AfThe Daily Tar HeeirTuesday. November 17. 1981
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By JULIAN KARCHMER
lTH Staff Writer
The Disappearance is an appropri
ately bleak but tedious movie about a
globe-hopping hit man. Despite a few
surprises, this slow plot barely quali
fies as a reason for creating a film.
cinema
Donald Sutherland plays Jay Mal
lory, a high-class assassin itching to
retire but for a debt forcing him to
take one last assignment. At the same
time, his lustful wife, played by
Sutherland's actual live-in mate Fran
cine Racette, disappears.
Mallory wants to search for his
wife, but his last commission prevents
it. Sutherland played almost the exact
same part before in The Eye of the
Needle, another film about an assassin
whose life is complicated by a woman.
If The Disappearance had dealt
with Mallory's work or how he got in
volved with the killing profession in
the first place, it might have been in
teresting. But surviving the film until
the last 20 minutes is an exercise in
willpower. There are countless shots
of Mallory brooding in his Montreal
apartment, and of the gray, winter city
seem endless. And flashbacks add
little to plot development; they merely
seem to pass time.
Also, it is disturbing the way the
assassin is handled by the filmmakers.
Mallory is the protagonist. He is seen,
as some kind of laconic, troubled
hero. As Mallory meanders through
the hurdles of the plot, he is manipu
lated by those nasty executives who
hire him. But, in fact, he is more a
man who kills for money, than a vic
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There are some cameo appearances
by big name actors. Christopher
Plummer and John Hurt seem suita
bly embarrassed by their appearance,
but are, no doubt, a bit wealthier
because of it.
Cinematography offers the only
bright spot in this otherwise dismal
movie. The cold, bleary weather is
captured with style, and parallels the
film's depressing subject matter. But
even here, the film falters. There is the
all too familiar walk by Mallory on a
beautiful, wind-swept beach as he tries
to sort out his troubles. And the dark
lighting in The Disappearance also
contributes to the bleak tone that per
vades throughout the film.
The visual style of The Disappear
ance is stimulating. But the plot and
action are minimal at best. There is
almost no substance behind this film.
At the Carolina White.
Noted feminist, author to speak tonight
Kate Millett, noted feminist, author,
artist and professor, is scheduled to speak
at 8 p.m. today in Memorial Hall.
Millett, the author of such books as
Sexual Politics, The Prostitution Papers
and The Basement, will speak on "Women
in the 80s." Her speech is sponsored by the
Association for Women Students, . the
National Organization of Women and
Triangle Area Lesbian Feminists.
Tickets are avialable at the Carolina
Union desk and at the door for $1 for
students and $2 for general admission.
Millett, who completed her undergrad
uate studies at the University of Min
nesota, received an honorary bachelor of
arts degree and master's degree at Oxford
and a Ph.D. at Columbia University. She
has taught at UNC-Greensboro, Barnard
College and Bryn Mawr.
Millett maintains that women must not
relax their struggle for equal opportunity.
"I think you enter into a university
now, when things are so much better, and
feel you don't have to get involved in
women's groups," she said recently.
"You think everything's settled, but every
thing isn't settled.
"The struggle is one your generation
will have to carry out and the next one
willtoo."
Milieu's most recent book. Going to
Iran, is a record of her experience in that
country in 1979.
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TODAY'S ACTIVITIES
The UNC Young Democrats Executive Committee will meet
at 6:30 p.m. in Frank Porter Graham Lounge of the Union.
UNC CoBege Republicans will hold a special meeting at 7:30
p.m. in 101 Union. We will hear 'from representatives of the
CR National Committee.
Kappa Alpha Psl Fraternity will be collecting donations for
the Pine Knolls Community Center of Carrboro today, Wed
nesday and Thursday of this week in the Union Lobby between
10 a.m. and 2 p.m. The Center encourages achievement among
the youth in the community and every donation will add to the
hopes of these individuals.
The Ckrbtiaa Science Organization at UNC will meet at 2
p.m. in the FPG Lounge of the Union. All are welcome.
