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WedNEsdAy, ApRil 2b, 2000 TI he CL ac I< amas P rìnt Clackamas sculptures explained Kate Gray: campus poet A&E Editor A bright, sunny sky created the backdrop for the Artist Walkabout last Wednesday, when a crowd of English Instructor Kate Gray [right] read a collection other poems yesterday in the Gregory Forum. Below is a sample of Gray’s work from her book Where She Goes. about 50 people gathered to learn more aboutthe sculptures gracing the MIKE POLLOCK/ Clackamas Print Beginning with a Bang (response to a contest to rename “The Big Bang’ because it is now considered sexually suggestive.) Science has made much ado about sex but reduced the mystery to “the union of gametes producing zygotic cells." Still, practice made theories, and Freud and Kinsey agreed on the bottom line that bodies and minds intertwine. On larger scales some might say the universe began with physical attraction: some celestial body drew in masses of molecules, and KABLOOEY-we banged into space. But the 1990s erupt in a different fashion. Researchers try to unravel science from sex. They want The Big Bang renamed. Without adventure they try titles like "Early Gas Altering Development’ (EGAD), or without accuracy, "Wild Oscillation of Worlds' (WOW), or without anything, the First Explosion. They believe they can keep mystery out of language, their new name staying put like a planet, but words walk through time unsteadily carrying their meanings, dropping suggestive pieces and holding others tight. So, no matter what we name it, what you and I began was big. It happened with a shift not a bang. When we met, my molecules fused, and I experienced evolution: my lungs filled with air, not water, and instedd of slithering, I now stand. Our words, like nebulae condensing and separating, form worlds. With hands passing from breasts to hearts, we try to hold what we cannot grasp. grounds of Clackamas. Art Dept. Chair Rick True led the campus tour, while artists offered insight, and back ground information about their indi vidual sculptures. A few artists spoke about their ideas coming to fruition as sculptures, and wheretheseideascame from. Lee Imonen, creator of “TheDifficulty in Arriving at the Same Place,” com mented that the form of his wood and metal structure came from things he had encountered in nature. The natu ral world seemed to play a big role in MEGAN OLDENSTADT/ Clackamas Print Gilles Foisy explains his sculpture "Before and After the Camel." many of Hie sculptures, as shown by Gilles Foisy’s “Before and After the Camel” was modeled after some “theo the Harold Hoy’s “Erector Black Bear and Stuart Jacobson’s “Eclipse.” logical concerns” that he had. The needle-shaped sculpture was the last “[‘Eclipse’] was inspired by the full lunar eclipse of this past January,” to be added to the invitational because of the emotional difficulty Foisy had said Jacobson. “I wanted to honor what I was witnessing.” Rick True’s “Paleontologist’s Nightmare” kept in creating the piece. “I am Become Silence” was Carolyn Mills' addition to the campus show ing, and she explained the sculpture represented the silence that victims with the nature theme; its cartoonlike bones were the artistic product of a pects of his copper house and wire mesh man, but he also commented on the ways people hold onto their ambitions and passions and how he chose to portray that idea through sculpture. AU of the sculptures on campus are for sale, but their meanings are buried deep within each artist. Those attend ing the Walkabout gleaned some an swers from the artists about the sculp tures, but answers are not necessarily themes of ambitions, religious ideas of violent crimes and combat veter ans experience. Roger Williams, cre ator of “Burden of One’s Ambition,” what it is all about “Art is a question,” commented and the silence that stems from rape. talked mostly about the technical as True. dig True went on last year. Othersculptures involved complex McConaughey stars in seaworthy thriller U-571 ANGIE DASCHEL boat, U-571, in enemy waters off tiie A&E Editor coast of England. The Allies are sent to pose as a rescue squad from Ger For over fifty years, Hollywood has been cranking out movies coveringlhe events of World War II, and I thought that no new movie could possibly show an angle that hadn’t already been tackled ten thousand times. I was proved wrong when U-571 blasted the frightful stories of a brave submarine crew onto the big screen with suffo cating tension and a fresh approach. Encased in an ancient tin can of a vessel, the Allied crew of an American submarine, headed by Bill Paxton (7?