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ANTOINE DE Saint Exupery wrote great adventure stories about airplanes, the kind of thing you liked in high school if you couldn't hack Fitzgerald. He also wrote a wonderful little story called The Little Prince, the kind of thing your mother read to you if you couldn't hack Winnie the Pooh. But The Little Prince, like so much children's literature, is directed towards the mother as much as the child...
...wrong. He's just another political hack who will sacrifice any ideal or person to get elected...
Dirty Harry--A hack detective thriller directed by the talented Don Siegel from a script laden with authoritarian preaching. Clint Eastwood, perhaps the least talented superstar of all time, is Harry. With The Omega Mess, Charlton Heston in humdrum sci-fi. ASTOR. Harry: 1:15, 4:40. Omega...
...disadvantage. She can only spout whatever middle-Americanisms that the New York Jewish quipster-author felt right for the moment. I would for the life of me like to recount some dialogue for the record, but it is all so inert, so clearly the work of a hack intent on a string of easy laughs without sustained character, that it slips through the memory as swiftly as my last trip to the supermarket. (There is one joke about cherry pie or apple pie or something being as American as blueberry pie or something else...
...Governor Rockefeller proposes to continue protecting murderers by offering them safe abortions. It seems only right to let these women take their risks from a hack doctor...