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iu ucioDer tu, iaoj, bamecocK ....... 1 Hospitality, fun hi By Julie Jameson ''Surround yourself with peaceful people." So read my tortune cookie Thursday night at the Chinese Banquet and Performance held in the Russell House Ballroom. The short ditty could not have been more appropriate for the event sponsored by the Chinese Student || Association, filled with warm hospitality and spontaneous fun. The "American C.iinese cuisine" banquet, which consisted of spring rolls, sweet and sour pork and rice cakes, was devoured by Chinese and American students, American hosts and professors. : AFTER THE oriental feast, five Chinese students, Yi-Wu if Chang, Ly-Ching Chen, Chee Ching, An Kuo and Mei-Chu Tang, donned modern Chinese attire in a fashion show. A group demonstrating the Traditional Mountain People danced energetically, similarly to the American Indian llUUpictv>. Expressing the ethereal aspect of their culture, Ya-Ping P. \} Hwang painted China's symbolic bamboo stem on stage while Jui-Wen Chen played "Swallow" on the Chinese Hu, an in strument similar to a small lap violin. "Spring on the Mt. || Young-Ming" was played on the Chinese wooden flute by || Cha-Chung Lee, creating a sound much like the natural pitches of a swallow. Chyi Jair Lee played a rapid crescendo on tne hu mucn iikc a horse ganoping caned "Horse Race.'' A classical Chinese drama called the White Snake Tale was 9 highlighted by some impromptu humor from emcee, Tim J Chiang. THE BRILLIANT lion dance with coruscating reds, blues jjl and shimmering gold capped off the event. Lih-Yen Hsieh, 5 Sio-Keong Kong, In-Jen Lin and Shin-Yung Wang were the energetic life of the lion symbolic of Chinese festivity. From the fortune cookies to the lion, the event was a ge- ' nuine Chinese festival. New James Bond mo Kfl / mm ^ -i- ' jM sssm ^%- w-# ?r*3b H :.-I--I-;>-}I_"l ,'-T\I-;"".".v'.Z-^-.'^ JT- ''^-l^U. --i^-^CJ.i; -; ;|g^ *!9*w' * '8 jl ?T - ' - , - 1 - - - - " - IBM -- " - He'll gun you down everytime Sean Connery is back as agent 007 in "Never Say Never Again" direi ghlight Chinese I - jBPBp yr y ^ ^ '>v ^* raditional Mountain Dance Was only one of the performances the Chinese Student Association j vie spies new peak, By Richard Culbertson ^ "Never Say Never Again' James Bond film in 15 years. ? Director Irvin Kershner (' Strikes Back," "Up the San( rum Mam Man") and actor b ("The Wind and The Lion,' Who Would Be King," "Ou Ik returned to two key ingredient* "From Russia With Love": an i > \ proach and a concentration on c iWk gadgetry and special effects. The plot is based on the Ian F ^|IL "Thunderball." Producer Ja zman managed to keep rights tc 3V this story after lengthy litigati starts. In the updated scenaric steals two fully armed cruise holds the world for ransom. ||f TO PREVENT the weapondetonated in an American ci W African oilfield an annual tril payed to SPECTRE equal to ^ F* % ine world's yearly oil purchase: W&mXy^ZM since a change in British Int WmkmMfaJi I ministration, has to ferret out before the nations of the world Kershner's insistence on makin \ Ml operation of SPECTRIN on a AfT'"* W'~* contrasted with the cheapness ,.v. **' life ? but not too heavily, k v '& - "Never Say Never Again" pntprtainino o.wl 1 1 Bond, still exudes a catlike grac ;ted by Irvin Kershner. dark intelligence that allows hii film. banquet ;: ILk v *? ?* I k?j\ ,#' flj^MK /A * I [>? \ JCTB|n Vtf. Photo by Mary Ann Hoflis sponsored Thursday night at the Russell House Ballroom. best in 15 years Connery could carry a film, but here he ' is the best doesn't have to. He is capably backed by a slick cast. 'The Empire Klaus Maria Brandauer ("Mephisto") is ibox," "The Bond's adversary, Largo. Brandauer plays iean Connerv an atypical world-class troublemaker ' "The Man tland") have LARGO IS a villain who is affable, nor; absent since mally dressed, unaffected (no claws, metal ntelligent ap- teeth, or eyepatches) but possesses a constant :haracter, not and electric undercurrent of mentally unstable menace. Kershner's interest in character emerges in leming novel l^e quality of Brandauer's Largo: He is ck Schwart- carefully realized as a character, not an > a version of emblem, and he is more sympathetic and on and false complex than most of the foes Bond has fac), SPECTRE ed on fi,m missiles and Barbara Carrera and Kim Basinger are the two central women with whom Bond is in5 from being volved. Carrera is very good as Fatima ty or North Blush, a flamboyant, dark-haired assassin 5ute must be who tries to kill Bond. She is a beguiling 15 percent of blend of caprice and danger. Basinger is a >. misguided innocent (blonde of course), d to teaching Domino, who only sees Largo's true nature elligence ad- with Bond's help. the warheads Basinger is usually adequate but seems must agree to overpowered when on screen with cither Connery or Brandauer. am direction due in part to MAX VON Sydow is good in his brief apg this film as pearance as Blofeld, and Edward Fox is ; existed). He amusing as M. businesslike Bond's gadgets, while held to a minimum, large scale is lend nice support. Bond has a motorcycle, of individual supplied by Q (Alec McCowen), that makes rocket-assisted leaps, a laser in his watch and is fun and he rides a submarine-launched jet platform, lience a plea- The stunts and fights are of high quality, ctacle pattern ihner's direc- Douglas Slocombe's crisp photography mt entertains complements Kershner's direction. A standout sequence was shot inside a surreal villa in France. The underwater photography, by igent 007. He "Flipper" veteran Ricou Browning, is 1 ^^ ? " ii/wau I U15iip- DCaUllIUl. is also enter- Kershner has wisely avoided any middlei certain and age crises for James Bond. vhich he apmake the in- BOND HAS aged but appears as a figure done with it of stability amidst superfluous and better than sometimes ridiculous change (a health clinic i. featuring dandelion salad and herbal enemas). formance as Connery's Bond is a dependable fixture, :e and quick, and "Never Say Never Again" is a solid m to carry a return to intelligent humor, characters and entertainment.