MICH.ELLANY ,qw --w FILM I _- 0 Hanging MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - Ahh. Spring break. This is good. Real good. I am stretching out on the beach with a cute female friend of mine. She is currently rubbing coconut oil on my back. "A little to left," I coo as I sip my pina colada. We are the only ones out here. Probably because Michigan is the only school in the country which has its spring break in the dead of winter. I sneered at this last November. Now, as I glance down an empty beach with no one in sight for miles, I smile. Whoever made out the schedule knew what they were doing. "Lets go dancing tonight," I sug- gest. She smiles. "Lets," she says. I am happy. Real happy. As an old beer slogan once went, does it get any better than this? A gentle breeze comes off the ocean and I take a pregnant pause to contemplate life. "You know," I tell her as I turn over and curl my toes toward the sun, "I think about everything back at school and it hardly seems as if the semester has started." My companion goes to Michigan as well, and she thinks about what I've just said. She is confused. over our heads A 'Frantic' Ford keeps the e4 1W. JOHN SH EA "But..." Her mouth opening as if some great words of wisdom are about to flow out of it. I sit up, waiting for these words to come. But somewhere between her gut and her throat the words get lost. "Oh, never mind," she says. She squeezes the last drop of coconut oil out of the bottle and rubs it on my nose. "All out," she says, throwing the bottle away. "I think we need some more," I tell her. She hesitates, but with a little coaxing I convince her to go off and get another bottle. As she leaves, I think to myself that I could spend the rest of my life here; just my friend and the ocean and the coconut oil. Life in utopia. No troubles. I close my eyes and doze off thinking about it. Several minutes pass. Then, a voice crys out my name. "John," the voice says. "Time to wake up." "It's about time," I say, turning over on my belly. WEEKEND/JESSICA GREENE Sami Ismail1 Palestinian talks about the PLO's status and the crisis in the Middle East INTERVIEW Sani Ismail is an expert on the Mideast and a professor at Eastern Michigan University. He spent 10 months in an Israeli jailfor at- tempting to visit his father in the West Bank. He recently spoke with Daily Opinion Editor Caleb Southworth. Daily: What is the PLO? Ismail: The PLO is a people's organization. D: Is the PLO a terrorist organization? I: What we want to let people know is that you cannot accuse an entire population of being terrorist. The PLO is a peoples' organization which really commands the respect and support of the vast majority of the Palestinian people. To equate the PLO with a few people or specific leaders is a mistake: the PLO is an institution. It has economic, social, and medical institutions. It has unions of all sorts. D: Where is the PLO based? I: Obviously the PLO is not simply an organization based in Lebanon or Syria or the territories, but it is an idea and a dream that is adopted by Palestinians everywhere. Even in the United States there are over 100,000 Palestinians who are members of the PLO. D: Who runs the PLO? I: Leaders come and go. The PLO has a parliament where Palestinians debate, struggle with each other politically, and it is the institution with which Palestinians have opted to express their views. D: Does the PLO have popular support in the occupied territories? I: Yes, but within the occupied territories, of course, the support is covert not open. No one is going to come out and tell you, "I am a member of the PLO." D: Are there different factions in the PLO? I: There are. I am pointing out that the PLO is not a monolithic political group; its a spectrum. As you have in the United States, we have a constitution; we have institutions; we have a legal system; we have a senate; and many different systems. Over the years the PLO remains the same. The PLO is a coalition politically and that's why we can claim that the organization is the representative of the majority of the Palestinian people. D: Why don't the Arab governments directly assist in reestablishing Palestine? I: The Arab governments feel threatened by the PLO because the PLO is a democratic organization. If you had an independent Palestinian state, in addition to just Israel, many Arab governments would feel threatened because people'ate going to look up to the example of the Palestinians and say, "Who are the Palestinians? Why can the Palestinians vote?" I had a Saudi come to me the other day and say, "I envy the Palestinians. They may be under occupation, but their spirits and souls are free. They are throwing the rocks; they are not afraid whereas we are sheep, afraid." See INTERVIEW, Page 9 "We're not here to give you co- conut oil," another voice says. Uh-oh. I scramble to my feet. It is not my female friend, but rather two stark figures hovering over me. "Who are you?" I ask. "I am Aristotle," says one figure. "And I am Synge," says the other. "And we are the Ghosts of En- glish Past," they chime in unison. "WHOA," I cry. Synge wears a quizzical face. "You do major in English, don't