I PAGE Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, JANUARY. 15, 1967 PAGE TWO TIlE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, JANUARY 15, 1967 Architect Friedman Ups Ford- Plans Europe on Beam in Sky FILMS Fantasy and Realism In La Bande a Part' II M By RON F. BODNAR Probably not since Henry Ford. has there been anyone with such radically different ideas as French architect Yona Friedman, who lec- tures at 4 p.m.. Monday in Angell Hall D. Whereas Ford put Ameri- ca on wheels, Friedman plans to put Europe on beams and the beams in triangles. Friedman's plan is to create a second, adaptable Paris in a space frame above what now exists on the ground. Parisians, already liv- ing in daily familiarity with the world's most famous and most handsome space frame, the Eiffel Tower, do not fear that such a, structure will cut off all light from the city below-the gaps and the staggering of the different lev- els assure them that sufficient light will fall through. Already well aired over French TV, Friedman's ideas have met with widespread public acceptance. This and the current Parisian city- wide and semi-permanent traffic jam have convinced the powers that be to undertake a full and theoretical evaluation of the proj- ect. Friedman has reduced his plan- ning criteria to a few, obviously National Student Strike Set A t December Convention Student radicals are currently measures to radicalize student planning demonstrations on cam- opinion against the war: puses across the nation to be co- -Civil disobedience; ordinated with a mobilization _War tribunals, modeled after against the Vietnam war on April British philosopher Bertrand Rus- 15 in New York and San Fran- sell's projected international court cisco. to judge President Johnson, Sec- These tactics were set in Chi- retary of State Dean Rusk, and cago at the Dec. 29-30 Conferen Secretary of Defense Robert Mc- for a Student Strike for Peace'. Namear o forsllegedwrtrMe. The participants did not reveal Namara for alleged "war crimes.- which campuses wouild be singled The conference said that the tri- wh for protest wbunals should be especially con- out fcerned "with complicity in war Voice, the University chapter of research contracts and their ef- Students for a Democratic Society, fects on student education;" did not send delegates to the _Activity to abolish 2-S stu- meeting, and the national board dent deferments and/or the draft; of SDS has refused to endorse the nd and conference's -program. However, and SDS chapters- at several campuses Support for Alaska Demo- have attacked the national's cratic Senator Ernest Gruening's stance, and they have threatened bill to prohibit the sending of to force an SDS referendum de- draftees to fight in Vietnam. signed to . alter the national's The conference, attended by policy. Voice has not discussed the participants from 49 colleges, also possibility of joining the dissident urged women to write local draft chapters. boards, announcing their refusal Besides a student : strike, the to cooperate with the Selective conference urged the following Service System. Such letters, the conferees recommended, should be signed with a first initial and last name. DIAL 5-6290 unchanging facts, fixing the ax- ioms of town living. According to Friedman, these axioms are: -A man occupies a certain con- ventionally fixed space, necessary for his activities. He can leave the space, and occupy another one; -Man lives in groups. These groups are defined by communi- cation (means and frequency) be- tween their numbers, and -Man needs to maintain his equilibrium between his external and internal environment. As the means to maintain this equilib- rium are often rare (food, weather, protection, etc.), a rational distri- bution becomes necessary. For the axiom of space occupa- tion, spaces can be organized in a continuous way or in a discon- tinuous way. Groups can be form- ed on a biological base (family) or on the base of any social deter- minant (same age, interest, reli- gion, etc.). Distribution can be centralized (you go to a defined place for a commodity, for exam- ple "theatre"), or homogenized (you can get the commodity at any place you are, for