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‘Slap Shot’ entertains without any aesthetic considerations ‘Photoworks’ exhibit expands conscio sness oy AuvuntzM i nuHStN/SUNDBERG For the Emerald The Robert Mi Her/James Featherstone Photoworks exhibit being shown in Gallery 141, Lawrence Hall, is an eloquently integrated visual expenence and an exercise in contrast between the two men's work. This equipoise exists both between their visual statements as well as between the processes used to make those statements. However, a mutual intent "Farmhouse" arises to evoke our own imaginative responses to their work, yet each photographer emerges unique in his vision The evidence of process and its play with the final product has been sensitively addressed The systems and methods within photography — those of search, discovery, surprise, 'nterpretation — are embodied here by the placement of the work within the gallery space Stallion by Stallion 1977 Casablanca Records NBLP 1040 Produced by Dik Darnell By MARK ROWE Of the Emerald Stallion is a good example of the old adage that total anonymity can be an asset. This five man electrical band has had two moderate hits get ting a lot of FM airplay in the area; real toe tappers. They are the kind of song that is just there; walk into a crowded I room and you walk in right in i the middle of one of these two \ songs by Stallion: Something < Just Told Me,' and “Old ( Fashioned Boy (You're The < One).'' 1 Anonymity does not always i mean that no names appear on < the album; Stallion is there for ; all to see: Wally Damnck plays t • keyboards and sings; Jorg / Gonzalez is the bassist; Danny j O'Neil plays guitar, mandolin, s U OF O BOOKSTORE BOARD FACULTY POSITION AVAILABLE \ r here is a.1 immediate vacancy on the Board of Directors of the University of Oregon Bookstore The vacancy is a faculty position and the tern) of office will he for one f ) year w hich ends June 1978 For purpose of membership on the Board of Direr tors, a fat ulty member is defined as a professor associate professor, assis tant professor or full-time instructor employed as a teacher on the Eugene cam pus All interested faculty members or anyone wishing to nominate a faculty person should come to the main office of the Bookstore Anyone having questions regarding the duties of this position should contact Jim Williams at the Books tore Applications will be taken until 5:00 p.m. Friday. April 22. 1977. » BILLIARDS 75^/hour TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS UNTIL NOON EMU RECREATION CENTER Each piece is regarded almost as it within the context ot its own development Photography is not a linear thing; yet, too often we find it displayed within a close, linear format which potentially weakens the otherwise powerful images Miller/Featherstone have created for us the potential for our own involvement in their work both physically and psychologically Images of reality — rocks, ponds, ice, reeds of grass in water are displayed symbolically as if back within their original environment We find them at ground level. We must bend, stoop, experience see, not just look We become a photographer. In others, photographic elements are torn, cut and replaced in such a way as to reduce in us a response the original image may never have been able to do Elsewhere, bare wall space is used to accomodate a print s spirit or aura, if you will We often find that small visual elements can dominate a field much larger than their own physical dimensions This expansion phenomenon may well be one of the most powerful components ol art As in a memory, a seemingly insignificant event can expand to tremendous importance demanding a large psychological space By implementing "empty wall space, and at ottier times by sandwich ing pictures within a tight viewing area we are made aware of the photograph s powerful ability to project its personal space out into the room and out onto our interpretive psyches This expressive and sophisticated treatment of gallery space affirms and enhances our own perceptions of life around and within us As individual artists the two men and their work invite independent considerations Robert Miller has given us a collection so real it moves toward the abstract He shares with us black and white, the deep shadows highlights and greys of things common, transforming them into boautitul mysteries full of a powerful evocation r‘ -urit His photographic technique is pure, nearly classic, in its content It seeks neither surprise noi physical movement It freezes what is already frozen, yet, within this subtle silonce anses a life so vibrant it stirs the soul He has drawn from his sitters a truth and power over which none may have absolute control The props behind which they may attempt to hide become stripped away It needs no props The subjects of his other prints — adobe church, grains in wood, water reflections, rock contours — transcend their own rea ity, becoming for us associations to other things, perhaps to a collective reality Miller has used his vision to take us further into our own Featherstone, by contrast, but perhaps ultimately lor the same reason^ gives us pure abstraction He cuts and reassembles photo grapfuc forms provocatively, imparting a design and graphic sense