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...sporting a sort of drowsy panache, appears as a private investigator named J.J. Gittis, hired to tail the Los Angeles water commissioner, who is suspected by his wife of being unfaithful. But the commissioner is soon victim of a highly unlikely accident, dead of a fall into a reservoir drain, his lungs full of salt water. This plunges Gittis, too, way over his head, into a network of personal and political degradation...
...Nixon Administration was planning to modernize the Vietnamese army and thus reduce U.S. involvement in the war, Fulbright scoffed: "I have heard this before. It is an old broken record ... You've got to do something radical to change this war or we're going down the drain...
...audience had some uncomfortable moments when they didn't know whether or not the action was intended to be funny. For example, in a fairly long piece called "Pisces," some very serious dancing was accompanied by a not so serious tape of what sounded like water gurgling down a drain. Shades of a modern Pisces living in the plumbing? The dance might have been better if the music had not sounded so hygienic, or if the dancers had taken themselves less seriously...
...Rotterdam's Europoort, oil business goes on as usual. Giant tankers glide across the busy harbor to docks where workmen connect the ships to shiny umbilical pipes that drain their heavy cargoes of crude. Near by, five gigantic refineries crank out prodigious quantities of fuel for the thirsty North European market. The only abnormal thing about the scene is that it is not supposed to be happening. Like three other nations,* The Netherlands is still officially being embargoed by the Arab oil states that last month ended their five-month ban on exports...
...bronzes are not about anguish or loss, loneliness or the post-Hiroshima terrors. They are emotionally quite ineloquent. This may be one reason for their survival into a time when most of the angst-pushing European sculpture of the 1940s and '50s has vanished down the historical drain. In his obsession with the difficulty of seeing, Giacometti wished to get beyond style. He partially succeeded because - paradoxical as it may seem - he was culturally saturated, an artist of enormous erudition who boasted without much exaggeration of having visited the Louvre 50,000 times. (By the same token, Giacometti...