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4The Daily Tar HeelWednesday, January 19, 1983 Directors complementary erzog : By STEVE CARR Staff Writer When someone speaks of an un deniable chemistry, it usually is in re ference to the on-screen presence of two stars. Cary Grant and Ingrid Berg man,: Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall 4- these two couples have on screen personas that seem to interlock like pieces of a puzzle. But there never has been a case of two directors possessing this certain' chemistry, At least there was no docu mentation of it until the making of Fitzcarraldo and its counterpart, Bur den of Dreams. Both films are now playing at the Varsity Theatre. Fitzcarraldo, a film by West German director Werner H erzog, centers on the title character's drive to drag a 320-ton steamship over a mountain. It is all part of a plan to bring Enrico Caruso to an opera house deep in the heart of Africa. Burden of Dreams is a film directed by an American filmmaker, Les Blank. It centers on Herzog's struggle to com plete his movie despite some tremen dous obstacles. i Werner Herzog and Les Blank are both creative men, and both strive to express themselves. They could not be more positive, yet they could not com plement each other more. Herzog's drive, his obsession, per meates every facet of Fitzcarraldo, even at the expense of character develop ment. A real ship is dragged up a 40-degree slope no props, no movie gimmicks. Herzog will not settle for anything less than the real thing. ; Blank, however, is very low-key and even at times affectionately mocking. In one scene, Blank's camera travels up the tentacle of an imposing vine, while Herzog tells of the horrors and depriva tion in the jungle. ; Blank is obsessed with the characters he focuses his film on their quirks, their, amicability. He is most famous for his exploration into American cuk ture and the various identities ho populate it. In Burden of Dreams he does what he does in many of his films. He does not put his subject on a pedestal, nor does he assail it. Blank shows Herzog as a real man. The movie is a portrait of a creative person seeking and searching for some outlet of expression. ; Herzog, on the other hand, is ob sessed with himself and his own ideas. He challenges the impossible, and dares nature and reason to prevent him from completing his work. Blank has a tremendous but subtle admiration for Herzog. He calls him a tragj-comic hero, something along the . line of the windmill-tipping Don Quix ote. Blank admires Herzog's boldness, tenacity and perseverance, but disap proves of his tendency to risk other lives. - Blank does not want his films to be considered documentaries. He feels that the word connotes boredom. In stead, he calls his work non-fiction. Whatever the semantics, Blank's subtle style is just as impressive as Herzog's grandeur. Tom Patty Blondio Stray Cats Heart Tho ICinhs P tz a CO & m O tZ o w o 2 o o Saw' t- 13 ca o o S3 D fan" o O "o 113 G p Em a P tZ V) a n p hm trm O B - ) IPO vw mTtzj mi i immf'Q mqpm Kfecw iXteoDoj, J Mi iv 11,0 i en 63 iJtera? C3BQ V 0 K i . .. "V" SffiSfe (X?'0 UOW3JV v. . 3 o o o o o H f ... . if ! If if 5 i w; J Vim .ji'-n.j. k" I -J. Hi ll.lr .til tM C o o o 5" S7 O o 4J a 5" o a e o Q a W mm a Q .Qcd Sfcwart nidi Sp.ir.c.IcI-J q Tcm'Poety I2cart Town Council holds annex plan hearings By JOHN CONWAY Staff Writer The Chapel Hill Town Council held three public hearings Monday night, including a hearing on a petition from Timber lyne Associates asking for the annexation of 57.4 acres of land on the south side of Weaver Dairy Road east of Airport Road. Robert Page, the petitioner and one of the partners in Timberlyne Associates, said the land would contain a proposed shopping center, office park and condominium development. The only structure on the site completed is the American Board of Pediatrics building, located in office park area. Page said 144 units are planned for the condominium development. If annexed, the town would provide services to the newly ac quired area. Chapel Hill Planning Director Mike Jennings said the town would not lose money by providing services to the an nexed land. Receipts from real estate tax would be greater than the costs of extending town services. No public comment was received on the petition and the mat ter was referred to the town manager. In other council news, Town Manager David Taylor told the .town council that Chapel Hill will receive the largest share of federal transportation block grants for the Chapel Hill-Durham area. Approximately $3.5 million is available to the area during a four-year period. ? Because the City of Durham and Duke Power, which runs the bus system, have not applied for these federal funds, Chapel Hill does not have to compete with Durham for funding, said Alan Tobias, administrative assistant for the Chapel Hill trans portation department. "They (Durham and Duke Power) don't want to get involved with federal labor regulations," Tobias said. Chapel Hill is eligible for more than $600,000 in federal block grants for fiscal year 1983. Hearings also were held on a request to modify the special use permit for the Adelaide Walters Apartments and on proposed changes to the development ordinance. The council voted to refer both matters to the town manager. Congress From page 1 committee so there's no real information on them. "There have a superficial popular appeal so when you keep Sticking those things on that bills, you put great pressure on the Congress Jo do what is politically safe. "I think it is an important change," he said. "It will help speed up the appropriation!! pro cess and make Congress more efficient,' H Dissenters, however, say the rules chjmges will stifle the minority's viewpoints. In ajreport issued before the changes, Rep. James T.jproy hill, R-N.C," voiced his disapproval. "It will be more difficult to bring controver sial issues to the floor if the rule changes go through," Broyhill's report said. "Committee chairmen will be able to exercise more influence in bottling up legislation which they oppose." "I think the answer to that is that anybody can introduce one of these ideas as a bill any time they want to and can then argue on its merits," Preyer said. In this term, Congress will