The Campus Y Global Issues committee will meet at 3:30
p.m. in 220 Union.
Hunger Action Committee win meet at 8 p.m. in 217 Union
just before the presentation on Oxfam.
A debate on the exploitation of women in advertising as a
result of the domination of media by men will be presented at 8
p.m. in 300 New West. The public is invited to the debate
which is being sponsored by Di and Phi.
"Where Dots AX The Money Go?" is a slideshow and dis
cussion of Oxfam-America and some of its current projects,
for anyone considering making a contribution to the 1981 Fast
For A World Harvest. It will be presented at 8:30 p.m. in 217
Union. ,., .f.,-.. ..-.., " int s
The UNC RacqurtbitH dub will meet to play from 6-8 p jn.
at the Woollen Gym courts. Members' and all other interested
people are encouraged to attend.
AED will meet at 7 p.m. in 103 Berryhill Hall. Dr. Timothy
Taft will speak on "Sports Medicine." The pledge quiz will be
given at 6 p.m. in 106 Berryhill Hall. The executive committee
will meet at 6:15 p.m. in the hospital cafeteria.
The N.C Student Legislature will hold a very important
meeting at 7 p.m. in 226 Union. Final plans for the November
Interim Council at Chapel Hill will be made. All members
please attend. Anyone interested in politics is welcome.
There wB be a Bible study for graduate students at 7 p.m. at
the Baptist Student Union's Battle House. The study is on
Matthew.
The UNC Sailing Club meeting is 7:30 p.m. in 431. Greenlaw
Hall. Elections for new officers will be held so it is important
that all members attend. T-shirts and the cookout will also be
discussed.
AXE wffl hold a meeting at 7:30 p.m. in 222 Venable Hall.
Welcome new brothers.
Assignment: Life, an excellent documentary on the abortion .
issue, will be shown at 7 p.m. in 101 Greenlaw Hall. There will
be a question-answer session following the film.
CHEC (Contraceptive Health Education CJinic) is meeting
at 7 p.m. in the Health Education Section of the Student
Health Service. CHEC is geared to help UNC students be
responsible partners in matters concerning sexuality. CHEC
provides an informative, informal discussion and slide presen
tation of contraception.
"Men's Health Issues" is the topic for the meeting to be held
at 1 p.m. in 217 Union. Everyone is welcome to bring a lunch
and a friend. .
There will be a meeting and parry for aB Executive Branch
Liaisons at 7:30 p.m. in 217 Union. Please plan to attend.
COMING EVENTS
UNC Bahai Club will meet at noon Wednesday in the Frank
Porter Graham Lounge of the Union. Bring your lunch, bring
a friend, and we'll supply "the. wine of astonishment."
There will be a meeting of the Association of ReBgious Stu
. dies Students at 7:30. p.m. Wednesday at 223 McCauley Street.
All are welcome.
Dept. of Speech Communications is sponsoring a Reading
Hour featuring poetry by living British poets at 5 p.m. Wed
nesday in 103 Bingham Hall.
MBA Forum to be held from 7-10 p.m. Wednesday in Great
Hall. Fourteen graduate schools will be represented to provide
information and answer questions. The Forum is sponsored by
the Association of Business Students.
The UNC Coafition for Social Justice will hold a meeting at
7 p.m. Wednesday in 221 Greenlaw Hall.
The Undergraduate Political Science Association is having a
wine and cheese party from 7-9 p.m. Wednesday in the Gallery
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of the Union. Come and meet other political science students
and professors.
The Stale Affairs Committee will meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday
in Suite C Union. All members are urged to attend.
BSM Ebony Readers Onyx Theatre will meet at 6 p.m. Wed
nesday in Craige Rec Room. Come with pieces memorized and
prepared to perform.
- Come watch semi-final and final rounds of the College Bowl
at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday m 207-209 Union.
The Baptist Student Union Council will meet at 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday at the Battle House.