to his work He has manipulated the real image to form an abstract one In this way he is exploring and defining and, perhaps, finally findingm lo a psychic realm, they blur The commonality which boundaries and limits to photography nor* (must take his assemblages as links dti tour physical one. anj (ion txitwoen these two men s work Waters may well reveal the overwhelm us to such „ creators of a collective small worlds that ability to Involve and importantly as selfless creators of their own and sings (by now the reader should be getting the idea that tiis is another harmony group ivhere everyone sings); drums and percussion are handled by _arry Thompson, and Buddy Stephens sings and adds some extra percussion No. anonymity doesnt mean no lames; it means no sound d entity. There are ten tunes on Stallion and all of them sound he same; and one of them mild have been done by any >f a score of equally unknown ock and rollers and no one vould have noticed the differ ince The point here is Jerry Sarcia just wouldnt make it ingmg Sympathy For The 5evil;" it's not his style Stallion s another group in search of a ound, they do not yet possess i firm base from which to ven jre out into the musical jungle it this stage of the game they re still trying things out; if they urvive they will eventually set He clown into a pattern ol their own Musically they are pleasant Harmless is another adjective readily applicable, they do not endanger anyone else s suc cess Sometimes they seem like a very, very vocal oriented band with most ol the instru ments buried in the back ground in the best tradition ol low-profile studio help, but at other times the keyboards or guitars really punch through There is a certain inconsis tency in their material, just as there is a certain sophomonc simplicity to some ol the tunes, "Fancy Francie lor instance On the strength ol Some thing Just Told Me, and another tune on the first side, Magic ol the Music, which throws in a relaxed funk impre ssion, Stallion could parlay their talent into something good The majority of their first album, though, is an exercise m anonymous apellation J SWOMSI stag# benefit by children's neater troupe By BOB WEBB Ot the C tie raid The Southwest Oregon Museum ot Science and Industry (SWOMSI) *il present Randolph s Ragtime Pick > Wish players in a beneltt performanceol Rich Man, Poor Man, Beggar Man. Thiel on Saturdays and Sundays lor the next two weekends This children jtlay will be held at the Roosevelt School Cafeteria at 1 p m and aga Jt3 p.m on all tour days The Randolph Ragtime Pick a Wish Players is a children s theater troupe that has already done several produc tions in the area including Sleeping George and Jack Frost Saves Spring - Or Mother Nature's Big Sneeze Rich Hertzlor, who was recently seen as the Good Doctor in LCC's production ot Cabaret, plays the part ot Happi ness Richard Seyfried, who was last seen in town as Mr Cat' in LCC s pro duction ot Hotel Paradiso, plays the part ot Fitzwater Beau Kennedy plays the part ot Sassalras, she was also In Cabaret and World ot Carl Sandburg Two actresses who have been active m revious Pick a Wish productions, usan Anderson and Carol Mills, play 3ay and Pricilla. respectively, in this lodudion Martha Wehmeier. who has eeo active In many University of Ireqon productions, most notably as Meg in last summer s Carnival produc Dn of Dylan, will be playing ' Bracken erry Although Rich Man, Poor Man, Beg •ir Thiel is geared mostly to pre i -ind grade school children, the roducers feel it has enough in it to en ■rtam adults as well The 45 minute roduction comes complete with prin cess, witch, paupers, frogs and even a base scene or two to keep things lively ind moving The play is an original — written by Margaret Wilmot Cunningham, North ;ugene High School teacher and former lirector of Eugene's Village Players Admission for Rich Man, Poor Man, teg gar Man, Thief is $1 25 for adults. r5 cents tor students and 50 cents for hose over 65 and under 12 Tickets will >c soid at SWOMSI and at the door ’roceeds will go toward a scholarship lor SWOMSI's education department By KRISTI TURNQUIST Of the Emerald Maybe movie reviewing is just a matter ol whether you like it or not. Where does film scholarship, ac cepted asthetic standards or highly-developed taste come into it when writing about a movie like Slap Shot? It's an unpretentious diversion that's not particularly good or particularly bad George Roy Hill, working again with Paul Newman (previous col laborations being Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting) directs him as Reggie Dunlop, player-coach tor a minor league hockey team, The Char lestown Chiefs The Chiefs are mediocre at best, and none too popular with the home folks When Reggie skates out for his pre-game intro, a peevish fan shouts, I hale you. Dunlop' All is normally dismal for the team until word gets out the town mill is clos ing, and its laid-off workers are likely to lay off the Chiefs Hoping to boost potential buyers interest in the Chiefs, Reggie revamps their playing style from sub-competent stan dard to aggravated assault and battery Soon they're making enemies, fans, and money, sport ing cartoon-style bruises for their pains Nancy Dowd is one of the few women screen