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CORN COBS "RED HOT" HUSKER SPORTS QUIZ
Corn Cobs present to the Univ. of Nebr. the
hottest thing to hit campus since the 16 gallon keg
of beer-Oregon pep rally. As part of homecoming
activities Corn Cobs are sponsoring the following
Husker sports quiz in a series for the entire
homecoming week. The following questions,
different each day, should test your knowlege of
Cornhusker and Big 8 football history and
knowledge. The average true blue (or red) husker
fan should be able to answer at least six from each
of the quizzes.
1 . Name the last two head football coaches at
Nebraska prior to Bob Devaney.
2. What past Nebraska football great has a son
who was a star wide receiver, and just recently
retired from the New York Jets? Name father &
son.
3. What private midwestern school did Tom
Osborne play college football at?
4. Who is the Nebraska backfield coach?
5. Who did Nebraska play in their last Rose
Bowl appearance?
6. What pro football teams are former Missouri
and Oklahoma coaches' Dan Devine and Chuck'
Fairbanks, now coaching?
7. Where did freshman l-back, Monte Anthony,
play high school football?
8. What former Nebraska coach is now on the
Notre Dame football coaching staff?
9. Name one change in playing procedure
implemented by the N.C.A.A. in college football
during the last two years?
10. Who was Charlie "Choo-Choo" Winters?
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A SENSE OF PLACE
The Artist and the American Land
Produced by Gene Bunge Filmed & Edited
MikeFarrell
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"A SENSE OF PLACE IS AN EXPLORATION
WITH PAINTER Alan Gussow, of ten different
American landscape painters working in ten
different American landscapes. The film reflects
not only the varied character of the American
landscape, but also the unique and Individual
responses of each artist to the land, expressed in
their paintings which are varied as the landscape
itself."
With painters Alan Gussow, Thomas Hart Benton,
Marcia Clark, Jane Freitichcr, Sidney Goodman,
Keith Jacobshayen, Wclf Kafcn, Sheridan Lord,
Joe Miiier, Arthur Okamura, Susan Shatter.
October 22, 23 & 24 -Tuesday, Wednesday &
Thursday
Screenings at 3,7 a 9 p.m. Admission FREE
SI jstdon Art Gallery, I2th & 'FT
'Longest Yard' comical, brutal
Robert Aldrich is a skilled, under
rated American director ("The Dirty
Dozen," "Emperor of the North Pole")
who developed a highly personalized
style for macho-vioience long before
movie macho-violence ever became
fashionable. He has never shied away
from the blood and guts of violence, but,
unlike directors such as Sam Peckinpah
or John Milius, he has always been
more of a bone-cruncher. -
"The Longest Yard" is Aldrich's
newest film. It's enjoyable enough, but
not one of his best, it stars Burt
Reynolds as Paul Crewe, a washed-up
pro football star who incurs the wrath of
his rejected, bitchy girlfriend after he
steals her car. An obligatory chase
scene with the police is run through in
short order (it's a take-off on a similar
chase scene from a 1973 Reynolds film
called "White Lightning") and Crewe
soon lands in the state prison.
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There he finds himself sandwiched
precariously between a fascist, football
loving warden (Eddie Albert) who will
refuse Reynold's parole if he doesn't
coach a prisoners football team, a brutal
guard captain (and leader of the
warden's team) who will make life
miserable for him if he does.
Beginning poor
The first part of the movie Is poor.
Even Aldrich can't save the reworked
cliches of life in a hard-labor swamp
camp with Reynolds being beaten by his
sadistic guards (played by former
pro-football stars Joe Kapp, Ray
Nitschke and Mike Henry.) The firs(
spoken line in the 'entire movie has
Reynolds' bored girlfriend watching
television and asking "How long do we
have to watch this crap?" The answer,
as it turns out, is for just over half the
film.
The movie picks up considerably after
Reynolds is forced into his coaching job
and begins to round up and whip
together his motley team, which is
sufficiently motivated by the knowledge
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that they will be playing against thd
hated guards.
The final game can't help but remind
one of a similar ending in Robert
Altman's "MASH." Both are1 played
as comic relief for the rest of the film,
both have the same droning loudspeaker
in the background and the cutaways to
the cheerleaders on the sidelines. But If
Altman's was a rather out-of-Dlace
anti-climax toftis masterpiece, Aldrich's
game saves the movie.
Contests of will
With "The Longest Yard," Aldrich
continues some of the themes found In
his earlier films. The film portrays
contests not only of brute strength but of
human will. And it involves the typical
. Aldrich group of outsiders (or Insiders,
in this case) who find themselves forced
into a "damned if they do and damned if
they don't" situation.
The film remains a somewhat unbaN
anced mish-mash of brutality and
comedy which Aldrich can never
comfortably fit together. A parallel
example could be made with Burt
Reynolds, who, by rights of acting
popularity, should be close to superstar
status.
But somehow his style of humor
works against his macho personality,
even though he's sometimes funny in a
sly, reverse sort of way. Nobody but
Reynolds could wring out th8 proper
amount of hilarity In some of the
movie's lines, such as one he aims at a
grossly pompadoured prison secretary:
"My, you have lovely hair. Ever find
any spiders in it?"
Reynolds' style is a bit too coy and his
macho-humcr becomes a joke on him so
that it's hard to take him seriously as an
actor. -
After the huge success of "What Ever
Happened to Baby Jane?" and "Hush,
Hush . ... . Sweet Charlotte", the Bette
Davis-Joan Crawfprd menopause-monster
films of the early 60s, and of "The
r Dirty Dozen" -a few years .later, Aldrich
was able to continue making movies by
literally buying his own studio, in recent
years, however, that success has been
winding down. "The Longest Yard" Is
destined to be an immensely popular
money-maker, and It could be that
Aldrich is sacrificing a few things in
order to get back to where he wants to
be.
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This week the Lincoln Silent Film Society Is
featuring a program of four short comedies from
some of the greatest comics of the silent screen.
Charlie Chaplin's "One A.M.", his only filmed
effort at solo comedy; "One Week", one of the
first Buster Keaton short comedies; "Haunted
Spooks", a haunted house comedy from -All-American
boy Harold Lloyd; and "Golf", a
run-around farce from Larry Semon, will be
'shown. ' .
Showings are at 7:30 p.m. this Tuesday end
Thursday at the YWCA.
Celebrated puppetteer Bill Baird's Marlonetta
Theatre will present a contemporary version of
"Pinocchio" and an original comedy entitled "The
Dragon And The Dentist" at the Lincoln
Community Playhouse Monday through Wednes
day. Baird's "Pinnocchio", set in modern times to
the original plot and turned into a musical, will be
presented Monaay at ?:30 p.m., and Tuesday m A
and 7:30p.m. . ,
"The Dragon And The Dentist", about the
activities of a dragon who eats young ladies but
prefers pizza, will be performed Wednesday at 4
p.m.
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