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More than just live Muzak, the best of the cocktail pianists "play the room," alternating from up-tempo numbers to dreamy lullabies to suit the mood of the audience. Requests are encouraged (current favorite: Lara's Theme from the film score of Doctor Zhivago), but in many instances the cocktail pianist is more prized for his fellowship than his musicianship. Table hopping between sets is essential, and any pianist worth his arpeggio greets the entrance of old customers by sliding into their favorite numbers...
...outshooting him with deft passing drives in straight sets, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4. To cap it off, 19-year-old Cliff Richey, the U.S. clay-court champion (TIME, July 29), made his own Davis Cup debut in the other singles by beating Mexico's Marcelo Lara in a grueling four-set match...
...plus organ, novachord, electric sonovox, harpsichord, electric piano, tack piano and zither, plays Maurice Jarre's Oscar-winning score. The variety of instruments would be more interesting if the listener could pick them out, but they all seem to play at once. One haunting tune, Lara's Theme, emerges-but just barely...
Enough Rope. In a proper French suspense thriller, the question is less likely to be whodunit than who'll-be-undone-by-it. Here, nearly every member of a fine, worried cast is slowly undone when Veteran Director Claude Autant-Lara (Devil in the Flesh) begins to philosophize on film about the complex, overlapping nature of guilt. Putting the squeeze on a crafty plot from a novel by Patricia Highsmith (Strangers on a Train), Autant-Lara seemingly distills a number of small, disturbing revelations and holds each one up to the light, testing for color, clarity and body...
Anyway, Guiness supposes that this peasant girl is really the long-lost daughter of deceased poet Yuri Zhivago and his mistress, Lara. To confirm this judgment, he flips open a volume of Zhivago's poetry, revealing pictures of both the poet and his mistress--Omar Sharif and Julie Christie...