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...faced man from Hingham bills it as "a splendid action to balance a contrary impression being fostered by other Bostonians...
...punch lines can be seen coming a mile away. Good and bad gags are pushed indiscriminately. He is often tasteless-certainly he has a four-year-old's overestimation of the comic possibilities in the word doodoo. But when he is good he is splendid, and he is the only commercial American film maker today (with the occasional exception of Woody Allen) working in the low-comedy, slapstick tradition of Buster Keaton and the Marx brothers...
Throughout the splendid state rooms of the White House last week, 685 guests made themselves at home while their host wandered genially among them. The festive scene was a congressional ball, the first time the entire Congress had been invited to the White House at one time since Lyndon Johnson closed out his term in 1969. There was no Hail to the Chief, no formal receiving line. It was, the Fords insisted, just Jerry and Betty welcoming at Christmastide old congressional friends, despite their recent proclivity for voting against the President's wishes...
...carried to brilliant fruition by his successor as general manager, Schuyler Chapin. It is easily the triumph of the Met's post-Rudolf Bing era. Chapin has even brought in Choreographer George Balanchine to stage a coolly graceful polonaise. Ming Cho Lee, 44, responsible for so many splendid New York City Opera sets (Giulio Cesare, Don Rodrigo), makes his Met debut with a masterly series of designs that not only touch the eyes but also move the drama forward virtually without pause. Lee's contrasts are myriad. The rough outer walls of Moscow do not prepare...
MIDNIGHT is A PLACE. 287 pages. Viking. $6.95. ARABEL'S RAVEN. 118 pages. Doubleday. $4.95. Both by Joan Aiken. The author of that incomparable melodrama The Wolves of Willoughby Chase has two remarkably different books out this year, both splendid. Midnight Is a Place is a savage yet romantic tale about what befalls a boy and girl, suddenly homeless and penniless, in a terrifyingly real and at the same time satisfyingly imaginary industrial city in 19th century Britain. This smoke-filled place is appropriately called Blastburn. Among other chores for survival, the girl collects cigar butts from gutters...