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PS oca nicely miderslated lino OfP fiiip pmiipdv Hub's BBB lauds blast at Nader By Kevin Kelly Globe Staff Milos Forman's "Taking Off," at the Cheri, is wonderful, absolutely wonderful, an easy and affectionate American comedy about the generation gap, and if that sounds faintly out-of-date it isn't, it isn't at all. What Forman has done is to take a current domestic problem, in all its predictability, and turn it into a genuine human comedy which, at the same time, becomes a mirror image of the contemporary American scene, and all of this with effortless charm. Forman's story, written in collaboration with John Guare, Jean-Claude Car-riere and John Klein, is very slight. A nice, respectable, somewhat dumb couple named Lynn and Larry Tyne who live in tasteless The Tynes become involved with the so-called Society for the Parents of Fugitive Children and at a black-tie dinner meeting, the highpoint of Forman's perfectly aimed satire, they're solemnly introduced to the joys of smoking pot, guided by a psychologist and one of his hip, young patients. The experience wiU help the parents understand their kids, that is if they ever find them, again.

That particular scene is a gem. All the gowned and glossy haired wives and their penguin-suited husbands take off in various reveries and Forman has set the scene in a room hung with the sallow, pristine portraits of early Americans, wonderful, stare-eyed primitives, and it's all very, very funny. Av. suburban splendor in Forest Hills, discover that their teenage daughter Jeannie, suffering from the nameless anxiety of today's youth, has taken off, fled, split. Lynn pushes her husband to go off in search, to look somewhere, an here so that their shared guilt may be lessened by action, even if the action is pointless.

Larry goes in company with a friend, as bad a bumbler as he, and after a series of futile attempts, all of them funny, the two friends get drunk. By the time they return home, Jeannie, who has spent most of the time at a singer's audition in New York, has returned also. Lynn, who thinks Jeannie is "on something," questions her with such determined intent that Jeannie splits again. 'Nana' rates By Edgar Driscoll Jr. Globe Staff "Nana," the new Scandinavian sexploiter at the Gary, not only is a "No.

No" for the under 18 set but rates double negatives on many another score as well. Loosely based and we do mean loosely on Emile Zola's 19th century classic, this updated Swedish production of a National General release closes in the French courtesan's sexual adventures in a most disjointed, sometimes ludicrous way. Blonde and neatly bunched European actress Anna Gael plays the mod "Nana," who collects men the way horses collect flies. Providing of course that the men can pay. Do they ever.

"Nana" was produced by Tors Sjoberg and directed by Mac Ahlberg, an old hand at this sort of thing. You remember A Woman" and "Fanny Hill." The men in her life include brooding Lars Lunoe i i lurched into the trench, burying him beneath tons of dirt. Rebuffetti was subsequently removed and taken to a Stough-ton hospital. (Stanley Bauman photo) RESCUE Workmen try feverishly to pull Frank Rebufletti of Hyde Park from Brockton ditch in which he was working when gravel laden truck Mew England car accidents fatal to 2 die in fires LINNEA HEACOCK she splits And provocative. The Tynes weave their way home to Forest Hills with another couple and, still high on pot, play a game of strip poker, only to be discovered, at a sadly touching moment, by Jeannie.

Forman has framed the film with a set-piece, the singer's audition, and time and again he cuts back to it, to an artful array of soft, innocent faces, some plain, some pretty, all of them taken together as a visual testament to the vulnerability of being young. Throughout the film Forman's social comment is gracefully understated but indelible, almost the com- plete reverse of what An-tonioni tried to accomplish in "Zabriskie Point." Without forcing at all, Forman captures the essence of being young, yet, ironically, the film is more concerned with the older generation, and that, I guess, is the bond of his human con-cernhis ability to capture both with such understanding. "Taking Off" is beautifully performed, notably by Buck Henry and Lynn Carlin, as the Tynes; Lm-nea Heacock, as the-nearly silent Jeannie; Georgia Engel and Tony Harvey, as the Tynes' friends; and Paul Benjamin and Audra Lindley, as parents with a fugitive child. The music, by the way, is just great, and it ranges from sections of Dvorak's "Stabat Mater" to a star-turn by Tina Turner, to say about the hilarious numbers at the audition, in-, eluding an Anglo Saxon dirty word song that is almost worth the whole film. Don't miss "Taking Off." back tries to outdistance the law.

