Word: finn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intimate, beautiful houses he was designing with Gropius around Boston. His inspiration, he told TIME Reporter Leah Gordon, was the simple American frame house. "I liked the fact that anyone could construct these houses simply by nailing boards together. They are earthy, honest and dignified, like Huckleberry Finn and Abraham Lincoln...
Looking more and more like a cross between Huckleberry Finn and Oliver Barrett III. Hooks Burr made himself right at home on the slippery stuff, having been a prep school hockey star in his day. Barbara Cohn, lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies, leapt into Petkevich's arms as Helen Homans Gilbert, first woman overseer of the University, did a leg extend down on the ice and held her position--like a catatonic Cossack...
Smart and fast at its best, Bad Company too often turns arch, and its characters are self-consciously countrified, like admen going to work in bib overalls. Their dialogue has the somewhat disconcerting ring of Huckleberry Finn rewritten for New Yorker cartoon captions. Benton's direction, though, is astonishingly adept for a first feature, while Brown and Bridges make an engagingly boisterous pair. The cinematography is by Gordon Willis (The Godfather), who for reasons unknown has chosen to make everything and every one look brown...
...Harvard squad was on the defensive most of the game, and full backs Ken Otto, Adrian Tew and Tim Finn made several good defensive efforts that kept the Drogheda score down...
...progress. In this first novel, Theodore Weesner's tones are flat, sometimes excessively precise. Yet the book develops a building power. It is, for one thing, an achievement of almost perfect sympathy. One begins caring about Alex-his guilt, his daydreams, his bewildered adolescent innocence. Descendants of Huckleberry Finn, Alex and his brother do cannonball dives into the polluted muck of an urban river, cracking exuberant and forlorn scatological jokes about what they are swimming...