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Prosecutors in Nevada's Pershing County, a largely desert area with only 3,500 residents, are not sure that California will ever send Gallego to the gas chamber. So they have charged him with the rape and murder of four teen-age girls in their county. The trial may cost $60,000, which the county, its budget already in the red, cannot afford. But residents of both Nevada and California are contributing to a prosecution fund. So far, about $2,500 has been donated. Says Pershing County District Attorney Richard Wagner: "California has a very liberal state supreme court...
That changed last year when a small, local chamber group "thrilled" Lamont and fellow residents at the Miller's River Apartment complex...
Meanwhile, inside the shuttle, Navy Commander Robert Gibson, 37, the copilot, drew a less enviable assignment: he had to free a jammed waste-clearing fan in the shuttle's balky $1.2 million toilet. This high-tech chamber pot, designed to work in the absence of gravity, has broken down repeatedly during shuttle flights. To the crew's relief, Gibson's plumbing skills eventually got the facility working...
This being so, imagine the consternation of a distinguished chamber ensemble, rich in years and adoring reviews, when their first violinist is felled by a heart attack. Their alternative is retirement or filling the empty chair. Brief experience with the former is not encouraging. After years of letting the group set their tones and rhythms, the remaining bachelors find their loneliness difficult. And without the calming core with which music provided their lives, they are restive. The appearance of Edoardo Morelli (Pierre Malet) is an unspoken prayer's answer. He is a superb musician. He is a handsome...
Visually unexceptional, narratively straightforward, Carpi's film is neverthe-less intricately worked out psychologically. It plays like a lovely chamber piece, and its actors work with a good musical quartet's instinctive politesse and self-effacing skill, muting individual flights in deference to total effect. Carpi may never be a Beethoven of the cinema, but he could perhaps be a Schubert, and there are few enough of those making movies these days...