Word: painted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Compounding Penalties. The case involves a General Motors assembly plant in North Tarrytown, N.Y. For years, the plant dumped chemical wastes -spray-paint residues, metals, caustic cleaning agents-directly into the Hudson River. In 1963 the company was ordered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build a treatment facility tying into a regional sewerage system. Various planning problems delayed groundbreaking until late last year. Meanwhile, the plant kept pouring its effluents into the river...
...King Charles I gives a performance of such finesse that Harris' Cromwell, by contrast, seems all peevish bluster. Cromwell can retain audience sympathy only when he strikes out against painfully over-drawn bogies of pure evil, such as the dissolute Lord Manchester (Robert Morley). Though Hughes takes pains to paint Cromwell as a sexually vigorous masculine dynamo (we even have one shot of him the bracing a long spear), there is more life and sexuality in the tender parting of Charles and his queen (Dorothy Tutin) than in either of the cardboard domestic scenes between Oliver and the vapid...
...Bluhdorn figured that Evans was just the man to run Gulf & Western's new bauble, Paramount, and put him in charge. Evans started well, with successful films, including The Odd Couple, Barefoot in the Park, Rosemary's Baby and Goodbye, Columbus. But he also shepherded some monumental losers, notably Paint Your Wagon and Darling Lili...
...dying industry, there is no room for anyone; in a boom town, everybody works. Love Story can only bring grief if it is treated like a new I Sound of Music, the film that was responsible for such trendy megaton disasters as Sweet Charity, On a Clear Day and Paint Your Wagon...
...Brocher's student-parents was an overly correct, intellectual judge who talked down to other participants. During his first finger-painting session, the judge could unbend only to the extent of dipping his little finger in white paint and making twelve neat rows of dots on a piece of white paper. Three weeks later, Brocher "found the same man with paint up to his elbows. He was red-faced, sweating, biting his tongue, and appeared to be very happy as he painted red, yellow and brown colors all over the wall...