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There is a good, nasty performance by Hector Elizondo as an ambitious police captain, a characterization richer than this movie knows how to use. A great deal of time is also spent on the exploits of an undercover woman called Patty Butler, for no other reason than to tie a couple of knots in the plot. She is played by a model-turned-actress named Susan Blakely, who should not be encouraged...
...Hector Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust (Seiji Ozawa conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus; Deutsche Grammophon, 3 LPs, $23.94). Rhythm and an instinct for drama animate Ozawa's shaping of this Berlioz semiopera. Although it overflows with melody, Berlioz's musical transformation of Goethe is generally known only by three orchestral pieces- the exuberant Rákdóczy March, the Dance of the Sylphs and the Minuet of the Will o' the Wisp. With out diminishing the lushness of the com poser's symphonic texture, Ozawa's crisp tempi...
...what lies outside of war that makes a masterpiece of the Iliad, and makes this translation a fitting companion to Fitzgerald's justly celebrated Odyssey. Two cities decorate the shield of Achilles, newly forged for the climactic duel with Hector, champion of the Trojans. One city is at war, its walls besieged like Troy's. The second city is at peace. In the margins of Fitzgerald's Iliad, this second city keeps peeping through, full of tender wives, proud fathers, grazing cattle, freshly plowed fields, fruitful vineyards and (see the comparative samples in box) boys and girls...
Although it is not know whether Kissinger condones it, former Nazi S.S. Colonel Walter Rauff has, since the coup that overthrew Salvador Allende, been made chief advisor to Colonel Hector Sepulveda. Sepulveda heads an organization called DINA (Directorate of Anti-Communist Investigation) which was recently established as an all-powerful state security network by the Pinochet government...
Centaurs, parakeets, a curly tailed unicorn resting on a carpet of flowers while pomegranate juices drip on its milky hide; heraldic crests, peasants reaping, Hector girding himself in 15th century steel, slim ladies picnicking in the everlasting green glow of a medieval Arcadia-the great exhibition of 14th to 16th century tapestries, jointly organized by the National Museums of France and New York's Metropolitan, is an exquisite arbor of diversion. Shown last October at the Grand Palais in Paris, it opened in Manhattan last week. It is undoubtedly the most important exhibition of its kind ever mounted...