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-entert [. -- -^'.Vv ~~ l--^- r_^_-;r:VT-? r The Numbers, a Charlc new things than the col Hptprti By Chris Handal He's tough and const Spenser, and he's the h< Place," a detective nove this genre should: it's humorous. "A Savage Place" is Parker novel, and this hired to protect a beaut She thinks she has uncc dustry ? enter Spenser t When Spenser arrives little more than a bodygi she explores the mob cor looms in the backgrou necessary and arguing u THIS ARRANGEMEI doesn't dominate the no\ mob mystery directly, \ his first-person narratioi On the novel's cover, 5 eye in fiction since Rayn interesting, this reader many respects, John E better and stronger char But Spenser does ha apparent being his wis conversations. At times to obscure Spenser, but b illuminate him. Spenser uses the wise< them to underestimate li Spenser, for whenever t! more than ready for the < LIKE ANY good det One exh From Staff Reports ONE EXHIBIT open! USC's McKissick Museu "Daufuskie Island," Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ai display until Nov. 28. 1 photographs by Larry Je This photograph is an e display i(i LArt-y Jernigan' exhibit <ha< close? Oct. 1 cxinment v,; :. m-: ^^MBh -;;~: f-S"2.-J".v.T>.i'l'.r -~/i2~i \r.r!l~'- [ZZyZ^-~-iZ.~-' %T-~iir H - - tT: ston based band, said USC audiences lege crowd in the coastal city. ve novel of antly spews one-liners. His name is ?ro of Robert B. Parker's "A Savage \1 fKnf Al L L? * 1 ^ -i uiai ucuvci a CAdCliy wnai a DOOK OI tight, hard, tc .se and occasionally ; Spenser's eighth appearance in a time the Boston-based detective is iful female reporter in Los Angeles, ivered mob activity in the movie ino protect her. in Los Angeles, he is assigned to be Liard for reporter Candy Sloan, while inection. He accepts this position and nd, offering advice to Sloan when 'ith her often. MT should not imply that Spenser rel. Although he is not unraveling the lie nrpconno rvnrtrnrlno 1 ..w. jy. pvi vaucs U1C 11UVC1 ciilU n whisks the book along. Jpenser is hailed as "the best private nond Chandler." Although Spenser is can't agree with the assessment. In >. MacDonald's Travis McGee is a acter than Parker's Spenser, ve memorable features, the most ;ecracks. He constantly parries in the remarks are irritating, seeming is "A Savage Place" progresses they tracks to put people at ease and get lim. It is a mistake to underestimate le time comes for action, Spenser is challenge. ective, Spenser has his own well I - iDit opens, a 5 and another closes this week at ms. an exhibition of photographs by she, opened yesterday and will be on The Insect World," a collection of migan, will close Oct. IN. !X?mp!^ of thn work on "The Insect World," an 8 at ftflcKissick Musqunis, seem more receptive to fers whai book i defined moral code. For S Falcon," the code required av regardless of his liking of thi vengeance. For Spenser, the anything he's ashamed to tell I Parker's writing in "A Sava detective novels, but it's noth with no excess description. At noticeably lacking. Often wh; overweight mob henchman in; These cliches do have an ai tured, and the novel is easier t< He was definitely fat, proba frame no more than five feet Alexeyev is fat too. The thoug was balding and he hadn't foi short, so that he seemed to Vandyke was black and so wearing a flowered shirt ant brown moccasins. The shirt hi to hide a gun. Or maybe he the Candy. Her face was frozen, i at Franco and was perfectly st IF PARKER'S writing doe annoying habit of musing ovei lonffpr part* U/hat V-Ionruinc Jn t --q ? - v If ?IMV HUppVlfO tV/ V the last thing bodies see before But this complaint is small, more than makes up for any detective novel fan not famili, must. For anyone not acquaii detective novel, "A Savage Pl< mother clo entertainm The opening of the Moutou with the release of a volume < Photographic Essay," publis Carolina Press. The book contains 65 photog coast and has a forward by v ("Roots"). Jernigan's exhibit features 3 set against a black backgroun< and design found in the individi All **? I - ? ? /\n ui uemigan s pnoiograpn Nikon camera; the insects wer McKissick hours are 9 a m Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sa Sunday. nr TODAY AT 5 p.m. is tht stagrafx/Columbia Museum c Project. Area artists are invited t complished work with color X are interested in the medium I a proposal of the work to be ur in written form with entry forn For more information on th Columbia Museums of Art an< up an application form at the rr * Now at the museum there if montages by James Edward display through Nov. 28. Having selected a building o it in a id-like "fashion, whi composition. 