arts
Woodlands behold
mural theme
A new look is in store forthe
small banquet room in the
Community Center. A mural
has been slated for the drab
walls with a theme that almost
all can identify with: the woods
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industry. Painting and drawing
instructor Erik Sandgren has
been chosen to paint the Preliminary sketches depict mural to be painted in small banquet room in Communi
mural, which will be divided in ty Center.
to three sections, each depic harvest of timber.
ed hardboard. Sandgren feels mural. He will receive a pay
ting a different stage of the
Sandgren has already spent there are many advantages to ment of approximately $2,000
about 20 to 30 hours doing using this sort of material. His upon completion of the1 mural
library research and plans to do primary reason is that it will which is expected to be finished
more. It is important to San keep the original character of by the end of .July. Sandgren
dgren to capture the reality of the wall. After much research
the mills, terrain and fogs as and revision, a small version of stressed that the monies for this
they appeared at the turn of the mural will be done in color, project are not coming from the
the century. Preliminary sket then Sandgren will begin to newly passed College levy, but
ches have already been ap prepare! the panels. Each panel from funds previously set aside
proved in regard to content, will be given a “Gradel” (this
but much revision is needed for keeps the panel rigid and for the Art Department. San
the original sketches. Instead of prevents warping).
dgren described the mural as,
using traditional canvas, San
Sandgren is very excited “A big return for a modest in
dgren plans to use what is call- about the prospect of doing the vestment.”
‘Firestarter’ merely good
By J. Dana Haynes
Of The Print
Any day now, Steven King’s
latest fiction work should be out
in paperback. “Firestarter” is
something of a disappoint
ment, being not nearly up to
par for King.; It’s only “very
good” insteadpf “sensational.”
Stqff photo by Sue Hanneman
Instructor Erik Sandgren demonstrates drawing techni
que to student.
King’s earlier works include
“Carrie,” “Salem’s Lot,” “The
Shining” and “The Stand,”
among others. Each of these
Class learns art of silent expression
A white face, a black leotard.
The movement is so fluid, so
controlled. It is illusion. It is
mime. The great mime Marcel
Marceau defined mime as,
“The art of expressing feelings
by attitudes and not a means of
expressing words through
gestures.”
Through spring term’s
theater projects class, entitled
“Mask, Make-up and Mime,”
theater enthusiasts are learning
the techniques of this
mysterious art form. The class
is taught in cooperation with
Kermit Schafer and Joette
Rose. Rose instructs the mime
portion and Schafer teaches
the arts of make-up and mask.
Following what is called the
DeCroux method (after
Etienne DeCroux, mime
master mentor to Marcel
Marceau), Rose presents the
basic principles of mime.
Students will perform in
dividual or group mimes that
they have Composed under the
guidance of Rose. On June 3
in the Fireside Lounge, mime
students will perform several
mimes and present their new
make-up techniques. Rose
feels this show will be entertain
ing for children as well as
adults.
Stated Rose, “The class is
going very well. They (the
students) are enthusiastic and
they’re having a good time.”
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has been among the horor
genre; it is his forte. And-yet,
King’s plots stand well above
the
usual
possessed
child/knife-wielding masher/I-"
vant-to-suck-your-blud type
spooky story. King’s characters
are three-dimensional, his story
lines smooth and fast-paced,
and his baddies scarier than
most anything Hollywood has
ever produced. Steven King,
like comedian Bill Cosby, culls
forth well-hidden memories
and emotions, making the
reader think, “Hey, I’ve done
that before.” Consequently,
the audience is forced to care.
That’s the cornerstone of any
successful novelist.
And yet, something is miss
ing from “Firestarter.” The
story involves a middle-aged
college professor, Andy
McGee, who possesses a
rudimentary ^psychic ability.
“Psycho-hypnosis,” according
to King. The other main
character is -the professor’s
7-year-old daughter, Charlie.
Charlie is the Firestarter. When
she’s angry or confused, ob
jects around Tier combust. It is
this amazing ability that draws
the attention of The Shop, a
covert,zand rather unfriendly,
government agency. The Shop
Loca ted at
Upper Entrance to
Elevator,
Andy McGee is too much
like Johnny Smith in “The
Dead
Zone,”
King’s
penultimate novel. Both main
characters are psychics, who
can’t afford to overuse their
respective powers for fear of
massive headaches. Charlie
McGee’s character and ability
are unique, but the premise of
the child-with-strange-psychic-
powers-as-main-character is
reminiscent of “Carrie,” King’s
first book.
/
The slightly tainted L in-
telligence
agency
in
“Firestarter” is too much like
the slightly tainted military
agency in “The Stand.” The
exciting burning-building scene
in “The Shining” (a scene omit
ted from Stanley Kubrick’s
movie adaptation) is reenacted
here.
There are other errors, too
On page one, paragraph one,
tbe hero and his daughter are
on the run. King hits the
ground running, and keeps
that pace throughout the first
half of the book.
Also, the religious and
epic overtones that made the
two previous works, /‘The
Stand” and “The Dead Zone,”
so exceptional are lacking.
Charlie McGee has an
unimaginable amount of
power, apparently open^
ended, and yet King only
fleetingly delves into thq
“whys” and “wherefores” of
such a cosmic force.
And yet, despite these flaws,
“Firestarter” is exciting, flows
well, and keeps the readers’ in
terest. If anyone else in the field
of scary stories had written
“Firestarter,” it would have
been their magnum opus. But
from King, we expect
"something more than merely
“Very Good.” We expect
“Great.”J
Dedication mixed with
enthusiasm is 90 percent
of the job...
Susy Ryan
for Vice President
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