Talk Time-West, an on-going, open-ended series of discus
sions for gay men and lesbians, will be held at 8 p.m. Wednes
day in Carrboro. Call 929-4997 or 929-8843 for more informa
tion. A film about the dual role of Latin American women at
borne, as wives and mothers, and at work will be shown at 3
p.m. Thursday in 202 Union. After the film, a discussion will
be led by Dr. Nancy Scheper Hughes, Anthropology Dept. at
UNC. ' ,
The 1981 Fast for a World Harvest begins Wednesday. To
learn more about how you can contribute, come by one of the
tables outside the Union or Campus Y this week from 10 a.m.
until 3 p.m. All donations go directly to Oxfam-America, an
agency that sponsors self-help development programs in Third '
World countries.
A "Break Fast" meal is being served at the end of the 1981
Fast For A World Harvest at 7 p.m. Thursday in 202-204
Union. Come to relax, enjoy and learn how you can make per
sonal responses to world hunger. Cost is S2. Sign up at one of
the Fast tables or in the Y office.
AFROTC presents "The Air Force's approach to the man
agement consulting process, the data base which has been
developed, and the results of using the data base in the mana
gerial decision-making process." The presentation will be
made by Lt. Col. Woodman and Maj. Short of the USAF
Leadership and Management Development Center at 3:45
Thursday and 2 p.m. Friday in 101 Greenlaw Hall.
The Creative Writing Program's Odd Thursday Reading
presents Cellar. Door's fall 1981 contributions at 2 p.m. in
Greenlaw Lounge. The new issue will be available.
. Pre-MedPre-DentPre-Vrt students: Only two more inter
viewing workshops this year. Come to one Thursday from .
7-9:30 p.m. Be prepared for your professional school inter
views. Sign up at 202-D Steele Building.
UNC Sailing Club cookout is at 6 p.m. Thursday at Forest
Theater.' '
Elections Board will have a meeting for all potential candi
dates for the February 1982 Campus Elections at 7 p.m.
Thursday in Suite C of the Union.
Thursday's program of the Baptist Student Union will fea
ture a worship service at 5:45 at the Battle House.
Beat Dook Band Celebration featuring the Mighty Majors
and Mainstream from 9 a.m. until I p.m. Thursday at the Tin
Can. dvance tickets available at the Union or from any PiKA
with proceeds going to the Steve Streater Fund and the Big
Brother Program.
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Omega Psl PM Fraternity, Inc. will be conducting its Annual
Canned Food Drive all this week for needy families in the
Chapel Hill-Carrboro communities. We will visit James,
Morrison, E-haus, Craige, Whitehead, Joyner, Cobb, Parker
and Ruffin. When a member knocks on your door, please con
tribute any way you can. Uplift is the key. -
Intranumk: UNC students and faculty-staff members
interested in the I M Ski Trip Jan. 3-8 that did not attend last
night's organizational meeting should contact Assoc. IM-Rec
Director Marty Pomerantz.
The Playmakers Repertory Company is recruiting ushers for
its production of Tennessee Williams' play The Glass Mena- .
gene. In return for volunteering to usher you can see the play
for free. Sign up at 203 Graham Memorial Hall.
1981 UN1CEF greeting cards on sale now. Come by 104
Campus Y Tuesday-Thursday, 1 1 a.m.-2 p.m. until Nov. 25.
Applications for the Kate Millett reception after her talk on
Nov. 17 are available starting Wednesday at the Union desk.
They're due Wednesday at the Union desk.
Students interested in the Washington Center for Learning
Alternatives Washington Winterim '82 should have their appli
cations in by Nov. 20. The topic will be The Reagan Admiiu-
strati on and the 7th Congress t Year Later. For more in
formation, call Charles Lamm at the Counseling Center,
962-2175.
Support ECOS newspaper recyclng. Drop boxes are located at
Alumni and Monogram buildings and behind Wilson Library.
By LAURIE BRADSHER
DTH Staff Writer -
The UNC Reading program can teach a student how to study,
double reading speed, or prepare for standardized graduate
school exams. At the same time, the staff will give you an en
couraging smile and a pat on the back.
