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THE TWIG
SEPTEMBER 26, 1974
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Sharon Ellis’s Movie Review
COLLEGE
NON COERCION WORKS
If the evidence so far is conclusive, the new convocation
policy will prove to be a good one. For the first time ever, no
convocation meetings are required, nor are they a weekly affair.
By offering fewer but higher-quality programs, the convocation
committee hopes to maintain student attendance and a sem
blance of “community” gatherings without coercion.
Thus far, the student body has responded more than
adequately to the new policy. Functions such as the Danish
gymnastic team’s performance and Margaret Meade’s speech
have been most well-received. This support indicates that when
the offerings are good, students will indeed take prcqier ad
vantage of them. Better quality and less quantity seem to work;
thanks to those in charge for giving this policy a chance.
GR
APATHY STRHCES AGAIN.
Student turnout at last Friday’s S.G.A. meeting was sorely
disappointing.Although the meeting had been well-publicized,
barely enough students to form a quorum managed to make time
to get over to Jones and participate.
The many who did not attend the meeting missed Dr.
Thomas’s introductimi of herself to the student body, in addition
to passing up another chance to have a voice in what happens at
Meredith.
~Our S.G.A. leaders this year are as competent a group as we
could wish to have, but they can’t accomplish much almie. In
stead of complaining about what’s irritating you. students, go to
the next S.G. A. meeting and bring your problem up there. Who
knows, we might actually get some results around here if
enough students will get involved.
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Richard Lester’s
reputation as a director ex
tends back to 1964 when he
directed the Beatle’s first
film “A Hard Day’s Night”;
now ten years later he is
responsible for a film that is
pure rollicking entertainment,
“The Three Musketeers.”
The film is based on
Alexandra Dumas’s classical
novel about three musketeers
under the service of Louis
Xni. The setting is seven
teenth-century France with
all of its intrigue and splendor.
Lester departs con
siderably from the book; the
movie is little more than
slapstick. However, there is
an all-star cast: Oliver Reed,
Frank Finlay, Richard
Chamberlain (remember Dr.
Kildaire?), Michael York,
Charlton Heston, Christopher
Lee, Faye Dunaway,
Geraldine Chaplin, and
Raquel Welch, and they have
all joined talents to make a
movie that is incredibly funny
even if it does lack substance.
The film opens with the
arrival of D’Artagnan, a high-
tempered young man from
provincial France, to Paris.
The role is played superbly by
Michael York. D’Artagnan
fumbles and stumbles and
makes bumbling mistakes,
but his intentions are always
good and he is always sincere.
He has arrived in Paris in
hopes of joining the King’s
Musketeers.
He soon meets the Three
Musketeers, Athos (Olive
Reed), Partho (Frank
Finlay), and Aramis (Richard
Chamberlain). They “adopt”
D’Artagnan into their midst
and the action begins. Action
that spans two countries,
involves a scandal concerning
the queen of France, and is
complicated by the deadly
plots of Cardinal Richelieu.
The plot is complicated even
more (but much to D’Ar-
tagnan’s delight), when
Raquel Welch appears on the
scene as Constance Bonan-
cieux, the wife of D’Ar-
tagnan’s landlord and a lady-
in-waiting to the queen.
The movie is made up of
duels, challenges, scuffles,
buffoonery, exaggerated
motions, groin kicks, and
jests. Despite such a script
Michael York adds a
dimension to D’Artagnan. He
has a habit of widening his
eyes when confronted with
challenges that emphasizes
D’Artagnan’s youthful
courage, and he literally
bounds from one scene to the
next with relentless energy.
Ironically, it is Charlton
Heston that does not equal his
acting ability. He portrays the
Cardinal Richelieu, but he
simply fails to impart all the
power and authority that tte
role requires. Such poor ac
ting on Heston’s part is puz
zling; it is not so puzzling on
Raquel Welch’s part.
Despite her protests to the
contrary, Welch has never
been able to act. Fortunauely
this time the role as Constance
does not call for much ability,
only for ineptness, wide-ey^
credulity, and sexual charm.
This she is able to carry off.
However, many of the
good moments in the movies
do not come from the box-
office stars, but rather from
the supporting cast. Spike
Milligan is hilarious as M.
Bonancieux, the innkeeper.
His consternation at being
arrested and sent to the
Bastille is amusing. “I don’t
want to go,” he wails. There
are all sorts of nasty dungeons
and dark holes there where
very unsympathetic people cut
very important part off one.”
Roy Kinnear is equally as
good as Planchet, D’Ar
tagnan’s servant. Planchet
huffs and puffs after D’Ar
tagnan, forever trying to keep
up with his energetic master.
He is doggedly loyal to
D’Artagnan, and often points
him out with a toothy grin of
pride.
The most remarkable
aspect of the movie is the
costumes and set. Every
facet of the set seems to have
been researched for
historical accuracy. Narrow,
winding streets where ser
vants throw slops out the
windows transport one to
seventeenth-century Paris.
Men stroll the streets sniffing
clove-studded oranges, and
boys participate in greased
pole seesaw matches.
Jack Anderson’s weekly special
Americans too deeply in debt
WASHINGTON - President
Ford’s inflation fighters are
w(»Tied that Americans are
too deeply in debt American
consumers owe their creditors
a staggering $185 billion, not
even counting home mor-
^ages. This is triple the
consumer d^t only 15 years
ago.
Already, Americans are
having trouble paying their
loans. Loan delinquencies
have shot up to an alarming 25
per cent. An estimated 165,000
Americans will be forced to
declare personal bankruptcy
and throw themselves at the
mercy of thdr creditors this
year.
It was precisely this kind
credit crisis which caused
the last great depression.
People couldn’t pay their
debts, businesses failed and
the economic chain reactim
spread.
Yet the lesson of the 1930s
hasn’t changed the txnrowing
habits of most Americans. Not
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Americans don’t seem con
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of borrowing.
Terrorist Weapons:
Intelligence rq>orts warn that
Libya’s madcap leader,
Muammar Qaddafi, is buying
up new Soviet weapons for
terrorists. He has ordered
sophisticated weapons, in
cluding shoulder-fired
missiles, beyond the needs of
his own military forces. The
Central Intelligence Agency
has learned that he intends to
distribute some of these arms
to terrorist groups around the
world.
In the past, the Syrians
also have su{^lied Palestinian
terrorists with weapons. But
Syria’s President Assad has
b^ome more moderate since
lus dealings with Secretary rf
State Henry Kissinger and has
developed a closer relation
ship with Jordan’s King
Hussein. Of course, Hussein
ranks next to Israel on the
Palestinian’s enemies list.
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