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...economy remains overheated in many sectors but is becoming perceptibly cooler. Industrial production fell by a fraction of a point in August, the first drop in a year. Retail sales continue sluggish. Storms prevail in the housing market. Private housing starts declined for the seventh straight month, and the scarcity and high cost of mortgage money assure that rough weather will persist. Interest rates on U.S. Treasury notes reached 8%, the highest in 110 years...
...zest of a man summoned up for tax evasion. He appears to be lipreading his English, although the script seems to find the language just about as alien as Mastroianni does. The five scriptwriters who supposedly worked on the film must have spent enough time at the water-cooler to flood a camel. The only smidgin of plot is that Dunaway makes a late abortive attempt at suicide, something the film successfully achieves after about ten minutes...
...characters are of secondary importance, and vice versa. Schifrin has a deft jazz touch that only Mancini and Jones can match, although his personal leaning is toward Latinesque blues. Schifrin's version of the blues is a way of expressing passion and depicting people in a cooler and less sentimental mood than would have been likely a generation ago. That attitude fits in with the new approach to film scoring. "Today's composers are a little more subdued, a little more inward looking," he says. "We are suggesting and implying things through our music rather than directly expressing...
...special, desperate breed. He is blessed - or cursed - with an automatic mechanism for justifying the folly of sticking around and for "reassuring himself that his prospects are still good." The point in a line where pessimists shade into optimists, Mann and Taylor imply, is a good place for cooler heads to decide on quitting...
Father Figure. Hawk reached his peak of popularity as a musicians' musician during the early '40s. But he kept abreast of later changes, from swing to bop to the cooler, lighter sound of the '50s. He also became something of a father figure to young players, whom he entertained in his Manhattan apartment overlooking Central Park, talking music or baseball and cooking for them (he loved all kinds of beans-and popcorn). Almost always in the background there was the sound of classical music; Hawk loved Bach and Beethoven as much as a strong jazz solo...