friday, december 2, 1977 page 8 daily nebraskan arts & fftatoffii) an School, finances keep Lark from out-of-town gigs By Charlie Krig What do four sophomore music majors do with their time after long hours of study and practice in the UNL School of Music? They practice some more. Ann Hackman, Jeff Binder, Tim Roper and John Swift spend their school hours working on their music majors. Among the four there are three guitarists, three flutists, a violinist, one violist, four recorder players, one harmonica player, four percussionists and four vocalists. Put together all those instruments and talent and they form the folk-rock group Lark. The group has been together only two months but it already has a small, loyal group of followers who no doubt will be at Oscar's (245 N. 13th St.) this weekend during Lark's appearance there. Lark opened Thursday night and plays again tonight and Saturday. It's like coming home for the group because Oscar's was the site of Lark's first Lincoln gig. Since then, Binder said, the group has been well re ceived by the public. Swift said audiences usually call them back for encores and they get compliments from their fellow Centennial Educational Program residents who hear them practice. Binder said they usually practice three hours a night, four to six nights a week, but the work usually is done for fun. He explained that the group's profits still are being used to buy equipment. Swift said that "ultimately, we want to make money but right now we have to pay off our equipment costs. We do it for fun because of our expenses." Expenses have kept the group from accepting bookings in other cities because travel costs are high and traveling would keep them away from school. "Lark is kind of a lazy group because of our commit ment to school," Swift said. "If it's between school and playing, right now we'd have to go with school." Work is progressing, however, and the members also have committed themselves to advancing Lark's career. "I'm slowly starting to believe we can make it with this group. We've been in groups that have been reluctant to I wot jf J "J f ; t. 3... 4 te y VI ' i t . U 'II ti- ..-'. 1 I I f Photo by Bob Pmon Boz gets down Boz Scaggs leans into a lowdown Udo Shuffle last week at Pershing Municipal Auditorium. Hard rockers, soft ballads and jazzy blues was the name of the game. Scaggs played with style, pt4iih and more than a touch of class for the two-hour concert. .. - onlil mucii fArt Plans in. That's what makes the group come ahve: tight vocals maice me niuw, J II ! ; -1 , .1 ..s : Ml A - ; . I -y j 7 Jyv pf r" 7 v i ffi . i f r, I In f a ! A ' IN" a y i o - it 1 ( J " ,,"""""'Ir j j i i Photo by Mike Dahlheim i Practice is a way of life for Lark, a folk rock group composed of four UNL music majors. 'Mr. Goodbar' violent end fits well in movie but not in viewer's mind Looking for Mr, Goodbar is one of the recent big films that features a female lead. After years of total male domination of starring roles, going back to Redford and Newman in Butch Cassidy, the movies seem to be open ing up again to actresses. Julia, with Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave, and The Turning Point, with Shirley MacLaine and Anne Bancroft, are others in this winter's crop. The star of this film, which is a look into the seamy, violent underside of life, is Diane Keaton. Keaton offers a complete, solid performance in this unlikely follow-up to Annie Hall While she proved her self a gifted comedienne in her first three Woody Allen films Play It Again, Sam, Sleeper, and Love and Death), Annie Hall established her as an actress capable of hand ling an important and complex role with ease. Mr. Goodbar, from Judith Rossner's novel, must not have been so easy. If I had seen the film without having seen Annie Hall, I probably would have been much more J. fHarc mushkin private WIIW VV 111 impressed. But seeing Keaton before and after Annie Hall it's clear that the character of Annie has held over into this film. Double life Mr. Goodbar's plot takes us into the double life of Theresa Dunn, by day a school teacher for deaf children, who spends her nights cruising singles bars. Her exploits on the raunchy side of life send her out of her conser vative Catholie home to her own apartment. And just as the apartment's cockroaches terrorize her, the sordid liaisons of her increasingly fragmented life end up kill ing her. "Terry," as she calls herself at night, is played by Keaton with sensitivity and-this is the main problem with the film-a lovable quality and sense of humor that makes her demise not only hard to watch but also hard to swallow. Throughout the film, director Richard Brooks tries to counter this by dropping hints about her skewed percep tion. Particularly interesting are the short fantasy se quences where the action continues we see it through Terry's imagination. In the film's first scenes. In a col lege class of Terry's, the bell rings and the students leave except Terry who has a furiously passionate clinch with the professor. No, we find out, she didn't. It was just her fantasy. But the professor turns out to be a serious love affair for Terry. Ihe fantasy loses all of its impact when we learn this. Later, another imagined sequence has Terry stepping in front of the oncoming car of her lover. But the sequence turns into low comedy as she is wheeled into the hospital with her father insisting on a Catholic doctor as the attendant fondles Terry's breasts. Misguided detour Brooks seems to waste what could have been an effective device; each fantasy ends up a misguided de tour from the action of the film and does little to make Terry seem any less than a normal sane person. Another hindrance to our understanding the deve lopment of Terry's character is the lack of any reasonable sense of time in the film.. Brooks neglects to establish a continuity to the action, and, in what seems to be an afterthought, he tacks on some rather obvious time mark ers as the TV New Years celebration saying "as the year 1975 draws to a close . . ." It still doesn't help us gauge the time involved in Terry's descent, and this leads to an uncertainty about just how serious her alienation is get ting. So the shocking violent end of Terry's life fits into the story but doesn't rest well on our minds. Brooks never allows us to separate the loving and caring teacher of dis advantaged deaf children from the prowling night animal she is supposed to be. This separation would have made the film work; instead we have an interesting look into the scummy night life of a modern city. But what a truly fascinating look we could have had into the head of Terry Dunn. Movie schedule Cinema 1 : Oh, God! 7:30, 9:30 p.rn.; PG Cinema 2: Another Man, Another Chance: 7. 9:20 p.m.;PG . Cinema X: She Never Said No and High School Reunion; continuous showings; X CooperLincoln: Nashville;!: 1 5, 9 JO pjn.; R Doughs I ; Heroes; 7:35, 9:40 p.m.; Plf Doug as 2: Damnation Alley; 7:20, 9:20 p jn.; PG Douglas 3 ; first Imvc, 7:30, 9 :30 p m R Embassy: Portrait of Scductbn and' Felicia; con- tinuous showings from 1 1 a .m.; X Joyo: You l ight Up My Life; 7:20 psn.; PG laza 1 : Bobby Deer field; 7,9:15 p!m.;PG Rf Tbtbyn PeerfieU; 7:30' 95 P-m.; JnTpUaXi Dmf: 9145 P-4Ran4W Plaza 4: Smokey and the Bandit; 7:30, 9:30 p.m.; State: The Hazing; 7:30, 9: 1 5 p m; PG Stuart: Star Wars; 7:20, 9:30 p lto.; PG