Van Peebles tells it at a breakneck pace, with a heavy display of cinematic tricks (superimposed images, washed-out colors, split screen) and a minimum of talk. And the effect is like an electric shock that constantly recharges "iTself from image to image. Sweet Sweetback's song is an anguished aria of eruptive hate, the black man screaming his vengeance with a fury demented but inescapable. And, most remarkable of all, even when the film is rabidly prejudiced about everything white (the white actors are all very bad while the blacks are uniformly good), it still doesn't lose its power. If you can take it, you'll find it a gruelling experience.

William J. Cardoso Globe Staff Eight persons were killed yesterday in car accidents in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. In Berlin, N.H., state police said four persons died when their car plunged into the Androscoggin River and in Revere three teen-agers were killed when a stolen car in which they were riding collided with an oil truck. In a third crash, Charles Collins, 57, of Scituate, died in the collision of his car and a trailer truck on route 25, Wareham. Elsewhere, two persons died in fires.

In a construction accident in Brockton, Fran-chisco Rebuffetti, 45, of Charles street, Hyde Park, was buried under several tons of gravel when a no no twice ANNA GAEL as "Nana" as a love-smitten count; Keve Kjelm as a baron who sets her up in a posh pad by the sea; and Gerard Berner, as the boy-next-door type (bedroom door.) Talk about navel maneuvers. Oh my. Also i 1 a i her charms early and often is Gillian Hills as her very close friend. How else would you record the usual Lesbian bit? Bird-watchers may enjoy the nudity, but that's all "Nana" has to recom-: mend it. Poor Emile, Poor Emile.

finds his way into a whorehouse. He is fed and cared for and matures into a prize stud, who performs at special parties (and the party scene, by the way, is a kind of blackened Jean Genet). To oblige his employer, he accompanies two policemen to the station to help them cover their inability to track down a murderer. En route the police get involved with a black youth, whom they take to a vacant lot and beat without mercy, all the while Sweetback is handcuffed to one of the policemen. Slow to anger, he finally erupts and turns against the white oppressors, slashing them unconscious with his handcuffs.

From then on the film is a relentless search as Sweet 'Sweet Sweetback's Song anguished aria of hate BBB Continued from Page 1 to Hate," said the American businessman has become a "perennial patsy and ever-popular whippin4 boy" and that if it were not for a growing bias against businessmen "there would be no Ralph Nader." "To me, consumerism represents a major threat not only to the companies we work for but to the entire socio-economic system on which this nation was founded and through which it has flourished," Shepard said. He added quickly that he was not referring to the Better Business Bureau. "My target is that small but vocal group of far-out activists who keep badgering the United States Congress and various Federal agencies for additional controls over industry on the premise that, without these controls, our nation is doomed to ecological and economic destruction," he said. Among these activists Shepard included, beside Nader and Betty Furness, certain members of the press, officials of the Federal Trade Commission and "many of our congressmen." The latter remark prompted some laughter, among the businessmen because of Mrs. Hick's presence, so Shepard hastened to add, "with exceptions." Shepard then revealed that he had had a private conversation with Mrs.