- tcmic), is sent to recover the Enigma coding system from a disabled Nazi U- many. Once they reach tiie crippled U-boat, they are to retrieve the encod ing machine, which the Allies need to crack tiie German’s encryption and turn the war around. This movie has got to be the most nerve-wracking theater experience of the year. Just when you think the crew is out of danger, apipe busts, aforeign ship appears or a depth charge plum The crew gains access to the boat, mets deathly close to the boat Then- where they capture the Nazi crew and situation alone is enough to make even the most cool cat squirm in their seats. secure the Enigma machine. Just as tilings seem to be going according to plan, the original rescue boat appears on tiie horizon, and literally blows the American ship out of the water. This forces tiie shattered crew to board and navigate U-571,while fightingdesper- ately for their lives. Matthew Female Daycare Provider Wanted For three children Oregon City Thursday & Friday 8 a.m. - 5 p.m Call Teresa at (503) 656-6358 Set your goals high. We'll help get you there. Sometimes reaching your goals seems like an impossible task. In the Air Force you'll get the tools you need to reach any goal you set. We'll help get you there by: • providing education opportunities with tuition assistance • establishing leadership skills for a promising future • preparing you for a career in life You can earn up to $9,000 enlistment bonus, if you qualify. So, if you're between the ages of 17-27 - call 1-800-423-USAF AIM HIGH McConaughey (£<77T) is forced to take over as captain of the ship, where ev ery decision could be his last for an information packet, or visit the Air Bade at www.airforce.com [Pulp Fiction) chief of tiie sub, were excellent in their portrayals of the im mense fear of being trapped in enemy waters inside a foreign U-boat Also, most war movies aid up showing the German army as abunch of little Hitlers, when most of the boys were just like the Allies: scared to death. U-571 took tiie higher road and showed tiie armies as being closerto equal, in that respect, which was a pleasant change from tiie I can’t count the times I covered my face and said ‘I can’t watch this movie, norm. There have been other great sub this is too much.’ There was an au dible collective sigh by tiie audience after every terror-filled moment in tiie movie, as well as relieved applause. McConaughey and Harvey Keitel, marine movies such as The Hunt for Red October and Das Boot, but U-571 shines on its own with a blend of tal ented actors and intensely emotional scenes. PHOTO COURTESY OF UNIVERSAL PICTURES Matthew McConaughey in U-571. Flintstones, meet the Flintstones JASON LINGEL Mick Jagged) who is sent to earth way Staff Writer before his time in the cartoon, to study the matinghabitsofhumans,notto help Travel back in time to before Fred and Wilma were happily married, before Dino was hatched, and before Pebbles was a glimmer in herparents’ eyes. Travel back fox The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegtxsl, them out Nomagic spells, butstill plenty of poking ftm at the two dum-dums, which was somewhat redeeming. Next onto tiie casting. In this I was very surprised, and actually impressed. After the last Flintstones movie, I The filmmakers couldn’t have cast a wasn’t going in expecting much. I wasn’t better actor than Steven Baldwin for the partoftheyoungBameyRubble. The voice, the quizzical expressions, even the script for Barney was better than in the last movie. Granted, Rick Moranis expecting them to stick to the original Flintstones story line. Once again tiie story line was trashed all to heck. Wilma Slaghoople, played by Third Rock From the Surfs Kristen Johnston, isapoor littlerich heiress, who is unhappy with her snobby friends, gold-digging mother, boyfriend and plays a good idiot, Baldwin just plays a better one. And Betty—don’t get me wrong, Rosie O’Donnell had tiie Betty laugh down pat—but Krakowski has lifestyle all together. Wilma then runs tiie looks, the voice and tiie personality away to Bedrock to deal with her unhap piness, where she meets Betty O’Shale, which more than made up fertile laugh. played by^^AfcBeo/sJaneKrakowski, at the Bedrock Bronto King where Betty worked as aroller skating waitress. I was quite impressed with Cumming as Gazoo and tiie leadsingeroftheold- estrock&roll band The Rolling Stones, Mick Jagged. PHOTO COURTESY Of UNIVERSAL' PICTURES his tenacious bark, tiie lovable Dino was tiie most convincing actor of the whole movie. The movie is much improved over its predecessor, making it one of tiie few movies where tiie sequel, or prequel, is actually betterthan the origi nal. It has plenty of tiie old-fashioned Flintstones slap stick humor mixed with adultjokes, making it great for parents to take their kids to, for both to get a Another major discrepancy is the alien, My favorite character of all, even The Great Gazoo, played by Allan though animated, was Dino. Although laugh. On a Fred Flinstone scale 1 give The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas a Cumming (who also plays the part of he didn’thave any real lines, other than Yabba-Dabba but not quite a do.
