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Soapsuds & Whitewash. Turner, who in his own lifetime was recognized as perhaps the greatest painter of his era, knew his full share of both wealth and derision. Born to a Covent Garden barber in 1775, he was admitted at 14 as a student in the Royal Academy. At 27, he was elected a full-fledged academician. The works that won him fame, however, were hardly revolutionary. During his earlier years, Turner churned out Old Testament fantasies, nymphs cavorting in arcadian glades, and historical scenarios of such newsworthy topics as the battles of Waterloo and Trafalgar...
Worst Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium: to Harlan Ellison, Russell Rouse and Clarence Greene for dunking Richard Sale's crimson novel about the Hollywood prize scramble into a vatful of whitewash. The book described a rat race in which the victors were merely the best of breed. The movie describes a demiparadise besmirched by Stephen Boyd as a vicious nominee ("That rot inside" is his tragic flaw) who forgets that truth and beauty are the Only Real Rewards...
...whitewash in TIME's apologia, nor all the paint on the cover will make me believe Franco is not a despot...
Harvard's hockey team overpowered the St. Nicholas Hockey Club for the first period and a half, and then coasted sloppily to a 4-0 whitewash in Watson Rink Saturday night...
Meanwhile, solicited by Goldin, at least one national figure leaped into the fray Friday. New Jersey Congressman William B. Widnall, called Mayor Collins' proposal "totally inadequate and a cruel obituary to the hopes and desires of low income citizens." He termed the plan "a political whitewash... of a situation which has gotten too not politically" and went on to declare, "Unless this plan is changed to provide a halt to the eviction and demolition process while review of the blue-ribbon panel being made, Mayer Collins' statement will justly deserve a description as a political face-saving approach...