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In just the past few days' New York Times , Walter Goodman characterized Crossfire as "the CNN shout show," and Maureen Dowd summarized Ferraro's duties as "blathering night after night with political hacks."
When Baltus Van Tassel (Michael Gambon), the town's richest citizen, intones the story of the Hessian who lopped the heads off revolutionaries for sheer love of butchery, the flashback is mythic in its ghastliness: Christopher Walken--his hair swept up, with boiled eggs for eyes and teeth like sharp spikes--wheels, hacks, impales, and drenches the snow with gore.
The Hackathlon will be officiated by Deputy Editor Jack Shafer, who apparently feels there isn't enough bad writing in Slate . Four self-proclaimed hacks (insert earnest demurral here: Oh, no, they're actually extremely talented, etc., etc., etc.) will compete in trying to produce a piece in a hurry.
Making the strongest argument for the return of the National Endowment is The Four Statesmen, depicting everybody's favorite '70s political hacks: Gerald Ford, Valery Giscard d'Estaing, James Callaghan, and Helmut Schmidt.
In 1773 the road commissioners for the Town of Harrison, N.Y., laid out a road, “along said Merrits land to a Black Oak Stadel marked with a Slipe and three hacks with an axe.”