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just one of three
English acts to hit the
stage of Pershing
Auditorium on Friday,
March 17, at 8 p.m.
Fleetwood Mac and
Savoy Brown fill out
the Filmore-style
concert.
Tom Westerman. . .
Jesus Christ in the
rock opera Jesus Christ
Superstar which will
be presented at
Pershing Auditorium
on Wednesday, March
15, at 8 p.m.
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Cowboy". 1, 3:08, 5:16, 7:27,
9:40 p.m.
QiMmr-2: "Tha H6prtal" 1:27,
3:27, 6:27, 7:27, 9:32 p.m.
Cooper: "2001 - A Spaca
Odyaaay" 8 p.m.
Embawy: 'Findr Kaepart, Lovers
Waapar" 12:30. 2, 3:30, 5, 6:30,
8.0:30.11 p.m.
Jbyo: "Summar of 42" 7, 9 p.m.
Nebraska: "Straw Dog" '1:30,
3:30, 5:30. 7:25, 9:25 p.m.
State: 'Tha Oaviis" 1, 3, 5, 7. 9
p.m.
Stuart: "Tha F ranch Connection"
1:20, 3:20. 5:20. 7:20, 9:20 p.m.
Union: "Zachariah" 6, 8, 10 p.m.
Varsity: "Tokiat" 1:25, 3:23. 5:22
7:20, 9:18 p.m.
Previn sings of hurt, inhumanity
The Detils is not a film for everyone .
Jt is a true story, carefully documented
historically accurate - a serious work by a distinguished
film maker. As such it is likely to be hailed
as a masterpiece by many. But because it is explicit
and highly graphic in depicting the bizarre
ev ents that occurred in France in 1634, others will find it
visually shocking and deeply disturbing.
We feel a responsibility to alert you to this.
It is our hope that only the audience that will appreciate
THE DEV ILS will come to see it
Review by Larry Kufaert
Man's inhumanity and
insensitivity to his fellow man
are the roots of a new United
Artists album by Dory Previn,
Reflections in a Mud
Puddle Taps Tremors and Time
Steps.
Previn, ex-wife of composer
Andre Previn, not only does all
the vocalization on the album
she also wrote all the words
and music. And, it's the lyrics
that make this album.
The lyrics are deeply poetic
and have a highly personal
power and awareness. On first
listening you may think
someone has kicked you in the
gut, but as the feeling of
nausea passes, you realize that
it isn't that the album is bad,
rather it is too good.
It is Previn's cynical lyrics
which offend - because they're
true and they hit too near
home for us to accept
comfortably. . . at first.
Side One is under the
general title of "Reflections in
a Mud Puddle," and opens with
"Doppleganger," one of the
better cuts of this side.
Running the gamut of crimes
against humanity from Biblical
times to Vietnam, the grisly
ending is an insult, but a scary
insult that makes the listener
think.
In fact, every song on this
album makes you think.
"The New Enzyme
Detergent Demise of Ali
MaoGraw" is about death,
ecology and modern medicine.
The Talkative Woman and the
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itself with General Death and
the quota that he has to f iS,
and how badges of tha living
are nothing mora than medals
of the dead.
Blindness of love is the
subject of 'The Altruist and
the Needy Case." The song
speaks of unselfish concern for
the welfare of others, except
the one who can't live without
his love and attention.
In "Play It Again, Sam"
Previn asks to be taken back to
the days when things were
simpler, at least then World
War II was called a war.
However, it's Side Two that
realty makes the album a
success. Grouped together
tinder the title of 'Tapes
Tremors and Time Steps (One
Last Dance for My Father)"
the songs are 'The Earthquake
in Los Angeles (February,
1971)," 'The Final Flight of
the Hindenburg (May, 1937),"
"I Dance and Dance and Smile
and Smile ('After an initial
deep split the tremors can go
on indefinitely'; LA. Times),"
"The Air Crash in New
Jsray " and "Aftershock."
It's impossible to examine
the separate songs on Side
Two, they are simply too
closely integrated with each
other, and must be regarded as
a whole. Reminiscing back to
her childhood and her
relationship with her parents,
Previn gives a very sentimental
and moving collection of songs,
but overriding this
sentimentality is a hard, cruel
cynicism, as a young girl's fears
and memories scar her for life.
Forget it, if you think this
album is fun and games. . . it
Un't. It's real because
inhumanity and hurt are real
whether it's in Saigon,
Northern Ireland or Gordon
Neb.
PAGE 10
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1972
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