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...audience (an estimated 48 million), the show began with a male-female duet of Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better. That was followed by the omnipresent Howard Cosell in his own flashy tuxedo-which seemed rather like a smoking jacket on a whooping crane. The experts on hand were Gene Scott and Rosemary Casals; both worked hard to demonstrate their sexist bias. Scott never had a chance in the face of Ms. Casals' steady barrage of anti-Riggs billingsgate...
...each syllable enunciated in falsetto with proper childish awe. The band only enters between lines, to keep the time, with nuanced emphasis from the bass drum and guitar; two flutes linger through each line as backing vocals. Jackie DeShannon appears for the first chorus, and the song becomes a duet. More idealism, but a far cry from the bliss of "Starting a New Life"--because there's a distance involved, a musing quality absent from Morrison's music for years. Flutes are prominent all the way through the song, and the acoustic guitar holds both the time and feeling...
SUSAN Sontag's Brother Carl is so much more accomplished in every way than her earlier Duet for Cannibals that it is liable to be mistaken for a good film. It is not quite that. It is what you might better call an imitation of a good film, a kind of master forgery, the film equivalent of painting by numbers, the sort of product that looks all right until you stick it next to the real thing...
...that Ms. Sontag is a thief, it's simply that she's a critic. She has seen so many films and thought so long and hard about them, that her own look like a composite of all those things she's praised in others. Duet for Cannibals was made out of Bresson and Bergman and Godard in equal measures, one ingredient at a time. It substituted confusion for narrative and vagueness for thought. It was the type of film that gave the avant garde a bad name...
...BILL EVENS TRIO was the tightest set and it was apparent that these musicians had played together before. They gave a polished performance in which pianist Evans virtually outshone everyone at the jam session. The duet between Vibraphonist Gary Burton and Evans was one of the most outstanding sequences of the night and Evans's finale--a vibrating crescendoing run--concluded the best set of the night...