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connive to commit the perfect murder, with
Edward G. Robinson hot on their track in
Billy Wilder's crime classic from James
Cain's novel. (Alternative Cinema. Shows at
7 and 9:30 p.m. Tuesday in 101 Greenlaw.
Admission: $1.25.)
Knife In the Water Roman Polanski's
auspicious debut film, in which a middle
class couple get more than they bargained
for when they pick up a young man. Polish
with subtitles. (Union Free Flick. Show at 8
p.m. Tuesday in the Great Hall. Admission:
50c.)
The Gold Rush Chaplin's silent
masterpiece a wonderful blend of comedy
and pathos set against the mad Yukon gold
rush. Contains some of Chaplin's best
sequences. (Alternative Cinema. Shows at 7
and 9:30 p.m. Thursday in 101 Greenlaw.
Admission: $1.25.)
Repulsion Polanski will scare the
daylights out of you with the aid of
Catherine Deneuve as a young girl slowly
descending into madness. (Union Free Flick.
Show at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Great Hall.
Admission: 50c.)
Chinatown Polanski takes on the
traditional Hollywood detective film and
easily surpasses it with this excellent thriller
about corruption in Los Angeles. Jack
Nicholson and Faye Dunaway have never
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TUESDAY:
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WEDNESDAY:
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been better. (Union Free Flick. Show at 8
p.m. Thursday in the Great Hall. Admission:
50c.)
Chapel Hill
Tommy Another example of Ken
Russell's foolish self-indulgence, this time
from the Who's rock opera. (Ram 1. Shows
at 2:35, 4:45, 6:55 and 9:05 p.m. Admission:
$2.) -
A Brief Vacation (Ram 2. Shows at 3,
5, 7 and 9 p.m. Admission: $2.)
Who (Ram 3. Shows at 3:45, 5:35, 7:25
and 9:15 p.m. Admission: $2.)
Chinatown (Varsity. Shows at 2:30,
4:45, 7 and 9:15 p.m. Admission: $2.25.)
The Killer Elite (Plaza 1. shows at 2,
4:30, 7 and 9:30 p.m. Admission: $2.25.)
Dog Day Afternoon (Plaza 2. Shows
at 2: 15, 4:40, 7:05 and 9:30 p.m. Admission:
$2.25.)
The Romantic Englishwoman (Plaza
3. Shows at 2:40, 4:55, 7:10 and 9:25 p.m.
Admission: $2.25.)
Amarcord (Carolina Blue. Show at 9
p.m. Admission: $2.25.)
Cries and Whispers (Carolina Blue.
Show at 7 p.m. Admission: $2.25.)
Soldier In Skirts (Carolina White.
Shows at 7:25 and 9:20 p.m. Admission:
$2.25.)
Tale of Two Cities (Chapel Hill Public
Library. Shows at 7 p.m. Tuesday and
Wednesday. Free admission
Durham
Hustle (Northgate I. Shows at 2:30,
4:40, 6:50 and 9 p.m. Admission: $2.50.)
A Shot In the Dark (Center I. Shows
at 7:10 and 9 p.m. Admission: $2.50.)
The Romantic Englishwoman
(Center 2. Shows at 6:55 and 9 p.m.
Admission: $2.50.)
Lucky Lady (Yorktowne 1. Shows at
2:45, 5, 7:20 and 9:40 p.m. Admission:
$2.50.)
The Hindenburg (Yorktowne 2.
Shows at 2:20, 4:40, 7 and 9:20 p.m.
Admission: $2.50.)
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show begins at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $10.50
Sunday-Thursday and $12.50 Friday and
Saturday.
The Carolina Playmakers present Who's
Afraid of Virginia Woolf at 8 p.m. Feb. 5-8
and 12-15 in Playmaker's Theatre.
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Freddie Hubbard, jazz-rock trumpeter
performs at 8 p.m. Jan. 29 in Memorial Hall.
Tickets are available for $4 at the Union
desk.
The National Opera Company presents
The Magic Flute at 8:15 p.m. Jan. 30 in
Page Auditorium, Duke. Tickets are
available for $2, $2.50 and $3 at the Page
Box Office.
Deep Purple, Nazareth and Ted
Nugent perform Jan. 30 in the Greensboro
Coliseum. Tickets are available at area
Record Bars and the Coliseum.
Celebration of Our Country: Past and
Present - Works by Chapel Hill High's
teachers. Through Feb. 2 at the Morehead
Planetarium. In the North Art Gallery
Spirit of 76, works by Chapel Hill High art
students. Hours: 2-5 p.m. and 7:30-10 p.m.
weekdays; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturdays; 1-5
p.m. and 7:30-10 p.m. Sundays.
Recent Acquisitions. Through Feb. I on
the third floor of the North Carolina
Museum of Art.
Works by Edward Bennenson of New
j York and 20 paintings and prints ranging
from Courbet to Calder are displayed
through Jan. 31 at the Duke Union Art
Museum, Duke. Museum hours: 9 a.m.-5
p.m. Monday-Friday; 10 a.m.-l p.m.
Saturday; 2-5 p.m. Sunday.
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Gone With the Wind will be presented at
8 p.m. Jan. 29 in Memorial Auditorium,
Raleigh.
The National Shakespeare Company
presents Much Ado About Nothing at 8
p.m. Feb. 2 in Memorial Hall. Tickets are
available for $2.50 at the Union desk.
Li'l Abner continues through Feb. 8 at the
Village Dinner Theatre, Durham. A buffet
dinner is served from 6:45-8 p.m. and the
Jeff MacNelly, political cartoonist and
UNC alumnus, will speak at 8 p.m. today in
the Great Hall of the Carolina Union. Free
admission.
