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| From Th< Hon Mr. Ed in P I New Orleans is an incredible c people celebrate each year is pro this 15th annual Horse Conventii more than just drinks and sex. With all the people flooding tl possible to get a feel for what Nev the past few days, several oppori New Orleans. Sunday night at 11 p.m. we a Bourbon Street, which apparently onto Bourbon, we noticed a y< laughing at some chunky fluid o something about "never gonna more. On the right and left u vertising "nude exotic dancers females," and "world famous lov I WENT into the last one, fully Iisvi is Lj<xy singing aim uancing, wasn't Doris Day up there, and v thoroughly embarrassed me. I just don't understand. If peop human bodies, why does everybc wear anything (except in Charle our bodies seem so boring to us-w The street was full of people businessmen, drunks and prosti happy or really sad; or very dru gutter, and this made me very sai approached by ladies of the even wanted a ride. Imagine that! THE MUSIC in New Orleans is pleasant departure from that oth< out of bars and pubs all over Be lively sound. Within blocks w Preservation Hall, a beautiful ol( will live forever. Bits: CONGRATULATIONS t( that great victory over Notre Dan of the season; I really enjoyed wa Here's an item for trivia far sistently spectacular in the mull boyfriend on "Lost In Space," h? for about 10 years. He recently c< with Zalman King (another bigj horror film. He played an ex-foc | drugs and ended up pulling all his U L-ill 1 1-- 1' " Iiu rviii cvcryuuuy mere. 11 was I stiff from the Dunbar could have? My horsal (asopposed to persoi go as follows. Best Picture - A Keaton. Best Actor - Richard D Director - Woody Allen. Best Scr Movie - The Exorcist II. Worst Actress - Mimsy Farmer (from Alive." 1 South Carolina State and the Avenue Free Art Studio will be fea an art exhibit Monday, February 27 noon till 4 p.m. in Russell House B Also on the 27th, at 2:30 p.m. Fest slide-lecture narration by Ray Lev Second World, Festival of Black Culture held in Nigeria, West Afric; Jazz Disco featuring Benedict Nairobi Dancers and Sharon Foster 1 living mollis win oe presented at 7 Dr. Johnnie McFadden, assistant education at USC, will present a Tuesday, February 28 at 1:30 p.m topic "Graduate Education, Fi Assistance, and Career Opportun Black Students." A poetry reading ,ww \ :& ?es Mouth 4eu) Orleans ity. Of course, the Mardi Gras you bably the world's biggest party, but Dn I am currently attending offers le streets at Mardi Gras it is imv Orleans ia all about. I have had, in tunities to enjoy the pure culture of rrived. At 11:05 p.m. we were on y never closes. As we made the turn aung man, bent over, apparently n the sidewalk. He kept repeating drink again," and laughed some 'e were surrounded by places ad," "beautiful boys impersonating e act live on stage." expecting to see Rock Hudson and but let me tell you that it certainly yhat she was doing with that saddle klo J ? I--- ? 1 * ?iv ait au iui ucu uii uy seeing natted dy wear clothes? We horses rarely ston of course). Maybe that's why e see them all the time. i from all walks of life, including tutes. They either seemed really nk. I even saw a few horses in the d too. For some reason I kept being ing, who winked a lot and asked if I > excellent. All jazz too, which is a jr stuff disguised as music. It pours lurbon Street, and gives the city a ere A1 Hirt, Pete Fountain, and i Dlace. never rhanainc* u/horo ioi-? ? , ? -" D""OI v JO'-t > Frank McGuire and the team for le. I wish I was in town for the rest tching you play this year. is, Mark Goddard, who was conti-dimensional role of Don, Judy's id apparently been "lost in space" ame to earth long enough to co-star gie) in "Blue Sunshine," a quasi itball player who got messed up on hair out, going to a disco and trying a good role for him, although any S ^asily done the job. lal) selections for movies in 1977-78 jinie Hall. Best Actress - Diane reyfuss (The Goodbye Girl). Best eenplay - The Goodbye Girl. Worst Actor - Kris Kristofferson. Worst Autopsy). Worst Song - "Stayin' ide in the French Quarter u ? 1 Manning held the same day at 8:00 | itured in Room in Capstone on the U; ' from 12 reading will feature B. 1 allroom. Boyles, Mike Addison, and I! ac '77, a vis from The Ferdinand Roten Art and present an exhibit-sale of a. Also a with works by Modern ar College spanning six centuries. ' of Ever- Committee of the Russell H :30 p.m. Union will sponsor the exh approximately 1,000 origina dean of famed Ferdinant Roten colli lecture 2.The event will be held at i. on the Russell House. inancial ities for "The Acting Company,' \ will be professional ensemble v 'Talking U collection < By JANE SHEALY News Editor ni. a % - . * * anana Alexander oi news show 60 Minutes' Point-Counterpoint segment is a many-faceted individual: shrewd, graceful, warm, cuttingly sarcastic. Her latest book, Talking Woman', is in her own words "as much about me...as the people I had spent my life talking to." This unique collection of 80 essays covers an extremely wide range of interests from Judy Garland to the CIA. As a master in the field of journalism excellence, Alexander is limitless in her subject matter. She has used her career as a "license to lparn" and the purpose of her book was perhaps to reassure us all that it r4a'ly happened just this way. The essay on Judy Garland was published in Life magazine in 1961. Shortly thereafter, Alexander became Life's first