Word: hecht
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...journals of a 19th century anarchist named Sergei Gennadiyevich Nechayev. Halliday's fee: $50,000. Such jack being rare for a hack, Halliday warily takes on the job. It leads him to Italy and to the mailer of the bomb, an unsavory entrepreneur of many aliases-Zander, Brochet, Hecht, Luccio-all of which, in various languages, mean pike, the fish...
...either 344 or 380, was anyone's guess. "I never counted them," said Beach airily. But if the producers were vague about budgets and commercial details, The Front Page showed that the company can be lively and at times rousing onstage. A lot has changed since Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur wrote the play in 1928. No American city is lucky enough to have eight competing newspapers any more, and probably no modern managing editor would ignore an earthquake in which a million Chinese died to preserve a human interest story about a rooster. Yet the play still works...