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Counterculture . . .
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Most of the lecture is a blur the only thing I rememb
er is the Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" coming over
the sound system, and his flat comments about us notic
ing how the song built in intensity and volume, and how
'Shootin' . . .
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In fact, The Whole
Shoo tin' Match overcomes
its biggest obstacle when it
makes us care for its charac
ters not for what they are,
but in spite of their atti
tudes. Loyd and Frank and
the rest of the people in the
film are immersed in a
world where a man's home
is his castle, and the more
macho he is, the better.
Women and Mexicans are re
garded as only partly
human. It's a world of hunt
ing and flstflghts, hard
drinking and rough
language. Frank cheats on
his wife, but forbids her to
talk to other men, so she
consoles herself by turning
to the local radio evangelist
for a good dose of preach
ing. Nevertheless, when Loyd
and Frank are swindled on
one of Loyd's inventions
we're sorry for them. And,
in the final analysis, the
positive aspects of their
friendship outweigh the neg
ative aspects of their life
syle. The Whole Shoo tin '
Match joins a group of other
artistically successful, independently-made
and
-financed films (Northern
Lights, Heartland, 'The
Wobblies, Best Boy)
released in recent years.
These projects are showing
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the wide range of possibili
ties apart from traditional
Hollywood products and
openijig the way for a vital
regional cinema in this
country.
Robert Weaver, a short
film made by UNL student
Steve Porter will show with
Pennell's film. It is a docu
mentary look at Lincoln ar
tist Weaver. The film shows
Weaver at work, inter
spersed with views of com
pleted paintings and prints,
and with commentary on
Weaver's work by Norman
Geske, Sheldon Art Gallery
director.
The Whole Shootin '
Match and Robert Weaver
will be at Sheldon Film
Theater Thursday through
Saturday.
it duplicated the drug experience. For years I thought you
got high by licking albums which were made in San Fran
cisco. The lecture was interrupted in the middle by sirens.
Not police. We weren't all carted off. It was a tornado
siren. Since we were already in the basement we hud
dled in the strange atmosphere waiting for the punch to
kick in.
I don't remember much else from that evening. Just
how different it was. It comes to mind this week because
I have been trying to define "counterculture" in a con
temporary context. It's hard. Does it mean against cult
ure? Is that what the punks were up to? Well, maybe.
The one thing the powers that be learned during the 60s
is the power of assimilation. You neutralize something by
making it part of the main stream. It works like a charm.
Because of that, there is no counterculture per se.
It's all mainstream, one way or the other. We're drowning
in the mainstream. Circa 1950. Still surviving the dregs of
the Hollywood dream machine from the 30s and 40s. The
same attitudes prevail. Nailed down as we slide into the
80s. Backwards.
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