woman staff writer. IN THIS particular essay and others on human tragedy, Alexander leaves no stone unturned, no question unanswered. Yet, her style of social and Dolitical commentary smoothes the rough edges and Alexander can be as Album review B By ERIC S. RICHARDSON GamprAck Staff Wri??r 'Beatlemania,' a show now playi Garden Theatre in New York is now the music is respectable the ar horrendous. The show consists of four musicic look like John, Paul, George and 1 album pictures do them no justice are actually Joe Pecorino on rhythi Mitch Weissman on bass (a dead Leslie Fradkin on lead guitar as G McNeill as Ringo on drums, struments used are keyboards, woodwinds, and violin. The music is very good and it tafc of the horrendous voices of the mu The Americanization of the B< devastating in this album. Theyev< like the Beatles, a feat no one has Maybe we should not really be dis group trying to bring back to the da but the truth is the album does mon ui\r. ivwjuK problem with the all recorded live. Not even the Beat because they thought they could ac result in the studio. Another prob! songs picked. Lennon-McCart lappeningi 3.m. in Campus repertory of clas 5C campus. The will perform Ma ?\ Maiz, Mary USC. The only p< itanley Additon. United States workshops and Galleries will the Company wi original prints "King Lear" and ,/4 A1A .. iu v/iu ivi(t!>icr!> hiiu uci v iiuuifi rhe Fine Arts ouse University This spring's 5 ibit and sale of the Pulitzer Pri I prints from the Subject was He action on March Columbia March Koom 202 of the Night will be helc 1V1UI VII . LJVUIIII through Tuesday ' a permanent matinees are s vhich tours a Sunday afternooi Voman' outstc of topical esse compassionate as she is bold. Mitch Watergate, the Teapot Dome of (The the 70s, was the subject of coun- Secre tless books and articles and will be Hose for some time to come. Alexan- origir der's chapter of essays on the subject is a mosaic inclusive of all HE angles: the devotion of Martha Femi Si 1 eatlEm "Strawberry Fields" ar for the simple reason th ing at the Winter was recorded Lennon di an album. While the other in a somewhs list's voices are does not pull it off at al also tries to do "I am ins who some say screwup of the whole s Fiingo. If so, the Can you imagine . The musicians "Penny Lane," and "1\ m guitar as John, no electronic instrumei ringer for Paul), If it were not for th eorge and Justin Beatles, the show woul The nffstflCP in- Thprp novor ?i>i11 K trumpet, cello, Beatlemania is definil problem. :es one's mind off sicians - almost. EVEN OLD songs like satles music is come out rather badlj *n attempt to talk resembles a Beatle voi ever pulled off. Paul's almost identical iappointed with a ys of the Beatles, It took more than 40 a i harm than good. and technicians to dc probably part of the pro bum is that it was one time can screw an ? les recorded live If you want to hear a grc complish a better with i :ai vocals then Be lem concerns the don't want to waste mon ney songs like as thf.y were it is not. "N 5?"?"??? ? ?sical and modern plays, held in Draytc rch 3-5 at Drayton Hall, South Carolina irmanent company in the which also conducts TheDepartnr teaching demonstrations, Literature of 11 perform Shakespeare's Carolina, and tl Brecht's 4'Mother Courage German Club i." Atlanta and th will sponsor a >tage South production of USC. ize-winning drama "The >sesM will be staged in 17-21. A special Student The USC M I the evening of Thursday, Sumter Natior ng performances Friday 4th at 10 a.m.' will be at 8 p.m. 3 p.m. in the Russell icheduled Saturday and Bring lunch a is. Performances will b< Columbia Sati 4 inding lys iell, Nixon's high command PfOftr rioMrt ^ /? *#! rTvL? ? ?~> ? ?? a viai.jr vjaugy dllU 1IIC rtTICCl taries (Sally Harmony and Mary Woods). The articles lally appeared in Newsweek R FIRST column, 4The nine Eye', came three years Chapter three of 'Talking an' is devoted to the feminine n Watergate and includes an on Martha Mitchell, unsung n.e of the burglaries. sr a brief stint as editor of ill's, Alexander "talked ilf into Newsweek" and ged some respect for her r before becoming a regular lentator on CBS's Spectrum, iio program of ooinionatprl lentary. Minutes came next and 2ned Alexander's work week ierably, but it expanded her i of contact. Iking Woman' is about the e and places Alexander has he opportunity to visit, but it o about the woman behind the ions and her unique collection day's most memorable exnces. AN | A e an impossibility to perform at when "Strawberry Fields" id half of it at a slow pace and it quicker tempo. The group 1 in Beatlemania. The group the Walrus," the inevitable ihow. hearing "Eleanor Rigby," /lagical Mystery Tour," with its? ieir Dhvsiffll rpspmhlanno tr\ d have been halted by now. ; e a Beatle reunion and tely not going to solve the ; "I Want to Hold Your Hand" r. The only song that even ce is "Yesterday" done by I twin. rtists, designers, re: chers > Beatlemania ant; at is blem. Too many 11 its at ilbum and the musiv .s up. at simulation of Beatle music ;atlemania is for you. If you ey and remember the Beatles in Hall on the University of a campus. lent of Foreign Language and the University of South he USC German Division, the , the Goethe Institute of e Department of Media Arts Dada Festival March 1-15 at > ! j otorcycle Club will ride to lal Forest Saturday, March PU ' * 11tost? interested snouM meet House Cafeteria at t'na; time. ind the club will return to irday evening i