Word: hacks
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...drama project, Matinee, demonstrates why Weaver is anxious to develop and popularize the ancient art of hack writing. Matinee next season begins a series of five one-hour plays a week (Monday through Friday, 3 p.m., E.D.T.) every week of the year. The 260 plays yearly require, according to NBC, an initial $1,000,000 outlay, 4,000 actors, 20 directors, five permanent production units and 100 writers and adapters. This one show is the theatrical equivalent of five fully staffed repertory companies, with salaries and audiences guaranteed...
...must have supported himself by hack painting, was apparently unmoved by the marvelous remnants of the Renaissance...
...called priestitution. A young American (Steve Forrest), on his way to study for holy orders, stops over in Paris to take in the sights. Pretty soon he takes one of them (Anne Baxter) for a ride in a cab; from there the picture goes to heaven in a hack...
...example of iron and steel pieces used to decorate the bare walls of Spanish homes. The armor and mustache of the "Christo" unmistakably belong to the cabellero de trista figura. When people remark that No. 14, "Horse Head," looks like Rocinante, Gusils reportedly denies he had Don Quixotc's hack in mind. It seems less likely that he was unaware that he was putting Don Quixote on the cross in this "Christo...
...readers who find the novels of social protest a bore, and U.S. writers who frequently hack the life out of such themes as Dutourd's, The Best Butter is a highly entertaining reminder that in good social criticism, the pin is mightier than the sword...