Word: newman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bland & Bleak. Historically, the artists acknowledge a debt to the Russian constructivists, and have words of praise for the industrial approach of such sculptors as Alexander Calder and the late David Smith. They wax hot for Geodetic Architect Buckminster Fuller. Their enthusiasm for painters tends to focus on Barnett Newman, whose works are uncompromising vertical stripes, and Ad Reinhardt, whose severely dark-hued abstracts look almost jet black...
HARPER. As a private eye focused on a kidnaping case, Paul Newman revives the Bogart tradition in lively style, with seedy-to-sumptuous local color supplied by Julie Harris, Arthur Hill and Lauren Bacall...
...Harper. See it grow. See it complicate itself. And see it imitate everything from The Big Sleep to Charade, with Paul Newman imitating everyone from Bogart to Belmondo...
Janet Leigh appears briefly as Newman's wife, and both the character and the marriage seem wonderfully out of place in Harper. Miss Leigh's performance--for all its brevity--is a minor...
With Harper Paul Newman makes it into the high echelons of professional slick. Ten, maybe twenty years hence he may have his own cult, assuming he gets enough good parts. And if he extends ten years of steady improvement, he may even deserve the cult he gets...