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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Tuesday, October 19, 1971
THE MICHIGAN DAILY Tuesday, October 19, 1971
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NOON BOOK DISCUSSION
Thursday
3545 Student Activities Bldg.
So-Ilidad Brother
by GEORGE JACKSON, reviewed by ED TRU ITT
NEXT WEEK
W WHOLE EARTH CATALOG
Office of Religious Affairs-Michigan Union 3rd Floor
Tale of a transitory
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who don't look "Hollywood,"
makes everyone seem ordinary
and touchable. In that light the
casting of Warren Beatty as
McCabe may appear incongrous.
But Beatty, though the anti-
thesis of ordinary, seems to have
found his element - puffing
out his chest, grumbling to him-
self, smiling toothily, tossing off
obscenities. And even J u 11e
Christie, who has grown more
anemic over the years, rides out
a few patchy spots for credibil-
ity.
The visual side of McCabe has
an equally off-handed precision.
The composition is cluttered,
filling each frame with activity;
and in tandem with that, the
choppy cutting compels the eye
to be alert and observe. Over it
all, photographer Vilmos Zsig-
mond has spread a soft veneer.
Filtered through the constant
rain and snow, his pictures give
everything a hazy tintype look,
with the grey of the cloud-fill-
ed skies and the brown of the
town's wooden structures being
the dominant colors.
But Altman, not content with
frenzied visuals, provides us
with a disconcerting aural
counterpart. With minimal mu-
sic, the soundtrack is a con-
tinual hum of voices, burps, jan-
gles, sloshes, whispers and the
pervasive scrape of boots on
wood. As you may know by now,
these sounds often obscure the
dialogue, and some critics cite
this as a technical deficiency.
It isn't. Altman's picture of the
West is too vast to be squeezed
into a tight little narrative. He
is more concerned with the
"feel" of the West, with its
sights and sounds; and Mc-
Cabe's whore house only serves
as an observation post for us,
the audience.
So McCabe's tragedy, which is
Festern
ours as well, is gradually pro-
pelled through a chain of vig-
{' nettes and seems to unfold
from town life itself - whor-
ing, poker games, a drunk
dancing on the ice, a young
punk whose cold-blooded target
practice symbolizes the sense-
lessness of the forces McCabe is
up against. Finally, there is the
inevitable showdown, the best
I've seen in a long time. Alt-
man doesn't condense the scene;
as McCabe and his pursuers
tramp about on the snow it
takes a full twenty minutes. And
he lets the crunch of the snow,
the wailing of the wind, and
the blasts of the guns serve as
lone accompaniment.
While McCabe goes out to meet
his fate, the oblivious towns-
people frantically scramble to
save their burning church. And
as McCabe lurches in the snow,
we see the bucket brigade's hol-
low triumph. In stirring them-
selves to put out the fire, they've
rescued an empty shell. They
lose their individualism and they
save nothing.
Tsn't that what it's all about?
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Forest fires burn
more than trees.
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-Associated Press
TAIWANESE STUDENTS chant "we want freedom" after chain-
ing themselves to the UN main gate yesterday, as the UN General
Assembly opened debate on the ."two China" issue.
UN opens debate on
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Hundreds in stock at (Continued from Page 1) pelled a member, he said: "Let us$
diminished prices. . The voting situation was com- remember with realism that, once
Why pay $25 when plicated further however, by a expelled, the likelihood of the Re-
$12.50 will do? series of amendments to the Al- public of China being admitted to
banian resolutions submitted by the UN as a separate member,
BU11E1[ ~,.SudiAraia.under whatever name or label,
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open 'til 9 Mon. & Fr tionalist China and by recognizing Registration
the Peking government as the legi-
tiimate representative of mainland
China and the Nationalists as the continues
government of Taiwan.
Nase described the U.S. policy ! Students can register to vote
as "hostile to the People's Repub- today at Bursley and West Quad
Llic of China." from 3 to 8 p.m. In addition, regis-
Bush contended that the oonly tration will continue at the Fish-
fair solution was to keep Taiwan bowl from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and
in the United Nations. In this way, at the Union and North Campus
ASS he said, "all the people of China Commons from 3 to 8 p.m.
would thus -be represented in the Tomorrow and Thursday regis-
Ca r United Nations by the governments tration will take place from 11 a.m.
which over 20 years have actually to 2 p.m. at Alice Lloyd, from 3 to
governed them." 8 p.m. at the UGLI, and from 3 to
Noting that the world organi- 7 p.m. in the old mail room on
20 zation had never in its history ex- Bishop St.
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