Word: hack
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...changed: where once we saw Huey Newton emerging from his heat-up 1956 Ford, jacking a round into the firing chamber of his rifle and facing down the cops, we now see the Panthers as experimental subjects strapped to an operating table and screaming in rage as clumsy butchers hack at them without anaesthetic...
...callow youth, Nanki-Poo, but his first song ( A wandering minstrel I/a thing of shreds and patches... ) established Nanki-Poo as a totally different character from that of the traditional interpretations. Alan Abrams, as Pooh-Bah, the Lord High Everything Else, was marvelous as the proud but corrupt political hack. But the undisputed star of the show was Josh Rubins, as Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner. Following the opulent train of reverent courtiers, he wore a ludicrous robe decorated with axe-heads and carried a headsman's axe several inches taller than he is. It was enough to bring...
...company's plays offer criticism of the contemporary morass they see about them in America today, the Pagcant Players seek also, in their mode of theatrical presentation and the public affirmation of their collective lifestyle, an alternative system of joyous human inter-relationships-a "pageantry" of life. Says Nadine Hack, a new member of the group, "We will dance and make music and fight and make love and make the revolution...
Whether subtle or simplistic, black poetry often makes the poetry of the streets come alive. If four-letter words are used (and they appear often), it is because they are not only weapons to hack away protective layers of deadening sophistication, but they are also the words of the common people...
...feelings in Neponset on the stadium were made perfectly, if somewhat emotionally, clear last week during a public hearing in which every ward-heeler and political hack in Dorchester and South Boston took the dais to contribute his share of abuse...