Thursday, June 24, 1976
University Daily Kansan
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Entertainment
Movie fare is merely fair
Won Ton Ton the Dog Who Saved Hollywood—Madelaine Kahn, Bruce Dern, Art Carney and their canine companion walk through a series of dog-fired routines. The only real diversion is trying to meet the supporting bits by a cast of 60 has been.
Logan's Run—This science-fictional manhunt stars Michael York, and is set in a 23rd century that is an art director's tribute to plastic.
Mother, Jugs, and Speed—An ambulance story beed up with "M-A-S-H"—style antics and the performances of Bill Cobay. The two are watching the ride. Raguel Welch is just along for the ride.
State of Siege—Constantin Costa-Gavras's political thrillist is based on the Uraguan Tupamaros' kidnapping of a C.I.A. supported American diplomat. The rapid-fire editing provides a perfect counter-balance for Franco Solinas's internal script, making this the most entertaining of Costa-Gavras's post-"2" efforts.
The Uninvited—A mild-mannered ghost story, starring Ray Milland and Rirk Hussein as siblings who buy a haunted hussein to usell portraits the mysterious medium who makes up the nasty habits of wilting flowers, frightening dogs and playing the plano.
For students contentedly immersed in academia, "The Case Against College" may be too late. Then again, it's never too late to view school from a new perspective. College may be seriously getting in the way of your education.
College investment often pointless
Associate Campus Editor
By BECCI BREINING
IT'S TIME we realize college isn't a ticket to success. For too many people the start of
Caroline Bird has expanded that theme, added some powerful ammunition and written an incisive critique of higher education. America's esteemed bastions of learning, our showrooms of intellectual pursuit, have been thoroughly researched and boldly stated attack. And she's hit too close to the bull's eye to ignore her marksmanship.
Athert means getting a degree. Bird tells us that universities are genuine rip-offs. They are merely isolated shelters where only 25 per cent of students are serious enough to return for a very expensive investment. And "expensive investment", isn't used.
And "expensive investment" isn't used casually.
BIRD'S DOLLARS and cents calculations
Happily Ever After means getting a degree.
If a student was to forgo a Princeton education and take a modest job instead, at the end of four years he would be $11,925. If you were attending Princeton and attending Princeton and the total is $34,181. Of course, Princeton is more expensive than most schools, but even trimming a few thousand dollars off that cost will encourage for a penniless high-schooler.
Coming of Devil's child bad political 'Omen'
are extensive and astonishing. In 1927 if a Princeton-bound 18 year-old had invested $30,000 in companies into a bank at 7.5 per cent interest, companies daily, he would have $1,129,200 by the time he was 64. This is about $528,200 more than the average of an average male college graduate.
By CHUCK SACK Contributing Writer
Indebtedness is implicit in a college degree. And while a student can expect to leave college owing much more than his or her income, he can't expect to leave assured of a job.
For those who opt to remain in the academic womb at the end of four years, Bird points out a startling fact: the years in school are growing much faster than our life expectancy. College is robbing people of their most precious possession—time.
Remember the political jokes of the last few years that were inspired by horror movies like *Snow White* and *Baby*, and that Jerry Brown will refuse to move into the White House until it is exorcised? Now there's a horror movie that seems to have been inspired by a political joke.
"The Omen" deals with the coming of the Devil's child, the Anti-Christ, and the punchline is, in the last frame of the film, the kid ends up in the White House. Unfortunately, this is given a solemn treatment.
Numbers aren't the author's only game.
She is a sociologist more than an economist,
and she views the situation as symptomatic
of it. For many people college is a denial.
Bird presents her case from the standpoint that success means having money, rather per cent of the people that earn more than $15,000 a year never went to college.
The child is the five-year-old son of the U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain (Gregory Peck) and his wife (Lee Remick). In the prologue it is revealed that the child is not their natural son, but a baby that has been substituted with the diplomat's cooperation when he learns that his own child was stillborn.
