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Dickey, Kuh
By Chris Handal
A book review.
Usually it helps a person decide whethe
not he wants to read a book.
But for photographer Sharon Kuhn
book review caused her to make her <
book.
"I HAD read (James) Dickey's poems
review...and I kept seeing my photos
read his poetry," Kuhne said. "I felt tl
was a real connection."
She wrote to Dickey, USC Poei
Residence, telling him of her idea to coml
his poetry with her photographs. She
sent him 20 slides of her work.
Dickey said, "The letters were so
suasive that I knew I could not possiblj
wrong in considering it as a possible proj
It was worth doing."
The project resulted in the book "Inte
Sions: Poems and Photographs."
"I THINK a collection like this is es
tial," Dickey said. In Dickey's words,
collection combines the visual and verbal
am quite pleased to have this book in
world."
"I think the forms work well togeth<
Kuhne said, adding that she vi
photograghs as narratives.
Dickey described her photos as both a i
rative and a mystery. "That's the eleme
saw in Jim Dickey's poems," she said.
"It was an immediate reaction," Ku
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Soap opera
By Leslie Dunsen
A monumental event is scheduled to
take place Friday at Scarlett's
Restaurant in the Holiday Inn City
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The wedding will take place in the
t daytime melodrama "The Lunch of
Our Lives."
Wanda Hite, co-writer of the
melodrama said Friday's show is the
final performance, at least
temporarily.
"This episode is our big one. Barnabas
Stetson and Miriam McMaster,
and Marcus Sweeney III and Lily
LaLewd are getting married in the
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Movie insult
By Robert O'Connor
High school nonor student oy ciay. i
- night. Does this film truly exist?
Unfortunately for everyone, "Angel1
goes beyond inanity and exploitation. Ii
telligence as well as a complete fabricat
Written and directed by Robert O'h
even be treated as a comedy, let alone a
drama. ,
The plot of this New Worlds Pictur
holes and unexplained facets, it is 3s i
joyride of varied storylines and theme
Donna Wilkes portrays the title_cha
emotional limpness associated with fello
Her performance is as ridiculous as th
comes dangerously close to being an
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;rvisaid.
"I kept seeing images I was ver>
familiar with. The poems were a confirma
sen- tion of my vision...that these visions were
the perhaps uniform."
. "I
the THE JOB of putting together the book
was Kuhne's. Using 10 previously published
;r," poems Dickey wrote between 1957 and 1967,
ews Kuhne added 25 of her photograghs.
nar- Kuhne said she used her intuition tc
nt I choose the photographs. "I already had the
photographs on hand," she said. "It was
ihne really a matter of pulling them out of m>
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gears up for t:
double ceremony. It's going to be popul;
great," Hite said. she sa
She said although this is the last per- "W
formance of The Passion Players in as it d
"The Lunch of Our Lives," it is possi- "Th
ble the soap opera will return. we wil
"We're not saying that we're not we've
coming back, but the cast is taking want I
April off to decide what direction we come i
warn to move in now that we've wc
become established. We've even en
discussed the possibility of a new Frid
series," she said. to be ?
"The Lunch of Our Lives" began its minut<
run Feb. 3 as South Carolina's first receiv<
live soap opera staged in a restaurant. show,
Since then, the soap has grown in and eh
s audience's inl
special. "Angel" is just a
Hollywood hooker by takes great pains in exploit
Angel's double life, whi<
" is a real movie that friends, is possibly the mos
t is an insult to the in- history.
ion of reality. 1 By day, the 16-year-old
leiil, "An&el" cannot nocence with a wardrobe :
serious or hard-edged hated by her school friem
thood." Once the sun disa
es Film has so many part of the Hollywood scu
f "Angel" goes on a Angel's life is so hysteri<
s to become logical. appreciate the true senility <
trader with the same some entertaining input pi;
>w actress Pia Zadora. but Susan Tyrrell and Cliff
e movie itself, which supportive counselor and p
R-rated afterschool - A murderer soon becom
linmenT
merpes photos,
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' files. It's really amazing how certain photos
of Jim's work with my photos."
Kuhne also made the decision to print the
pictures in duotones. "Duotones give a
richer application of ink so it's better for the .
photographs.
I "They are printed in peach and copper inks...I
wanted to keep a certain delicacy in the
pictures," she said.
> THE PEACH and copper inks not only
; give the pictures a "certain delicacy," but
; also add a timeless quality to the
photographs. The photographs resemble the
^ Autho
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By Chris Handal
USC students
respected literar;
iP?^ Robert Fitzge
Odyssey" and 4
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^ / Hall Auditoriun
K? tm* w attenc
English faculty I
Encouraged it
ESssgfc f k Eliot, Fitzgerald
1?^ % vard. There he si
Wf collaborated on
$ti[& & ^ "Oedipus Rex."