begin to take a more active role in legislation, Preyer said, since the 26-seat gain in the House of Representatives by the Democrats could be seen as a negative vote for Reaganomics. "I think you're going to see Congress begin ning to assert itself more strongly against the president Congress as a whole, both Repub licans and Democrats," he said, adding, "I think you see now the president responding to that shift." Thad L. Beyle, an instructor in the political science department, said "I think it is not only the fact of the shift of the 26 seats but the fact that the people running for office felt a general uneasiness" shown by the public toward government. Jerry Woodruff, spokesman for Republican Sen. John East (R-N.C), disagreed. He said Reagan's supporters would maintain their posi tions. "Inflation is down. Interest rates are falling. Recovery is in the wind. No, I don't think there will be a defection (of Republicans)," he said. The rescue plan designed to save the troubled Social Security system shows the mood of compromise. Saturday night Reagan endorsed a $169 billion strategy designed to keep Social Security solvent until 1990. A special bipartisan study commission developed a plan which calls for moving up scheduled increases in the payroll tax, taxing upper- and middle-income pen sioners ucuciiii and delaying July's cost-of-living increase for six months. The proposal made Jan. 11 by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger lo cut his request for the defense budget by $11.3 billion also shows the Reagan administration's more mod erate mood, Preyer said. But Beyle said the cut might not be enough. "The question is whether the people who have been pushing for reducing increases in the defense area will be satisfied," Beyle said. Woodruff said East "is generally willing to support the president's military spending ap propriations." He added that he could not com ment on whether East would support a possible wage freeze for military personnel. "In the absence of a draft you need some sort of financial inducement to have some sort of quality military," Woodruff said, adding that freezing military wages might lower the quality of military personnel. Beyle said the apparent back-down by Rea gan also showed the padding Reagan might have done to his defense requests. "It does indicate that they had considerable slack in the defense requests that they were willing to give up," he said. GGC From page 1 class students from North Carolina State Uni versity could be attracted because their traditional spring "Zoo Day" had been canceled this year, he said. But council members agreed that the strongest reason for approving the con cert was the students' desire to have one, despite possible financial loss. "The students realize there is some risk involved," said CGC member Susan Sparks (District 9). "With the mandate of the students, I don't see the problem' Sign language class offered this semester The UNC School of Medk3ns diston, of speech and hearing sdenclwoT&Sfjia continuing education course, "Sgn Language for Professionals," this semester. - j The class will meet Tuesdays at 7 pirn., from Jan. 25 through May 10, in . the auditorium on the first floor of j the Biological Sciences Research Center. The course costs $30, and is worth 1.5 continu ing education courses. ? Registration for the course will be neld at the first class on Tuesday, Jan. 25. For more information, call Grace Beattie at 966-1006. wouldn't want to do it again," he said, "but it's going to take a lot of student clout." If the course were offered again, a black and a white instructor should teach the class to-, gether, Brandes suggested. In addition, the class should start with about 50 peple, then the in structors could ask those who failed to par ticipate actively to leave, he said. There had been some concern among stu dents who participated in the race relations course last spring that Student Government had canceled the class because of a possible overlap with the Black-White Dialogue. "I can see potential overlap," said David King, a member of last spring's class. "But I thought it was really poor to cancel it." &udentp3oi7ernment!s ,Univeraty Relations I Cc&hirfeTn 3tirto:ncV's- p ported a ""se'rieVbf forums dealing" with race rela-11 tions instead of a race relations class, and will sponsor such a forum later this month. , "We felt it was better to have forums to at tract more students," Jones said. "It gives us a chance to develop more topics, and it's not as : structured. The forums should have a larger im pact than a class would." The first forum is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 26 in room 204 of the Carolina Union. The initial meeting will be open to all interested students. From page 1 game From page 1 sequent rebound, Carolina had pulled from the fire a win that may push them finally into the Top 20. "I think they could go against any Top 20 team and do well against them," Yow said of the Tar Heels, who now stand 13-4 on the season. This all despite Page's super-human offen sive performance. She hit 20-footers, running one-handers from the lane, and follow-ups of her teammates misses. So numerous were those that Page was the only Wolfpacker in double figures. She not only carried the Wolfpack offensively, but she also held Crawford to 12 points and forced the North Carolina attack onto Tresa Brown. Brown responded by pumpjngin21 points and pulling down ibtebounds "asr she went 9-for-12 from the field. Shealso held the State center, Mary Jane Wilde to only three points. Crawford still may have gotten the better of Page, though. With 6:10 left in the game, Crawford blocked Page's shot as she tried to put up another running one-hander from the lane. State got the ball back and scored, but Page never scored again. She was intimidated by the Tar Heel forward even when she went up for the final shot and hit nothing but air. State's hopes of regaining the mythical state championship came up short, just as Page's last ditch shot came up short. j ' ' " - C2 LSAT MCAT GRE GRE PSYCH GRE BIO GMAT DAT OCAT PCAT VAT MAT SAT TOEFL NAT'L MED BDS ECFMG FLEX VQE NDB NPB I NLE EDUCATIONAL CENTER Test Preparation Specialists Since 1938 For information. 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