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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...
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...
Collage of Culture. Joined by their wives, who had spent the day at the famous Moscow Circus School, the two leaders went to the Bolshoi Theater Friday night for a superb collage of Soviet culture, bits of ballet, opera, folk singing, Cossack dancing and even a chorus of Swanee River, in both English and Russian. The couples, together with Kissinger, Kosygin and Podgorny, watched the performance from a flag-draped box at the rear of the theater, and during the intermission gathered for a light buffet. Toasting the women at the table, Brezhnev gallantly reached into a bouquet of roses...