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On Campus
Art
Sheldon Memorial Art Callery-12th and R- Textiles by Vir
ginia Harvey through Nov. 10; Mexican folk art and
crafts exhibit through Nov. 10; Photographs by Wright
Morris through Nov. 17; Drawings of Doug Ross through
Nov. 30.
Dance
Kimball Recital Hall- 11th and R- Alvin Ailey Dance Company-
Wed., 8 p.m.
Film
Sheldon Film Theater-1 2th and R- (Foreign Films)
Lacombe, Lucien- Wed., Thurs.- 7 and 9 p.m,; (Classics
Films) Seventh Heaven- Fri., Sat.- 3, 7 and 9 pjn.; (Con
temporary Arts and Artist) Jasper Johns and Andy
Warhol' Sun.- 3 p jn.
Music
Kimball Recital Hall- 1 1th and R- Symphonic Wind Ensemble-
Thurs.- 4 pjn.; University Symphony Orchestra-Sun.-
8 pjn.
Off Campus
Art
Haymarket Art Gallery- 1 19 S. 9th- Paintings by Chauncey
Nelson; Jewelry by Brenda Gingles and Judith Kunic
Golke; Photo exhibit, "Nebraska: A View from Within,"
through Nov. 24.
Musk
Wesleyan ODonnell Auditorium- 51st and Baldwin- Univer
sity of Kansas Symphony- Mon.- 8 p.m.; Union College
Student Center- 49th and Prescott- Ramon Ybarra-Tues.-
8 p.m.; First Plymouth Church- 20th and D
Singing Editors concert- Fri.- 8 p.m.
Theater
Community Playhouse- 2500 S. 56th-Arsenic and Old Lace
Fri., Sat.-8 pjn. ,
Cockpit, by Jerzy KosinskiHoughion Mifflin Co., Boston
$8.95
Book Review by Bill Roberts
Stay out of Cockpit, the best selling novel by Jerzy
Kosinski. This first person account of an unemployed
spy's life crashes in every direction it goes.
Take it as an adventure tale-it's boring. Take is as a
man's private memories-the man is repellent. Or take it
as a psychological portrait of an empty lifo-Cockpit tells
the reader nothing, for the life is unbelievable.
The novel is about a nameless middle-aged man who has
left "The Service'-probably the CIA -and sets out to
amuse himself.
He messes with people's lives. He gets a mailbox key and
opens letters. He takes a job as a janitor and looks through
the papers on an executive's desk. He discovers things
someone wants kept private, which gives him power over
that person.
Sometimes the exspy is a benefactor, as when he springs
an innocent man from a foreign prison. But more often he
coerces, maims or blackmails the lives he touches. Author
Kosinski strings along these incidents-there must be 50 of
Gallery runs films
The Sheldon Film Theater will present Andy Warhol and
Jasper Johns (Contemporary Arts and Arti3ts Series) Nov.
9 and 11; Lacombe, Lucien (Foreign Films) Nov. 4,5,
and 6; and Seventh Heaven (Classic Films) Nov. 7 and 8.
In Jasper Johns, artist Johns is observed while working
on "Decoy" at the Tatiana Grosman's Universal Limited
Art Editions studios. Narration discusses complexities of
Johns's style of lithography.
Andy Warhol talks of money, art and society while his
major artistic endeavors are shown, including film clippings.
Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns will be screened Sunday
at 3 pjn. . : . .
Directed by Louis Malle, the French film Lacombe,
Lucien is set during the Nazi occupation of France. The
film features Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clement and Thereso
Gieshe.
Lacombe, Lucien will be shown Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday at 7 and 9 p.m.
Seventh Heaven, a 1927 production, is considered a
classic love story. The film stars the romantic duo Charles
Farrell and Janet Gaynor.
It will run Friday and Saturday at 3, 7 and 9 pan.
them with no apparent reason for their order.
The strange thing is that the incidents are potentially
exciting. But Kisin ski's character plays them down, and the
narrative is without feeling.
"My choice of a life of adventure may well be the result
of the fact that action raises my blood pressure, giving me
enough energy to live," the exspy says. He does have
adventures, but not even his frequent and kinky sex
escapades can stir a reader's pulse when they are told by
this pale character.
The secret agent throws in a few childhood recollections,
but they dont explain him. What could explain a man who
could sever exist? He is too cold, too like a machine, to
be real.
Cockpit is an avoidable, strangely boring novel.
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7:00 p.m. Tuesday (Lost Wax Method)
Love Bsmt. or Centennial Bsmt. Time & Place to be arranged
Comics, Nostalgia and Collecting
6:30 Wednesday Neb. Union
The U.S. 200 Yrs. Later
8:00 p.m. Wednesday Neb. Union
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Intro into techniques of Aquarian
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7 - 7:30 Wednesday Neb. Union
Free Croii-Country Skiing films
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