Hicks before the meeting, and she had made a confession: "I love America." Enthusiastic applause greeted this remark. Shepard went on to deny that things are as bad as "consumerists" claim and said that most of what America has been hearing THOMAS R. SHEPARD insidious peril" from the consumerist lobby is "hogwash, drivel, poppycock and outright lies." Commenting on air pollution, Shepard said, "the truth is that the amount of pollutants in the air has been decreasing in just about every major city in the United States for as long as records have been kept." On water pollution: "Some of our lakes and rivers are not as pretty as they used to be, but our drinking water is the safest in the world." On pesticides (DDT): "Except for accidental misuse, it hasn't harmed a single person." On overpopulation: "The birth rate in every major country on earth has been declining since the 1920s, according to the World Health Organization." On misuse of drugs: "On a long-range basis we are losing our taste for drugs, despite the current experimentation by teenagers." After the meeting, Rev. Robert J. McEwen, S.J., president of the Association of Massachusetts Consumers, told reporters that he thought it was "incredible" that the BBB would allow itself to be used as a forum for such a speech.

"I don't think that he is representative of the sensible faction of the business community," he added. Before the meeting Fr. McEwen and several youths distributed leaflets describing Shepard as "one of the most notorious consumer-baiters and consumer-haters in the United States." At the outset of his speech, Shepard invited Fr. McEwen to be seated at a table. The priest declined.

During the meeting he remained outside the ballroom making green ink notes on a prepared text of Shepard's talk. llfiiliwi I 1 1 truck tipped into the trench where he was working. He was extricated by fellow employees of M. Cibboti Constr ction Hyde Park, and taken to Stoughton's Goddard Hos-pita, where he was placed under intensive care and reported last night to be in "stable" condition. Rebuffetti received chest and other injuries.

Victims in the Revere accident were identfied by police as Thomas Foster, 16, and Debra Tremonte, 16, both of East Boston, and Noel Rivera, 18, of Lynn. Authorities said the car was stolen Thursday in Lynn. Two other passengers in the oar received head and leg injuries. The names of Steven DeMarco, 14, and Dolly Finocchio, 14, both of East Boston, were administration. Having surveyed the 28 public and private health clinics operating in the Boston area, Cawley thinks a program of state-supported medical clinics across the commonwealth could help save the high cost of state payments for medical aid.

He said a clinic sponsored by the Children's Hospital medical center "contracts with patients for prepaid health services. The state pays high rates for hospital care, frequently in cases where clinical service is all that is needed." There are problems in establishing community medical clinics, Cawley said. Public hearings and investigation by his committee will aim at determining whether the bene Cawley urges state medical clinics By Kevin Kelly Globe Staff I couldn't take my eyes off the Music Hall screen and I think I sat motionless the whole time. Yet I could barely stand the steady, sweeping violence that rages with hideous intensity through Melvin. Van Peebles' "Sweet Sweetback's Song," which, without question, is the most hard-hitting black film I've ever seen.

It is a film of black bias, hoarse with hatred, and it is sometimes severely flawed, but whatever else I may say it is a film that cannot, will not be ignored, and it ends with a warning that freezes the blood: "Watch out! A bad nigger is coming back to collect some dues!" Sweet Sweetback is a small black bov who first KAREN CARPENTER and The Carpenters, who recently received a gold record for their "For All We Know," will make their first Boston appearance at the Music Hall Tuesday. Art notes Alan Shestack, 32, has been appointed the new director of the Yale University Art Gallery, the oldest college art gallery in the Western Hemisphere. He succeeds Andrew C. Ritchie who is retiring after 14 years as director. Shestack has been the gallery's curator of drawings and prints since 1968.

As everyone in the art world knows, big business should be doing a heck of a lot more than it is in supporting the arts. Thus it's a pleasure to recognize enlightened corporate support when it crops up. For instance: From the Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.C., comes announcement that its lovely- Sculpture Garden, an oasis of greenery in midtown Manhattan, will become a free public park weekend evenings from May 14-Oct. 10, thanks to a grant from the Mobile Foundation. "The grant for SUM-MERGARDEN has made it possible for us to make one of New York's most beautiful urban spaces available to the public at a time when many private institutions, including our own, are faced with difficult choices in maintaining services," said John B.

Hightower, director of the museum. Business is also making a contribution to art and artists at the 22-year-old annual New England Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, sponsored by the Silvermine Guild of Artists, at New Canaan, Conn. June 11-July 11. Donors to this year's $5000 cash awards kitty include the American Can U.S. Tobacco Pitney Bowes, Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner Smith, Merchants Bank and Trust Harry N.

