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...throw off your chains. This weekend at the Science Center the University Film Study Center is projecting fifteen of the world's finest short animated films, selected in part from winners of international festivals. The styles range from New Yorker-cartoon-like line drawings to color swirls and slashes reminiscent of Kandinsky, from sequenced photographs of porcelain dolls to images like amoebas in a microscopic slide. Mostly, though, they transmit undiluted visual delight...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Animating Entertainment | 2/11/1976 | See Source »

...going to start someplace, start at the top. I considered Harvard really one of the finest universities in the world as far as the product they turn out. Basically, that's what we're here for--to turn out a product...

Author: By James Cramer, James Gleick, and Nicholas Lemann, S | Title: A Hall Sampler | 2/3/1976 | See Source »

Although he called Harvard "the finest place I've worked at," he said, "The thought of leaving here would not be disturbing...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Hall Is Likely to Leave After Spring Term Ends | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

...Washington, Georgia Congressman Andrew Young, a black, insists: "Jimmy Carter is not and never has been guilty of the kind of implied racism of these charges. He is one of the finest products of a most misunderstood region of our nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Carter and His Critics | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

Scant Attention. Bugs receives at least part of his due in this compilation of ten cartoons, cut together with some historical material about how they were made. The cartoons are representative, but they show Bugs only at his intermittent best. Many of his finest efforts are missing because rights were not available. Vintage home movies of the animation unit are fun, but Filmmaker Jackson relies too much on the reminiscences of Cartoon Director Bob Clampett to fill in the facts. Clampett pays scant attention to his contemporaries-Tex Avery, Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones-and endeavors to portray himself as Looney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rabbit Stew | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

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