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...week he finished supervising a two-week festival and workshop at London's arts complex on the south bank of the Thames, participating in no fewer than seven programs with astonishing versatility. One night he was conducting a chamber orchestra in Mozart, another playing jazz piano with Guitarist Barney Kessel, another accompanying Soprano Judith Raskin at the piano in Schubert lieder, another joining the Yale String Quartet in Brahms chamber music. After a brief rest, Previn will pick up his regular routine, recording, composing, appearing in TV specials, dashing off essays for Punch and conducting about 100 concerts...
From the panhandlers and hare krishna drummers outside the Coop to bell-bottomed young professionals lunching upstairs at Barney's, from the little old ladies shopping for bedspreads at Woolworth's to the tight little knots of blue coliar workers who gather at Whitney's every night for a beer after work. Cambridge probably has as varied a population as any other six square miles in the country...
...Barney makes a last frantic stab at infidelity with the melancholic wife of one of his neighbors in suburban Great Neck. Now the positions are reversed. Barney, after his combat training, has become the manic aggressor; Jeanette Fisher is the coward, full of fear and un certainty. Barney finally bundles Jea nette into a cab, then goes to a phone booth to call his wife Thelma and in vite her down to Mom's for a romantic afternoon...
Alan Arkin's Barney is a composite of small, shrewd gestures and intuitions, as in a marvelous sequence where he watches Bobbi sing What the World Needs Now Is Love with a mounting mixture of apprehension, thwarted lust and concern that the little old lady next door will hear. Arkin is a vast improvement over James Coco's preening, keening act in the Broadway Lovers, and he has Barney's look meticulously right, down to the monogrammed pocket handkerchief he wears in the pocket of his blue business suit...
...Each Other. Sally Kellerman comes off best of the women, partly because she is the first one we meet. Her Elaine is throaty, sexy, challenging and intimidating. By the time the other two put in their appearances, the whole thing has become for audiences what it is for Barney: an endurance contest...