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C t frtdsy, epril 8, 1977 em f 3 copvures 1000 emof ion Bv Doughs R.Weil Altho-;h the Nebraska Educational Television (NLTV) netwoik hlsKnot tabulated all responses, Ron Hull program manager at NETV claims there have been few complaints about the station's airing of the Ingmar Bergman film, Scenes from a Maltese. Scenes from a Marriage stars, liv Ullmann and Erland Joscfson, portray a long-married couple. Bergman opens Scenes" with Johann and Marianne explaining to a third party why they are so happily married. But before long, they realize they aren't happy and that their marriage has become one of formulated actions, with little meaning for cither person. The film is shown in six one-hour episodes telecast nationally by the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). "Scenes" is aired in Lincoln on Wednesday evening at 9 on channel 12, Wednesday, April 13 will be the final episode of the story. "Scenes' captures love and hate and a thousand emotions in between with often haunting impact. The language and subject matter are dealt with in a frank, real-to-life fashion. In fact some might argue that its manner is too frank for national television. Hull explained that NETV was not bound to tele-cast the six-part "Scenes" even though it is nationally telecast by the PBS network. "In public television the local station does not have to air what the national network shows " Hull said. According to Hull, NETV decided to telecast the' film in Nebraska because it was thought that "Scenes" was an important work of art by director Bergman. "Ingmar Bergman is one of the world's three -to-six top filmmakers and "Scenes" is one of the most important films to corns along in quite some time," Hull said. "If people listen, they can find out a lot about how a man and a woman relate to each other." But what about public reaction? Hull claims that up until the air date for the fifth episode the reaction was mixed. "The language docs offend some and admittedly the language is very frank," Hull said. "But I think there is less criticism of an honest presentation of sexuality than there used to be." "Lenny Bruce was trying to tell us something some years ago. The horror of the world is not the unclothed human body or sex. The horror of the world is starving children, people being unfair to other people . . ." Hull didnt elaborate on the specific reactions of peo ple though he did say he received a letter from a minister in a small Nebraska town. This minister, according to Hull, was making "Scenes" required viewing for couples that were in counseling and taking a serious look at their marriage. "It is not damaging at all for people to see this film. It's certainly not like the Hollywood movies with sex and all the fun without any of the responsibility," he said. giQ oysters to be food craze? By Michsel Zangari About the time the movie Jaws was making the circuit, and the powers that be decided there was a buck to be turned in the shark market, curious things were going down in the land of grapefruit and Anita Bryant. Things slow down in Florida as it inches toward summer. The compulsory number of tourists are there draining the last bit of sunshine out of their bottle of Native Tan. - Then, there are the sharks. Not the great whites, the little grays. They arc around most of the time. Most are less than four feet long. Not many people worry about getting eaten by them. In fact, I imagine the sharks are often worried about getting eaten by the East Coast mob down for the holidays. It's a legitimate fear. feedback ... . ..... .. . . .r. 5T" m :- -A4. ! n r . - . fm ... r ml MM,, m,7Tj - mi Shakespeare's sky will be explored "The heavens, themselves, the planets, and this cef observe degree, priority, and place, insisture, course, proportion, season, form, office and custom in all line of order." " These lines in William Shakespeare's play Trvilus and Cressida set the tone for many of his works. The tones are pervaded by his references to the heavens and the objects which reside there. The Ralph Mueller Planetarium explores the celestial sky with Shakespeare in a new program entitled Shakespeare's Universe, Programs will begin Saturday at 2:45 p.m. and Sundays at 2:30 and 3:45 pan. until June 5. The last program scheduled for the season is Rhythm of the Rain, beginning June II. To many many Floridians, shark meat is an excellent mid summer treat. The Jaws frenzy was hitting everywhere. Even in down town Lincoln the ominous marquee read: "See this movie before you go swimming." People avoided the many beaches between here and Denver. It became mandatory to take shotguns into the shower. Water bed sales were down. Wherever the movie was shown, people were fright ened. The media blitz was such that most were afraid before they saw the movie. Even in Florida, where the sharks have been good neighbors for years, things were getting crazy. A friend of mine, disgruntled at having been forcibly removed from shark fishing by a major luxury hotel in fear of scaring away business, dumped a sufficient amount of fish guts in the waters around the hotel to attract a school of sharks resulting in a large school of tourists checking out. I'm no biologist, but to my knowledge, these sharks are generally harmless. True, they are a little rowdy when they are drunk, but otherwise they lead sane middle class lives. Then it hit. : ' 4 ;'VV'-- I am fond of morning walks on the beach. Along with the beauty and peace of the ocean, I'm used to beach tar, occasional dead fish and multitudes of greased bodies baking in the sun. But I've never adjusted to blatant cruelty and stupidity. Dead sharks started showing up on the beach, their fine bodies rotting in the sun. Somebody, obviously not professionals, had cut out the jaws of the fish and had hacked off the dorsel fins using something less than sharp. First fear, then frenzy, and now violence. King Kong has replaced the shark. Secretly at night I sigh in relief tlrat there are no gorillas running free around here. I fear for the gorillas. Because as sure as there will be a sequel to King Kong, if there were gorillas wandering around, there also would be a. lot of gorilla carcasses rotting in the sun, castrated and empty. And gorilla gonads would replace shark ' teeth on chokers in your local disco. Sheldon gaery showing By Jeny Lorenzo Some unexpected things are going on st Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery. Steve Cromwell's dye-transfer photo graphs speak for themselves and Nicholas Africano's figure studies are not what Art Shop Director Page Spence "thought the artist would send for the show. Cromwell's photography uses an effect resulting from superimposing (putting one image on top of another) three separate negatives and incorporating them into the final print The result is a number of dif ferent figures in surroundings that are many times out of place and a color scheme that stretches the imagination. Cromwell's photography exhibit displays color vividly using both bright and dirk colors. One set of three photographs uses the same man in a suit and tie with his arms outstretched. The first is a dark print, using mostly shades of gray. The second uses brighter colors, thedes of dark red and pais green. His second print ilzo presents a two disiCESoasl effect. The third is a combina tion of the first two, usirg both the shades cf gn y in the first and the lighter green sad dirk ni h the second. Escsisss-sui ia IZS7 "His process vrzt discovered as endy as ' 1S69 by French pfcctcjyaphcr Leas Ducos m ij book Let Lovlzun en rfo&z iztznt Director -Joa Nelson, Cromwell is one of only a few artists who use this method of photo graphy for artistic purpose. Africano's oil paintings are small figure studies on wood, currently displayed in the Art Shop. The figures are sma3, soft, thick oil figures that appear almost like sculpture on painted wood backgrounds. Spence saM Director Norman Geske met Africa no last year and asked him to send some of his work for a show in the Art Shop. However, at the time, Africano's work consisted of the small oil figures as 4 part of larger paintings and Spence said these were the type of paintings the "Art Shop anticipated showing. . Not too hpy "We're not too happy with these," Spence said, referring to the small figure studies on display. "We wanted more of a finished painting." According to Spence, Africano wanted to have t'o paintings per wa3 in the shop but the entire set cf tea now is behind the desk of one wall. I dont think he (Africano) would be too happy with the way these are being dirphyed," she snii. Spence snid she cod J not fcave" the paintings cn the wall close to the entrance becaucs of the danpr cf ninins the puat fegs by touch. Africano's psiafcgs ksTS fceca shown in promincat pUsrks ia Ikv . -York, Chicrto and San Fraacfcco.- r .! 1 ,, , li 'A ! sr:wTi crrh-pss plctcrss re:- 0 f&fera&sa $Zs&$ -3 tj5, mj. ijjin. swit ia srctwi