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...Price Commission and is now helping to plan President Ford's upcoming economic summit. Says Tompkins, who worked for Grayson while on leave from TIME in 1972: "It was serendipity-my first interview came completely unsolicited." In Washington, National Economics Correspondent John Berry put in a breathless week shuttling among meetings with various Administration advisers and policymakers. "Mine is a great beat to be on right now," says Berry. "It is a relief to see everyone's attention focused on an issue other than Watergate...
...Henry Kissinger's Middle East marathon was a grueling chore for him, it was also something less than a honeymoon for his new wife Nancy. Like her husband, she was constantly shadowed by a hovering clutch of Secret Service men on the breathless course from Algeria to Egypt to Jordan, and back and forth between Syria and Israel. One of the agents even swam parallel with her, stroke for stroke, when she came down to the pool from the sixth-floor apartment that she and her husband occupied at Jerusalem's King David Hotel...
Pierrot Le Fou 6 p.m., 9:30; Breathless 7:55, weekends...
Godard. The chic attitude nowadays is to be down on Godard. He wasn't actually as important, self-appointed arbiters declare, as we thought he was during the '60s. A stylish innovator, perhaps, but without content. That's probably true for an early, exuberant fool-around film like Breathless, a quick-paced sort of Bogart parody. Pierrot Le Fou is more ambitious and more complex, however, and so the revisionists had better look twice before they go about their revising...
...tempi--a wonderfully slow Adagio to begin the work, a free-flowing Andante for the Christe, and a very lively Allegro vivace in the opening of the Gloria. He took the huge fugue, "in Gloria Dei Patris, Amen," at a breakneck speed which left the audience--and the singers--breathless at the intermission. The last movement, Agnus Dei, was extremely dramatic as the singers' supplications for "inward and outward peace" were interrupted by the trumpet calls of war. The several tempo transitions in this movement were managed smoothly and effectively...