"We choose our staff by their sense of humor and interest in
other people," said Mimi Keever, the program's assistant direc
tor. "We do have a very good staff."
"I think that's the. prime ingredient here," said program
director Henry Powell.
Powell, Keever and the program's four part-time instructors
have all taught at the college level. "These people have a good
idea what it's like and what the class requirements are," Powell
said.
The program is geared for actual course reading, not just
speed reading, Powell said. "So we have to have people who
like to work with students, who are adaptable in working with
various students and who know what it's like in a classroom." .
The reading course provides individual instruction. A student
can opt to work on speed, comprehension, study skills for dif
ferent courses, or prepare for certain standardized tests.
Keever suggested that students preparing for graduate stan
dardized tests come in at least a month or two before the exam.
"One of the misconceptions about the program," Powell said,
"is that people don't know the range of student who come
here."
Keever said that in addition to freshmen recommended to the
program by counselors, older people who return to school fre
quent the program. Faculty, upperclassmen and graduate stu
dents in all majors take part in the program, she said. -
"We've had some Rhodes scholars in the program," Powell
said. They tended to come to the program longer and work
harder, he said.
Six to eight weeks at 3 hours per week is the average time for
the course, which costs $10. The program begins with diagnostic
testing and a conference to find the student's major goals in the
course.
The student is assigned material to work on independently,
with periodic progress reports, encouragement and new assign
ments from his or her instructor.
The staff sees about 1 ,000 students per year at a rate of about
20 to 30 per hour. "Fall is our busiest time," Keever said as she
shuffled through application cards of people on the program's
waiting list.
She said the summer was not as busy as the rest of the year,
but that the center offered many special programs during the
summer. These programs include Upward Bound, Health Ca
reers Academic Achievement Program, UNC Slimmer Bridge
Program and a program for minorities.
The major drawing card for the Reading Program is it can
double most people's reading speed.
"People make spectacular gain early," Keever said, "but can
pretty quickly go back to their old habits if they don't keep it
up. Twenty sessions seems to be a magic number to prevent
fallback." .
Keever said reading time flexibility was a goal of the program.
"You don't have to go slow in eveything you read, even if
you're in chemistry or philosophy (majors which require close
analytical reading)."
Varying reading time according to the material at hand is
something the program teaches.
"The program is a good confidence builder because there's
no risk to the student," Keever said. "It's a good discipline exer
cise because it gets you used to time testing."
The program, in Phillips Annex 204, is open to students want
ing to brush up on their study skills from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon
day through Thursday and 8 a.m.4 p.m. on Fridays. It will be
open during exams on a regular basis.
Bid-rigging indie tments wides pread
The Associated Press
RALEIGH Instead of a quiet end to
the problem of bid-rigging, state officials
continue to be bothered with a widening cir
cle of indicted companies and businessmen.
But the developments have left a looming
question to be answered has the prac
tice of collusion and complimentary bid
ding, acknowledged among highway con
tractors who pleaded guilty to federal
charges, extended across a broad range of
state construction projects?
More bid-rigging indictments previ
ously confined to highway construction
were returned last week against nine elec
trical contractors.
State Justice Department officials said
, they now were looking at water-and-sewer
contracts. New U.S. Attorney Sam Currin
said he wanted the FBI to open its own
probe, and nearly eveyone close to the in
vestigation said more charges could be ex
pected. . '
H. Al Cole, special deputy attorney
general, says while it's too early to answer
the question of how far the bid-rigging
scandal eventually may extend, he acknow
ledges that bid rigging could be more
widespread than earlier believed.
" "I'm certainly not going to indict every
one," he said in an interview. "I can only
say that the same atmosphere surrounding
the electrical and highway cases surrounds
other types of contracts."
State Attorney General Rufus Edmisten
went further, telling a reporter, "If the
electrial industry is involved in bid-rigging,
what's to say that the plumbing and air con
ditioning and virtually everyone else is not
rigged?"