writers around That doesn't necessarily make her good, however The loose structure and superficiality of her work, which would be a hindrance elsewhere, suits her perfectly to work with Hill Both are uncon cerned with plausibility and de velopment, and together they form a perfect union Newman obviously likes work ing with Hill, and once again gives a deceptively easy-looking per formance It's too bad in a way that Newman works so well with the director, as the sleek, efficient framework Hill devises are more limiting than comfortable Oboe, flute give concert tonight The Committee for the Perform ing Arts (no relation to the Com munity Center for the Performing Arts, WOW Hall) will present Rachel Aldrich, oboist, and Pamela Birrell, flutist, in concert tonight in Gerlinger Hall The reci tal will begin at 8 p m A reception honoring the artists will follow the program No tickets will be sold, but contributions made at the door will be deposited in a fund for pro curement of a grand piano when a local performance hall is built. The Committee for the Perform ing Arts (also known as CFPA) presents local artists in public per formances in order to encourage and promote them and foster the continuance of the performing arts Nevertheless, Newman's a joy to watch here His Reggie is a middle-aged kid who clings to his team for lack of anything else. His wife (Jennifer Warren, miscast) has left him. yet he can t understand her liberation and offers her unnecessary money and aid even as she s very confidently leaving town alone. The only real relationship he has is with his sadsack team, who adore him. This byplay with the team and the fluid handling of their beer drmkmg, head-crunching, small town lives is the best thing in Slap Shot Hill and Dowd are evidently not up to the job, so it's futile to wish they had stayed on the character-study side. Neverthe less, the one-dimensional bits that do come through are treated so loosely (the team on the bus; taverns, actively participating with TV soap operas; lounging around the town drugstore), aided by Dede Allen s clever editing, that they take on some flavor. The movie gets into trouble when it fools around with the viol ence bit. Nobody seems to know what is intended: Are the Chiefs brainless apes, happiest when bashing opposing players? Or are Brecht opens Mother Courage is a saga-like parable about war set in the first half of the 17th century during the Thirty Years War in Europe. The play traces a decade in the life of the equally amiable and despicable Anna Fierlmg, otherwise known as Mother Courage, and her inability to acknowledge her own responsibility for the war and for the death of her children Mother Courage will play in the Pocket Playhouse. Villard Hall, at 8 p m this Friday and Saturday; Wednesday-Saturday, April 27 through 30; and Wednesday-Saturday, May 4 through 7. Reserved seat tickets are available at the Robinson Theatre box office at $3 50 per person Students with proof of registration will be admitted for half price. sr ■ Photo by Tonya Houg the angry townspeople and testy Ned Braden (Michael Ontkean, in dour performance, as the team rebel), right in condemning brutal ity? Confusion reigns at movie s end. The Chiefs, on Reggies's ad vice. swear off their mauling tac tics, and win the championship by a fluke. Braden joins the carnival atmosphere by performing a graceful strip-tease on the ice, and appears one with his rough neck teammates. Reggie is hired by another team, and he plans to bring the Chiefs with him Are we supposed to by happy? Why did Braden change so suddenly? Will Reggie continue his bruiser-hock ey. or revert permanently to old fashioned style? Does Hill have any idea, and more important, does he give a damn? Slap Shot is well-made, likeable in a non-challenging way (to put it mildly) and features Paul New man in a well-plaved role These accomplishments are far from negligible, but it refuses to answer its own questions. Next week LCC’s romantic comedy debuts The Lady s Not for Burning, a romantic comedy by Christopher Fry, will be presented by the De partment of Performing Arts at Lane Community College on April 29,30 and May 1,6,7. Curtain is 8 p.m. — except Sunday. May 1, when the performance will begin at 5 p.m , a new day and time op tion for LCC theatre patrons. The play is directed by Stan El berson and designed by David Sherman. The cast includes Todd Crump, Darrell Gray. Aseneth Jurgenson (The Lady), Richard Lehman, Thomas Major, Dan Mayes, Sheri Merrick, John Mithen, Jerry Paulsen, Helen Robinson, and Steve Springston. Rehearsals began some eight weeks ago. Set in fifteenth-century Europe, The Lady's Not for Burning is about a bright, beautiful, and free-spirited young woman who, unjustly sentenced to be burned as a witch, falls in love with a world-weary ex-soldier who in sists on being hanged for crimes he didn't commit. The lady per suades him to live, to love, and to liberate her — a process that is full of wit and whimsey, wisdom and fun that comes to a pleasing con clusion. The play's language is unusually rich. All seats are reserved at $3. The LCC performing arts box of fice is open Monday through Fri day, noon until 4:30. EMU Food Service Trailer Cookies Fruit Yogurt Cigarettes Candy Soda Milk Juice
