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Elio Petri is a film maker of deft, sar donic talents (We Still Kill the Old Way, Investigations of a Citizen Above Suspi cion, both starring Volonte). Lulu suggests no solutions. Petri takes great joy in the freedom of unrestricted attack and ignores the drudgery of coming up with answers. In fact, he could be counted on to mock anyone who dared...
...National Theater in London, explores the paradox between chillingly inflexible ideas and a reality so ephemeral that it may be false, and often is. What turns this grandiose philosophical dilemma into exhilarating theater is the fact that the play is very funny. Under Peter Hall's deft direction, the ominous and reflective pauses are delivered with timing and double takes of Jack Benny standard...
...with a delectably airy insouciance. Caro's sculpture from now on would be a matter of touch and gesture rather than accumulation and structure. Later works like Orangerie or even some of the unpainted, varnished steel pieces he made in 1974 at Veduggio, in Italy, conspire, in their deft placement and laconic sufficiency, toward an elegance unmatched in contemporary sculpture...
Billy Cobham: Total Eclipse (Atlantic; $6.98). An alumnus of Miles Davis and John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra, Cobham evolved from a progressive rhythm-and-blues drummer to a deft jazz writer-arranger. His music, often danceable, reflects Caribbean and Latin American rhythmic and tonal influences. Solarization, a 10½-minute elaboration of a five-note motif, is sometimes ruminative, but at other times radiates sizzling sensuality...
...Carol & Ted and Alice. But Beatty has added a new twist: by making a hairdresser his central character, he has come up with a man whose vigor is representative of the virtues of the times. While in romance of the past, the gallant suitor parried with a deft sword or shot a pistol with deadly accuracy, George tucks his electric hairdryer into his belt as he jumps on his motorcycle on the way to a home appointment. Like the avenues of another decadent empire, all of the loads in Shampoo's Los Angeles lead to George's beauty salon, where...