monday, january 19, 1976
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daily nebraskan
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turmoil cand retfoiwt Ion in Argentina
By Diane Wanek
The critically acclaimed documentary on Argentinian
politics, La Horn de los Homos (The Hour of the Furnaces)
will be screened at Sheldon Film Theatre Tuesday through
Thursday at 7 pan.
Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino clandestinely
made this three-part film from 1966 to 1968. They inter
viewed workers, intellectuals, labor leaders, students and
others and combined them with newsreel footage, docu
menting Juan Peron's rise to power, his years in power
and his eventual overthrow.
The first part of the film, "Neocolonialism and Vio-
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This week's television
and movie highlights.
Monday
"Stan of the Union Address. "
(all networks, 8 p.m.) Prat.
Gerald Ford ii expected to
recommend a $10 billion tax
cut to coincide with a curb
in government spending.
Children of Divorce. (NBC News
special, 9 p.m.) Psycholo
gists, lawyers and children
discuss the impact of
divorce on youth.
Who Sank The Lusitania?
(NETV Play of the Month,
hot
licks I
Bachman Turner Overdrive: Head On, Mercury, $6.98.
Some things are better forgotten. One example is this
album. BTO has varied nary a niche from a formula that
brought them success three years ago: At the foundation,
ponderous bass and percussion lines; for thrust, Randy
C.F. Turner of BTO rumbles tarouh the baas Ilaes that helped the group sell millions of
of dollars. BTO will be appearing next Sunday at the Omaha Civic Auditorium.
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9 p.m.) The facts and
suspicions surrounding the
Lusitania's sinking.
TUESDAY
Work! at War. (NETV. 8:30
p.m.) Tonight's episode,
Bamil December 7947
February 7942, features film
footage from the Japanese
attack on Pearl Harbor.
Shirley MacLeine Special. (CBS,
10 p.m.) Musical variety
special starring Shirley
MacLaine with special guest
Lucille Ball. Shirley and
. Lucy trade stories about
their show business starts
and offer a musical salute
chorus girls.
Tomorrow. (NBC, midnight)
Guest host John Henry
Faulk discusses the CIA
with Sen. Frank Church
(O-ldaho).
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lence," deals with Argentina historically, geographically -and
economically. Divided into a prologue and thirteen
separate film essays, Solanas and Getino study the de
velopment of Latin America, its natural resources, the
contrast between the 90 per cent of the population
earning an average of $10 a month and the other 10 per
cent which owns all the land and industries.
Call for violence
The first part of the film ends with a segment called
"The Choice," which is a call for revolutionary violence as
the sole means of combatting "imperial violence."
"An Act for Liberation," the second part of the film, is
divided' into two parts. The first, a "Chronicle of
,Peronism," uses newsreel and historical footage to
examine the ten-year reign of Peron, analyzing the
' strengths and weaknesses of his regime and his program
for national liberation.
The film contends that the Peronist movement, as one
of the first examples of the working class struggling for
political power and attempting to find a third way
between socialism and capitalism, was precursor to what is
now known as the Third World.
The second section, a "Chronicle of Resistance," traces
Peron's fall from power and the activities of the Peronists
during the decade following it.
Part three, "Violence and Liberation," is a study of the
role of violence in the national liberation process and a
call to action. Consisting of interviews, testimonials, re
ports and letters, it is considered by the film makers as
an "open work" to which new materials can be added.
Viewer becomes protagonist
The film, hailed by critics including Pauline Kael (The
New Yorker), Vincent Canby (The New York Times) and
Michael Goodwin (Rolling Stone), purports to create a
new kind of relationship between film and audience, to
WEDNESDAY
200 Yean of American Humor.
(NBC, 7 p.m.) A self
explanatory Bicentennial
special starring Jonathan
Winters.
Consumer Survival Kit. (NETV,
7:30 p.m.) A comparison of
checking accounts and an
explanation of compound
interest are amoung the
topics covered in Don't
Bank On Itl A Look at
Financial Institutions.
Dance In America. (NETV,
8 p.m.) A performance of
Trinity, a 1970 "rock ballet"
by the Joffrey Ballet.
Reply To The State of The
Union, (all networds, 8 p.m.)
Maine Sen. Edmund Muskie
presents the Democratic
view of the "State Of The
Union". Analyses by net
Bachman's (undoubtedly one of rock's most mediocre
guitarists) vocals and guitar licks.
Some aspects are unusually tacky, even for this band.
