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While Agnew works, his Government limousine is at his beck, and Secret Service agents keep guard downstairs, eying visitors through bulletproof one-way glass. The fact that the former Vice President has been receiving such perquisites so angered Democratic Congressman John E. Moss that he asked the General Accounting Office to investigate. Last week Comptroller General Elmer Staats wrote Moss that in just under two months the Government had already spent $89,132 on Agnew's staff, $2,075 for the maintenance of the town houses, $877 for office supplies and $905 to move the cartons from...
Otherwise, The Laughing Policeman is no laughing matter. Adapted from one of the intricately plotted, well-characterized Martin Beck policiers by the Swedish team of Per Wahloo and Maj Sjowall, it loses a great deal in the translation from Stockholm to San Francisco's Dirty Harry country. Gloomy authenticity, for one thing; pace and a genuine sense of puzzlement, for others...
...redoubtable Walter Matthau is present and well accounted for in the Martin Beck role (though he is unaccountably renamed Jake Martin), and Bruce Dern is expertly exasperated as the inspector's new partner, trying to get the hang of the older man's methods and eccentricities. They give the film what ever humanity and fitful vitality it enjoys...
...There's Jeff Beck's introduction to "Over, Under, Sideways, Down;" Ray Davies' integration of "Land of 1000 Dances" into his archetypal "Top of the Pops;" the musical moment between "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and "Honky Tonk Women," which signified the end of mainstream Sgt. Pepper experimentation; "Lola." Pithy moments that, like good imagist poetry, are form, substance and implication in the instant they are heard. Take Peter Townshend's "My Generation." The singer's stutter says as much as the lyrics and says it better...
...Beck, Bogert and Appice. Wednes., Mar. 28. Music Hall...