Word: newman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Academic freedom--and the accuracy of an article on IQ published by Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology, in a recent issue of the Atlantic--will be discussed today at an SDS-University Action Group meeting with Edwin B. Newman, chairman of the Psychology Department...
...Mahal. Ron Field, director and coproducer, has enlarged the definition of chutzpah by re-choreographing the Jerome Robbins dance numbers. Leonard Bernstein's music holds up best, and its peppy dissonances and romantic melodic line serve to season the overall inanity. Key Performers Bernadette Peters, Phyllis Newman, Donna McKechnie, Ron Husmann, Jess Richards and Remak Ramsay enact their roles with desperate valiance. So did the ship's band that played Nearer My God to Thee on the maiden voyage of the Titanic...
...some places, the film has become almost a loss leader just to get the customer to the popcorn stand. Martin Newman, executive vice president of New York's Century Theaters, figures that "concessions can mean the difference between life and death." At last week's NATO conclave, where the Hollywood moviemakers were practically invisible, there was a whole midway of barking concessionaires trying to sell the exhibitors the latest House o' Weenies rotisseries, Pronto-Burger rigs and even microwave ovens for veal Parmesan. After all, the average drive-in patron, according to one study, pops...
...unnamed disease that cripples his legs and sours his disposition. Convalescing in a London hospital, he scoots around in his wheelchair, snorting at the chaplain, scorning doctors' advice and generally making a nuisance of himself. Soon he meets a pretty fellow patient with a similar affliction (Nanette Newman). Zapped by love, McDowell begins to sell his poems and stories and even manages to solve the thorny technical problem of how to neck in two wheelchairs. Marriage is inevitable. But not, in this kind of movie, a happy ending...
...looks like a singular prophecy of the stripe work that dominated New York galleries 15 years later; it predicts Noland all the way, from the long narrow format of canvas to the pure, hard-edged bands of red and black. (Asked if he had begotten stripe paintings, Newman replied with characteristic irony that "if I am the father, I never had the honor of knowing the mother.") But most Abstract Expressionists thought his work perversely formalistic. Its very muteness was an offense...