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...Proposition is the only thing you really have to see while you're in Cambridge this summer. The Proposition is an improvisation group that is witty, clever and a joy forever. They play at 241 Hampshire St. in Inman Sq., every Wednesday through Saturday. Week night performances begin at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $3 and $4, and there's a student rush...
Dead-End Beat. Where the movie works less well is in characterization. Nicholson's Gittis is a clever piece of acting, funny and winning, but Polanski and Towne do not give him the chance to get into any depth. Gittis is a nickel-and-dimer trying to boost himself into the big time. He wears sharp, fussy suits and throws out a line of bright chatter. But there are still times when he sounds like the dumb cop on the deadend Chinatown beat. All this is fine, but it is all there is. Chandler made Philip Marlowe into...
...Washington Bureau Chief of the Des Moines Register and Tribune, who had baited the Secretary on the taps issue at his Washington press conference. "He sits you down and tells you what he thinks you want to hear, then asks what you think," says Mollenhoff. "It's very clever and very flattering...
...What's yellow and smooth and dangerous?" yips the clever infant, zapping his father with another riddle. "Quin's Shanghai Circus," answers the weary book reviewer. "Stop being silly," the child admonishes. "What's yellow and smooth and dangerous?" "Ah, dangerous," says his distracted parent, "I thought you said meaningless...
Unfortunately, another faction is trying to gnaw away impartially at all of them, without regard to race, creed, color or state of mental health. It is a herd of vampire bats, who are understandably annoyed at the way their neighborhood is being run down. They are rather more clever than you would give them credit for - short-circuiting the lights at will, squirming through air-conditioning ducts to bite the folks good night. After a while, indeed, one begins to suspect that they had a chaw or two on the wiring of the computer that picked this lot of survival...