1'iie image.is jt6 machine that produces ihe fina waammmummmmmummmaammmmusm Charlestor original so By Robin J. Kline and Ellen E. M "If there's two people here play just as well." Frankie Carlier said Friday in the Gold It was a good attitude for guitarist and vocalist of The have ? as his group played handful of people Friday in the For the few who were lucky The Numbers, the Charlesto man group made it worth their THE NUMBERS ? Carl Brad Henty, keyboardist Ar drummer David Toma ? de sound as "a new style of 01 Henty said his mentors are St The Dregs arid free-lance g Johnson, while Toma said he Erskine, drummer for Weathe Whatever the group was pi playing it with vitality anc Friday. The group opened the an original tune, "Looking foi t book of review lam Spade in "The Maltese enging the death of his partner, it partner and the price of the code requires him to never do !iis girlfriend. ge Place" is above average for ing special. The prose is tight, times, however, description is at is described is cliched: the an untucked flower-print shirt, dvantage; they are easily picd visualize: bly two hundred and fifty on a nine. On the other hand Vasili ht was not comforting. Franco ught it. What was left was cut be balder than he was. The was the mustache. He was d green knit slacks and dark ing outside the pants. Probably >ught it was elegant. J looked at nifliniif PI I I * mutv/ui. U55lUfl. Ofitf lUUR^U ill. s have a flaw, it is Spenser's r dead bodies ? how bodies no hem, or what might have been i they die. and the tense, exciting climax defects in the prose. For any ar with Spenser, this book is a ited with the virtues of a good ice" is a good introduction. pno n+ M OCd CI L IVI Ul lent briefs ssamy-Ashe exhibit coincides mtitled, "Daufuskie Island: A hed by University of South raphs of the island off the S.C. yell-known author Alex Haley 3 color photographs of insects, i to accent the variety of color jal iasects. s were taken with a hand-held e alive and non-caotive. i fA A r\ nr? XfA^ ,L >. w -i j#.mi. ifiuuuity uiruugn turday, and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. in e deadline to enter the Ino sponsored Artist Fellowship o submit a selection of acerox. Or, for those artists who >ut have never worked with it, idertaken should be submitted i. e Fellowship Project, call the i Science at 799-2810, or pick luseum, 112 Bull St. > an exhibition of color Xerox s. The exhibition will be on r place, Edwards photographs ch. then is. assembled into a en placed ihtQ a* eotop Xerox l wofk. ' " " j." v j wmmmmmmmmmmmmmmamammmmm i-based ba mnd to sn cCarthy - Saturday Ni A/V/\ 111 1 * if. _ or z,uuu, wen lyrics rame "Fire Jack" noise. lenSpur. The set Carlier, bass songs, such Numbers, to and "Lady before only a the group i :Spur. good rhythr enough to see Jerry Reed n-based, four- The Num while. crowd as m Henty des< ier, guitarist 4,hipper...fc t Benton and Charleston, iscribed their more rece] iginal rock." simply trent eve Morris of [uitarist Eric FINANCI looks to Peter keeping the r Report. commented aying, it was andeventua 1 enthusiasm "The Nui first set with Henty said. ' the Heart of now or miss its genre UiM mms - - Spenser, a hard-nosed appearance in Robert B. Kissick M ALSO AT the Columbia Mu eighth annual Seibels-Bruce The show will be displayed tl Trustees Gallery. sponsored by the Seibels-Bi the competition's award wi winners who have portrayed South Carolina. n IN THE Columbia Museun Planetarium, "The Martian the fact and fiction of the "r< and Sundays through Nov. 21. Admission is $1.50 for adulU at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. n WATERCOLOK PAINTINC exhibited through Oct. 24 a Library, 1400 Sumter St. Jarrett's subjects are thing: home in the Dutch Fork are; windmill, baskets of apples some of her favorites. Her v with unusual use of color. Some of Jarrett's recent sh( Watercolor Society selectic i.Aiuuiuuu; a one person s Museum in St. Matthews, S.C. I,enox Square in Atlanta; am work at the Outdoor Arts and Mobile, Ala. Jarrett is also tr Society for 1982-83. The exhibit is open to the hours: 9-a:ii). Iq-9 p.ip. Mond p.m. Saturday,, and 2p.m. toT> ind brings nail crowd Iglll, UlipiCiMIVC 1U1 lid UlVCl^C r than simply loud, bang-it-outcontinued with other original i as "Queen of the Paperback" We Will Ride to Paradise." But eally won response with some n and blues, notably a gem of a tune. bers seemed to enjoy the small nrh as thp rrowH pninvpH thpm bribed the USC audience as tetter than the crowd in " He said students here seem ptive to different styles, not ds. ?S SEEM to be the only thing group within the region, as they that they would like to travel illv makp it fn Npw Vnrlr J " iibers are destined for fame," "You can either*jump on board the boat." i should detective, makes his eighth Parker's "A Savage Place." useums seums of Art and Science is the Watercolor Competition Show, irough Oct. 31 in the museum's *uce Co., the exhibition features nners and honorable mention I an actual scene or subject in ini 1 is of Art and Science's Gibbes Chronicles," an exploration of ;d planet," will play Saturdays > and $1 for children. Shows are 1 11 I IS by Judy B. Jarrett are being t the Iiichland County Public s she sees everyday around her j near Columbia: a weathered and long-neglected barns are vorks have a distinctive style, )ws and awards include the S.C. in for the 1982-83 Traveling how at the Calhoun County ; the Watercolor Invitational at i a jurors l ag for outstanding Crafts Fair at I^angau Park in easurer of the S.C. Watercolor public during regular library ay.through Friday, 9 a.m. to $ :30p.m. Sunday.