University Daily Kansan / Friday, September 12, 1986
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Valesente says Tar Heels may have advantage
By ANNE LUSCOMBE
Sports writer
North Carolina, which started its season last week, may have an advantage over Kansas in tomorrow's game. Jayhawk head coach Bob Valesente said yesterday.
"By having played a game already, North Carolina has had the chance to work out the bugs and butterflies. That gives them a definite advantage." Valesent said. "It's a leisure for them that this is their second game."
45-14 last Saturday. Reserve tailback Derrick Fenner rushed for 216 yards
North Carolina beat the Citadel
Football
North Carolina
1: overall, 0:4 in OAC
11:30 a.m. tomorrow
at Memorial Stadium
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Junior quarterback Mike Orth and a corps of young receivers will try to continue the pass-happy offense of last year.
"We feel very confident about the game. We know we can throw against them," said Quintin Smith, freshman wide receiver. "We've been waiting for this game."
Kansas' passing offense has Crum a little worried.
The Kansas offensive game plan will not be foreign to anybody at Memorial Stadium, but the players executing the game plan might...
"KU is going to complete some balls," he said. "I think we will have to play a steady defense to overcome it."
Crum has seven returning starters on defense from a team that went 5-6 last fall.
North Carolina's size poses a threat for Kansas" somewhat smaller team.
Offensively, Crum will rely on sophomore quarterback Jonathan Hall, who has only started four games. However, he was successful against The Citadel. He completed
and scored two touchdowns in the victory.
"We have played a game which has given us some experience," Crum said. "But Kansas has had the chance to scout us, which is to their advantage."
nine of 17 passes for 135 yards and one touchdown.
Hall started the last three games last season after seeing limited action early in the season. He completed 38 of 79 passes for 559 yards and four touchdowns.
However, North Carolina head coach Dick Crum said Kansas might have the advantage.
This will be the third meeting for the two schools, but it will be the Tar Heels first trip to Lawrence.
The Jayhawks have tried to offset
North Carolina's advantage by staging scrimmages and game situations the last two weeks.
Valesente and his players are more than ready for tomorrow's game after lining up against the same faces for three weeks.
Kansas played at Chapel Hill two years ago, and Orth, then a reserve quarterback had his first and only start of the year. Kansas lost to North Carolina, 23-17.
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The Iowa State Cyclones are at the stage, head coach Jim Criner said, where they need a game.
Cyclones are ready for season
Big Eight Roundup
They get a game this week and it's the biggest one on their schedule. The Cyclones travel to their annual grudge match with 20th-ranked Iowa in the featured game on this week's Big Eight schedule.
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Artist paints portraits without people
Michael Ott, associate professor of art, displays some of his paintings of shirts. Ott recently was selected as the 1902 Governor's Artist, and some of his works will be on display for the next year in the governor's office in Topeka.
Staff writer
By NANCY BARRE
His office in the Art and Design building is cluttered with pictures — landscapes, still lives purchased from thrift stores, gifts from fellow artists and former students' renditions of himself.
But three large paintings of brightly colored shirts dominate the room. He calls his paints "portraits where you are and they have brought him success."
Michael Ott, associate professor of art, has been selected as one of three 1986 Governor's Artists by the Advisory Council of the Kansas Arts Commission. Gov. John Carlin will
Michael Ott
'In art, there is no right, there is no absolute. That's what I like about it.'
associate professor of art
formally recognize the artists at a ceremony Sept. 18. Selected works of the artists will then be displayed in the governor's office for a year.
He painted "Growing Family," his favorite portrait, in the spring, shortly after his third child was born.
"The shirts seem like people to me," Ott said.
The portrait features five overlapping shirts, each representing a member of his family. His shirt is the white one; his pants are green; when his children in descending order,
His shirt is a bold Hawaiian print, emblazoned with mature palm trees, and his wife's shirt has large flower blossoms in the print. His two sons' shirts are flowers, and his baby daughter's shirt has only a small yellow rose bud.
"The different stages of the maturity of the plants, and the different sizes of the shirts, represent the descending order of our ages," he
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Ott said he thought clothes revealed a lot about a person's character
Ott paints actual shirts, which he said he spent a lot of time shopping for in Salvation Army Thrift Stores.
One time he saw a Hawaiian shirt with an obnoxious print in a thrift shop, and he wondered if it had been done during someone's honeymoon.
"Sometimes I see a shirt, and I can just picture a certain kind of person wearing it," he said.
"I felt sorry for the person who
bought it," he said.
"They probably thought they should have been feeling perfect happiness," he said. "But that kind of happiness can't last. Something about the other person was probably already irritating them."
He painted the same shirt he bought from the store, but added a few extra touches. In the middle of the shirt, he painted a scene of newlywed bliss — two lovers kissing
Last week, the Jayhawks beat Wichita State in three games, but head coach Frankie Albizt said they were not going into the tournament thinking the Shockers would be easy to defeat.
