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said.
Nathaniel Watt, owner of Spell
bound Books and Games in the Re
union, said the game's popularity
was “the most amazing thing I've
ever seen.”
Watt said he saw a diverse range
of people who bought the cards.
“There are a lot of college stu
dents, but I see a lot of 40- and 50
year-old people and young kids
come in for the cards,” he said.
Watt, a player himself, thought
the appeal for buying new cards
stemmed from the gambling as
pect.
“You buy a pack, and you don’t
know what you’re going to get,”
he said. “It’s a Christmas sur
prise!”
Chad De Moss, a freshman
music and computer science ma
jor, said playing the game also was
a good way to spend your time.
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“You have to think to play the
game,” he said. “It takes a lot of
skill.”
Frank Oslzly, a junior psychol
ogy major, used the game as a psy
chological tactic.
“It gives you a cool intuition
about how people work,” he said.
Fallon Empires,” tho fifth “Mage
“I think that people are reflected
by how they play their decks.”
But Oslzly also thinks the game
is fun to play.
“It beats the hell out of rummy
and pick up sticks,” he said.
Wizards of the Coast Inc. has
” card dam* expansion sot
big plans for its card game in the
future.
“The new ‘Ice Age’ set will be
coming out in May,” Thearle said.
“It will be playable as a self-con
tained game and will be 100 per
cent compatible with Magic.”
With new sets every 2 to 4
months, novels being written about
the game and a computer version
of the game in the works, Magic
promises to be around as long as
the Arthurian legends — namely
the one about Merlin.
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United States and was exposed to all
of the different religions, she said she
realized people were doing the same
thing when they viewed religion.
“They’re looking at God in one
place, and they’re convinced that’s
what God is,” she said. “They’re not
realizing that is the same God we’re
all talking about.”
Mahapatra also likes to use her
gallery to help budding young artists
who have been given no chance any
where else, she said.
In keeping with this, she is dis
playing works by Aaron Sheppard, a
senior at Norris High School in Firth.
“I think lie’s going to make a very
good artist,” she said. “I like the spon
taneousness of his art.”
Surya also features performing art.
Mahapatra said the gallery had
played host to American Indian flut
ists and drummers, jazz bands and
Indian folk dancers.
Mahapalra has big plans for her
gallery. She said her future plans in
cluded a major show on African
American artists, a show that de
picted the life of immigrants after
they entered the United States, and a
show depicting the common person’s
life in war-tom areas like Bosnia.
Mahapatra, a member of the Lin
coln Artists’ Guild, will continue to
paint for herself — for fun — even
though she has won awards in sev
eral art competitions.
“I still consider painting a hobby,
not a profession,” she said.
Mahapatra said her profession was
“mom,” and it comes even before
maintaining the galleiy.
Surya Art Gallery, located at 227
N. Ninth St., is open Wednesday
through Saturday from 11:30 a m. to
4:30 p.m. - - ■ "
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Sheldrick excellently portrayed a
British aristocrat become bumbling
alcoholic. Her strong resemblance to
English actress Emma Thompson
made her character even more fitting.
Mix pounds of revolving domes
tic squabbles with a dash of social
instability and cook up a bizarre
comic plot in “Absurd Person Singu
lar.”
“Absurd” runs Thursdays through
Saturdays through Dec. 17. Two
matinees are scheduled for 2 p.m. on
Dec. 11 and 18.
Tickets for tonight's performance
are $8. Tickets for all other perfor
mances are $16 and $18. Student
tickets are $7 and $8.
“Hell Freezes Over”
Eagles
Genen Records
Grade: B+
The first Eagles album of new
recordings since 1980 has been re
leased, and after their 14-year
separation, Don Henley, Glenn
Frey, Joe Walsh, Don Felder and
Timothy B. Schmit sounded as
polished as ever.
In “Hell Freezes Over” the
Eagles deliver 11 live recordings
of favorite hits, balancing out the
oldies with four fresh studio-pro
duced songs.
“Get Over It,” penned by drum
mer Henley and guitarist Frey,
possesses the sarcasm of Henley’s
“Dirty Laundiy” days, highlight
ing hard rock and harsh repetitive
ness. Because of the Eagles 1980
breakup, “Get Over It” has been
called the band’s theme song, cit
ing a lyrical' remedy for self-pity.
“All this whinin’ and cryin’
and pitchin’ a fit/ Get over it, get
over it.”
Instead of releasing “Get Over
It” as their first single from the
album, the Eagles might have
soared higher if they had released
“Learn to Be Still.” With Henley
on vocals, this track is reminiscent
of the band’s gentler classic bal
lads.
Included in the new material is
“Love Will Keep Us Alive,” fea
f
turing the heart-rending vocals of
bass player Schmit. Unfortu
nately, the lyrics fail to measure
up to Eagle quality when com
pared to Schmit’s classic solo “I
Can’t Tell You Why,” also found
on this album.
Incorporating songs recorded
by band members during their
solo years was a nice touch, but it
weakened the album. Henley’s
“New York Minute” sounds stron
ger by itself on a Henley album
than on a commemorative release.
Also, fans might have ben
efited more from this album if it
contained a broader sampling of
newer material.
Songs like “Desperado” and
the harder-edged “Life in the Fast
Lane” may still have rock appeal,
but the tunes have been played to
death on the radio.
Except for “Pretty Maids All
in a Row,” Walsh was almost
overlooked.
Never mind what’s been left in
or left out. What counts is the pol
ish throughout, and gems like the
intricate guitar work on “Hotel
California” and the liquid vocals
on “Tequila Sunrise.”
Overall, the Eagles managed to
breathe new life into classic re
frains, which'makes these 1994
recordings a good excuse to up
date an album collection.
—Jill O’Brien