Especially stupifying is "Average Man," which uses the
same introduction as the BTO hit, "Let It Ride," and ends
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work correspondents
follows.
THURSDAY
The Waltont. (CBS. 7 p.m.)
Tragedy strikes the Walton
family as fire guts their
home in this special two
hour episode.
Widow. (NBC, 8 p.m.) Micheal
Learned of The Waltont
stars in this made-for-television
movie about the
traumas of widowed life.
Hollywood Television Theeter.
(NETV, 8 p.m.) A light
' hearted book at the after
life is offered in this
comedy, The Ashes of Mrs.
Reasoner. Charles Durning
stars as a ghost who
materializes to complicate
the lives of his widow and
friends.
Photo by Ted Kirk
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Photo courtesy of Trioontinental Film Canter
The Hour of the Furnaces, a documentary about
Argentina in the throes of political strife, has been
hailed as a masterpiece by critics across the country.
redefine the traditional concept of the film viewer as a
passive spectator and instead encourage the viewer to
consider the film as an act and himself as a protagonist of
the action.
Kevin Kelly of the Boston Globe said, "(The film) is
a stunning achievement. . .in its hammering force it
drives beyond ideological politics and becomes a remark
able human document which enlists both an intellectual
and emotional response.
"It is impossible to witness the film without being
filled with rage and a need for action, and that, precisely,
is the intent. If The Battle of Algiers is a primer for revo
lution, The Hour of the Furnaces is an advanced program."
Mary's Incredible Dream. (CBS,
10 p.m.) Mary Tyler Moore
sings and dances her way
through a retelling of man's
creation, fall and redemp
tion, Presented as surrealis
tic dream sequences. Ben
Vereen (Pippin) co-stars.
FRIDAY
The Adams Chronicles. (NETV,
9:30 p.m.) Debut episode in
this 13-part series about the
famous Adams family. The
series' main concern is the
family's personal triumphs
and tragedies. Tonight's
episode, John Adams
Lawyer, stars George
Gizzard as John Adams.
What's Up Doc? (ABC, 8 p.m.)
Multi-talented Barbara
Streisand teams with Ryan
O'Neal in one of the best
comedies of recent years.
betfer forgotten
with dab bed -in crowd screams while Bachman walls,
"I'm just an average man."
During one cut, Bachman sings, "I know it's over."
We can only hope. - Deb Gray
Electric Light Orchestra: Face the Music. United Artists,
$6.98.
Album by album, the Electric Light Orchestra gets
better and better. This album exemplifies the sophistica
tion the band has achieved.
After that, there's not much to say about an album
that is solid invery aspect. It is highly professions!, but
also stirring, ine melodic tunes are more closely related
to pop idioms than the music of its predecessors in the
art-rock field, Emerson, Lake and Palmer and Yes.
No individual band member stands out for special
recognition. There are no stars here, because the success
of ELO's sound is its ability to integrate seven separate
parts into one seamless whole.
With art-rock in. its oreseni muAAn. rWnto nf th.
form will welcome how electrifying the Electric Light
Orchestra has become.
Britten: "Four Sea Interludes" and
Peter Grimes; "Sinfonia Da
London Symphony Orchestra,
Angel Records.
In 1945. Beniamin Brhtn
world-famous, exportable opera since the age of Handel
r,,v" was unveuca at Sadler s Wells in
London. It graphically depicts the shifting moods of the
sea near Britten's boyhood home, East Angtia, where he
now directs the internationally prestigious Aldeburgh
festival each summer. The distinct musical character is
best heard in its orchestral interludes and preludes, in
cluding the dramatic "Passacaglia."
lh fomP "tanged them In concert form, and
they already have become a standard concert favorite,
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The more austere "Requiem Symphony" (1941)
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Midnight Special. (NSC, mid
night) Omaha's C. W.
McCall performs his monster
hit "Convoy." Petula Clark
and Uriah Heep also star.
Cable TV (Channel 9) Three
outstanding films are offered
again this week. The Prima
Of Miss Jeen Brodie stars
Maggie Smith In her
Academy Award-winning
performance as the
attractive, spinster school
teacher Jean Brodie. Marlon
Brando and Anthony Quinn
" co-star Fn another Academy
Award winner Viva Zapata.
The story concerns the
creation of democracy in
Mexico. Also featured is
The Endless Summer, the
ultimate surfing document
ary. - Deb Gray
isacadis" from
Requiem," Op. 20.
Andre Previn, Cond.,
gave England her first