The Morehead Planetarium presents
Laserium, a special one-hour cosmic-laser-light-show.
Shows are at 9:15 and 10:30
Friday through Sunday, with late shows at
midnight Friday and Saturday and early
shows at 4:15 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Admission to all shows is $2.75.
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Barthelme not a novelist
'Dead Father' dies
Donald Barthelme's most recent dump
onto the literary landscape is a smelly carcass
entitled The Dead Father, the skeleton (not
quite plot) of which is an Epic Mission
whereby the title figure is himself to be
dumped into the gaping earth. This skeleton
is the least substantial feature of Barthelme's
work. Barthelme's power, as witnessed by
readers of his New Yorker pieces, lies in the
turning of an archaic phrase, the careful
strewing of odd accessories about a paneled
study, or more specifically, the poignant
portrayal of an infant's death by hailstones.
All of Barthelme's short pieces are highly
original, many are delightful and a few, such
as The Party" and Views of My Father
Weeping," may be genuinely good. To say
by Jim Carnes
"The Dead Father" by Donald
Barthelme, Farrar and Straus, $7.95
that these stories are original, however, is not
to say that they are diverse, for indeed all
play along the same line. Their originality
lies in the skewness of that line to most of
today's others. Who but Barthelme would
think of (or better, could receive $2,000 for) a
seven-page meditation on the daily
commerce of a city whose every building is
shaped like a church?
The longer work at hand, which is labeled
a novel, falls short of that goal, I am afraid,
for kinky verbal virtuosity does not
literature make. Don't get me wrong. I like
Barthelme. What a gas it would be to spot
him in a party crowd. We could talk about
convergent squinters and eat curried squid
with our fingers. And there would be plenty
of conversations for me to shift into if he got
long-winded. For this longwindedness,
though infrequent (his only other novel is
Snow White), is Barthelme's main problem.
The steel cables by which the huge half-Dead
Father is dragged across the country side are
neither tight enough nor strong enough to
bear the reader's interest.
In fact, the story, however allegorical or
relevant it may sound, is negligible. The
burial pit is reached, the Dead Father is
lowered into it, the Golden Fleece turns out
to be Julie's you-know-what and the final
monolithic line rings doom: "Bulldozers."
In his own precious fashion, Barthelme
gives us bare outlines of his scenes. Granted,
they are good and clever outlines.
Nevertheless, their sparseness challenges
even the best and cleverest reader to "fill in
the blanks" as it were, to provide
grammatical anchorage for such floating
fragments as the following six, which are
consecutive:
A long series of raptures and other
spiritual experiences.
He was pleased.
Beside himself.
Something trembling in the balance.
Codpiece trimmed with the fur of
silver monkeys.
He was pleased." (p. 148)
Thus, connective tissue provided by the
reader brings the book to its narrative
fruition. This is not stream-of-consciousness.
nor is it free-association
poetic wordplay. It is a con job.
What strength there is in this book lies in
Barthelme's affection for minor obscurities
and scarab-sied absurdities ("Teeth in
dreams flaking away like mica." "Where can
a body gel a sprit around hercT). so that the
reader is left with isolated lines that are
w onderf ul in themselves, and quite quotable,
but rather displeasing en masse. No one
wants a four-foot pyramid of Balkan sugar
eggs..
A somew hat less literary craftsman of very
similar curio pieces is called to mind here:
Edward Gorey. a well known cartoonist of
the New Yorker and elsewhere, has
published 20 or so little books of w ell-turned
phrases, each of which stands refreshingly
alone on its own page, facing an appropriate
pen-and-ink drawing by the author. His
alphabet book of adverbs. Vie Glorious
Nosebleed, contains such gems as the
following: (for the letter T "He fell off the
pier Inadvertently," accompanied by a
drawing of the fallen man who w e gather has
just viewed the nearby penny-videola
entitled "Thibetan Torture."
Gorey offers these for what they are
worth a place on the gentleman's pipe table
or the coed's plant food rack. He cannot be
accused of "undermining narrative." as
Barthelme was by an appreciative New York
Times reviewer.
Barthelme would do well in this reader's
opinion to leave such treacherous maneuvers
to more capable hands such as Pynchon or
Gaddis. And though their names are similar
enough to cause superficial confusion and
alphabetic juxtaposition, Barthelme does
not rank with Barth. 1 only hope he has
buried his metaphorically unwielding
carcass and will soon return to the
miniatures which he does so well.
Let no one exhume what the Bulldozers
have interred.
1976 Tax Lister's Schedules for
Orange County
CHAPEL HILL TOWNSHIP: L. R. Cheek, Lister
The listing will take place at the Carrboro Town Hall each
Monday through Friday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm; and Saturdays,
9:00 am -12:00, beginning January 2, 1 976 and continuing
throughout the month of January.
BINGHAM TOWNSHIP: Evelyn Teer, Lister
(Mrs. Thomas Y. Teer)
January 9 Wade Store 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
January 10 .... Hardin Johnson's 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
January 13 Home 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
January 16 Orange Grove 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
January 17 Orange Grove 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
January 20 Home 9:00 am - 5.00 pm
January 23 Allen Service Station 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
January 24 Allen Service Station 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
January 27 Home 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
January 30 TaJbert's Service St 9.00 am - 5:00 pm
January 31 Talbert's Service St 9.00 am - 4:00 pm
LATE LIST PENALTY
10 of total tax due will be added to all lists filed after
January 31 . All persons owning ten or more acres of land
must f ile a Farm Census Report. Persons 65 years of age or
over, and permanently disabled persons who wish to apply
for the $5000 Homestead Exemption must complete
application for found on tax abstract and form AV-9 available
at the tax office or from the tax lister. This application must
be re-executed each year to requalify.
Orange County Tax Supervisor
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