---
Jacque Janssen, arts/features editor
University Daily Kansan / Friday, March 25, 1988
Arts & Entertainment
11
Lawrence seeks ethnic fashions as alternative
By David Sodamann
Kansan staff writer
Lawrence is first class, dealers in third-world fashions say. And the University of Kansas is a big reason they peddle their goods here.
The demand for ethnic fashions, clothing, jewelry or techniques from the lesser developed nations of Latin America, Asia and Africa, has grown considerably in the last few years.
Jill Legler, buyer and manager
for Sunflower International Casbah,
803 Massachusetts St., said
that he will send for such
fashions in Lawrence.
Demand here for ethnic fashion is the result of a plentiful supply of ethnusiasm in the community for either women, plained and died, dealers say.
"It seems there's a high appreciation for textile arts in the community." Legler said.
She attributes that interest to KU's teaching of textile arts, which has produced in Lawrence a college of fiber-art devotees.
Sunflower International has been in business 14 years. It has always sold some ethnic clothing, Legler said. As ethnic clothing has become more fashionable, so has shopping in the Casbah.
"It's a market that's just kind of grown into us." Legler said.
The kinds of people that buy ethnic fashions are difficult to characterize. Legler said.
"It doesn't appeal to very conservative people for the most part," she said.
Barbara Clark, secretary and bookkeeper for the Lawrence Arts Center, uses a Japanese dying technique to produce fashions of her own design. She said there was a growing interest everywhere in clothing made of natural fibers.
Clark said that the KU design program had done a lot to increase
the community's awareness of textiles as art.
And Lawrence has been very receptive. "It's a young town," she said. "Not quite so staid and traditional."
Cynthia Schira, professor of textile design, said ethnic fashions likely appealed to buyers who are working in the apparel industry or applify of band-woven materials.
"The maker's hand shows in these ethnic textiles." she said.
Elizabeth Kurata, owner of African Adorned, 5 E. Seventh St., has looked at Lawrence from the out and reached her own conclusion
"It's just an unusual town for this part of the world," she said.
Kurata lived in Kenya 11 years before returning home to Lawrence. She opened the store where she sells African-made jewelry and other items four years ago. She also sells her imported items to dealers nationwide.
Kurata said she was surprised at how often she met people from Lawrence during her frequent travels to eastern Africa.
People here, she said, are well traveled and interested in what other parts of the world have to offer.
Sofiana Olivera also sees the University's influence on the ethnic clothing market here. Olivera is the owner of the store where she sells clothing and other crafts she sells clothing and other crafts produced by Andean craftsmen.
She said that the University brought people with diverse interests into the community.
"People are open to things from other countries," she said.
Olivera, a native of Peru, graduated from KU in 1983 with degrees in Latin American studies and economics. After graduation, she worked as an importer of Peruvian products from the villages of her
homeimed by family members. She returned to Lawrence and opened Eldorado last semester. She hopes the store will help pay for her graduate study, which begins next fall.
But Olivaera is interested in more than money. Eldorado is a way of accomplishing something important to her; it is a way of introducing others to Latin American culture.
"People think Latin America has nothing to offer." Olivera said. "But Latin America has things handmade and beautiful. It's a small way of saying we have a lot to offer."
Sheila Immel, manager of the Peruvian Connection, 600 Lawrence Ave., said her store attracted shopers from as close as Kansas City and Topeka and as far as Georgia and Maine. The store sells items handmade in Peru of Alpaca wool and Pima
cotton.
"Most of our business comes from out of town, probably 70 percent." Immel said.
The Lawrence Peruvian Connection store is affiliated with a Tonganoxic-based mail order firm of the same name. The Lawrence store is the factory outlet and sells the items overstocked by the mail order operation at 40 to 60 percent discounts.
Immel said her merchandise was investment quality clothing. Swaters ordinarily sell for $100 to $200 before the discount.
"But they last forever," Immel said.
Legler said items exactly like those sold at Sunflower International, gathered by the same importer, were now being sold in Paris. Brightly colored braided wrist bands that sell for a dollar in Lawrence are fetching as much as $7 in France.
'D.O.A.' revived by mixing of styles
Bv Kevin Dilmore
"D.O.A.," now playing at the Granada Theater, is a film that could have reached the theaters in just that manner: dead on arrival. It suffers from a noticeable wound of an unbelievable script. But the directors' mixture of '40s film noir and '80s hipness breathes life into a project that, in the hands of someone else, could have met a grisly end.
Kansan staff writer
Dennis Quaid is daxter Cornell, an English professor at the University of Texas. He is a tired and uninspired man, nursing wounds from a failed marriage and a fouled relationship with his student's suicide, discussing divorce with his wife Gail (Jane Kaczmarek) and waking up in a dorm room
our murders in a effort to keep his
viewers guessing.
Pogue's screenplay is the biggest disappointment in "D.O.A.," especially when considering that Pogue has written the excellent 1868 update of "The Fly."
The hokey dialogue thrown into the strange situations only adds insult to injury. When a drunken woman brandishes a .44 magnum at Cornell, he reacts with a disbelief that it's that's loaded as is you." Silly turns-phrase like that pockmark the script.
