THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Five
Gales of laughter?
Imogene Coca and King Donovan appear in a scene from Neil Simon's Broadway comedy hit, "The
Prisoner of Second Avenue." "The Prisoner" is coming to the Power Center November 17 and 18
presented by the Professional Theatre Program.
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By DIANE LEVICK
Arts Editor
The word "festival" always
strikes{ up enthusiasm in Ann
Arbor, noted for its Blues and
Jazz Festival and summer Street
Art Fair. On a somewhat smal-
ler scale the upcoming three-
day Black Arts and Cultural Fes-
tival promises to provide a wide
array of activities, all for free.
Scheduled to run Friday
through Sunday in East Quad,
the festival will include arts
ranging from photography to a
cultural festival
tire local talent
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By JAMES SCHIOP and
ANDREA SACHS
In the words of one of the stu-
dent poets, "The Modern Lan-
guage Building is a tough place
to play." Despite this, five under-
graduates gave a poetry reading
to an appreciative MLB audience
in an English Dept. recitation
yesterday.
Bob Walker opened with his
imagist poem, "Cocoon." He, like
most of the poets who followed
him, expressed the difficulty of
relating to other people. For
Walker, the cocoon is a symbol
of man:
it would like
to return to the womb
to turn itself inside out
but its face is frozen in skin
it cannot stop being born.
Many of the poets follow the
tradition of "confessional" poetry,
as emplified by Sylvia Plath and
Robert Lowell. Walker's suffer-
ing and pain, the feelings of the
world's iflicting wound, can be
s e e n in his poem "Sleep
Walker":
Everthing I love
is dying
I call for you
a monotone
in the cold night.
Henry Austin, a junior major-
ing in English, continued the
procession by reading his poem,
"At Shiprock, New Mexico."
In his resonant voice, Austin
echoed dark, hard images of
finding ancestors and of under-
standing dreams.
In much of her poetry, Deborah
Mutnick attempts the journey
into "the unknown interior col-
lection of past selves"; the faces
don's classic tale about a voyage
piloted by an inhuman skipper.
12:00
2 Movie: Jean Kerr's "Please Don't
Eat the Daisies" (1960), about a
slightly daft family; a self -im-
pressed drama critic, his enter-
prising wife and their four ram-
bunctious offspring.
9 Movie: "Sullivan's Empire" (1967).
This melodrama details a perilous
jungle search by the three sons
of a millionaire who has vanished.
2:00
2 Movie: "Denver and Rio Grande"
(1952). Slam-bang pioneer railroad
yarn, complete with landslides,
gun fights, and trainwrecks.
rgrad
glish
of childhood, with its fears,
dreams and fantastic realities.
Like the others, she discusses
the difficulties of leaving a proud
isolation:
nothing touches me
in this fierce asylum of wood
and bark
I carve my heart in a sycamore
and feel nothing
but wind.
And, yet, the effort is worth mak-
ing:
We lay claim to our boxes
and begin to unwrap each other.
Kathy Calderone worked in the
"confessional" genre of poetry,
dealing with the dangers of ex-
perience. Nature is often used to
embody the lurking peril of liv-
ing:
I succumbed to that flower's
liquid stillness
afraid
that this time
the dawn which stalks
would shoot
to kill.
In other poems, she applied a
more humorous touch, as in her
description of the "weeping
iguana" in her bottom drawer.
In contrast to Calderone's poe-
try, Damienne Palazzola's work
seemed to be a search for unity
with Nature, the attempt to re-
late to an earth that "suffers the
subways and parking lots." The
voice of Woman in her poetry is
more that of a "sister" to Na-
ture:
In the turning of maples
is the smile of a woman
old and deep,
showing her palm full of aged
treasures.
All of the poets use similar
somber images; eyes, dreams,
the moon and winter reappeared
throughout the readings. These
writers drew heavily, at times,
on traditional images to express
their difficulties in living in this
high strung society.
poets confess
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The festival will open Friday
afternoon with a reception from
4 to 7 p.m. and a photography ex-
hibit. Black students from the
School of Architecture and De-
sign will display their work.
