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UNL loses image
as cultural vacuum
By Mark Kjelgaard
If you are reasonably aware and intelligent, you
probably have noted that UNL is supposed to be a
cultural wasteland. Perceptive freshmen have sensed the
attitude already, I suppose. Well, everybody, this year
that notion is wrong, because the good old prairie-state's
UNL campus is blooming into a garden of the arts.
About 70 concerts of various sorts, dance
presentations, operas, plays, art exhibits and a total of 62
films are scheduled. Musicians, dancers, filmmakers and
other artists will talk with people in personal performance
sessions. Records and art will be rented out at the
Nebraska Union. It looks like a very promising year.
All this constitutes a major achievement in booking,
sales, public relations, funding and plain out-and-out
hustling. The credit goes to a great many people in a lot
of organizations.
One group that has been instrumental in this grand
experiment is the University Friends of the Arts. A talk
with Cheryl Long, a member and one of those who put
out the booklet Lively Arts at UNL showed she had some
intriguing ideas about UNL's prospects for cultural life.
Long is optimistic and enthusiastic, saying moie
students are interested in the arts than generally is
acknowledged. She said she thinks a rich program of
cultural activities can flourish here, and I think she is
right.
I here are reasons for this anticipation. One of the
most compelling is that most programs need money,
sometimes quite a lot, and yet somehow this large and
varied program has found funding in an age when money
is notoriously tight.
Publicity for the arts this semester is not just a hype;
it is honest and based on essentially sound ideas. The
phrase we see and hear is "the lively arts at UNL," and I
think that is the kind of approach we need. The arts are
alive at this placp because lots of people enjoy them.
Classical, rock sound
fuses in Yes album
By Diane Wanek
Yes Yessongs (Atlantic)
This three-disc release is a selection of live recordings
from Yes' 1972 U.S. tour. Although it is poorly engineered
it remains a powerful, energetic recording.
Yes is one of the very few rock groups today who are
able to fuse classical music with rock. Jon Anderson's
compositions are remarkably intricate structurally,
harmonically and rhythmically.
The first side opens with an excerpt from Stravinsky's
Firebird Suite. This is about the worst engineered cut but
it is still immediately listenable.
The third cut on this first side, Heart of the Sunrise, is a
really exciting piece. There is a sense of competitiveness
between all the musicians; bassist Squire and guitar player
Howe do a great job on this mercurial composition.
The first side of each disc seems to me the best listening.
Anderson is a good composer, but redundant.
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next cut is a small masterpiece by Steve Wakeman, who
must be. .the most talented eletronic keyboard man in rock.
He does some excerpts from his solo album The Six Wives of
Henry VIII. It's phenomenal stuff, interpolating virtuoso
keyboard material with the synthesizer doing bits of the
Hallelujah Chorus and some silent movie keyboard antics.
Scverin Browne Sever in Browne (Motown)
Severin Browne is not the usual Motown artist. He is
white, and sings and writes music that is in no way
connected with soul, a surprise from Motown.
Browne, brother of Jackson, has got solid talent in
composing and singing and he does a good job on acoustic
guitar. Mis music is light, simple and romantic, and
, reminiscent of James Taylor, although Browne is not the
lyricist Taylor is. He is not extremely original, but his music
is pleasant.
single reJcase are There's a Lot to he Said and An
All-American Boy and His Dog. The latter which has a
honky-tonk flavor is probably the best.
Browne sounds like a happy, easy-going person. Even his
only unhappy song I'm shut out, thrown outI'm an old
motor scooter that just not worth the repair. sound happy.
John Ussery - Ussery (Mercury)
John Ussery is one of the few artists whose album
Delaney Bramlett has given production time to, the others
being Elvin Bishop and Eric Clapton, who were great
ventures on Bramlett's part. Ussery is not.
Technically sound, Ussery 's style is at least 5 years-old.
Ussery is a rocker. He does poor acid rock renditions of Blue
Suede Shoes and Jail House Rock and mutilates them
beyond recognition.
The album is unoriginal, and is too heavy and dated to bo
taken seriously. I'm surprised Bramlett did.
'Harrad' has inoffensive nudity
By Greg Lukow
The Harrad Experiment is
another of those "books
you've heard so much about is
now a movie" movie. And
although I hadn't heard much
about it, I had learned enough
to realise that a story about a
college experiment in
mixed-sex, pick -a-pair dorm
life was a perfect vehicle for
another futile uninteresting
sexploitation film.
Harrad College is a school
undergoing a "cooperative
group experiment in
pre-marital relationships". It
has a handful of students and
its apparent staff members are
a free-thinking married couple
and a yoga instiuctor.
Combined with the idea of an
isolated college, practicing and
condoning mass nudity,
pre-marital sex and group
marriage with no one to
answer to except themselves
and an unseen hoard of
directors, this does make the
movie seem rather
unbelioveable.
But once you accept the
situation (and you just about
have' to because it is dumped
immediately in your lap with
no explanation) the film does
handle itself extremely well
under the potentially
hazardous conditions.
The movie reminds one of
Boh & Carol & Ted & Alice.
But the originality and much
of the controversy over the
sexual themes found in that
movie certainly have
diminished .since 19G9.
Rather it is the chaiacters
of four students and their
groping stiuggle with
new-found telationships that
form the he-art of the film.
And it is amazing to note who
the personalities and even the
physical appearances of
Stanley & Sheila & Harry &
Cetli fit like round pegs in the
square roles created by the
other foursome several years
ago.
Primarily involving around
Stanley (Don Johnson) and
Sheila (Laurie Walters), the
film shows i he clash between
an incredibly cute' swinger
who can conquer a girl by
talking about stamp collecting,
and an introspectively shy girl
torn between an old morality
and a new one.
We see the job and the
pain of both as they each give
a meaningful love, but realize
they are not receiving it back
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in the same way. And it is
certainly a joy to see a film
rid itself of all those snappy
one-liners that lovers always
find so easy to say in the
movies, but never seem to
come up with in real life.
The Harrad Experiment is
rated R, but it received that
rating, not for sex, but for its
complete, and I believe,
inoffensive nudity, being able
to make that distinction is
often rare in a movie these
days.
Running smoothly most of
the way, the film slips out of
gear once in an unnecessary
scene where Sheila if affronted
by a fat lecher who has heard
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of the school and drawn the
obvious conclusions.
The rest of the film could
have fallen into the same bog
of exploitation but it doesn't.
Those who know what it's
like to fall in and out of love,
to know the happy and the
hurt but never quite
understand the how and the
why, the words and
performances in The Harrad
Experiment will be related to
easily. It does not give us any
simple answers, but it at least
lays out all the questions
where we can understnad
them. And that often is net
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