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...cops in Fuzz are the Keystone variety: louts and lovable fumblers who succeed at their work mostly out of dumb luck. The precinct has been transplanted from McBain's unnamed megalopolis to Boston for reasons that have little to do with milieu; the producers found it too expensive to shoot the film in New York. The shabby station house is cluttered with a couple of painters from whom Director Colla is grimly determined to wring laughs. As the cops struggle to do their duty, the painters contrive to get in the way whenever possible, straddling desks with stepladders...
...Petrushka (New York Philharmonic, Pierre Boulez conductor, Columbia, $5.98). Boulez's first recording with his new charges at the Philharmonic, and a sonic dazzler. When Stravinsky conducted this music, he deliberately gave it a kind of squeeze-box accordion sound, as though trying to match the marionette-stage milieu of the puppet hero. Boulez's performance is much broader in both aura and atmosphere, as if his touchstones were the gay, extroverted Shrovetide Fair scenes that open and close the work. The approaches are opposed but, happily, of equal validity...
...problems of the concert on Monday evening can be blamed on the Business School's new auditorium--which is, after all, given the Harvard artistic milieu, a real sign of progress: no sirens, no uncontrollable drafts, moderately comfortable seats. One can readily forgive a great many performers' foibles--harsh sounds resulting from nervousness, an occasionally self-indulgent glissando, embarassing intonations in enharmonic modulations, ostentatious riccochet bowings which don't synchronize--and so on. But when the composer's written indications of expression are disregarded, and extraneous ones interpolated for the 'luscious' effect of the moment; when the long, harmonically-directed...
...care for retarded people. The 22-bed psychiatric ward at the Cambridge Hospital cannot accommodate everyone who needs in-patient help; many Cambridge-Somerville residents are sent instead to understaffed Westboro State Hospital--forty miles from Cambridge--for in-patient care. Furthermore, although new, effective techniques of group, milieu, and drug therapies have decreased the average length of hospitalization in the psychiatric ward of the Cambridge Hospital to only six weeks, many former patients soon deteriorate and sometimes even return to in-patient wards in the Cambridge Hospital or Westboro because of inadequate after-care programs...
...experience, and college jazz artists (and sometimes real musicians) give it to them. Here also lies the East Coast seedbed of escapist counter-culturism and intellectual voyeurism--fit for an Abbie Hoffman (remember Abbie?) even more than for a Fritz. If Bakshi, unlike Crumb, speaks from such a milieu's heart, still that milieu indicts itself...