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WHAT SUP Guide to Arts & Ente
CONCERTS
Dead Eye Dick play Rockafellas'
Sunday, Nov. 13, and Antbed will <
play Nov. 14. \
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sent concerts a Northeast i
Presbyterian Church, 601 Polo Rd.
Sunday at 7:30 p.m. and at
Shandon Methodist Church, 3407
Devine St. on Nov. 16 at 6:15.
The USC Symphony Orchestra will
perform their fall concert at 7:30
p.m., Nov. 17 at the Koger Center.
LECTURE
The Honors College is hosting "An
Evening on Lake Baikal" at 7:30
p.m. today, in the Gressette Room
(3rd floor of Harper).
Paleontologist Dr. John R. Homer,
the model for the hero of Jurassic '
Park, will speak and sign copies of
his books on Saturday at the South
Carolina State Museum.
Libby Larsen, one of America's foremost
composer, will give a public
lecture at 1:30 p.m., Nov. 16 in
Fraser Hall in USC's School of
Music. Her lecture will feature discussions
about her compositions
and the art of music writing. After
the lecture, Larsen will visit with
USC music students to provide critique
and commentary of their compositions.
Rainforest Conservation and the
Search for New Jungle Medicines"
will be presented by Mark Plotkin,
author of Tales of a Shaman's
Apprentice," Monday, Nov. 21 at 6
p.m. in the USC Law School auditorium.
MOVIES
Nickelodeon theatre presents
"Southern Circuit" featuring filmmaker
Allie Light in person, 8 p.m.,
Tuesday, November 15th.
MUSEUMS / GALLERIES
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show opened Nov. 6. The exhibit
will feature approximately 40 recent
works in a variety of media, inducing
paintings, drawings, mixed
media, printmaking, photography,
watercolors, jewelry and sculpture.
The exhibit will run through Feb. 12,
1995.
ON CAMPUS
Tigerbum- USC vs. Clemson pep
rally at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 17 in P.E.
Field A.
PLANETARIUM
"Season of Light" at the Gibbes
Planetarium opens Saturday. The
show begins with the winter solstice
and examines how ancient cultures
celebrated this dark time with their
warmest and brightest holidays of
the year.
POETRY READING
The third annual Benefit Poetry
Reading featuring poets with local
roots will be held at the Nickelodeon
Theater 7 p.m. Nov. 16.
THEATER
Chapin Community Theatre
"Say It Ain't So, Pharaoh!" opened
Oct. 13. All performances are at 8
p.m. and are: Oct. 27-29, November
3-5 and November 10-12.
The We're Not Your Mother Players
will have a special performance at
Benson Theatre at 11 p.m.
Saturday. Bryan Mahames will also
perform his original one-act "A Poet
Named Raisin Head" and play the
sitar.
Drayton Hall
Theatre USC will present "Eastern
Standard" Nov. 17- Dec. 2.
WORKSHOPS
Irina Kolpakova will lead a classical
ballet workshop on Nov. 18-20. This
is the first of a guest artist series by
the USC Department of Theatre,
Speech and Dance.
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BRUT KIRSZENBAUM Staff Writer
Halloween treats plus upcoming Thanks
dinner added to the quickly approaching (
mas season equals many unwanted poun
The famous "Freshman 15" could be r
named the "Fall 50."
While treks to the Business Administr
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exercise for some, other students want mo
Fortunately, USC has several close, in
pensive and easily accessible solutions to t
hefty problem.
The closest is the Sol Blatt Physical Edi
tion center located on campus. "The P.E. (
ter has 27 classes of aerobics a week," Office i
ager of Campus Recreation Abbie Brummetl
"There is low impact, high impact, step ai
body sculpting."
Students pay a $10 fee for unlimited c
one semester. The instructors are certifiei
classes are co-ed. In addition to aerobics, tl
stairmaster, stationary bikes, nautilus equi
to students.
Not far from campus is Harden Street
cated. The Firm offers aerobic workouts w
fee for newcomers, and each individual cla
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FRANKENSTEIN
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"Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" is
a film about striking a balance between
scientific possibilities and the ethical
ramifications of violating nature's laws.
Director Kenneth Branagh ("Much
Ado About Nothing," "Dead Again") is
so delightfully clever with camera techniques
as he captures the visual splendor
of late 18th century Geneva that
he often forgets to strike his own delicate
balance between his soul as a
filmmaker and the heart of the story
he is telling.
The film touches on the moral dilemma
of human beings creating artificial
life forms. Then it jumps to a concept
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emotional origin. And the film also
touches on issues ranging from family
commitments to the limits of love.
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mains virtually intact, augmented by
a more svmnathetic and accessible
hero. Victor Frankenstein, played by
Branagh, is deeply affected by his
mother's death and vows that he will
find a way so people will not have to
die. He briefly leaves his bride-to-be,
Elizabeth, (Helena Bonham-Carter of
"Hamlet") so he can study at a medical
university. His admiration of fanatical
alchemists leads him to discover
a way he can create a man out
of raw human remains by using electricity
to shock them back to life.
His creation is a hideous monster
(Robert De Niro of "Cape Fear") combined
by the brain of a scientist with
other random body parts supplied by
the morgue. Victor's subsequent abandonment
of his creation marks the beginning
of an epic struggle. On the
line for Victor is his future with Elizabeth,
his life and his soul.
As Victor ventures into the unknown
and searches for the mysteries
of life, the monster begins a quest
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Students have several options when it
campus or on, exercise is a solution to the
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Niro, the creature is a sympathetic
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the stitched head, heavy makeup and
body suit, De Niro understands his
character and gets a lot of mileage out
of playing the creature as if he were
an abandoned child. De Niro's intensity
allows him to convey rage and
love.
The pitiful, strong creature wanders
through the wilderness and learns
to talk by eavesdropping on a family
and recalling memories triggered in
his recycled brain. When he overhears
the words "friend," "family" and "father,"
he makes a realization about
his connection to Victor. He holds Victor's
diary close to him and later tracks
down his father in search of the truth.
De Niro portrays the creature as a
good-natured being corrupted by society's
hatred.
Helena Bonham Carter provides
a splendid performance as Elizabeth,
who is caught between Victor's pas
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more weights and fast and light classture
more aerobic activity. In addition
ses, The Firm has a weight gym. The
lse of the gym is $10. Both the classes
i at the Firm are co-ed.
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it and the YMCA.
mbership is $177 a year, which can be
- broken up monthly payments," Cheiyl
\quatic Director for the YMCA, said,
rship is for unlimited use of the free
ck and swimming pool at the YMCA.
irobic classes offered, also,
classes run 6-7 weeks, and cost from
p classes meet eveiy day, while the high
times a week.
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dilemma of fall fat attacks.
man nature
sion for life and for his work. Elizabeth
gives a moving speech about keeping
promises and becomes a symbol
of hope that Victor will retreat from
his unnatural actions in favor of an
idyllic lifestyle with her. Carter is a
natural in the role, exnressincr iov and
fury with equal conviction.
Branagh as director uses a joyous
bobbing camera to show happiness in
a splendid dance sequence and exciting
conversations about discovery. He
also uses a quick jerky camera movement
during suspenseful sequences.
These frightening moments are intense
and uncompromising.
"Mary Shelley's Frankenstein"
yields enough ideas for two or three
movies. Branagh is nothing if not an
ambitious director. Like the somewhat
mad scientist he portrays in the film,
Branagh supplies the viewers with
too much stimulation without stopping
to examine the consequences of
his actions.
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