maudlin
hackwork aimed at making "people throb and weep" (CH,
We read: 'Far from debate, illegal use of drugs and dependency distort the normal perception capacities and functions of the brain.' Apparently, so does legal
hackwork in Aguirre's jurisdiction.
Harold Jenkins, Chettle's literary biographer, offered a summary portrait: "always miserably poor, struggling against poverty, turning his hand to any sort of
hackwork for any meager reward, resorting to various devices to obtain the most insignificant sums of money, yet repeatedly in trouble and sometimes in prison for debt" (29).
The ban was occasioned by documentation, in a Swedish exhibition catalogue, of works (A Bird of Plaster for Bronze - Malmo, 1974, and Man-dick, 1968-74) by both artists that, like other works for which KwieKulik are well known, found the pair using their official jobs as producers of regime-glorifying
hackwork (monumental sculpture, commemorative plaques, banners, etc.) as background for their own performative actions.
Trying to learn about the actual events of The Fictional Age--what 'really happened'--it's
hackwork. Any looney with access to server archives can dig up support for anything they want."
Taking a break after writing four back-to-back "Paranormal Activity" sequels (and directing one--2014's "The Marked Ones"), helmer Christopher Landon delivers a more straightforward slab of horror-comedy
hackwork with this frenzied tale of three beige-uniformed buddies trying to fend off a small-town zombie outbreak.
It was now time to see if all the footwork,
hackwork, paddlework and guesswork would pay dividends.
There would seem to be an analogy between his physical stamina and mental durability, how he endured, even excelled at the virtually incessant demands made upon his imagination, whether or not the result was
hackwork. And let us not forget his nerves, what with the decades of worry over making a living, providing for his family, paying bills, avoiding creditors.
The book is a wretched piece of
hackwork and political propaganda, filled with lies, portraying Ira as a calculating monster and spy for the Russians, and Eve and Sylphid as heroic Americans protecting democracy.
As Trippett demonstrates, Wagner was "subject to accusations of plagiarism as late as 1870" in the form of both "general imitation" and "specific
hackwork" (p.
What he produced is often seen as lesser
hackwork, done for gain only, but they should not be ignored - they are all carefully constructed, interesting and linked to much of his other work.
into this reworking of a popular piece of theatrical
hackwork he poured everything--the national identity-crisis, as London awaited the death of one monarch and the arrival of another; the mood of public disillusion as Elizabeth's reign ended; the doubts and anxieties that thoughtful men and women felt about politics, religion and philosophy.