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WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, 74, a Republican appointed by Eisenhower in 1957, has been a consistent liberal with a broad view of judicial powers. The court's only Roman Catholic, voted to end obstacles to abortion, then suffered through demands that he be excommunicated. Personally distrusts the press, and in recent years has generally avoided interviews, but devoutly defends First Amendment rights. Is known to dislike Nixon so much that three years ago, when tempted to resign in order to spend more time with his seriously ill wife, he decided to stay in office rather than let the President appoint another...
Chinatown, Roman Polanski's homage to 1930s detective movies, is one of the few really good films playing in Boston this week. Jack Nicholson is no Humphrey Bograt, but he does make an extremely convincing badass private eye. When Faye Dunaway is good, she's very good, and in this one she's excellent. The plot is fun but ultimately insignificant. Worth traveling out of Cambridge for, Chinatown is playing at Cleveland Circle...
...THIS BUSINESS," says Jack Nicholson--as J.J. "Jake" Gittis, private detective specializing in marriage difficulties, flushing his suave taunting smile and slender silver cigarette case--"you gotta have finesse." Nicolson does. And so, in this business of making thirties atmosphere detective thrillers, does Roman Polanski. He's made Chinatown the best film so far this year, an unpretentious homage to thirties detective flicks, the kind of tense story where the reviewer forgets to take notes about half-way through...
Robert Sanchez, 40. The newly appointed Archbishop of Santa Fe, a native New Mexican who spent four years studying theology Rome's Gregorian University, vaulted to eminence from a parish priesthood in Albuquerque. Sanchez is a pleasantly informal clergyman who has already stirred up his predominantly Hispanic Roman Catholic archdiocese in New Mexico. He has requested that the churches in his domain contribute a Sunday's offering to Cesar Chavez's farm workers...
Geno Baroni, 43. "Unless you can understand the ethnic factor, you can't understand the cities," warns the director of the National Center for Urban Ethnic Affairs, which runs programs aimed at developing skills and leadership. Son of an immigrant Pennsylvania coal miner, Father Baroni was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1956, served in working-class parishes in Altoona and Johnstown, Pa. Transferred to Washington, D.C., he became active in civil rights and in 1965 was among the first priests to go to Alabama for the Selma-Montgomery march. He helped launch Washington's Head Start program...