Word: hart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bridges might have shown the Law School experience for what it is these days. Given his talented cast and the freedom that Twentieth Century Fox apparently gave him, he might have produced a useful and entertaining film. Instead, he uses the foibles of first-year student James Hart (Timothy Bottoms) to bombard us with incidents that are out of date, out of character, or both. (Out of date: The film opens with Hart, harassed by a professor in his first class, throwing up his breakfast into the swirling waters of the nearest toilet bowl. Out of character: The film ends...
Beleagured admissions officials at the Law School should appreciate the bleak picture Bridges paints of the academic grind. "All that stuff about grades is true," Hart's adviser tells him. "You gotta work like hell, no kidding." Hart's friend Kevin, who does work like hell but flunks nevertheless, attempts suicide. Such is the stuff of daily life, the film seems...
...paintings, when weak, rarely permit one to forget the atmosphere of lantern-lit masquerade in which his father, the profusely talented illustrator N.C. Wyeth, reveled. When swashbuckling or fantasticated, as in much of his work before the 1960s, that theatricality could make Wyeth seem as vulgar as Thomas Hart Benton-though much subtler in design and drawing...
...Paris, Wright read about 19th century discoveries in optics and color and decided to eliminate from his paintings everything but chromatic rhythm and form. Comparing color to sound, Wright often selected visual harmonies by striking chords and intervals on a piano. His work influenced such American artists as Thomas Hart Benton, Arthur B. Davies and Joseph Stella...
Unfortunately, Quinn's debut last week on the revamped CBS Morning News was not delirious in any sense. The show's former anchor men, the no-nonsense team of John Hart and Nelson Benton, had failed to attract a big enough audience compared with NBC's 22-year-old juggernaut of the morning schedule, the Today Show (an estimated 1.7 million viewers v. 5.2 million). In an effort to pep up the ratings, the network created a more relaxed format, with more room for ad-libbing...