Thursday, May 8, 1969
PTH Movie Review
Life Explodes
By BRUCE LUBMAN
Recess, recess, re-cess,
re-a-cess, re-a revaluate,
review. Review! Surely you
must be-well it was colorful
and there were these people
and sounds and games and
people-yes, people that's
what it was. Nine people who
communicated a feeling. To
define a feeling is to commit
its suicide, since once it is
defined it can be thrown
away-to define this film
would be committing a great
.injustice, but a small part of
this feeling can be realized
through an explanation of the
framework in which it
occurred.
William Barnes motion
picture adaptation of the play
"Recess," written by Dolores
Walker and Andrew
Piotrowski, is a dynamic and
original work of art. The film
' takes man, specifically
American man but more
generally universal man, and
through spectacular
multienvironmental changes in
, sound, camera angle, and a
brilliant blending and
texturing of color, tells with
the help of nine very skilled
; actors and some simple
childrens' games a very
profound story.
The film commences, after
a
colorful introduction, with
Thursday's Campus
JOIN THE JOGGERS
CLUB. Reduce and get into
shape. Everyone
welcome students, profs;
male, female. Just show up at
6:30 a.m. on Fetzer Field.
FILM COMMITTEE
Interviews are being held
today and Friday from 1 until
3 p.m. in Suite A, upstairs in
the Union.
WRC (AWS) Interviews
. . i Monday for groups
coordinating and working with
the Residence College System
(co-chairman of Residence
College Federation), Women's
Athletic Association, Women's
International Student
Center and Carolina Women's
. Council. From 3-4 p.m. in the
,WRC Office, Suite C, Room
i 225 of the Union. , , ... , ,
GRADUATE ENGLISH
CLUB Discussion at 4 p.m. in
DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1. Disfigure
4. Sea of
44. Appear
45. Ballet step
DOWN
1. Great Lake
2. Before
noon
3. Peruses
4. Perform
5. Indiana
city
6. John Doe
is one
7. Small
valley
8. Professional
sippers
9. Sun god
10. Campanella,
for one
13. Author's
copy: abbr.
16. Ample:
archaic
the Scrolls
8. Call heard
on the play
ins: field
9. Kind of
derby
11. Electric
current
12. MIX'S
group
14. Metric
measure
15. Places for
wood and
tools
17. Like slate
18. Pie pans
.19. Ah, me!
20. Me, myself
and I
21. Jewish
month
22. Dutch
meter
24. Cruder
26. 14 pounds
in Britain
28. Symbol
for tin
29. Flame
seeker 31. Shinto
temple
32. Army post
33. Happy
34. French river
36. Male bee
37. Celebes ox
38. Money
player
39. Central
American
republic:
abbr.
40. Kind of
gallop
42. Shoshonean
Indians
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all nine people playing
together in a totally white
environment. There is no
"The Taming of the
Shrew," Carolina Playmakers'
final production of the season,
opens tonight at 8:30 in the
room 206 of the Union.
Wei don Thornton will speak
on Twentieth Century
Literature.
BIOSTATISTICS
SEMINAR at 4 p.m. in room
416 of the School of Public
Health. Dr. P.J. Clarinebold
(Research Scientist at CSIRO,
Commonwealth Scientific &
Industrial Research
Organization in Australia) on
"The Least Squares Analysis
of Experiments."
INTERNATIONAL
HANDICRAFTS Bazzaar (for
next fall) organization meeting
will be held at 5 p.m. on the
2nd
floor of the Y. Interested
persons invited.
UNC PRESS CLUB Annual
Awards Banquet at 7 p.m. in
. .the,. .Zoom ; Zoomu. Restaurant,
Music by Jock and Maggie
Lauterer.
17. Drastic
19. Sales
notice
21. Cropped
up
22. Height
ens 23. Heads
of state
25. Come
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forth
27. Scandi
navian metropolis
30. Tellurium
symbol
32. Kentucky
pioneer
33. Aggre
gation 34. American
Indian
35 Duck
genus
36. Member of
12 Across
38. Man of
the cloth:
! abbr.
41. Printer's
measure
43. Tantalum
symbol
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interference from any outside
forces, communication comes
as naturally as breathing, one
. J
Forest Theater, with Roger
Howell as Petruchio and
Margariet Howell as Kate.
Calendar
"FLOWERS FOR
ALGERNON" will be
presented at 7 p.m. in the
Shop (of the Union) by the
Readers' Theatre, Mrs. Martha
Nell Hardy's oral
interpretation class.
WOMEN'S LIBERATION
Meeting, upstairs in the Union
at 7:30 p.m. All women
invited.
ORIENTATION
COUNSELOR Planning
Session for Ehringhaus
Residence College (including
Kenan, Whitehead and
Connor) will be held in room
209 of the Union at 8 p.m.
"TAMING OF THE
SHREW" opens in the Forest
Theatre at 8:30 p.m.
HIS EXCELLENCY
PRESIDENT Fernando
Belaunde ' Terry of Peru,
deposed last October by a
military coup, will speak at
8:30 p.m. on "The Future of
Latin America" in Gerrard
Hall. Sponsored by the
International Student Center
and Project of the Americas.
