WedNEsdAy, ApRil 2b, 2000
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Clackamas sculptures explained
Kate Gray:
campus poet
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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
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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
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[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.
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Matthew McConaughey in
U-571.
Flintstones, meet the Flintstones
JASON LINGEL
Mick Jagged) who is sent to earth way
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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.
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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.