example, "television"). The ideally planned town would adapt to any of the basic three axions. It would also adapt from 7ne axiom to another under the effect of some technical, political or cultural change. Should such a chance occur, life becomes uncom- fortable in a town with a rigid physical shape, creating a need for a way of physical planning that yields to transformations. Frriedman's model, his "Spatial Town," as he calls it, is contained by a many level space frame grid, posed on piles high above the earth, 200-350 feet distant from each other. Friedman's model, his "Spatial a fresh concentration of the Euro- pean population itno compact ci- ties, distributed in a rationally. triganulated grid across the face of Europe in a topological net- work whose apices are the pres- ent location of the major railway- junctions and airports. ShJ TODAY Shows at 1 :00 - 2:55I U E JJ4 :55-6 :55-9 :05 By PAUL SAWYER "La Bande a Part" is in outline the story of how two young Paris- ians woo a lonely girl in order to rob the rich man in whose house she lives. The story ends with a dramatic and far-fetched shoot- ing, with the hero and heroin go- ing off to South America. It is of course all relatively un- important to the film iself, for Godard's chief interest-and his true genius-lies in the creation on the screen of subtle character relationships and complex moral ambiguities without the benefit of, and often in opposition to, the plot and its simple-minded con- ventions. And so it is through a seem- ingly random series of jokes and conversations, taking up most of the film, that Odile (Anna Ka- rina again) emerges as a sweet and soulful thing, who can't say no because she doesn't really want to; that Arthur (surnamed Rim- baud!) turns out a crass manipu- lator; and that Franz, finally be- comes the boy who has a soul after all, in spite of his weaknesses. The whole last part of the film, dealing with the robbery and es- cape is deliberately phony, be- cause besides being far-fetched, it undermines the psychological and moral complexity Godard has been building up all the way through. Franz wonders "whether this world is a dream, or whether this dream is a world." Indeed the two boys never com- pletely distinguish between their fantasy world and the real one; they are both pretend gangsters and real ones. Godard does not make this kind of distinction either, so that this strange and fascinating film becomes an in- extricable mixture of scrupulous neo-realism and broad parody, or fantasy. The "true" story simply cannot be singled out. The resemblance of this sup- posedly new technique to the plays of Euripides, with their mockery of conventional myth- ology and frequent use of deus ex machina, is very strong. Also re- miniscent of Euripides is the pres- ence of endless layers of irony and parody with an omniscient narrator, who tells the audience a good deal of "straight" infor- mation. Godard is corny in places (not so much in this film as in "Alpha- ville,") where he is trying to be serious. However, I have no defi- nitive judgement on the purpose and ultimate effectiveness of this sleight-of-hand technique. "A SPLASHY, SURF*SOAKED SLEEPERI BREATHTAKING! IMAGINATIVE! The nicest surprise to happen in a long time. Unless you just- enjoy turning your back entirely on life, you should not miss the breathtaking shots!" -- -~ NEXT ATTRACTION A BRUCE BROWN TM IN COLOP *0 11 4' I A'' 4 A DEAN MARTIN a MATT HELM KARL MALEN AURBEEREES A ~0UM8IA PICTURES RELEASL SANN- MARGRET TECHNICOLORO I DIAL 8-64 16 SUGGESTED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES Sunday 5, 7 and 9 7 Ann Arbor. Michigan .210 S. Fifth Avenue 761-9700 TODAY GRAND PRIZE WINNER - ~ 1966 CANNES FILM GLC'UM[ I it I I -YA MAN U ANd AWOMA 0.0 NEXT ATTRACTION !0" MELINA MERCOURI "10:30 P.M. SUMMER" RUMY SCHNEIDER IN I I ,i Jean-Luc Godard Festival tonight BANDE A PART (BAND OF OUTSIDERS) Comedy in the tradition of STARTING TOMORROW, Jan. 16 LYDIA MENDELSSOHN BOX OFFICE 10 A.M.-5 P.M. UAC MUSKET '67 O~f tir @ ur 01nb TICKETS: 0 Individual Soles start January 16 Lydia Mendelssohn Box Office 10 A.M.-5 P.M. All Seats $2.50 Performances: Date: I" the new musical III 1111 ZIMC Am 11 i