you?" "Yeah," I say. "Just checking," says Aristotle. "Actually, John, we've noticed that you've got a midterm on us in a week or so and we'd like to take you back and show you how you've pre- pared for it over the term." I look around for my female friend. "Come with us," says Synge. "Er, ah, er..." Before I can say anything, Synge and Aristotle and I are flying over the ocean, going back through time. We land at my apartment. "This is January," says Synge, "and there you are, lying on the couch watching football." See SHEA, Page 9 audience on By Steve Knopper Picture this: You are a mild-, mannered doctor, traveling to France with your beloved wife for, a convention with a bunch of stodgy medical-types. Everything goes as planned; you and your wife settle into an expen- sive hotel for a comfortable, quiet evening. Bliss, right? Perhaps. But, say your wife gets kidnapped while you shower. Now what do you do? You don't speak French, and no one believes you. The locals think she's having an af- fair, but you know she's not that type. If you're Dr. Richard Walker, you start doing crazy things. You be- come Frantic. In this aptly-named thriller by Roman Polanski (Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby), Harrison Ford plays a desperate man, slowly unraveling as he traipses Paris in search of his wife. As the suburban Walker, some of Ford's action border on the unbelievable. He snorts cocaine, breaks into a pusher's apartment, discovers a murder, climbs barefoot on a slippery roof, and puts his trust in a beautiful, leather- clad female smuggler. These are the kinds of things one just doesn't expect from a typical American doctor. But Ford's perfor- mance commands realism as his personality slowly changes At first, he calmly dismisses his wife's absence, and falls asleep with a medical magazine on this chest. But, in slow increments, panic sets in. After a while, he's screaming at security guards, and visiting the sleaziest bar in town searching for a lead. The Paris background is full of beautiful people, bright lights, and appealing advertisements. Ford opens the film as a distinguished foreign intellectual with his wife, but devolves into a harried, frantic loner. He constantly opens strange doors, only to find ex)tly what he seats' edge doesn't want, rom murder victims to ransacked rooms, on the other side. Polanski clearly had trouble with the movie's ultimate question: Why? Why was Walker's wife kidnapped? Though the answer is anticlimactic, only a movie as riveting as Frantic could make it so. PASSOX FRIDAY, APRIL 1 FIE SATURDAY, APRIL 2 SE There are limited spaces availa so please make your reservatiom ABSOLUTE reservation dea Please call Hillel to reser GET IT! TI Theres only one pr religions that have all They don't allow If you sometimes have questions about Go come and join the search for answers i Episcopal Church. The Episcc Harrison Ford and Emmanuelle Seigner scour Paris for Ford's wife in 'Frantic.' OEM ______________________________________________________________________________________ [ OFF THE WALL Powder skiing is my heroin -Alta, Utah SKETC R1?Ab E ZINN Reagan is a parasitic scum (in response) AND ED MEESE IS A PARASITE OF A PARASITE -University of California, Berkeley God is a mystic creation invented by those who wish to control men's minds. (in response) A SORRY EXCUSE FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO BE THEIR OWN GOD (in response) "Religion is the opiate of the masses in a heartless world" Karl "The Dude" Marx -Graduate Library HE OET AE YER 0EPOL Yo ENWA 1ITCNTNNL YOURROOMATE 5TINGI TOWN ISDONG OERBRA - Y HTE TNS , ISTREET L,= Quality Care ForYour Fine Imported Automobile WE OFFER NE Phone 663-5544 SENIOR SAVINGS.. MON.-FRI. 9AM-6PM. - MAIN STREET MOTORS 906 North Main Street Ann Arbor, MI 48104 _ -_ or All, it seems, with good reason. No one believes him. The hotel's security, Paris police, and the American consulate think he's goofy, especially when he starts wandering around with this woman from the dark side. His new friend, Michele (newcomer Emmanuelle Seigner, who exudes a mysterious, sexy ap- peal), knows the side of Paris tourists don't see. From a beat-up Volkswagen bug, she leads him through the drug-infested, murderous coffee houses. The movie is full of clues: A suitcase, lost by Michele and acci- dently picked up by Walker's wife, a matchbook proclaiming an unknown phone number, and a small, ceramic Statue of Liberty. .Polanski effectively portrays Ford as a stranger in a strange land. IA RT EXHIBIT"SPECIAL TREATMENT" PAINTINGS BY MARCIA POLENBERG MARCH 2 TO TUESDAY MARCH 8 AT -RACKHAM GALLERY iM ara Polenberg is a graduate studentm inteMFA progra m inteU-M School of Art and Architecture. Hald 2 1N s te EPISCOPAL E B T x 218 N . ivison Street o Ann Arbor, Michigan CHURCN 48104 -Sunday Sched At Canterbury House: Lunch following 10:00 a.m. Holy Eucharis On North Cam s: 2:00 p.m. - iscopal/An can Worship- unge,Brsley Hall At Canterbury House: 5:00 p.m. -Holy Eucharist; Supper follow The Rev. Virginia Peacoc 665-060 President Dole, President Robertson, President Bush... Somebody save us! - SAB PAGE 8 WRkKEND/MARCH 5, 1988 WEEKEND/MARCH 5, 1988