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By CHUCK SACK
Ringo Starr, the Beatles's drummer, confesses that his life is moving so fast that he doesn't know what town he is in. Bible salesman Paul Brennan fights back tears as he contemplates quitting his job. The artist Christo explodes at an engineering foreman when there is a crucial delay in the uninterrupted roller coaster of Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger stares in horror at the playback of a murder in Altamont.
These electrifying moments were captured on film by the crews of the Maysles Brothers, David and Albert. All of these scenes are featured in SUA's four-day retrospective of the Maysles Brothers' best documentaries. The four films that will be shown tonight and tomorrow evening cover a 10-year period.
"WHAT'S HAPPENING? The Beaches in
initial American tour. In many ways it is
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the most conventional of the four film,
to be observed through careful observation of the quartet.
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However, the cinema vertie style of the film—an unnarrated documentary—was much more unusual when the film was first released than it is today. Now, documentaries like Chris Marker, Donn Pennebaker and others are the rule, rather than the exception.
In "What's Happening," the Maysles succeeded in capturing the harried, semiprimate existence of the tour backstage, and the resulting portrait is much more intricate and revealing than the original. Rustier Richard Lester's "A Hard Day's Night."
"SALESMAN" (1969) is a more sophisticated nonfiction film. Dealing with nonpublic personalities, the film follows a group of door-to-door Bible salesmen, watching the men give their pitches and reporting the quiet desperation of their customers to the older Irishman, who begins to have second thoughts about his occupation.
The use of non-synch sound and cross-cutting between separate events is considered appropriate.
pursists. More disturbing, though, is the possibility that the presence of the filmmakers was the catalyst for not the recorder of Brennan's decision.
IN "GIMME SHELTER" (1970) the moral question of the filmmakers' responsibility takes a more immediate form. The camera inadvertently recorded a fatal stabbing at the disastrous Rolling Stone案件, and this highlight have been a gross exploitation of the tragedy. Instead, the Maysles employ the ingenious device of flimming the
group's reactions when they see the murder replayed later.
In all three of these films the Maysles explore the tensions between the ideal and the day-to-day reality of their subjects' lives. The Beattes are shown sandwiched between their carefree antics onstage and the loneliness of their fam-imposed isolation. Paul Bramlet balances a sales conversation against the prudence of trying to sell a $90 Bill of people who can't afford it. Unable to control the crowd or the Hell's Angels,
ONLY IN "CHRISTI'S WEB Curtain" (873) on the website that treat a subject where the actual act is unknown to the actor.
Mick Jagger confronts the havoc brought on by his public image.
In documentary, the process is reversed. The achievement of the Maysles Brothers is that in working with reality, they are able to discover their own visions. How well these visions coincide with truth is for the individual viewer to decide. But as these four films attest, the result is both exciting and artistic.
Fire violations
Since the fire, the state fire marshal's office has been inspecting fraternity and sorority houses on college campuses in Kansas.
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The 14 remaining KU fraternities will be inspected this month. Marklev said.
. . .
THE ALPHA PHI Alpha fraternity was being remodeled when state fire officials came to inspect it and will be inspected later, Markley said.
SEVERAL OF THE fraternities didn't had their fire extinguishers tested or conducted fire drills regularly, according to the fire marshal's report.
The fire marshal's office recommended that five of the fraternities, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Kappa Pi, Delta Tau Delta, Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Gamma
Delta, add smoke detectors to their fire alarm systems.
In its September meeting, the Council of Presidents, comprising chancellors and presidents of the six state-supported colleges and universities, selected Chan Dykes for the Dykes for the committee. Dykes asked Chankel to represent him on the committee.
Other members are Roger Lowe, vice president for business affairs at Wichita State University, and John Marr, professor of mathematics at Kansas State University. They will meet for the first time Oct. 14 in Topeka.
Shankel to study insurance plans
THE COMMITTEE will consider liability insurance policies that might be purchased jointly by the six state schools: the University of Kansas, K-State, WSU, Fort
Some fire prevention equipment in some of the fraternity houses was outdated,
Strips of metal on fire doors that melt at high temperatures and allowed the doors to close completely, called fusible links, were asked to be removed from fire doors in the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house, Markley said.
Del Shanker, executive vice chancellor, is one of three members of a committee to examine liability insurance policies for Board of Regents schools.
Hays State College, Kansas State College at Pittsburg and Emporia Kansas State College. A single policy would be purchased to protect faculty, staff and administrators in lawsuits stemming from their academic work.
KU employees voted twice this spring in favor of the purchase of liability insurance. The second vote was taken after the company that proposed the policy, Hass and Associates, made a Mo., said the rates would be higher than had been originally proposed.
The other Board of Regents schools also voiced approval of a joint insurance policy
SHANKEL SAID yesterday that the policy proposed last year might not be available again this year. He said the plan would need to be reviewed that offered a policy with acceptable rates.
this spring, and Shankel said the other schools still favored the idea.
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K-State, which has a liability insurance policy of its own, said this spring that it would cancel its policy to join the other state schools. Shankel said K-State was still willing to do that if a statewide policy could be found by the end of the year.
Shankel said the committee hadn't been given any deadline to complete its work.
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