The collabors
lyricism has proc
h Meadows. vUaK.y and SUP<
But Fitzgerak
mm mm translations of h
hq finish
a "mactprnipr
arity, much to Hite's surprise, obsolete, there v
our generation ?
e never expected it to run as well ^}e ^or>
id," she said. merits of Fitzge.
lere is always the possibility that dignity, his mo
II return with the show because
had too many people saying they , . New
to see more. We've had people ren er,nR l^at P
every Friday for two months, so
not definitely saying that this is itzgerald s
d? Hitesaid. ,.n.lh5.1,t5rary *
Virgil's tamous
lay's performance is scheduled strictly speakin
a double episode, running for 40 recapturing of i
es. For $5, (he audience will Patricia Mats
; a light lunch and, after the course in Greek
will be treated to wedding cake spirit of Virgil v
lampagne. Showtime is at 12:05. Fitzgerald's c
volume of poeti
elligence, fabric:
mother film in which Hollywood web of events
ing itself. lifestyle. The cr;
:h is devoid of parents or sensible with a menacin]
t laughable plot insertion in movie and a passion f<
By the time t
Angel completes her outward in- obsessed with k
suitable for a third-grader. She is has been a victi
is because of her fictional "sain- Gorman's help,
ppears, Angel becomes an integral obvious solutioi
m with her prostitution. "Dramatic" !
-ally ridiculous, one almost has to killer bv roamii
3f the storyline. Dick Shawn offers homework betv
aying Angel's transvestite-mentor, the depths of d
Gorman are dreadful as the overly If one is foo
>olice detective. forever be etch(
es entangled in the undecipherable movie of all tir
poems
kind one might find in his grandmother's j.
attic. [
Dickev said he would be haDDV if reoole I
had this impression after looking at the j
book. ^
"1 collect old clothes," Kuhne said.
have trouble connecting with polyester suits.
A. lot of the suits (that appear in the book)
arc in memory of my grandmother."
Dickey was so pleased with the outcome of
this Droiect he said to Kuhne: "Please don't
do anymore with poets, I want them
(Kuhne's photos) all with my work."
THOUGH NO definite plans have been
made, Dickey said he wants to do another
book with Kuhne. But until their next collaboration,
both have enough to keep busy.
"I'm involved in a number of thingsJfc
Kuhne said. "I do black and white prints ana
hand color them." She said she exhibits these
works all over the world.
"I have also formed a publishing company
and I'm working with that," she said. Her
company published "Intervisions" and was
formed primarily to allow her to control her
work.
She also said she wants to publish some
limited edition handbound books.
DICKEY SAID he is involved with almost
everything: poetry, writing a novel, doing a
documentary for NBC, a children's book
and writing introductions for reprints of his
poetry.
r to appear
tograph party
will have a chance to meet one of the most
y translators today.
raid, who has translated "The Iliac'," "The
'The Aeneid," is the third guest of the USC ,
Series and will appear at 8 p.m. in Gambrell
1 an autograph party from 3 to 4 p.m. in the
lounge in the Welsh Humanities Building.
i his early career by Vachel Lindsay and T.S.
I began writing poetry while attending Harludied
under Dudley Fitts, with whom he later
translations of Euripides' "Alcestis," and
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ition, combining Fitts' wit and Fitzgerald's
iuced translations hailed for their naturalness,
:rb lyrics.
i's reputation has been largely built on his
lomer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey," and Virgil'^
aised his 1961 translation of "The Odyssey,"
e... Fitzgerald makes them (other translations)
/ill not be another 'Odyssey' as good as this in
md possibly not for several generations."
k Times Book Review said: "One of the great
aid's book is its rendering of Homer's heroic
ral force and his religous spirit ? and this
narrative, clarity and action."
x/ i : j. h a r* a
/ orKtr saiu: /a poci j> iiiic coiueiiiporary
asses the test of being read aloud."
983 translation of "The Aeneid" caused a stir
'orld. Time said: "Fitzgerald's rendition of
introduction may offend purists. It is noA
g, literal, but something more than that: zr
mplicit meanings in explicit terms."
en, a foreign language professor who teaches a
: and Latin literature, said: "He captures the
'Orv W(*ll I think hp\ pmnathefir with Viri'il "
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rareer has spanned nearly 50 years. His first
ry was published in 1935.
ates reality
surrounding Angel's rather unconventional
azed man is a stereotypical triumph, complete
g motel room, Oedipus complex, necrophilia^
Dr stabbing Angel's co-workers and friends. ^
he killer, who never utters a word, becomes
illing Angel, it seems as if half of Hollywood
m of this man s murderous tendencies. With
Angel begins a revenge campaign that has an
n.
scenes, such as when Angel decides to stalk the
:ig the town with a gun or when she does her
/een "customers," will startle the viewer into
isbelief.
lish enough to see "Angel," one question will
jd into memory. Is there an award for the wor.^t
ne? ^