Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dream, it is not something one farms out to a tyro. Appearing in the same scene with a child is the trial death; an actor is either upstaged or dragged down. Though one hates to badmouth someone who doesn'v yet have a complete set of teeth, Jason Harvey is really bad. He decants iambic as if he had taken elocution lessons from Alfred Hitchcock, and he can barely be understood past the eighth row. When there are at least a half-dozen undergraduate actors and actresses at Harvard who could have pulled off the role, Kilty's choice...
...Minutes, even in the nature studies that now stud the pbs schedule. So why put nonfiction on the big screen? Because there are stories whose subjects, and filmmakers whose points of view, demand the isolation and intensity of the movie-house experience. One such story is The Times of Harvey Milk, winner of this year's Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. Its plot--all-American guy shoots the mayor of San Francisco and a gay-activist supervisor, then goes to trial pleading that junk food made him do it--was as farfetched and compelling as that of any paranoiac political...
...ordinary ratings to justify their hefty production costs (a reported $32 million for Space, for example), especially since most of them do poorly in reruns. And as the minis proliferate, maxi- audiences are becoming harder to woo. "When mini-series first came in, they were a novelty," says Harvey Shephard, senior vice president of programming at CBS. "Now audiences have become more discriminating...
...inflexible rule of journalese is that American assassins must have three names: John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray, Mark David Chapman. This courtesy of a resonant three-part moniker is also applied to other dangerous folk. This is why the "subway vigilante" is "Bernhard Hugo Goetz" to many journalists who consider him a monster, and just plain "Bernhard Goetz" to almost everyone else. Another rule of the language is that euphemisms for "fat" are understood too quickly by the public and are therefore in constant need of replacement. "Jolly," "Rubenesque" and the like have long been abandoned...
...available small quantities of MIA remains, using the maneuver as a way of gaining political or financial leverage. But political machinations are not important to the men who do the digging in the jungle. "We've got several more crash sites that we would like to look at," says Harvey. Behind him Laotian soldiers pluck bone shards from the sifting pans and hand them to a U.S. soldier who puts them in a canvas bag the size of a woman's purse. "But so far we've got one site and no more promises," says Harvey. "It's going awfully...