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PAIR EXTRAORDINAIRE Photo by cindy Boydstun Duo Shared Bill With Cosby Reaction: He Billcosbyed' By CHRIS HOUGLUM Of the Emerald You’ve heard about the verb “spiroagnew.” It means “to botch up, but good.” So, what’s the opposite of “spiroagnew”? It’s “billcosby,” i.e., "to succeed, and in aces, yet.” Bill Cosby, comedian extra ordinaire and one-time award winning television performer, made a formal invasion of Mac Court Friday night. As was anticipated, he billcosbyed. He was beautiful. His success was due in large part to the positive force of the Cosby personality, of which the Cosby brand of humor is incon testably an extension. There is not a hint of falsity or pretension in either. No nicely coined one-liners discard ed easily from the well-oiled machinery of a mental file. No corrosive social comment de signed to deliberately provoke discomfiture or alienation. Cosby’s specialty is, rather, a humor of near-universal appeal, one which draws upon the large store of everyday experience in which people have a common bond. The nostalgic bent of Cosby’s humor is enough to point out this common denom inator — the result is mass identification with the perform er. And once this ultra-desirable situation has been achieved, the dazzling comedic spectrum of Cosby’s genius is allowed to Teacher Negotiations Explored in Bulletin “Teacher Negotiations in a Militant Age," is the topic of a recent bulletin published for superintendents and school boards by the Oregon School Study Council at the Univer sity. The bulletin may be purchas ed for $1 from t h c Oregon School Study Council, 124 Ed ucation, College of Education, University of Oregon, Eugene, Ore. (Advert Isement) nards of an ad that ran here re cently for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. The CPA people, after telling us a bit about the profession, and why It offers a rosy future for a college man, offered to send interested students a booklet with the whole CPA story. That part got left out of the ad. There was just white space, star ing up blankly at the reader. Dis concerting. Phantasmal. Spooky. The booklet, with the whole CPA story, will be sent to you if you write: Dept. A ll, AICPA, 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10019. emerge. This remarkable affinity mani fests itself most completely in Cosby’s marvelous sense of timing, plus an ability to con trol absolutely the pitch and cadence of his voice — the re sult is a remarkable range of emotional shadings, together with some astounding sound ef fects. Cosby is, further, an expert pantomimist, who re-enacts his own experiences rather than de liver a flaccid monologue. In this respect he is also expert. His demonstration of how to negotiate a turn during a 440 race is but one acrobatic trib ute to his prowess in this re gard. Cosby shared Friday's bill with the Pair Extraordinaire, and the duo—Carl Craig on vo cals and Marcus Hemphill on bass — acquitted themselves well, despite an atrocious sound system. Craig has a rich, exciting bari tone which has considerable range, while Hemphill is a nim ble bassist who is strong on style. Whether Hemphill’s im provisations, many of which are marvelous, were up to snuff Friday night is a matter for conjecture. I just couldn’t hear well enough to be sure. Group Evaluates PE Requirements The ASUO Academics Com - mittee will take a look into the value of the physical education requirements at the University Tuesday, when they present a hearing open to the public. The hearing, to take place at 2:30 in the EMU, will consist of a panel of faculty members of both the men’s and women's PE departments and represen tatives of the Academic Com mittee. After the panel has dis cussed the PE requirements, they will entertain comments from anyone else who would like to voice their opinions. Sam Kinzer, speamng ior me Academics Committee, said that the committee feels that the present fundamentals course in PE covers what the physical ed ucation program is all about and the importance of physical fitness to students. It should be up to the stu dent, Kinzer said, after taking this one hour required course for one term, if he wants to take any more physical educa tion classes. Want to really get results? 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