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EBRASKA SEMESTER
IN LONDON
Fall 1989
INFORMATION SESSION
& VIDEO
Tuesday, April 18 at 11:00 am
City Campus Union
(room posted)
A UNO Program supported by
the UNL Institute for
International Studies
1237 "R" Street
For Further Information Call
472-3076 (UNL) or
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CAP STUDENT STAFF
Positions Available
1989-90 Academic Year
The Campus Activities and Pro
grams office will hire students to
fill these positions for the 1989-90
academic year:
Activities Assistant 1
Activities Assistant 2
Activities Assistant-East
Event Assistant
Culture Center Programming Aide
Culture Center Maintenance Aide
Culture Center Publicity Aide
Culture Center Publications Aide
Culture Center Reservations Aide
Culture Center Night Manager
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CAP Career Development Intern
Student Leadership
Programs Intern
CAP- East Special Projects Intern
Volunteer Service Program
Development Intern
MTV Intern
Graphics Intern
Emerging Leader Program Intern
Applications and position descrip
tions will be available beginning
Friday, April 7, 1989; deadline for
completed applications, Friday,
April 14,5:00 pm. For more inform
ation contact the CAP office, 200
Nebraska Union, 472-2454.
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‘Dr. St rangelove’ focuses
on life’s humorous ironies
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lions, I will attempt to do the impos
sible.
“Dr. Strangelove” begins, quite
appropriately, with a darkly hu
morous pa radix. We view the
main titles and two bombers in the
sky as a mellow Muzak plays in the
background (which, if one is musi
cally inclined, will recognize as
“Try A Little Tenderness”). But the
serene existence of th; flying
death dealer is interrupted by an
alarm — the order has been given to
bomb the Soviet Union.
Plane commander T.j. "King”
Kong (Slim Pickens) rises to the
challenge by pulling out his cow
boy hat and prepares his crew for
“nuclear combat, toe to toe with
the Russkies.”
Kong is an interesting person to
lead a plane for a number of rea
sons, primarily his state of mind.
Even though he decides that the
Soviets have already decimated the
United States (hence the order to
attack), he rallies his crew by
promising them promotions and
citations when the war is over.
As it turns out, however, the
plane has been tricked, and there is
no attack. The culprit is General
Jack I). Ripper (Sterling Hayden) of
Burpelson Air Force Base, who has
convinced the base of imminent
Soviet attack and is holding the
skeptical Captain Lionel Mandrake
(Peter Sellers) in his office. There,
behind locked doors, Ripper re
veals why he has ordered the at
tack.
‘‘I cannot sit back and allow the
international communist conspir
acy to sap and impurify all of our
precious bodily fluids,” he says.
Irony is certainly the theme. In
‘‘Dr. Strangelove,” Kubrick is intent
on exploring what George Orwell
called “doublethink,” that is, hold
ing two contrary ideas in one’s
mind simultaneously.
As Michel Ciment points out in
his book “Kubrick,” the worlds in
his films are “forever on the brink
of collapse.” In “Dr. Strangelove”
this theme reaches the ultimate
proportions of not just being a
personal world, but in fact THE
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