Features
Wednesday, April 21, 1993
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- TláRMáckamas Print
Pg. 5
Couple faces million-dollar question
Movie review
by Heidi Branstator
Feature Editor
Would you let your wife sleep
with another man for $1 million?
That’s the question that David
Murphy (Woody Harrelson) must
face in Paramount Pictures’ new
release “Indecent Proposal.*
David and Diana Murphy
(Demi Moore) had been in love
since they were teenagers. They
thought nothing could ever come
between them. Then they met
Gage (Robert Redford).
Gage, a billionaire financier
who is used to getting exactly
what he wants, offers the Murphy’s
$1 million if Diana will agree to
spend one night with him.
“It wouldn’t mean anything.
It’s just my body. It’s not my
mind. It’s not my heart,’’ Diana
tells her husband while they are
discussing the offer.
They decide together that the
$1 million would solve all of
their problems; all they have to
do is not talk about her night with
Gage ever again. They are so
much in love with each other that
they believe they can do that and
go on with their lives just as be
fore.
After Diana spends the night
with Gage, David discovers that
he “can’t pretend nothing ever
happened. I keep seeing her with
him in my mind,” he tells his
friend and attorney, Jeremy (Ol
iver Platt).
David eventually drives
Diana away, right into the arms
of John Gage. There she finds
herself caught in the middle of a
romantic triangle. In the end,
Diana must choose between the
love she has for her husband, and
the love she is beginning to feel
for Gage.
I thoroughly enjoyed this
movie (sappy ending and all),
even though it seemed to be a
more serious version of “Honey
moon in Vegas.”
The editing could have been
better. Watch for a microphone
at the top of the screen at least
three times throughout the film.
Harrelson said he expresses
“levels of emotion in an acting
capacity I don’t think I’d ever
tried before." It was great to see
him in a serious role. He was
very convincing.
Moore’s performance in this
film follows closely her acclaimed
co-starring role in “A Few Good
Men.” She seems to be making a
name for herself in the business.
Only Redford could pull off
the part of the beguiling figure
who tempts a couple to endanger
their marriage. He was as charm
ing as ever.
“IndecentProposal” is based
on the novel by Jack Engelhard.
It reunites director Adrian Lyne
and producer Sherry Lansing for
the first time since “Fatal Attrac
tion.” It is rated “R” and runs
approximately 110 minutes.
Artist explores logging folklore and technology
A collection of Nancy Travers* work, titled "Michigan to Oregon, 1890-1990," is being
featured in the Pauling Gallery.
"If young girls start to learn early on, that work can be enriching and exciting,
they’re going to put more energy into work on their own."
by Nolan C. Kidwell
News Editor
Hie Pauling Gallery will
feature the artwork of Nancy
Travers, Art Department chair
person and Clackamas art instruc
tor,
The collection of Travers’
work is titled “Michigan to Ore
gon, 1890-1990,” which depicts
parts of the logging history in
Oregon and Michigan, mixed with
the more whimsical views of giant
Paul Bunyan and the folklore
behind the timber industry. The
artwork will be on display through
April 30.
“I’m a native Oregonian and
I’m visually oriented,” Travers
said. “I think it is a dramatic
scene here that we don’t see any
place else.”
Travers first got the idea for
the exhibit when she went to
visit the grave of an unknown
grandfather who had cut some of
the last virgin forest in Michi
gan. After that, she began to
her work.
“I had not thought about that
when I began. My gut level feel
ing is trees, forests and woods,”
she said.
She painted the . pieces for
the exhibit as folk art, which she
defines as art about an isolated
group of people with a collective
emotional experience.
In her research, she found
that the loggers in the historical
logging camps were some of the
least paid workers, with some of
the worst hours and lived in some
of the worst conditions.
According to Travers, sto
ries like Paul Bunyan probably
originated in these logging camps
because the loggers saw a giant
like Paul Bunyan as the quickest
way to get the job done.
American attitudes have been
those which the Paul Bunyan sto
ries were built on for such a long
time, according to Travers. She
feels that perhaps it is time that
we take a step back and look at
—Charlotte Udziela, psychology of women course instructor
—— April 28 -------
Take Our Daughters
to Work Day
The Clackamas Print and Focus on Women are sponsoring "Take Our Daughters to
Work Day. "The event parallels the national project initiated by The Ms. Foundation.
Students and staff are encouraged to participate.
A luncheon, provided by the Dean of Students’ Office, will be held in the Gregory
Forum at noon.
For more information about the national event, contact Cheryl Willemse in Barlow
104 at extension 2309 or Becky Carnahan in Barlow 213 at extension 2205.
Ricusi
omen
The Clackamas Print
"My gut level feeling is trees, forests and
woods."
-Nancy Travers
research the forests and the his
tory behind logging. She recently
took a two-term sabbatical to
complete her exhibit and the
research which it required.
She used the inner library
loans to find out more informa
tion. “One book would lead to
another,” she said.
Travers explained that Ore
gon became, “the place that I
knew a lot about, but knew noth
ing about.”
When’she began to work on
the exhibit, she did not know that
it would eventually be on display
during the Northwest forest
summit, and that she would re
ceive many letters in response to
the “bigger picture.”
“The factual history is also
that there are only 10 percent left
of the ancient forests,” she ex
plained.
She said that among her re
search, Clackamas botany instruc
tor and environmentalist, Bob
Misley said that “maintaining di
versity in the forest” is an impor
tant part of the future.
In her exhibit, she has vari
ous quotes hanging by Bruise
Catton, who Travers feels put it
best when he said that technol
ogy may be the most dangerous
information which man has ever
had.