Abrams, and Charles of the Ritz Foundation. Over the past 20 years, $100,000 has been contributed. Benefit will aid victims of war in East Pakistan "Dances and Songs of Bengal" will be performed tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, 1151 Massachusetts Cambridge. Proceeds from the benefit will go to aid victims of the civil war in East Pakistan.

The event is sponsored by the Bangla Desh (Free Bengal) Organization of Boston. placed on the danger list at Massachusetts General Hospital. Two victims in the Berlin crash were identified as David Lamontagne, 20, son of Berlin Fire Chief Lucien Lamontagne, and Lucien LaPointe, 23. Their bodies were recovered from about 12 feet of water in the swift current. A search continued for the bodies of the other two youths, who -were unidentified.

State police said they had confirmed that there had been four persons in the automobile. In Manchester, N.H., J. Harrison Cavanaugh, 83, died when a fire believed to have started by a cigar he was smoking damaged his home. Cavanaugh, who lived alone, was found by firemen beneath blankets near his bed. fits of the clinics exceed "the kinks." Cowley said ideally he would like a program in which the state covered costs for persons now eligible for medical assistance and also allowed low-income families to contract for prepaid medical care at reasonable rates.

"We want to hear from the American Medical Assn. on this," he said. "They are not providing the health care necessary. They admit it. We need hew methods.

A lot of people are not getting the health care they need. Often when they do they pay for hospital care when they need only clinic care." The commission's first hearing on the proposed clinic program will be May 19 at 10 a.m. Claire campus. She said that Capp had requested the information and that she had been assigned to brief him on opinions and viewpoints. Capp made a lecture appearance the same day at the university, attended by about 2500.

Hochberg said Capp was in Peter Bent Brigham Hospital where he was undergoing medical tests and receiving treatment for general exhaustion. He said Capp collapsed last week while on a speaking tour in Arkansas. He was hospitalized there and then transferred to the Boston hospital. District Atty. Dunning said the complaint and a warrant for Capp's arrest had been forwarded to the Suffolk County sheriff's office, jjxmf By Carol Liston Globe Staff Sen.

Robert L. Cawley (D-West Roxbury) would like the state to begin development of a community medical clinic program to offset the present $400 million paid by the Welfare Department for medical care. The senator envisions a program available to welfare patients and to paying patients, just above the economic bracket of welfare recipients. The clinics would cut the high cost of private physicians and hospital care for the poor, Cawley said. Cawley has scheduled a press conference Monday at the State House to outline an investigation to be conducted by his special joint committee on welfare Al Cap EAU CLAIRE, Wis Issuance of a warrant charging cartoonist Al Capp with a morals offense against a 20-year-old Eau Claire State University coed was announced here yesterday.

District Atty. Lawrence W. Dunning said the warrant, issued by County Judge Thomas H. Barland, charges Alfred G. Kaplin, 61, of Cambridge, with sodomy, attempted adultery, and indecent exposure.

Capp, who draws the "Li'l Abncr" comic strip, denied the charges in a statement released by his Boston attorney. "The allegations are en-tireiy untrue," the statement said. "I have been warned for sometime now that the revolutionary left charaed in morals case ill 1 AM would try to stop me by any means from speaking out on campuses. "My home has been vandalized," the statement continued, "and I have been physically threatened. This is also part of their campaign to stop me.

Those who have faith in me know that I will not be stopped." Capp's attorney, Alvin S. Hochberg, said that Edward Bennett Williams, a noted trial lawyer, has been retained to handle the case. "We feel the case has serious civil liberties implications," Hochberg said. The complainant, who is married, told Eau Claire authorities that the alleged offense took place April 1 in Capp's motel suite where she had gone to report to him on the liberal point of view on the Eau I "NO TRUCK" is title of this painting latest one-man show at the Galerie by Robert Hamilton included in his Amadeus On Newbury street, Boston..