White's defense attorney, Doug Schmidt, argued that he was not responsible for his actions, using the legal defense known as diminished capacity: "Good people, fine people, with fine backgrounds, simply don't kill people in cold blood".
Bobby Jordan, has a professional career, extending back to "Street Scene" Charles Bellin, has a fine offstage background.
But it's my fine art background that has hardwired me, so I always adopt the "could do better" stance.
"Coming from a fine arts background, it was very satisfying to make something so functional and so useful," Mr. Levy said.
It has all the memory-grabbing adhesiveness of unchewed gum, but it would work fine as background music for enchanting bits of animated whimsy.
His mind turned to the example of Conrad Bain, the actor with a fine theatrical background who came to be Philip Drummond, the white father of two adopted African-American boys, on "Diff'rent Strokes".
It turns out, not surprisingly, given Gideon's taste and fine art background, that the Francis Bacon colors, the tobacco browns and hues of ocher, mixed with the washed-out institutional shadings of asylum blue and green, are precisely right.
"They require a lot of very painstaking work, but, coming from a fine arts background, I get a lot of satisfaction when I see a museum project of ours on display," he said.
"Women actually bought my stuff," said Ms. Zuckerman, who put her Cooper Union fine arts background on hold for the opportunity to work for the jewelry designers Philip Crangi and later Monique Pean.
"Women actually bought my stuff!" exclaims Zuckerman, who put her Cooper Union fine arts background on hold for the opportunity to work for the jewelry designers Philip Crangi and, later, Monique Péan.
