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That head in the sand waiting for a nouvelle vague belongs to Film Director Roman Polanski. Playing guest editor for the year-end issue of the French Vogue, Roman wanted the shot, taken by his friend Harry Benson, for the cover. But Vogue's regular editors overruled him. "They told me," he says, "that the ladies who buy Vogue would run away from my cover." But Polanski still managed to express himself inimitably across 53 pages. Among his features: an annotated gallery of his leading ladies (Faye Dunaway is "the grande dame of the screen") and six pages...
Massachusetts Youth Wind Ensemble. Frank Battisti and Carl Atkins conduct works of Vaughan Williams, Handel, Benson, R. Strauss and Perisichetti at 2:30 p.m. at Jordan Hall, NEC. Free...
Texas--Senator Lloyd Benson's brief and unsuccessful campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination may have damaged his chances for re-election at home. By shifting slightly to the left on some issues to appeal to a national constituency, Bentsen alienated much of the conservative support in the business community that helped him capture the seat in 1970. His support for an elimination of the oil depletion allowance for major oil companies also strained his ties to the business sector of his constituency. However, many Democrats are still cool to Bentsen because he unseated liberal Senator Ralph Yarborough...
More proof that Boston is a jazz guitar town: Mr. Commercial, George Benson, is coming to Symphony Hall on Friday to play with his Tower of Power group. Don't forget Benson is the formerly right-on guitarist from Arista and CTI records who used to play heavy jazz. He is now in the more lucrative disco scene. I don't know, I used to like Benson, but he's beginning to sound like everyone else. Check him out yourself. The acoustics are better at Symphony than they are at the local clubs...
...Raucher's previous Summer of '42, much of the dialogue written for the adolescent lovers (well played by Glynnis O'Connor and Robby Benson) is coy chatter, polyunsaturated Salinger. Many of the big scenes, in contrast, are levelly written and directed with a certain reluctant reserve that gives them true intensity. The last scene especially, which reveals all about Billy Joe's tragedy, has a fine force that goes well be yond the modest limits this movie has set for itself. The scene belongs mostly to the man who brought about Billy Joe's death...