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Bowie In Review 'Stardust i By Hank Gilman Gamecock Staff Writer Greensboro...Jesus. A three and one damn half hour drive with beer,. tailgating police vehicles, restroom stops and bad humor. Six people packed in a Buick, sweating, smrking, laughing, swearing and taking. things that they should not. be taking. All this for David Bowie. "I wouldn't tell my mother I was going to see David Bowie," said the spider to the fly. "He's a faggot," said another faggot. "Who cares?" said still another. Who does care? Well certainly iot the hordes who blew their dole to see Bod Dylan's 'geriatric r.eview". Now there s a real.. .well I won't say it, but here's nothing worse than wheel -hair rock, especially at superstar tour prices. Never did 'ike funerals. And even though Bowie acts the part of the superstar and sets admission prices uniform with he role, he has had his !roblems in the audience ecognition category. "The fool wears a dress!" said he young hussy who wears lacks. "I don't listen to his music, ie's a queer," added a boy who lays Janis Joplin in his closet. But queers are capable of oming up with good songs once i a while. Some play well, some iot so well. I mean, we can't imp all those queers together, ow can we??? Unfortunately the record uying public is more concerned ;ith sexual predilections than the rnusical product their investment rys out for. "Oh knock me down and nail ne to the floor, Brownsville Station is coming to the arolina," chants the countless rowds. US4 TEACHERS Teachers in the area will be offered a basic course in conomics by the University of south Carolina College of susiness Administration, July 15 -Aug. 15. The course, USC's ECO 524 Essentials of Economics" will nieet Monday through Friday orm 9:30 to 10:50 a.m. with dIditional calssees scheduled for he same hours on Saturday July :a and July 27 No travel to 'olumbia is necessary to com plete the course. Teaching the course will be USC business professor Dr. William H. Wesson, Jr. who can beC contacted for further in Formation at the College of Business Administration, U niversity of South Carolina ., Uolumbia, S. C. 29208. EMPLOY EES Full-time USC* employees who have been employed at least six months may take courses at the University at a reduced fee of $10 md Diamo] So on to the Greensboro, North Carolina, Coliseum on a rain on rain-off Saturday night to watch one human being put on one hell of a show the region will not soon forget. The ride not withstanding, it was well worth it all. Of course one has to put up with the usual concert scenario of heads bob bing in sightlines, drunk-stoned children, hard on the ass seats and irreverent fashion shows; but we were all there to see David Bowie, not the distracting sideshows. The music was delayed for a good thirty minutes, but the time was well spent examining the elaborate set constructed to complement Bowie's engaging histrionics. A city street on a rainy night with all cracked walls the brothers and sisters slide into when their days works is done. But soon the PA system snapped and the lights went down. Flashlights crawled on the stage searching for line jacks and a place to stand. Then the opening chords of Bowie's theatre theme, 1984. A white spotlight and then David himself, orange hair and all, winds his way to the forefront touching audience hands begging to be touched. The sound bounced and echoed off the walls of the half empty coliseum but that didn't matter. The music was secondary to what was being played on stage; we all had the albums anyway. The show, based on Bowie's latest work called "Diamond Dogs," included two singder mime performers, who played the fools and cafe sportsmen to the street life scenario, and a competent but anonymous five piece band. News BrnI academic requirements and are accepted for admission to the University. Employees desiring to be admitted to the University to take part in this Educational Training Program are asked to apply for admission as early as possible and at least by August 15. .J.'s 1 WELCOME UNDRG 2218 emweed Dr Live Msic - Mo. Our Arebse Ply 0. usku-No Rock & R< id Dogs' And despite a few voice problems, Bowie's stage presence and perforance over whelmed the technical dif ficulties that large brick concert halls tend to present. And the songs! So many songs. "Cracked Actor," "Changes," "Space Oddity," "Suffergette City;" "Rebel Rebel," "Sweet Thing", "Time," "Watch That Man," "Panic in Detroit," "Allandin Sane," "Moonage Daydream" and God knows how many more. Every song and movement had its place. Nothing was left to chance. So the night continued on; through forty-five minutes of music, through an intermission lrinking flat soft drinks through another forty-five minutes of music and then the end. No encore, it all just ended. The audience went through the usual "more, more, more" 2eremony, but a pleasant. looking male caucasian an nounced that Mr. Bowie had left the arena and the crowd turned to the exits. I don't think they all really cared that much. I imagine it is enough to say you have seen David Bowie; there's no sense spoiling the pot with another song. There we were, in a Buick yet; no more music and a long ride back to Columbia. Columbia, South Carolina ahead of us yet. The concert" was over. Very over. Wow was it? .. Ac coustically bending, visually stunning and every pre-concert expectation lived up to. There was nothing more except some vile Greensboro pizza, brutish directions to a gas station that was never there and a few catchy tunes to alleviate the indigestion. David Bowie was every bit the superstar he has been brought up to be. EfS STUDENTS Registration for Second Session Summer School will be held Friday, July 12, in the Carolina Coliseum beginning at 8 a.m. with students admitted according to I.D numbers. sub ADUATES & ADUATES we Located near & Rosewood ., Wed., Fri. & Sat. ly Mellow, Aosl ill I Cost -Pree or 5 I munib - $5 Year tion Permit No. (127 Movie Reviews By Terry Dugas Gamecock Staffwriter The quality of films playing downtown this week has had its ups and downs with'"Claudine" and "Chinatown" the ups, and "Spys" and "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot," the downs. The Atlantic I Theatre slipped in its quest for low grade black films and booked "Claudine" for a two week run. Because of a limited advertising budget, this film has not had the exposure it deserves. "Claudine" gathered 21 out of 25 possible favorable opinions in the "Variety" critics poll and is one of the box office hits of the year. It is a "warm romantic comedy" about a black woman with a house full of kids who falls in love with her garbage man. The critics' pablum about the movie being "a sensitive black film" tends to obscure the fact that James Earl Jones gives a masterful performance in a well written, funny movie. The film is not a good "black" movie, but a good movie. On the other side of town, at Dutch Square, is Roman Polanski's "Chinatown." This movie shows that a film can be beautifully set in a nostalgic period, San Francisco in the 1930's, without suffering from the cloying cuteness that ruined "Great Gatsby." The settings and designs of the film perfectly portray the 30's Frisco, and the performances by Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway are more than adequate. Polanski, in his first American film since "Rosemary's Baby," weaves a tight tale of murder and corruption that keeps the audience hanging by their thumbs until the conclusion, but he then forgets to cut the ropes. He appears unable to decide how to end the film, so he simply stops it. Despite this, the movie is well iust or VILLAG White Jeans 1/ OJ Villag Roswood Slh Col.....l worth seeing if only for the scene in which Polanski. as a knife wielding thug. convulses the entire audience in pain. Leading the "must avoid" list is "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot," another patchwork of inane plot, unnecessary obscenity, and ever present, Clint Eastwood, flexing his muscle at every opportunity. The film is poorly directed, poorly acted, poorly written and will gross several million dollars on the strength of the star alone. The problem with "Spys" is that it tries to be "Mash" and fails miserably. The film does have its moments of comedy but to achieve them it resorts to slapstick rather than perceptive satire. Elliot Gould and Donald Sutherland act as though they regret doing the film as much as the audience regrets seeing it. The problem with "Spys" is found in the subject matter. 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