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...Languid Afternoons. With a canny eye on the box office, Mann has attracted a devoted following from "the lay and fringe public" with a unique amalgam of jazz and ethnic music. Last week, in Manhattan's cavernous Village Gate, the Herbie Mann Septet was serving up one of its typical jazz potpourris: gently infectious bossa nova, thumping Afro-Cuban, variations on a North African tribal chant, a Middle Eastern treatment of the theme from Fiddler on the Roof, a brooding interpretation of a classical piano piece writ ten in 1888 by French Composer Erik Satie. Mann also introduced...
...best, Director Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Argentina's foremost film maker, studies his homeland with an unblinking poet's eye that invites comparison to Antonioni and Bergman. He deftly juggles modish effects, melding sun and skin into the languid what-next boredom of a summer afternoon or exposing the backbone of a scene with the blinding suddenness of a flashbulb popping in the dark...
Clearly, Château cannot stand on its plot alone. But Vadim goes farther to bring it to sure ruin by translating high comedy into languid boudoir farce. Time and again he sacrifices wit, worldliness and style to make room for a blonde (Vitti) in a bed sheet-the Vadim trademark-then repeats the obligatory routine with a brunette (Hardy). What he conveys, at last, is a boyish conviction that these bored, civilized votaries of pleasure might be just the sort for a fun weekend, but no longer. Sagan's sidelong glance at the enigma of women, in Vadim...
These Conservative errors have done for Labour what Labour could not do for itself. They have dissipated the general apathy which was undoubtedly helping the Tories. Earlier in the campaign, Mr. Wilson and his subordinates could not change the languid mood with their bland talks on housing, pensions, and education. But once voters--especially floating or undecided voters--began to take interest in the election, they seemed to respond more favorably to the issues Labour raises than to Sir Alec's favorites: the independent nuclear deterrent and the dangers of nationalization. And the possibility of a balance of payments crisis...
...jungle, and John Shaw, who left his wife and newborn son in Hong Kong to lend a hand in Saigon. From the Los Angeles bureau, Keith Johnson flew to Honolulu for interviews with Admiral Sharp. Reports Johnson: "Covering part of a war from Hawaii is an odd experience. The languid beauty of the place makes it an incongruous setting for anything military. Otto Preminger's staged 'bombings' this week-part of a movie he is shooting here-did not shatter the peaceful illusion." Johnson was allowed to see the secret war room at CINCPAC, which he found...