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...There are lots of pictures of policemen swinging and throwing and macing and sneering, perhaps because a number of reporters were among the victims. You watch the black-and-white set on the Santasoucci's front lawn, and you cheer and hiss at the right moments and make appropriately snide comments, and when the Pope comes on the screen you leave...
...Washington--and gone to work for an oil company in the wilds of California, as a hardhat. Then he returns home for a visit. Raphelson gives the mansion and grounds a wonderfully icy, creepy feeling, and the whole film reeks of slick, professional cynicism. The definitive Nicholson performance--snide, disillusioned, but slightly more cerebral than usual, and his fading youthfulness (now gone) is surprisingly appealing...
Count me among the editors who were not amused by Thomas Griffith's snide remark in his report on Washington columnists [July 10], that "with an avoidance of judgment that they call being open-minded, editors now seek for their pages a 'broad spectrum' of attitudes...
...want, Balanchine?); and c) a ballet fan tolerant enough to overlook the lumps and warts of the Boston Ballet who can suspend cynicism and realism long enough to become imaginatively involved in a fairy tale. Now that I've eliminated jocks, pre-meds (sorry, that's the second snide remark this column!), and Crimson editors, I suppose I ought to let you know that the Boston Ballet is performing the Tchaikovsky-scored classic Sleeping Beauty; tonight through Monday at 7:30, with matinees Saturday and Sunday at 1:30, at the Music Hall. Call 542-3945 for details...
Later that day the coal operators turned down the Pittsburg & Midway settlement as a pattern setter. Said one B.C.O.A. leader, in snide reference to P. & M.'s ownership by Big Oil: "No filling-station operation is going to influence these negotiations...