friday, november 30, 1979
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daily nebraskan
Havelock has answer for inexpensive dates
By Brian McManus
Situation: It is your girlfriend's birthday, and you
want to take her somewhere nice for dinner, and maybe a
movie afterwards.
Problem: You look in your wallet and discover you
have one $10 bill.
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To quote Karl Maiden, "What will you do? What will
you do?" . .
Head to Havelock.
In Havelock, you'll discover a fine restaurant named
Misty's-on both sides of the street. The Mistry Isles and
Pub is the original, across the street is Misty III, a much
larger version built to accommodate the hordes of people
who frequented the old restaurant. My preference is the
Misty Isles; it's much smaller than the new Misty III, and
has a cozier pub atmosphere. Also, it doesn't bombard
you with "Go Big Red" paraphernalia like Misty III does.
When the waitress comes, for God's sake, don't let her
give you a menu. The place has all sorts of wonderful
meals at ungodly prices.
THEN WHAT ARE you doing there with only 10
bucks in your pocket? .
. You're there for the charburger.
The charburger is a burger junkies dream-a big, thick,
luscious burger, char-broiled medium .rare, with , all the
fixings and smothered in mushrooms. Of all my many
burger experiences, Misty's satisfies my junk food lust
above all others.
Order two charburgers from the waitress. Buy your
date a birthday drink-but order a coke for yourself,
muttering something about not needing a psychological
crutch, or having to get drunk to have a good time. In
most probability, that will be the last mixed drink she has
there. Good. Their drinks are expensive.
Grumble about the waiter's lousy service. That way,,
there's a good chance that your girlfriend will say, "IH
cover the tip " in the fear that you would short-change
the poor guy in your finicky anger. (Note: If she doesn't
come across with the offer, Jew V short-change the waiter.
Tips are what they live on, and with that they have to put
up with, they deserve at least 1 5 percent).
SO, YOU come out having spent six or seven dollars,
and your date says she wants to catch a movie. Tell her
you're in luck-there just happens to be a theatre down
the block that has one of your favorites playing. Better
blindfold her-you're heading for the Joyo. .
The Joyo is an old pre-war theatre (don't ask which
war), that charges considerably less than the other movie
houses in town They charge $1 50 per adult, while most
other places cost $3. The atmosphere is less than great,
but once you sit down at a movie, your attention is on
the flick, not the surroundings. Why pay extra for a fancy
lobby?
Coming out of the Joyo is like coming out of the
Embassy. You look around sheepishly, hoping you don't
see anybody you know. Folks always assume that people
who sec movies at the Joyo also do most of their shopping
at the Salvation Army. '
Now you're down to somewhere between 5 cents and
$1 .10. This is to spend as you like.
One more helpful hint: Next time get a girl who'll go
dutch. You can do a lot more if you spend the 10 bucks
solely on yourself. That may sound like a cheap thing to
do, but face it -we're college students, we have to be
cheap. When we all become rich executives, then we won't
have to worry about such things-because in all
probability most of us will be married.
What an injustice-when you're young, you're too
broke to have a good time; when you're making money,
you're married, and having a good time isn't even a
consideration anymore.
Foreign film
screenings set
The sixth film of the UPC-City Foreign
Film Series will be shown Sunday and
Monday at the Sheldon Film Theater
Screenings for In The Name Of The Father
by Marco Bellocchio are 7 and 9 p.m. with
: . a Sundav matinee at 3 o sn.
The film is set in the late fifties. An all
' boys prep school is presented as a micro
cosm of an inflexible class system. The
"good fathers" are despots, and their
methods reveal a balanced application of
the carrot and the stick. The students are
trained to be the future leaders of society,
; reared to despise social inferiors, but fear
ful of their teachers, family and the State.
; They are promised middle-class privileges
on condition that they make no -waves.
The routine of school life is seen as a
permanent nightmare. Hallucination is the
truth, reality is a delirium. The stodents in
terrupt the class of senile Father Nevvero
with maniacal laughter. A missionary to
China who has cut out his tongue so as not
to abjure his faith appears. A priest in love
with death sleeps in a . coffin. Father
Granita's sermon on the dangers of mas
turbation only inspires one student to risk
the consequences. -
The conflict between authority 'and
rebellion is expressed by the students in
a play. A parody of the Faust legend, the
play exposes the limits and dangers of an
ideology that he who can manipulate fear
in others will govern the world.
Angelo, the leader of the student revolt,
is a victim of his bourgeois upbringing.
Whether Aneelo will usher in an unpleasant
. Brave New World or whether he is doomed
to impotence is a matter of choice at the
end of the film.
It.
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Posters feature
musical groups
The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Stajshipt
Diana Ross and the Marshall Tucker Band
are all in the Union lounge until the end of
the semester-in two-dimensional form,
that is. , "" -
. These groups are among those captured
in poster form by a promotional group out
of Indianapolis known as Serigraphics,
Bonnie Lutz, chairwoman of the University
Program Council's Visual Arts Committee,
said the group does promotion work for
rock artists and colleges that are putting on
productions.
"We're the first college that's decided to
display the work as art form," she noted.
The posters are popular with college stu
dents, she said. In addition Serigraphics
offers college workshops for those inter-,
ested in learning how the posters are made.
No workshop is scheduled at UNL, al- -though
Lutz said the UPC might consider
one in the tuture.
Photo by Tom Gessner
Booksperfect answer to what will I buy him 9 blues
By Scott Kleager
Christmas time can try the best of us, can rack the
finest of brains and stretch the most imaginative of
imaginations. You want to get something inexpensive; yet
not cheaply made; you want the gift to remind someone
of you, so you want it to last. Consider that forever enter
taining, inexpensive and stylish gift . . . the book.
. Actually today's bookstores offer much more than just
manager of B. Dalton Bookstore, in downtown Lincoln,
"One of our biggest selling items so far this Christmas has
been the large hardback' photographic travel books.
Especially the ones about Ireland, for some reason.'
So far, two offbeat hardback editions have outsold
everything in the store. One is On Vie Road, by Charles
Kuralt (a written edition of the news program, which
mentions Nebraska) and This I Believe, by Lawrence
Welk, which Staach said may sell because Welk is
from the MidwesU
A buyer can find big hardbacks at cut-rate prices.
These books include imports, reprints and special pur
chases by the store.
A wide selection of illustrated books is available, from'
The Birds of America by John James Audobon at $30;
to an economical buy of Grey 's Anatomy, at $7.98. Most
of the others in this area are illustrated works on animals
at about $15.
The Nebraska Bookstore offers much the same as B.
Dalton, although a larger selection of single bargain books
can be found. New this year, according to manager Sandra
Johnson, are hardback-bound editions of works of major
authors in groups of five or six novels each. Decorative,
bound novels by .John Steinbeck, Joheph Conrad or D.H.
' Lawrence are included.
"These are especially good buys because I doubt you
could find five separate paperback copies by any of these
authors even close to $10.95," Johnson said;
Selling well at Nebraska Bookstore are any works by
JoIkein Kurt Vonnegut and Jerzy Kosinski.
t s funny, but Tolkien seems to ebb off during non
holiday seasons and then go like crazy during Christmas.
Johnson noted.
, Also a good buy is The Complete Encyclopedia of
Illustration which was originally listed at $60 but has been
marked down to $15.95.
Both B. Dalton and Nebraska Bookstore carry boxed
sets by various authors that should be enough to satisfy
literary fiends ot every taste. .
"Although we have numerous boxed sets, Dalton's has
a larger selection," Johnson said. It appears that B. Dalton
has more anthologies and sets of this kind, while Nebraska
Bookstore offers a larger single book selection.