University Daily Kansan
Fridav. November 18. 1977
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'Cria' explores emotions
Reviewer
By CHUCK SACK
"I can't understand how some people can say that childhood is the happiest time of one's life," lamenta Ana. "I don't believe in a paradise or the innocence of children."
Small wonder. Compared to Disney's saccharin cherubs or Truffaut's charming urchins, the protagonist of "Cria" is a diabolical, ghost-rid wailman. At the tender age of nine she is wracked by feelings of guilt and memories of bereavement.
Puzzling scenes abound. Ana stands rigidly outside her father's bedroom as his best friend wife emerges half-clothed and distraught. Stepping inside, she finds him lying outstretched on the bed, dead. She calmly picks up a glass, takes it, examines it, and returns to her own room. The spectacle of her mother is everywhere.
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sisters and under her aunt's guardship, the disturbed child's recollections of her mother are her only comfort. Certain that her mother is not dead, she captivated her mother's death, she is twisted down.
NEARLY EVERY EVENT is seen through the child's eyes. Ana and her sisters dress up in old clothes and mimic an adult argument with savage precision. A game of hide-and-seek revives the memory of one of her father's infidélities on the same site.
Writer-director Carlos Saura has fashioned a poignant, deeply moving examination of the absurdities of existence. She uses this book to shed sudden shifts in their life. The demise of Ana's guinea pig is more shattering for them than the death of their father, whom she describes as an enemy.
about her husband's infidelities, her mother screams, "I want to die." Later, when her mother is struggling with an incurable illness, she says, "I will die." Ana is unable to reconcile the two messes.
Yet for the bleakness of its subject, the tone of the film is generally rich and bright. Much of this is due to the excellent casting. In the dual role of the doomed mother and child, the director carefully controlled performance that exactly captures the spirit of Saura's theme.
'Gone With the Wind' called No.1
WASHINGTON (UPI)—The American Film Institute, with President Jimmy Carter and an array of movie stars in attendance, named "Gone With the Wind" last night as the greatest motion picture in U.S. film-making history.
Even the remembrance of her mother is troubling. In an overheard match chance
BUT THE PICTURE belongs to the incredible Ana Torrent in the main role of Ana the child. Almost every scene requires her involvement, as does the dialogue. Her somber, intense portrait of the tormented girl is a tour-de-france, and the scenes she shares with Chapin are truly moving.
The 1939 epic of the Civil War and the
5 persons die in fires during British strike
"Cria" is a psychological portrait of a woman in time, and every sequence is imbued with a child's sense of wonder. The frustrations of life and mysteries of death that trouble her at age nine are no less disconcerting twenty years later.
LONDON (UP1)—Four children and a 47-year-old invalid died in fires in Northern Ireland and Scotland yesterday as inexperienced soldiers with outdated equipment struggled to fill in for the nation's 35,000 striking firefighters.
"The lads are getting very tired and we are worried that exhaustion will lead to mistakes and someone getting killed," said one arm officer.
There were fears that the situation could worsen today, when 600 senior fire officers, who have been advising the soldiers, will be joined to join the strike for a 30 percent pay hike.
Approximately two dozen soldiers were injured fighting 41 fires across Britain yesterday—the fourth day of the walkout, Most were overcome by smoke.
Striking firefighters at a nearby stationhouse refused appeals for breathing devices and foam equipment. Officials said the power station would be out of service for nine or 10 months and repairs would cost millions of dollars.
CHOKING TROOPS had to abandon a burning $125-million power station east of London Wednesday when they were overcome by smoke.
Nine persons have died in fires since the strike began, including the five deaths
Don Bates, general secretary of the Retained Firefighters Union, said Thursday that picketing firefighters had broken into fire stations during the night and turned in false alarms to call in non-striking, part-time firemen.
panded to help any student who qualified as a teacher. He said that his office had 72 workers working at the time.
THE SES PAYS its undergraduate tutors $4 an hour and its graduate tutors $4 an hour
Authorities disconnected telephone lines to London's 114 fire stations in response to reports that the men were using them to coordinate demonstrations and picketing.