THREE SURE JOBS in
Switzerland for this summer.
Contact Bett Sanders at
968-9006 or 968-9079 for
more information and
addresses. Those interested
must write immediately.
EHRINGHAUS COLLEGE
will have an Art Show on
Sunday between 12 and 5
p.m. The categories are
painting, sculpture,
photography and composition,
and anyone can enter. If you
are interested in showing a
piece, call John McAdams at
933-5381 after 10 p.m.
MAJOR NATIONAL
FRATERNITY (social) is
interested in organizing at
UNC. If you would like to
help form this chapter,
contact Rex Funderbunk
(933-2485), George P. Doyle
(933-2488) or James Latta
(933-4964).
CONTRIBUTIONS to the
1969 Scholarship Fund should
be sent to: 1969 Scholarship
Fund, P.O. Box 1080, Chapel
Hill.
SUMMER TRAVELLERS:
Anyone interested in finding
travelling companions for this
summer should leave his name
and address at the
International Student Center.
WELL, P0E5 THIS MEAN "THAT V0U,
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person cries and they all cry,
one person laughs and
everyone laughs, everything
laughs, even the camera shakes
up an down as though it were
laughing.
As the film progresses and
the "story" begins to take
shape we see the people
involved beginning to take
shapes of their own. Man
begins to discover self, to
nn pet ion and to receive
feedback from
and obiects.
both people
Personalities
develop and the freedom oi
expression and feeling of
liberation begins to disappear.
Religion, mores and ethics,
and individual experiences
begin to dominate
personalities and conflicts
between individuals arise.
Things such as war and peace,
acceptance-denial crisis,
divorce and marriage, love and
hate are all illustrated through
the games that are played.
Thus, the environment that
started off pure white and
untainted begins to take on
many colors and many shapes
as each individual develops in
his own very private way.
Games that were once Fight
and gay take on new
appearances and we are
carried from the mood to the
next on a wave of light and
sound. Violence, frustration,
prejudice, aggression paranoia,
all the things we are plagued
with in our restricted
preplanned lives begin to take
controL What were once
pleasant children's games turn
into wraped, tragic and more
devastating adult games, like
"have another" and "do it, it
will be good for you."
Perceptions become narrowed,
total awareness no longer
exists, life becomes
mechanical, a constant,
ordered, dull existence that
centers around work, T.V.,
sleep, morning exercises,
weekend drinking bouts, and
mechanical sex. Man as the
performers in the film
demonstrate, becomes
incapable of even touching his
fellowman.
There is no harmony in the
universe of these nine people,
nothing but friction and ego's
clashing and bouncing off
each other like ping pong balls
in a chain-reaction experiment.
But there is something that
keeps them together, a
common bond in the midst of
this total communication
breakdown that won't let
them go. Although it seems
doubtful that this ' could be
faith in one's fellowman, it
also appears to be more than
safety in numbers. What it is is
the need for other people and
their need to express their
innermost feelings again. The
vague memory that remains at
the base of all their mixed up
feelings and emotions the one
clean spot that forms the base
for all the broccoli, spinach,
immaculate conception,
summer camp, computer card,
student I.D., social security
number shit that lies piled on
top causing us to forget our
essential humanity.
In the end the nine
characters are naked, wasted,
stripped down of all their
earthly possessions, but still
cannot touch one another.
They reach out, willing to
accept anything that will
provide and answer, even total
destruction, but it does not
come. They sit down on their
individual cube blocks and
discover an answer what they
find is each other and through
the dramatic circular passing
of a finger tip touch to the
center of the forehead to the
next person's finger tip,
bathed in an eerie electronic
sound the awareness they have
lost, the humanity they have
forgotten.
1 UATt QUESTIONS
LIKE THAT-
TAR HEEL
Blind DJ E.
Ry PAUL KROXSBURG
'I
Wanted to hwnmp a
radio announcer, but
wondered what they did."
blind, freshman radio
announcer Harvey Heagy.
.The radio-TV-motion
Pictures major from Charlotte
has been blind all his life.
He is originally from New
Orleans, and went through
first grade public school
receiving special training in
typing, and reading and
A.
anting brail. In fourth grade,
ne went to special state school
for two months but dropped
out due to "unenjovable
methods taught."
Interest in radio and
Qiarly" Read
In The Shop
1 OlliM At
Charlie Gordon is
thirty-seven years old and
carries a rabbit's foot with
him for good luck. Charlie
is a moron. But Charlie has
"motorvation" and they're
going to make him smart.
The reader's theater would
like for you to meet
Charlie in their
presentation, "Flowers for
Algernon," May 8, 7:00
P.M., in the Shop in the
Union.
Dan Neal and Bett
banders will direct the
presentation from which
me movie unarly was
adapted. The cast from
Mrs. Martha Hardy's
advanced oral interpreta
tion class will include Bill
Donovan, Marsha Houston,
Claire Eberhardt, and Tony
Lentz. Charlie will be hurt
if you don't come so will
Bett and Dan.