The result of Odt's inspiration is a painting called "The Happy Painter."
on the beach at dusk.
He also added a touch of irony. Among the pineapples and oranges, he painted a pair of bright yellow lemons. The lemons signify that the honeymoon has already partially soured.
Ott has painted about 60 shirts, and he said he planned to continue until he ran out of ideas. Some of his shirt paintings have sold for as much as $800 in Kansas City, Denver and Lawrence galleries.
Ott has taught at the University of Kansas since 1969. He is from
Haysville, but earned his bachelor of fine arts degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder and his masters of fine arts from the University of California at Berkeley.
He started painting while at college. He went to Boulder because he had an engineering scholarship, but he became bored with engineering
"In my sophomore year, I transferred to architecture because I thought it would allow me to become more creative," he said.
Ott finally became interested in art while he was enrolled in a free drawing class, which was a requirement for the architecture school.
In his junior year, he finally declared himself a fine arts major. He said it was a good decision.
Jayhawks go to KSU for tourney
"I nominated him for the award because he's a wonderful painter, a marvelous teacher and a community volunteer," said Evans.
"In math, you are striving to get the one right answer," he said. "In art, there is no right, there is no absolute. That's what I like about it."
Ann Evans, director of the Lawrence Arts Center, 845 Vermont, nominated Ott for the Governor's award.
"He's a friend I can count on in need," she said.
"It frequently goes to educators," said Birch. "It's not only for their work, it's for an all-round contribution."
After nominations are received, the Kansas Arts Advisory Commission narrows the field of 25 artists down to three, he said.
The tournament at Kansas State will include teams from Drake and Wichita State.
"It's time to start recognizing Kansans who are outstanding in the visual arts." Evans said.
The award was established to recognize Kansans who have made outstanding contributions to the visual arts, said Bob Birch, information coordinator for the Kansas Arts Commission.
Entomology of 'Fly'reveals grisly goo and gore
Volleyball
The KU womens' volleyball team faces a possible rematch and its first look at Big Eight competition this weekend when it travels to Manhattan for its second match.
The Fly, "directed by Crownenberg and starring Jeff Goldman, Geena Davis and John Tavola," will be at 8 p.m. with 3 p.m. matines tomorrow and Sunday at the Varsity Theatre 1015
By a Kansan sports writer
He pops off his fingernails, pulls off his flesh and spits up flesh-dissolving vomit.
By GRANT W. BUTLER
Arts editor
Seth Brindle has a slight physical problem. He is turning into a human
The most vivid images remembered after seeing "the Fly," directed by David Cronenberg, are not of good acting, thrilling plot or sense. What's remembered are a best-picture sticky fluids and disgusting make-up.
device, which would make all conventional forms of transportation obsolete.
The device, however, has not been perfected. Only inanimate objects can be successfully transferred from one transportation pod to another. An attempt to send a baboon through the device results in a twisted mass of reversed flesh.
Seth, played by Jeff Goldblum, is a misanthropic scientist who has devoted six years of his career to the development of a teleportation
Review
When Seth tries to send himself through the device, a housefly gets into one of the pods. The genes of Seth and the fly are spliced together, and the slow transition from man to manly begins.
and he develops acrobatic skills and an affinity for sugar.
Then the flesh starts falling off and fluids flow.
After the system's bugs have been worked out, the bug story begins.
Insect hairs appear on Seth's back.
The depiction of the transition from man to fly goes way overboard. The viewer is entranced by the concept of the plot of the film, but is then trapped in a gore gore gore. The movie descends to the slice-of-slice-and-dice horror films.
The vision of genetic mayhem that "The Fly" depicts is grisly. With each squirt of pus, the movie becomes more and more a stomach-churning experience.
the massive make-up he is forced to wear. Once the fly becomes the dominant aspect of Seth's character, his sense of self has become measured and his words indecipherable.
Goldbum's performance in the first half of the movie is effective as the obsessive Seth. His character goes from being lax and calm to upheaval as the fly takes over his body. This traction is slow and carefully executed.
But Goldblum's acting gives way to
The dilemma Veronica faces of being pregnant with Seth's baby-fly seems underscored by Davis' bad acting.
The performance of Geena Davis as Veronica, the science reporter covering Seth's discovery, is generally underacted. Davis delivers her lines without any intensity.
The sets, use of lighting and electronic special effects are good, but they cannot make up for the films problems.
John Getz' portrayal of Stathis, Veronica's editor, is another story. His face is in a constant cringe, and his lines are delivered in a Ramboish style.
The idea behind "The Fly" is to show what happens when science goes overboard. But the craziness that Cronenberg was attempting to show simply loses in all the goo that's splashing across the screen. The viewer is unable to answer the questions that the first half of the film raises because he is distracted by the gore of the second half.
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