Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Haynes and the Hip Ensemble are next door at the Jazz Workshop. Haynes is a superb jazz drummer who has played with all sorts of greats (John Coltrane, for example), but we must confess we have our doubts about how interesting it can be to listen to somebody play drums for two hours. If you think drums can work as a lead instrument, by all means go; if anyone can pull it off it's Haynes. Though Sunday...
Spider John Koerner is making a longawaited return to Cambridge at Passim's this week. Spider John, so named because he's so long and thin, is a superb guitarist who plays all kinds of folk and acoustic blues. He's a local boy who got his start here and has been away of late. It should be a good show; Spider John is a real crowd-pleaser. Through Sunday...
Nicholson is superb as a detective hired by a wife who's a phony, does his job well enough to break a front-page story, and finds himself in the middle of a great conspiracy involving the water supply of thirsty Los Angeles--rendered here with delicate eye and choice of color filters. Enter Faye Dunaway, older than you remember her, as the real wife of the man, soon murdered, her thick dark lipstick granting her what Joyce somewhere calls red mollusc lips...
...same quiet sense of perspective keeps the pace under superb control and frames the shots with a touch that is most deft for being so unarbitrary: Polanski cuts skillfully into shots through windows, mirrors, bamboo curtains, cameras, binoculors, but the only cut that seems personal, intrusive, cruel, is the one he applies in character to Nicholson, but he does that with finesse...
Howard Simons, 45. "Don't gloat," Simons advised his colleagues on the day John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman resigned from the White House. As managing editor of the Washington Post Simons was instrumental in launching and sustaining the paper's superb day-to-day coverage of the Watergate story. Simons, an award-winning science reporter for the Post, became managing editor in 1971, ten years after joining the paper that he and Executive Editor Ben Bradlee have turned into one of the country's best...