Nine electrical contracting companies
were indicted by a grand jury in Wilson
; County for allegedly conspiring to rig bids
on a $4 million contract for constructing
an East Carolina University Medical School
building in 1978.
Charges in the earlier highway cases
were brought under federal charges, and
Cole said the latest cases involved the first
bid-rigging related' charges ever brought
under state law.
So far the state has agreed to more than
$11 million in settlements from 16 highway
contractors, and.Still more are prevented
from further bidding until they reach&set-
tlement.
While Cole declined to say what other
cases were under investigation, he
acknowledged the Justice Department was
looking into water-and-sewer project bids.
Another official close to the state con
struction process, asking not to be named,
said there was at least one other major pro
ject where charges were possible and that
others were under investigation.
Currin, the federal prosecutor, also said
it .was too early to tell how far bid-rigging
might extend. But Currin, who was an aide
to North Carolina GOP Sen. Jesse Helms
until assuming the U.S. attorney's post
this year, pointed out the latest charges
followed not only the highway indictments
but also indictments in the state's handling
of federal job-training contracts.
"I think it is too early to say," Currin
said. Of course, this comes on the heels of
the highway bid-rigging and the CETA
scandal. "You just don't know, where it
goes." '
And even the highway bid-rigging cases
may not be over. Qirrin said the federal
" grand jury in New Bern was continuing to
: meet on.the case, and Cole said the highway -bid-rigging
investigation might be only
halfway finished.
Actor William Holden, 63, found dead
The Associated Press
SANTA MONICA, Calif. Actor
William Holden, who won an Oscar as
the hard-bitten prisoner of war in "Stalag
17" and played the disillusioned news
executive in "Network," was found dead
at his apartment Monday, police said.
Holden, 63, apparently died of natural
causes, said Police Sgt. Dick Tapiam and
apparently had been dead for two or
three days.
The body was found by the apartment's
manager, who became concerned when
he had not heard from Holden in two or
three weeks, Tapiam said. "I went to the
scene," Tapiam said. "He was on the
floor. No one else was there."
Holden had not been reported in poor
health. However, last year there were
reports he was going to West Germany to
consult with Dr. Hans Nieper, a cancer
expert. Nieper had said at the time he did
not think Holden was seriously ill.
The actor was a close friend of Presi
dent Ronald Reagan, a relationship that
began when both were, officers in the
Screen Actors Guild. Reagan, a movie
actor for many years, went on to become
president of SAG.
Holden and his wife were best man and
matron of honor at the 1951 wedding of
Reagan and his wife Nancy, now the first
lady.
One of Holden's most recent film roles
was that of a movie director in Blake Ed
ward's black comedy about Hollywood,
"S.O.B," released earlier this year.
Holden got his big break in films as the
musically inclined boxer in "Golden
Boy," in 1939, then rose to become one
of the most popular movie actors of his
time.
His Academy Award came in 1953,
and he got other nominations for his per
formances as the hack screen writer in
"Sunset Boluevard" .in 1950 and for
"Network." His "Network" co-star,
Peter Finch, was awarded the Oscar post
humously. .'.-. ' . .
In recent years,. Holden traveled on
cultural and anthropological missions to
Africa and New Guinea with his close
friend, Stephanie Powers, a star of the
ABC television series "Hart to Hart."
They brought back many artifacts from
New Guinea and were engaged in helping
that country develop its art.
Holden also was interested in the eco
logy of Africa and was a frequent visitor
to that continent, where for several years
he had interest in the Mt. Kenya Safari
Club and Hotel.
One of his most recent films was "The
Earthling," filmed in the South Pacific.
He had also narrated a documentary on
the ecology of the oceans.
He made his television debut as the
policeman who didn't want to retire in
Joseph Wambaugh's "The Blue Knight."
The four-hour movie was seen on NBC in
1973, but Holden declined to do the spin
off television series, which starred George
Kennedy and had only a short run.
Holden is survived by two sons, Peter
and Scott, and a daughter, Virginia, as
well as his former wife, Ardis "Brenda"
Holden, with whom he remained close
until his death. Holden never remarried.
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