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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.
Unlike the technocrats, party hacks, and angry populists who have contended for the Democratic presidential nomination over the past three decades, he echoes the valor and innocence of the early 1960s.
And while there are plenty of old communist hacks still in charge in Russia, their opposition to Yeltsin, and the opposition of the big business cartels to his new cabinet, suggests whose side he's really on.
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.
Murray Kempton got this story right in 1955, in his book Part of Our Time . The Hollywood Communists, most of them screenwriters, were overpaid hacks, not dangerous revolutionaries.