Film Review
843-4266
But every cut and bruise on the script is healed by the film's directors, Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel, a British husband-and-wife team of brothers who are known best in the United States as the creators of "Max Head-
belonging to one of his freshman students in the same university, Cornell looks worse than it does.
In a daze, Cornell stumbles into an hospital, searching for a quick remedy for what he thinks is a massive hangover. But the doctors have different news for him. Some time during the previous 12 hours, Cornell was poisoned with radium chloride. His blood tests show that his body has absorbed the luminous poison, and the doctors conclude that he has about 24 more hours to live. Cornell decides to use that time to find his murderer and bring the villain to justice.
A glow-in-the-dark liquid poison such as radium chloride might seem far-fetched, but when compared to the flaky turns that the plot takes, it becomes one of the more credible plot devices in "D.O.A." The screenwriter, Charles Edward Pogue, was wise to spice up the framework of the original version of "D.O.A.", which was released in 1949. For instance, he changed Cornell from a boring insurance salesman to a bored professor, and that adds some interest. But he also peppered the plot with many gratuit-
room."
Morton and Jankel boldly acknowledge that "D.O.A." is a remake by adopting a film noir look, which pays off. The film's opening is shot in black and white, cutting abruptly to color after the first 10 minutes, but the characteristic chrioscuro lighting is maintained throughout the film. Shadows cast from venetian blinds cut across the faces of characters, and neon signs pierce murky streets. And as the story concludes, colors slowly wash away from the film, bringing the atmosphere and the plot line full circle.
Morton and Jankel give the same quirky style to their first U.S. feature as they did to their ABC-TV series: the sometimes dizzying camerawork and the staccato editing. They do everything they can to infuse a modern character into each scene.
The marriage of film noir and the music video is consummated in "D.O.A." Morton and Jankel deserve credit not only for salvaging a weak script, but also for giving credence to the adage that everything old is new again.
"D.O.A." is rated R for violence, language and sexual situations.
Building our business one guest at a time!
2222 W. 6th 842-700
READING FOR COMPREHENSION AND SPEED
Wednesdays, March 30, April 6 and 13
3:30-5:30 p.m.
Register and pay $15 materials fee by 5:00 p.m.
on March 29 at the Student Assistance Center
29 at the Student Assis-
t in 404. Strong Hall
Class size limited.
Presented by the Student Assistance Center.
SUMMER EMPLOYMENT $300 per week!
ROYAL PRESTIGE MUST SUPPLEMENT ITS SUMMER WORK FORCE IN THE FOLLOWING CITIES:
Atchison Hutchinson
Overland Park
Kansas City
Colby
Concordia Lawrence
Concordia
Chanute Independence
Manhattan
St. Joseph
Pratt
Pittsburg
Ft. Scott
Liberal
Parsons
Dodge City Leavenworth
Garden City Marysville
For more information, come to:
Salina
Kansas Union
Paola
Garden City Marysville
Great Bond McPherson
Gallery West — 1:30, or 3:30
Topeka
Wichita
Mark's Jewlers 843-4266
817 Massachusetts
Great Debt Hays Olathe Winfield
4401 West 1090h (1435 & Ro)
Overland Park, Kansas
Comprehensive Health for women
TODAY!
Sexually transmitted diseases Providing quality health care
If you need abortion or birth control services, we can help.
services • Birth control •
Confidential pregnancy testing • Safe, affordable abortion services • Birth control • Tubal ligation • Gyn exams
Testing and treatment for
4401 West 100th (1435 & Rd.
Overland Park, Kansas
(010) 015-1400
rearing and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases
MasterCard accepted.
Toll Free (except KS) 1-800-227-1918
to women since 1974.
Insurance. VISA &
SPECTACULAR SUNDAY BRUNCH
10 a.m-2 p.m.
Featuring assorted salads,
homemade breads,
fresh fruits,
hot & cold meats,
and delicious desserts.
Located in our ballroom.
842-7030
2222 W. 6th
Screw Your Roommate Party Saturday, March 26
$\Sigma A E$
Girls at 7:00 p.m. be at the Wheel to drink a few or your date to be will be screwed.
ON CAMPUS...please see pg.2
Buses will leave from the Wheel.
PEOPLE TO PEOPLE INTERNATIONAL
along with
THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI
AT KANSAS CITY
PRESENTS
THE 1988 COLLEGIATE STUDY ABROAD PROGRAM Seven courses will be offered this summer for undergraduate or graduate credit:
BRITISH SHAKESPEAREAN PRODUCTION
EUROPEAN POLITICS
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
SPECIAL EDUCATION
THEATER MANAGEMENT
If you would like further information on any of these programs, please contact:
People to People International
501 East Armour Boulevard
Kansas City, Missouri 64109
Kansas City, Missouri 64109
(816) 531-4701
or
The KU Study Abroad Office Lippincott Hall, Room 203
LIVE MUSIC
ALL WEEKEND!
FRIDAY MARCH 25th
The Hawk JUKEBOX comes alive!
BUZZ NORMAN
VINTAGE ROCK
Saturday, March 26th
It Could Only Happen at... THE HAWK