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editorial M 0 Ty AROUtuD CMPVS cm I 1 1 IX If I WHO. ME 7KfS A ftfM AW TACkLE MTU MEPMRS UHO NAVE MADE 6f?AT COVWIBVTIOJS ro THE WVASITY, SUiOLRSTICAIli M'D SociAuy. JT'5 ALL POLITICAL, TH0U6H. I my do you say ' THAT ? Because: ?vt fiJEVER SEA) TACKLED, I 6 w(B Dear editor: I must say, immediately after reading Greg Lukow's critique on the film, A Woman Under the Influence I was very offended and wanted to find the man and shake some sense into him. But after reasoning with myself for awhile, I realize that I don't really know enough of the art of filmmaking to offer a substantial retort. I do know a lot about being a wife, a mother and a woman though, since I have three kids and have been married for seven years. I have viewed many outstanding films over the years, but never have I been able to react so overwhelmingly and emotionally to a film as to this one by Cassavetes. I felt I lived every minute with that woman, feeling very insecure at times about my own sanity and totally exhausted by the time I left the theater. It wasn't just a movie to me, it was an experience. Lukow says it is not long enough, but what more can be shown-the rest of their lives, when it will be the same thing over and over again? He criticized Mabel's position with her kids-the line about never doing anything in her lite except making them, and the scene' where she lays in bed with them after being away for six months and gets kissed on the nose. How can you call it pulling emotional heartstrings? Do you live in a vacuum? It's real-it docs happen like that, it does feel like that! I have seen it, felt it and lived it over and over again. Cassavetes has captured feelings between mother and children like nobody I've ever seen before. My point is, after viewing the filn I didn't care how well all the pieces fit together artistically and whether they were put together properly or not; all that matters was the effect the movie had on me, my head and my life. After feeling so closely in touch with this film, I admit I felt a little resentful at Lukow's rather caustic attitude. Influenced Woman Vietnamese parking Dear Editor: The designers' handiwork is almost done, and it has become plain to see the new arrangement of the small visitors' parking station west of the Nebraska Union is quite the aesthetic success of the season, or at least will be until an unduly hard rain sets the dirt to flowing into the newly marked-off parking spaces. A little less soil and some healthy sod can solve this minor problem, though. What shovel and sodding cannot do much for is the lamentably obstructed entrance to the service elevator area. For vehicles much over the length of the average mid-range sedan, the entrance will be a mite difficult, but harder still will be a graceful exit, expecially if there is another vehicle in the driveway by the ramp. I suspect that the large, slab-sided vans employed by various concerns to deliver and pick up from the University Book Store will be hard-put to negotiate the rather narrow area that will be left on the perimeter of the lot when the center is filled wih the visitors' autos. The plight of the deliverymen raises two questions. First, might it not be wise for local businesses to adopt the North Vietnamese method of parcel delivery (i.e. by bicycle, upon which can be stowed, if properly balanced, over a hundredweight of merchandise or its equivalent in disassembled light artillery), and second, might not the university consider summary dismissal or execution of the well-meaning gentleman (or gentlemen-the plantings smack of the stink of a planning committee) responsible for the neutralisation of a once-usable loading facility? Nosey Parker Cynic's Foot Dear editor: In reference to Cynic's Corner of April 21, in which Nelson points to the apparent contradiction of a female who is both pro-abortion and mti-PIayboy-type female exposure: Perhaps Nelson has overlooked the fact that the rather trite motto, "A woman has a right to her own body," is bassd on a belief in nonexploitation of that body. Once this is clear, it is not so difficult to understand why one who is pro-abortion-carrying an unwanted fetus can be viewed as a form of exploitation, can it not?-can also protest against the nude female approach of Playboy-type magazines, in that while allowing one's celebrated female body to be spread across a two-page foldout, one is, despite the moot question of morality (and I am not questioning the morality of Playboy, etc.)-nevertheless one is in so doing contributing to the perpetuation of physical exploitation of the female sex. It is the nuance which Nelson misses entirely. Perhaps if Nelson had named his colunn Closer Look, and then kept his word, he wouldn't continually be Opening Mouth "A" and Inserting Foot "B". 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