a bunch of millionaires can't relate to a bunch of billionaires...
...from Santa Barbara, California, waltzed easily last week to a primary victory over his Republican challengers. Money has been a prime factor. The oil tycoon has so far spent $6.6 million of his own cash on TV advertising and other promotion, most of it attacking Feinstein as a political hack. As a result, "the race is up for grabs," says Mark DiCamillo, director of the Field Poll, a nonpartisan California survey. By the time the showdown is over on Nov. 8, spending by both candidates is expected to surpass $30 million, making it the most expensive Senate race in history...
...famous early 17th century Mishnah commentator Yom-Tov Lippman Heller. After first setting hands on a computer in second grade, however, Heller always assumed he'd be a mathematician or do something with computers. By fifth grade, he was proficient enough that an older student paid him to hack into a strip poker software program...
...Black Students Association is "just...another political hack group," he says...
...hack can direct movies that make you cry. It's a simple matter of putting onscreen some wrenchingly sentimental image (sad-eyed dog with broken leg, widow on deathbed, noble peasant gunned down by soldiers) while a dozen violins tremble on the sound track. A filmmaker's real challenge is to create what German director Wim Wenders has called "emotion pictures": films that move you in a fresh way, with images that speak to the intelligent heart. Bernardo Bertolucci makes emotion pictures. He illustrates complex issues with indelible, seductive, ravishing images. And in his 12th film, Little Buddha, the Italian...