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By J. Dana Haynes
Celebrity slaying: a new social concern
Okay, folks! It’s social-
concern-of-the-month time
again. Can anyone tell us
which sociological reform is
sweeping the nation like the
lastest Travolta dance step or
Whammo toy? That’s right,
True Believers, it’s gun control!
Yes, that grand exciting old
favorite has once again reared
its righteous head. Why?
Well, the assassination at
tempts on President Reagan
and Vernon Jordan, and the
untimely (whatever the hell
that means) death of
singer/songwriter John Len
non have raised the collective
ire of the nation. People are
beginning to realize: that
ad infinitum, ad nauseum . . .
someone in the good old US of
A is accosted by a hand-gun
carrying
antagonist.
Sometimes the “bad guy’s” a
stranger, sometimes a sibling.
The reasons range from loves
lost to being broke to good old
fashioned lunacy (remember
the lady'in San Diego last year
who began sniping from ‘her
house’ at passersby? Her
reason: “I hate Mondays”).
All good and well. The ques
tion is, of course, why does it
The - point is, handgun
take the endangering of a well
murders are as commonplace
known personality to galvanize
today as minor auto accidents.
the populous?
It has become an all-pervasive
Every minute of every hour slice of Americana. Sad but
of every day of every week . . . true.
violence is the rule, rather
than the exception, in the US.
To back this up, a recent
Washington Post/ABC News
survey claimed that most Euro
peans picture America as a
land of skulking, delinquent
street gags and quick-draw
cowboys wearing side-irons.
Ours is a country beset by a
veritable love for handguns.
Ballistic-eroticism, if you will.
Well, all right. If it takes the
slaying of a famous person to
ignite a polite fire beneath the
tail of the world press, and get
the public up-in-arms (pun in
tended) , then so be it. Should
anyone try to ice Robert Red
ford or Harry Reasoner, the
populous would probably rise
up in a wave of gun control
mania, like torch-bearing
villagers maching on Dr.
Frankenstein’s castle. Maybe
that’s what it takes to get the
legislations.
Moral of the story? Don’t get
in the way of a bullet unless
you’re newsworthy. Otherwise,
you’ll probably not merit more
than an obligatory obituary.
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A loud, raspy “cougher” in a
crowded theater is a nuisance
to those about him, but con
sider that the common cough is
a part of the body’s vital
defense or immune system.
The Oregon Lung Associa
tion
reminds
that,
physiologically speaking, the
cough is “an extremely com
mon, physically remarkable
and potentially life-saving
reflex action.”
Moreover, during a cough, a
powerful rush of air is expelled
from the respiratory tract,
sometimes at a velocity of up to
500 miles per hour. The usual
purpose of the cough is to clear
the airways of some irritating
or obstructing substance that
potentially could damage the
lungs, or interfere with the
smooth exchange of oxygen
and carbon dioxide in the
body.
Pulmonary specialists ex
plain, “People who are unable
to cough, such as those under
general anesthesia, are in
danger of serious disease (and
even death) because they can
not protect their lower
respiratory tracts from foreign
substances.”
The Oregon Lung Associa-
tion offers these two important
reminders about all coughs:
A cough is not a disease, but
rather a symptom that
something is wrong in the
body. Anyone who has a
cough that lasts more than a
couple of weeks should be seen
by a doctor, who may in turn
suggest an examination by a
respiratory disease specialist.
Most coughs are self-limiting;
that is, they go away in a few
weeks, even if you do nothing
at all. If you are a cigarette
smoker, a cough is in your
future. However, if you? quit
smoking, that cough will most
likely disappear within four
weeks.
Marcel Marceau
worthy of sellout
There are very few “legen
dary” artists still around these
days. Earl Hines is probably
one, as are Martha Graham
and Andres Segovia. Yet
another is the great French
mime, Marcel Marceau, who
will be performing April 15 at
8:15 p.m. in Portland’s Civic
Auditorium.
Born in Strasbourg in 1923,
the son of middle-class parents,
Marceau’s first exposure to
mime was in the form of the
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silent comedies of Buster
Keaton and Charlie Chaplin.
After the interruption of World
War II (in which his parents
were murdered and he served
in the Resistance), Marceau
first started as an actor at the
Theare de Poche in Paris in
1946. He organized his own
mime company in 1947.
One of his first mimodramas,
“Mort avant L’aube,” won the
Deburau Prize in 1948, and
Marceau was on his way. Truly
international fame and success
did not come until 1955, when
I as performances were a smash
in New York Citv. Eric Bentlv
said of his performance, “an
evening of great, of quintessen
tial theatre.” His reputation as a
master of the genre has been
acknowledged ever since.
Marceau has said of his art:
"Pantomine is the art of ex
pressing feelings by attitudes
and not a means of expressing
words through gestures.”
Tickets for the performance
are $13.50, $11.50, and
$9.50, and are available from
Celebrity Attractions, 1010 SW
Morrison in Portland. Phone
226-4371 for more informa
tion.
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