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To c live in the dorm for & m< Any questions con< and commisslo Movie review )T GAKKICK ?ck Staff Writer dea of a woman giving birth her neck might seem a bit silly, ught ol hospital machineshaving rits"that can kill on command bizarre. lotion that a movie using these ; made by an independent ly is surely enough to scare away. However, none of these is uu uamage 10 "ine Manitou." Manitou" , now playing at Bush Mall Theatre, deals with the of Indian magic. An ancient ie man named Misquamacus, )r some five hundred years, his spirit, or Manitou , into the Karen Tandy, played by Susan rg. According to legend, she will ie ever-growing essence until it s as a full grown man from her :edar does a good job in rayal of Dr.Jack Hughes,expert ual growth. He is contacted by rPSSPrl Ifapari Tom/Iii ?>U1 V.II lauujf WI1CI1 sue rs the growth at the top of her She also contacts her old id, a fake mystic named Harry . Erskine is played by one of biggest names, Tony Curtis, Curtis does not give the movie's rformance. In his first horror urtis at times seems to be ng as much with his character character struggles with the nemesis. lovies best performance is by 1 Ansara. Ansara plays Singing in Indian medicine man cony Harry E rskine. Singing Rock rong character. In his midhe is tall and extremely il looking. He agrees to help in an attempt to stop the of the Manitou. ection s The correct name of the bai a Tony Torre and the Old House n Band. The Gamecock regret; I. error. ested in i k senate >ts are vacant sena sle to stage write-in s seats which are n :t 5 - Capstone :t 12 - Education Criminal Ju Seats 2, 3 :t 15 - General S< :t 18 - Law Schoc late seats in school qualify for senate se which you are runn zrried housing is on tact: Denis* Pointer ner? Greg Swayne ' Kim Fowler 86^ Sob Neuhierl ? K - - tAI - 4* * &senni? nay o* V SINGING ROCK DISCOVERS the Manitou is Misquamacus, who has been reborn many times and is the most powerful of the old medicine men. He also discovers that Misquamacus has been injured by exposure to the Hospital's x-ray machines Add vows to wreak havoc on the hospital and SJah Francisco when he is born. It becomes necessary that Erskine, Hughes and Singing Rock prevent this. The film's strongest points are cinematography and speci&l effects. Beautiful shots of San Francisco and special effects abound in "The Manitou." During a seance, a sniriMik** head flows eerily out of a table. Later in the seance, a lightning bolt shoots through a window and splits the table in half. A laser goes wild in an operating room, an entire hospital hall is transformed into an icy cavern and computers shoot powerful arcs of electricity throughout a building. THE MOVIE'S HIGH POINT is at the end. Misquamacus emerges physically from Tandy's back, horribly deformed by the effects of x-rays. Singing Rock and Erskine become frantic trying to send the evil entity back to where it came from. The final battle takes place in what was once a hospital room, but has been transformed into outer space. In a scene right out of a Dr. Strange comic book, cosmic bolts, electrical energy and mystic forces are thrown | wildly about. The special effects are a I bit wild here, but the effect is visually I staggering ? UO O" The Manitou is a very good, slightly scary horror movie. The acting is good to excellent and it has the best visual effects of any fright flick. Horror movies and possession stories are still very much in public favor, as revealed by the large turnout "The Manitou" is receiving. In the midst of "Star Wars," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "Saturday Nigh Fever," "The Manitou" is a nice, spooky escape. 4 ! FREE ntll ?^11 delivery s the 254-8800 unning seat? kte seats. Students who campaigns for these j ow being contested. Seat 1 & 4 ijear pstice , 4, 6 & 7 todies - Seat 5 >1 - Seats 1 & 2 or major you must live | I ots in dorm you must i ing. Nada is off-campus campus. 8633 5742 S3 >485 ; ?65 jHranaMMMHMnMMMManauMMKMnMiM F alconer ei brutal pris< By HENRY GREEN Gamecock Staff Writer It seems there has been a great awakening of interest in American (jiiouw me uver me pasi iew years. Magnified by the Attica riot of 1971, and exemplified by such novels as Slammer, this awakening is not only one of interest but also one of conscience. Is there life behind bars? Maybe, but with the aching loneliness, the brutality and the sexual perversion that are too often behind prison walls, it is easy to wonder if prisoners are not one step away from being "the living dead.'' John Cheever's Falconer, a powerful examination of life, or the lack of it, behind prison bars, is not just another prison novel, not just another plea for penal reform. It is a highly readable book that is profoundly depressing in many places, and yet has a happy ending. FALCONER IS THE HUGE PRISON where the story takes place. The world of Falconer and to the prisoners, needless to sav it _ ? - / ' *v seems indeed a real world, all to itself and all that they ever see hangs over the heads of its inmates like a dark, sordid, dehumanizing cloud. Within its walls homosexuality abounds, brutal guards intimidate rebellious prisoners with threats of water hoses, and even time becomes an enemy of sorts, as the monotony of prison life makes JLJ.UIA/UI lie PARKLAND PLAZA M ;*'v I . - E: Spi s y vv.'S N ^ MARCH I Junior Tops Usually $8 to 3 ... ' i cxcinng Spring ; $5.88 Junior Nomebit Slacks Usually $ 18 to $: $19 Aft Junior Dresses Exciting Spring Sale USE YOUR BELK CHARGE, templifies ! >n^estyle| j THf OUtSTANDING ^ B?.S VSt I =. i H H v JnhnGher > anybody a little crazy over a long period of time. The inmates are pathetic. Those with long prison terms are usually forgotten by their friends and relatives after a period of time. One of the prisoners says it all when he declares, "I'm the next thing to dead. I ain't got no future'' ? not while he's in prison, at least. Into this inhuman world Ezekiel Farragut, a bisexual college professor who has been convicted of murdering his brother and who is enthralled by his heroin See FALCONER, page 29 _ I OPEN i FRIDAY NITES TIL 9:00 ^citing ing iale 9 THROUGH 18 nd A) M j 1 / $16.88 MASTERCHARGE or VISA