Coming events
Music on and off campus
Friday you can catch the
final performance of the
1980-81 Chamber Music Se
ries, performed by Tashi at 8
p.m. in Beall Concert Hall.
The clarinet and strings en
semble will perform Quintet
in A Major for Clarinet and
Strings, Op 146 by Max
Reger among other selec
tions. Some tickets for the
Chamber Music concert are
still available at $3. For more
information call the music
school at 686-5678. Tashi will
also present a lecture-recital
at 8 p.m. in Beall Concert Hall
on Saturday. Tickets will cost
$1.50 each, and will be
available at the door.
Reilly and Maloney, warm
hearted folk musicians, will
play for you at the Communi
ty Center for the Performing
Arts Friday night. Tickets are
$3. Ginny Reilly ana uavia
Maloney's most recent al
bum Everyday is a joy to
listen to, and their concert is
sure to make you high. For
more information, contact
the Center at 687-2746.
The CCPA is sponsoring a
week called "A Taste of the
Arts.” This week, May 7-17, is
full of benefit music, theater
and dance events, and will be
free to all. You'll also have a
chance to become a CCPA
member. The show starts off
on Sunday with Lon Gui
tarsky in two performances.
The first will be an afternoon
concert in the Washington
Jefferson Street Bridge Park
from 2:30 to 4:30; the second
will be at 8 p.m. where the
group will open the "All Arts
Ball. For the rest of the run
down, stay tuned, or call the
Center.
Speaking of books, philosophy
Novelist John Keeble will
visit both the University and
Lane Community College
today. At 11:30 a.m. at LCC,
Keeble will read from his
works in Forum 308. At 2:30
p.m., at the University, he will
talk about his views of the
development of contempor
ary fiction in 234 Gilbert; at 8
p.m. he will give a reading >n
244 Gilbert.
All the events are free and
open to the public. Keeble's
visit is part of a series of talks
and readings by visiting
writers made possible
through the University’s
Creative Writing Program
and Kenny Moore, and
Moore’s employers at
Time/Life.
Keeble’s latest work is Yel
lowfish.
Native Pulse: Playing for the people
Eugene’s answer to Bob Marley or Jimmy Cliff
comes to the Community Center for the Per
forming Arts (corner of 8th Avenue and Lincoln
Street) in the form of Native Pulse tomorrow
night at a benefit for Zoo Zoo’s and Grower’s
Market. Saturday Native Pulse performs for a
No-Nuke benefit carnival.
Tickets for the CCPA show are $3 for those in
costume and $3.50 for those not
Continuing to stress the importance of the
social relevance of reggae and support of the
oppressed peoples everywhere, Native Pulse
plans a musical benefit to support the Co-Op
Federatiion, Amnesty International and the
University divesting itself out of South Africa.
Dustin’ them blues
University student John Nerenberg’s play Believe I'll Dust
My Blues comes alive on stage May 7-9, 14-16 at 8 p.m. in the
Pocket Theater in Villard Hall on campus. University Theatre
4:30 is sponsoring the event.
Believe I’ll Dust My Blues is about people who live in life's
creases and folds, and their constant struggle within
themselves to change the direction of their lives. Nerenberg
received special assistance in the creating of Believe I'll Dust
My Blues from Pulitzer Prize Winner Sam Shepard. Helen
Machin Smith directs the play.
Donations of $1 will be accepted at the door. A special
performance will be presented at the Community Center for
the Performing Arts May 12 at 8 p.m.
Bikes routed west
The Eugene/Springfield
Metropolitan Bicycle Com
mittee and the Eugene Bicy
cle Committe come together
to sponsor the West Bank
bike path dedication and
grand opening, and to cele
brate ten years of state
bikeway funding on May 8. A
bike decoration contest will
take place at the Valley River
Center parking lot at 6:30
p.m. And the bike path
dedication, at the south end
of the Greenway Bridge, will
take place at 7:30 p m. There
will be featured speakers.
Film
Blow Up
Directed by
Michelangelo Antonioni
Playing at the Bifou Theater
Blow Up, the celebrated film
by Italian film-maker, Mi
chelangelo Antonioni, dis
plays the same unique and
innovative style depicted in his
past films, L'Avventurra and
The Red Desert.
A nebulous plot, the salient
images and his evasive char
acter relationships are con
current techniques Antonioni
has used throughout his film
career, all concluding with the
prevailing pursuit of his
predominant theme on objec
tive reality — what is real and
what is not. Blow Up is no ex
ception. It is however, Anton
ioni’s first featured English
film, set in London during the
so-called “mod” era of the
swinging 1960s, which
recieves the brunt of his social
comment.
While Antonioni is more
subtle than his Italian col
league Fellini, who he col
laborated with in The White
Shiek, Blow Up is laced with
chimerical images, an almost
expressionistic portrayal of
the human condition during
the dynamic transition into the
radical mid-60s.
Antonioni’s form is wrapped
around a vague, ambiguous
plot concerning an egocentric
fashion photographer, aptly
portrayed by David Jennings,
who harmlessly photographs
an unknown couple in a tran
quil, scenic park, then finds
himself the target of the
woman involved, (Vanessa
Redgrave) who attempts to re
trieve the undeveloped film.
Jennings, then suspicious,
develops the film, blows up the
prints — hence the name Blow
Up — and unravels bit by bit an
occurring murder slightly dis
cernible in the photographs’
shrouded background A de
tective story? Hardly. The plot
seems to halt here amidst an
intangible, almost incongruent
bed of uncertainty. Yet the
thriller plot is only a mode or
vehicle which is utilized by
Antonioni to convey, create
and explore his field of subtle
illusion.
Visually, the film is a tech
nical masterpiece, the quality
of images, angles, color and
movement is first-rate cinema
tography, which accounts for
the film’s true appeal, rather
than the tenuous development
of an undiscernible motif
which Antonioni left in Italy on
the advent of his international
career some 30 years before.
At times the random, hectic
pace and evasive actions are a
bit drawn out, superfluous and
an excessive dissolution of
images with little direction or
development. Many questions
too, are left unanswered, the
director's intent of course, but
by any means a pervasive
short-cut to the more elusive
concrete presence of a deter
minate end
Continued on Page 4B
KINKO’S
4c
Self Service
COPIES
• Binding
• Two-sided copies
• Reductions
344-7894
764 E. 13th
r
J
J
I
J
CHINA BLUE RESTAURANT
CHICKEN WINGS
WITH BLACK BEAN SAUCE
Tender Chicken Wings sauteed in wok
with Aristocratic Black Bean Sauce
$4.95
China Blue
879 E. 13th Ave.
343-2832
Hours
Mon thru Fri
11 iim-ll) pm
Sot 5-11 pm
Sun 5-10 pm
Fine Gaming:
Home of Monday Night
Backgammon Tournaments
on Rosewood Tables •
Sunday Night Dart
Tournaments • Finest in
Pinball & Video Games •
Distinguished beers
on tap:
Heineken • Guiness • Bass Ale
Lowenbrau light and dark
• John Courage • Hamm’s •
Vast assortment of bottled
imports available
Paae 3 Section B