Word: hacking
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Hopper did not hit his stride until he was past 40, and his matter-of-fact manner of putting paint on canvas still recalls his long apprenticeship as a hack illustrator; it has no dash, humor or surface charm. But a man who has taught himself to transcribe the shapes and weathers of a real world into pictures need not charm; he convinces...
...story employs the classic melodramatic gambit of the innocent who walks straight into somebody else's intrigue and can't get out. With an old friend's promise of a vague job, Joseph Gotten, an American hack writer of Western novelettes, arrives in Vienna just in time to rush to his benefactor's funeral. He learns that 1) his friend was mixed up in some sort of racket; and 2) his death may not have been as accidental as the dead man's Vienna associates-a seedy baron, a teak-faced doctor and a Rumanian...
...exam-time layoff over the Crimson hockey team skates hack into action tomorrow night against BU at the Arena with a team lacking two big punches...