Friday evening at S p.ra. the
festival features a gospel con-
cert by the Altar Choir of the
Second Baptist Church and by
the Trotter Singers, a gr')up of
mostly students from Trotter
House who have sung together
for almost two months. They
ART S
jazz symposium. One of the fes-
tival coordinators, Jeanne Fox
explains, "We wanted to have
a sort of cultural festival dis-
playing black talent in the Uni-
versity and around the Ann Ar-
bor community that was inex-
pensive enough so that a large
number of people can come."
Black students residing in Fast
Quad have planned and organ1z-
ed the entire production w i t h
financial support from TAC B'ack
Affairs and Project Awareness.
Appropriately enough, the swu-
dent group calls itself "Abeng,"
a Jamaican word for a horn
which is used to call people to-
have performed at Baits Hous-
ing on North Campus and have
appeared on a Detroit television
program.
Special activities for Saturday
include craft demonstrations and
a poetry =reading. Fox says she
expects crafts to inzlude ear-
rings, African clothing and wood-
en masks. The poetry reading
will be given "by anyone who
shows up," as a result of public-
ity.
That night music will permeate
East Quad as The Blue Mist and
Wendell Harris and Tribes give
a jazz symposium. "Blue Mist,"
says Fox, "is a relatively young
group of students." Harris' en-
semble has recorded an album.
Fox reports that a third group
for the concert is "likely."
Finaly, Ann Arbor Black Thea-
tre will conclude the festival on
Sunday at 7 p.m. with a dance-
drama presentation. The group
organized about three years ago
and have since performed one-
act plays and a tribute to black
women.
Seemingly offering something
for everyone's artistic tastes, the
Black Arts and Cultural Festival
looks like a good bet for some
fun weekend entertainment and a
chance to see what's happening
with local black talent.
TV
highlights
8:00
7 Movie: "Brian's song" (1971). The
true story of former Chicago Bears'
running bak Gale Sayers and his
teammate Brian Piccolo, who died
of cancer in 1970.
8:30
4 Special: Elvis Presley, "Aloha from
H-iawaii" *
56 NET Festival: Rembrandt's paint-
ings, etchings and sketches are
studied in detail.
9:30
7 Special: Ferocious guard dogs
trained to kill are on the attack
in "Trapped".
11:30
2 CBS News Special: "A Royal Wed-
ding recaps the marriage of Great
Britain's Princess Anne to Capt.
Mark Phillips.
50 Movie: "The Sea Wolf" (1941).
Strong direction (Michael Curtiz)
and inspired performances make
this the best version of Jack Lon-
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NEW YORK 0P1 - The NBC
television network says it will
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in mid-January: Diana with
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NBC Follies and Love Story.
NBC's announcement F r i d a y
brought to eight the number of
new television programs, all
plagued by low ratings, that the
networks have canceled since
the 1973-74 season began Sept.
10.
ABC has canceled Bob & Carol
& Ted & Alice, while CBS has
axed The New Perry Mason, Ca-
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NBC said the discontinued
shows will be followed by a heav-
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schedule, effective in January,
with only the network's Saturday
and Sunday night program line-
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Wednesday Night at the Movies,
featuring both theatrical and
made-for-TV films, and a one-
hour Thursday night program
whose title and contents will be
announced later, NBC said.
The new schedule shifts five
new and old evening programs -
Lotsa Luck, The Magician, NBC
Wednesday Mystery Movie,
Adam-12 and Chase - to n e w
starting times and dates in mid-
January.
Lotsa Luck, now aired on Mon-
days, will be moved to the Fri-
day night time slot occupied by
a sixth rescheduled show, The
Girl With Something Extra. The
latter wil be broadcast a half
hour later under the new sched-
ule.
In the other shifts, NBC's Mys-
tery Movie programs will be
broadcast on Tuesday nights, as
will Adam-12, now seen on Wed-
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The Magician, a Tuesday rhow,
is being shifted to Monday night.
Chase, also a Tuesday program,
is being moved to Wednesday
nights, NBC said.
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