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announcing
pushed Heagy
towards college application at
Carolina's radio-TV-motion
pictures department. "When I
was real young," says Heagy,
"I loved "radio. It was better
communication than TV".
Heagy gets around campus
by memorizing each class
route. He uses cassette
recordings for taking notes.
"I take all my tests orally,"
he savs. "It's rather difficult
in some courses. I worked in
high school, with a special
education advisor who brailed
my tests."
Heagy plans to specialize in
radio at Carolina.
"I was desperate to learn
about radio," he says.
"Professional stations
wouldn't touch me, as they
were skeptical of my handicap
and required experience. I
turned to campus radio and
gained experience and many
friends. Half of my problem
in radio work is skepticism of
everybody else."
Heagy's eagerness and
quick memorizing allows him
to handle Granville Towers'
radio station, WILD, like a
pro. He sits hour after hour
on weekends playing records
for listeners.
Heagy's desire makes him
Curfew Eases
Traffic
T KENTON. N.J. (LPI) - The
teenage curlew established dur
ing riots in April. 1968, is still
' in use in this capital city -to easf
traffic congestion.
The curfew prohibits ainonc
under IB from being on the
street after 10p.m. Sunday
through Thursday and after 1 1
p.m. Friday through Saterda .
Police say they are "strictK
enforcing it to ease traffic tieups
caused bv young motorists cruis
ing downtown streets.
A Honda parks in spaces cars can't
use. Runs around all week on a
gallon of gas. Slashes your insur
ance tab. Costs less to keep up.
And can cost less initially than a
car down-payment. With so many
things it's little about, isn't it
ironical that a Honda can make
you such a charitable B.M.O.C.?
See yojr Honaa Cea er '.ot a coior Drocfiu'e sa'ety caoei ad
or r,!e Arrr.can Honaa Moto-- Co if-c . Ces: C-- Sc SO Ga-i
WILD
feel that "one should not take
life for granted, because it can
easily be taken away One
should get as much as he can
from life."
Heagy has fun achieving
station operations on his own.
"1 like fun and feel that fun is
fun when its still fun today,
tomorrow or next year." he
said. "Its something you can
be proud to tell your kids
'Graduate' Appears
In 2 Net Dramas
Dust in Hoffman ("The
Graduate"), idol of the
"under-30" generation, stars
in two up-coming "NET
Playhouse" presentations on
University of North Carolina
Television.
Tonight at 8 p.m., Station
WUNC, Channel 4 will repeat
"Journey of the Fifth Horse,"
the first of two productions
this remarkable young actor
made for "NET Playhouse" a
couple of seasons ago.
Ronald Ribman's
prize-winning drama will be
followed by Maxwell
Anderson's "The Star Wagon"
Thursday, May 15 at 8 p.m.
Dustin Hoffman appears with
Orson Bean and Eileen
Brennan in Anderson's
off-beat fantasy.
"Journey of the Fifth
Horse" has consistently won
critical accolades, beginning
with its initial stage
presentation at the American
Place Theater when it was
awarded the 1965-66 Obie
Award for "best off-Broadway
play." Its televised version,
which features the original
stage cast, was hailed as a
'magnificant, moving
production" (Philadelphia
Inwis o e Circle" f tr-
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lime
about."
He hopes to prove good
enough for professional work
but. meanwhile accepts the
fun of amateur radio
operations.
"I'm in a sighted world and
must learn to get along." sayj.
Heagy. "If a person work,
hard and gets a degree, he can
get a job somewhere."
Evening Bulletin) and "an
engrossing evening of
television theatre" (The
Boston Globe).
Both on stage and on
television, Dustin HoffmiJi
was acclaimed for his striking
portrayal of Zodich, the fussy,
day-dreaming little publisher's
reader wose life oddly
parallel's that of the character
in the novel he is reading.
In "The Star Wagon,"
Dustin Hoffman portrays
Hanus Wicks, odd-ball crony
of the absent-minded Stephen
Minch (Orson Bean), inventor
of a time machine that will
give people a chance to see
whether, if they could live
their lives over again, they
would really live them
differently.
After the broadcast of
"The Star Wagon," reviewers
again singled out Dustin
Hoffman's performance. Jack
Gould of The New York
Times described it as
"exceptionally good," and
John Voorhees, of the Seattle
Post-Intelligencer, predicted:
"Hoffman ... is an intriguing
performer of whom we'll hear
much more in the future."
EXERCISE
YOUR
'WILL' POWER
will s.vitch toTarrpax taniocns,
he internal sanitary protection
hat outsells all ethers corr.fcir.ed.
will ride a bike, s.vim, play
ern;s. dance . . . and do my daily
exercises every day of the month
if I v. ish.
will no longer worry at0L.t the
discomfort and inconvenience
of sanitary napkins, pins and
belts.
I will be more relaxed and
cor. cent sn any s-tuat
because Tampax tampons can't
she. v or cause odor.
I will ce complete1 y ccrr.f :rta
because Tampax tampons can't
be felt v.hen they're prcprly in
place.
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