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Cultural: mark Ye: By KRIS TAYLOR Staff writer USC's Year of the Arts isn't over yet. The celebration, proclaimed by Gov. Carroll Campbell because of the abundance of cultural activities this year, began in early April with a performance by ballet great Rudolph Nureyev. It will end October 1989 with the first performance in renovated Drayton Hall, said Thomas Stepp, USC Year of the Arts Committee chairman. Stepp said the celebration was a system-wide event and would include all aspects of cultural talent. Columbia residents can expect a wide variety of theatrical productions, ranging from a late September musical adaption of George Orwell's Animal Farm to a late June performance of Shakespeare's As You Like It by the Shakespeare Theatre out of Washington, D.C. Musical performances will include concerts by USC faculty, presentations by the USC Symphonic Band, Chamber Orchestra and Wind Ensemble, and a concert by musical legend, Bob Dylan. The USC Dance Company will participate in March with its presentation of modern and classical dance. The McKissick Museum is also participating in the celebration by holding several exhibits. In December, it will display Linoleum Cuts by Pablo Picasso, which is "perhaps the first major Picasso exhibit ever in South Carolina," said Lynn Myers, McKissick Museum director. Paintings by Jasper Johns will be on display in April. Myers said, "I think Johns has a lot to say about contemporary living." McKissick will also host the annual USC Student Art Show in March and will present long-term exhibits year?S United W^u of the Midlands It brings out the best in all of us. "The United Way works 365 days a year, not just the day they take up the m0ney- /ps The United Way Is tt@) The Way Of Love. Iffr Thank you for giving. Again and again. GIVE BLOOD, PLEASE The Gamecock THE GAMECOCK is the student newspaper of the University of South Carolina and is published three times a week on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays during the fall and spring semesters and weekly on Wednesdays during both summer sessions, with the exception of university kni;^ovo and eYnmination Deriods. Opinions expressed in THE GAMECOCK are those of the editors and not those of the University of South Carolina. The Board of Student Publications and Communications is the publisher of THE GAMECOCK. The Student Media Department is the parent organization of THE GAMECOCK. Change of address forms, subscription requests and other correspondence should be sent to THE GAMECOCK, Box 85131, University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. 29208. Subscription rates are $18.00 for (1) year, $10.00 per fall or spring semester and $4.00 for both summer sessions. Third class postage paid at Columbia, S.C. THE GAMECOCK is a licensed student organization of the University of South Carolina and receives funding from student activity fees. activities ir of Arts round. Already on display and lasting until the summer 1989, are Above the Fall Line: Folk Art of the Southern Piedmont, Those Amazing Men and Their Flying Machines and Old Time Radio Broadcasts. Celebrating the arts in South Carolina means bringing the stars to South Carolina. The Year of the Arts has already brought actors Jimmy Stewart, Rob by Benson and Richard Thomas to Columbia. Thomas is expected to return this fall to lecture, and Benson is the artist-in-residence. Along with teaching a class in film making this fall, Benson will continue here in the spring semester to film Modern Love, a feature film he wrote himself. The highlight of the year-long celebration will be the opening of the Ira and Nancy Koger Center for the Performing Arts in January. The opening will begin a full schedule of world-class events to take place in Columbia, events which Myers thinks students should take advantage of. "Since the arts are a part of daily life, especially those in terms of design and intellectual concepts, the opportunities which the students will be given is an unusual chance to enrich themselves." life ssllpliii llliillis: ?ii "ifc::-. .' ?".,- -. GregF mr fm % * ?% - iB ip idiji# ^ HI Mi*. IBSk yM Bp \*mI fl/?L4/V SAULS/The Gamecock Guitarist Angus Young of AC/DC, hair and fingers flying, jams with the guys in the band. AC/DC was in Columbia Friday night performing at Carolina Coliseum. 441 don't1 a lot of I just w someth can coi J|| i|lP^ ik ISl l||k P?E 111 .;....;.:-:i8^^^P^pv _.;$$$& *$ &r JjiRV I | s "... ;<^>:^ . xX''" jgif^,,, HK, ^^ ^^Skks^fe' ,.'< _. x V. 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The set was full of songs about hot chicks who fall in love and break hearts. There was just no inspiration there ? why should there be? The band had played these songs, this way, in this order, almost every night of the past three months. They could do it in their sleep now. AC/DC, on the other hand, follows no rules except the "louder is want hype. ant T ingi int on.^ YTAJL^ pendab That's ji you chc Service, than yo low Ion) operato nection for wroi assuran your ca first tim the AT& Networ W forget tl the inte about o like Int( them 1 800 2; till knows ck-n-roll better" creed it has lived by for so long. Their style of music is more rock 'n' roll than heavy metal. That is, they have more in common with the Rolling Stones than Def Leppard. The songs are built on blues-based riffs instead of super-techno reproductions scales. The boys in the band wear blue jeans and T-shirts, except guitarist Angus Young, a c r A Li _r j i i*i_ j-iuui uiur 01 energy uresseu hkc an English schoolboy. 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