What exactly is to be gained by placing a five-year-old in proximity to the President? This is what turns "The Omen" into a poor political force in the last moment. How threatening is a Devil who can't even get his attention or for a being capable of the ultimate in dirge, ignoring, this must be one hell of a let-down. For the rest of us, he hope's an omen.
"Academics are poor role models for any kind of success." By teaching old ideas, most colleges inhibit creative thinking, a common ingredient of success stories.
AS THE child grows older, it begins to reveal its dark soul, and the horrific elements of the plot manifest themselves through a series of unnatural deaths and the ambassador's attempts to track down the true origin of the child.
and her delivery wavers between soft and shrill. What makes her preferable is that she takes up less screen time, having the decency to get killed halfway through.
"The Omen" opens tomorrow at the Varsity Theatre.
The problems with "The Omen" begin with the lead actors. Gregory Peck is normally good in the type of stolic father role that won him an Academy Award in "To Kill A Mockingbird." However, here he is required to gradually comprehend the plot of the character that makes world order, and Peck seems incapable of shading his performance. Consequently, his shift from disbelief to grim determination is much too abrupt.
"DENIED PARTICIPATION in a real" adult world, young people are called into subversive activities and attitudes natural to the excluded."
aspect about film reviewing is that you can demand that every one's motives be appalled.
And for those who do "make it," particularly those from prestigious schools, it's because of an embarrassing fact: in our supposedly classless society, the diploma is given to everyone, egalitarians hope to somehow make every upper class.
THE SUPPORTING characters' only function is to look evil. The child fares the worst, because he is required to glare at the guardian's dog. The guardian is good, the guardian dog,守护犬, the samiilar, does.
Bird believes countercultures are sparked by the conviction of young people that even with a college degree, many of them won't "make it."
SHE DEFLATES the mystique that knowing about Milton is somehow superior to knowing about Venneur, or even Kojak, who is master of middle-class culture is best for everybody.
Things are further confused by Peck's delivery. Blessed with a rich bass voice that is the key to his paternal portrays, he fails to modulate it in any way, so that statements of petty irritation and announcements of soul-blasting import are unguishable. After watching him for 10 minutes, one begins to discount everything he says.
Through extensive interviews with reluctant parents, disillusioned students, employers, teachers and administrators, I discovered that a secondary reason for choosing colleges.
The sole acceptance acting is that of John David Warner, who plays a photographer who helps to solve the mystery of the child. Warner (best known for his uncredited appearance as the idiot in "Straw Dogs") shows great resource with an underwritten script. The script is filmed in Hindi darms the rest of the cast to wandering through the silly ending alone.
Lee Remick is only slightly better. Her character has even less depth than Peck's,
Despite convincing arguments and statistics, Bird's case has one flaw. She has always been wrong. It provides an atmosphere that can't be duplicated in any other part of society. There are a lot of people in college soolely taking this air atmosphere, regardless of its priceting.
The film does have some good moments, most of them courtesy of director Richard Donner. Despite the generally insipid level of the storyline, Donner succeeds in creating a properly chilling atmosphere in the most normal surroundings. Even more
Bird's previous books, Born Female and a Woman Necessary to Get Know Painful Worth, are written from a feminist's viewpoint. A humanist's College is written from a humanist's viewpoint. It is a realistic, myth-shattering account of the suffering college and puts it in a proper perspective.
Overall, what "The Omen" lacks is a sense of purpose. Beyond the simple shock effects, it attempts nothing. "Rosemary's Baby," had the theme of motherhood to hang, and "The Exorcist" was really the story of the struggle for the soul of the younger priest.
crucially, he imparts a sense of foreboding to the action sequences.
IT'S IMPOSSIBLE to make any such statement of intent about the "Omen." Not only is it difficult to tell what the devil will do, but Devil is up to in the film. (One comforting
THE CASE AGAINST COLLEGE, by CAROLINE Bird (385 pages, Bamn Books).
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