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Tutors...
Lee said SES tutors had to have a 3.0 grade point average, be at least ten junior colleges or higher.
He also said all SES tutors had to attend a four-hour workshop before they could tutor.
He said that this was to help them maintain at least a 1.6 grade point average until they had taken 60 hours. After they had taken 60 hours, they had to keep a 1.8 grade point average, or drop out of the scholarship program, he said.
Walk-on athletes need authorization from a coach to qualify for a tutor. Fisher said. This keeps students who are not out for a sport from coming in and asking for a tutor.
Fisher said that the program was open to all athletes, whether they were on school or off.
Fisher said the program paid under undergraduate tutora $3 an hour and graduate tutora $5 an hour.
Another free tutoring service is provided for campus veterans, according to James Foley, president of the college.
Henry said that if the veterans qualified for the SES program, his office would send them there instead. He said that the Campus Organization kept a large list of available tutors.
"However, the V.A. only pays when the student has a deficiency," he said. "The teacher must fill out a form that says the needs help before he can get any money."
He said the Veterans Administration paid for the tutors.
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ANSET up for KU athletes, according to Mike P.
Rice
Reconstruction South, starring Clark Gable and Vivian Leigh, was chosen as the No. 13 player in the game.
Picked as the next two best films were "Citizen Kane," the 1941 story starring Orson Welles in the role of a newspaper magnate, and "Casablanca," the 1942 story of intrigue and wartime romance starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bererman.
Before viewing excerpts from the 10 top films, the Kennedy Center audience heard a tape of a brief address Carter made at a convention and the evening for movie industry celebrities.
"I ESPECIALLY enjoyed the burning of Schoenectady, N.Y." Carter joked, touching off a burst of laughter. "That was just before Grant surrendered to Lee."
Narmed as the seven other top films were "Narmed the African Queen," 1962; "The Grapes of Wrath," 1940; "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," 1975; "Singin' in the Rain," 1982; "Star Wars," 1977; "2001: A Space Odyssey," 1968; and "The Wizard of Oz," 1939.
The president recalled that when "Gone With the Wind" was first shown in Georgia schools were closed and students taken to the movie in school buses.
In announcing "Gone With the Wind" as the No. 1 film, AFI Director George Stevens said its stars and producer "did their work in their pride, and they produced a thing of beauty."
The only surviving star of the movie, Olivia DeHavilland, was in the audience of 16.
Political figures in the audience included former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, former Bell and House Speaker Thomas O'Neill.
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Hoch Auditortium was inspected last week by Clark Brubaker, deputy state fire marshal, who found flammable materials stored throughout the building and basement and among the ratters on the ground. He determined that this was a fire hazard.
Hickman said. He said he would demand that it be made operable when the building was ready.
BRUAKER SAID he would request that smoke detectors be installed on the fourth floor and the building be cleaned. He said he also would ask that an exit door in the fourth floor balcony did not meet state code requirements, if lighted exit sign over the door be turned off.
Allen Field House also was inspected this week. Inspector Larry Laubain said the fire extinguishers were outdated and in need of hydrostatic pressure checks. Additional fire extinguishers were needed in the kitchen-concession area, he said.
Laubhan said an excessive amount of electrical extension cords in the building would need to be replaced by permanent wiring.
Laubah said he was not sure that the emergency illumination system in the building would be able to check with thestate fire marshal's office to determine whether it was an approved
AN EMERGENCY exit illumination system provides back-up power in case of an emergency.
State code require that such a system provide enough power to light exit routes in the building.
Bill Shelton, head inspector, said that new Green Hall, Spencer Museum of Art and the Visual Arts Building complied with the state code.
Watkins Hospital was praised by inspector Hickman who said, "It was a treat. I hard work in inspecting that hospital and that building is perfect. I don't know when the building is created a building where everything was so good.
The Kansas Union was found to be in compliance with a warrant issued to check the vehicle to be checked
state fire marshal to be certain that
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In some other educational buildings, minor deficiencies were found, but in several buildings, including Fraser Hall and Gymnasium, no deficiencies were noted.
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