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UNIVERSITY PRESS
The State of the Arts
September 27, 1989
Page 3
Chinese performance:
a cultural adventure
^ An adventure in Chinese opera,
dance, song and painting awaits
ithose who decide to attend the
Chinese Youth Goodwill Mission’s
“performance at 7 tonight in the
JSetzer Student Center Ballroom.
The youth offer a variety of perfor-
dinances, including court dancing,
tfolk songs, Chinese opera and a
demonstration of literary and mar-
itial arts skills.
The program consists of Music
‘and Dance at the T’ang Palace, Fet-
ching the Jade Bracelet, An En-
counter with Chinese Poetry and
-Paintings, Stories of Hainan Island
,and Swallow. After an intermission
is Grandpa’s Childhood, Advent of
^Spring in the Steppe, Scarecrow,
Love Songs of the Tien River and
'“Reach out to the World.”
^ The last part of the program is the
youth extending goodwill and friend-
iship all over the world.
Fetching the Jade Bracelet is a
‘modification of a pantomimic act in
^Chinese opera, telling a romance set
in the Ming Dynasty.
Four stories are told in dance dur-
ing the Stories of Hainan Island that
depict the life of the Li ethnic group.
These include the Hunters’ Dance,
Wine Dance, Moonlight Dance and
Trench Fire Dance.
The Chinese Youth Goodwill Mis-
sion consists of university students
who travel from the Republic of
China on Taiwan. There are four
missions touring this year, two in the
United States, one in Europe and the
Middle East and one in the Asia-
Pacific area.
This is the first time the group has
come to this area, and it is making
only two other stops in Texas.
Also today, from 9 a.m. until 5
p.m., a Chinese exhibition and slide
show are on view in 104 and 125
Setzer Student Center.
The presentations will show
Chinese Culture and Chinese
Festivals in Taiwan. On display are
copper art, china and wood
caricatures, as well as a lion’s head
that is used in celebrations to bring
good luck.
‘Sea of Love’
Better watching’film
than premiere week
. By Deldre Moore-Murley
UP senior staff writer
“Sea of Love”
Director Harold Becker
Rated R
“Come with me, my love, to the
sea, the sea of love, I want to tell you
just how much I love you.”
It’s a great song, at least in small
doses, but the use of this song to key
the tide of the movie to the story plot
is a bit too much. This has to be the
movie that is voted the least likely to
have an original soundtrack.
Besides the droning of this song,
the movie does have more to offer.
Frank and Sherman take out an ad
in the personal column to catch their
killer. Of course, this includes win-
ing and dining an odd assortment of
women.
Enter Ellen Barkin who plays
Helen Cruger. Frank meets her div-
ing one of his “dates.” From this
point on it is implied through some
very steamy love scenes that Helen
likes kinky sex.
Is it Helen? Do her exotic habits
include killing her lovers?
This is the premise of the film.
But, the suspense and build-up are
not enough to get the viewer to the
edge of his seat.
CinemaCritique
Journey into color, mind shown in paintings
*By Craig Clark
UP staff writer
* The latest works of Jerry Newman
>are an exciting journey into color
and the mind of the artist.
^ Newman, professor of fine art,
* completed the oil paintings and
acrylics on paper during the past 12
'months. The works are on display at
4the Art Museum of Southeast Texas.
Two refreshingly different facets
wf the man behind the paint are on
display.
' Newman uses rich, vibrant colors
,in an impressionist manner to
describe the abstract images he
<finds in the flowers, birds and land-
escape of his favorite subject, nature.
“I’m a colorist,” Newman said. “I
^strive to achieve a degree of
mystery in my work through the use
“of color.
* “People ask me how I get the col-
ors that I do'” he said. “I layer three
or four different combinations of
paint and then use the experience of
25 years of painting and teaching to
blend the pigments on the canvas to
a critical point.”
“Window Garden,” a 5-by-16 oil
painting of a fragrant window of
flowers, welcomes one into the
inner-most gallery.
The painting has a soft, sensual air
which puts the viewer at ease.
Newman uses the entire surface of
the canvas to create the illusion of a
sonorous rainbow of colors that
blossoms into a robust floral-scape
of burgeoning life.
The plants seem to grow out from
and back into the canvas.
“Flamingo Club” looks like the ar-
tist is primarily concerned or
fascinated by the basic shape of the
flamingo.
However, the painting can be con-
sidered the quintessential example
.±r*f
Fun Time Coming Up!
October 3-7
Tues., Oct. 3 & Wed., Oct. 4
1989 Homecoming Queen and King
elections
Thurs., Oct. 5, 8 p.m.
Lecture by “G. GORDON LIDDY”
Fri., Oct. 6
is Warn - 4pm: “Music Video Tracks ” -
make your own music video (SSC
Lounge)
^ 12noon: Presentation of the Home-
coming Court (SSC Arbor)
is6pm: Meet for FREE Food & Drinks
before the Bonfire - then join the
Caravan to the Bonfire (SSC Patio)
is 8:30pm: Bonfire & Rally (corner
University & Cardinal Dr.)
is 9:30pm: The Comedy & Magic of
BOB GARNER (SSC Perch)
Sat., Oct. 7
is 7am: Homecoming 5K & 1 mile FUN
RUN, Montague Center (T-shirt included
in registration)
t^llam: Second Annual Student/Alumni
Homecoming Picnic (Quadrangle)
ts 2pm: Cardinals vs. Arkansas State
and crowning of Homecoming King &
Queen
All events sponsored by the Homecoming
Committee, Setzer Student Center Council
of the manner in which Newman
paints.
Newman considers the painting to
be his best yet. “In that particular
painting, the image emerges out of
the activity on the canvas,”
Newman said.
The second side of the artist is
seen in his “mind-scapes.”
The paintings require more of the
viewer in that one quickly searches,
in vain, for the clarifying realistic
imagery that is often characteristic
of Newman’s work.
These paintings do not offer that
type of sanctuary. They are a visual
inquiry into the human psyche, the
mind of the artist.
The viewer finds himself probing
his own consciousness in an attempt
to put meaning to the work. The
work demands an active intellectual
response.
Once again, Newman uses color
and shape as a means of exploring
and describing his subject, a subject
that came from the landscapes he
has been doing.
“These paintings came from my
own mind,” Newman said. “I
started doing work like them 13
years ago as I was working on my
landscapes.”
The paintings are part of the wortc
ethic which drives the artist to paint
12 hours a day seven days a week.
“I’m moving constantly; I don’t
want to be a dead-from-the-neck-up
artist,” said Newman. “If you’re not
moving, you’re dead. They just
haven’t laid you down and kicked
dirt in your face yet.”
The show will be on display at The
Art Musuem of Southeast Texas, 500
Main St., Beaumont, until Oct. 29.
A1 Pacino stars as Frank Keller, a
Manhattan city cop who has passed
his 20th year of service to the police
force.
Frank, a homicide investigator, is
touted as being an effective officer,
but his 20 years of service has put
him in a mid-life crisis. It does not
help things by having his ex-wife
married to a fellow police officer in
his department.
Enter the female sex-killer. All
evidence indicates that three men
who have been killed recently were
murdered by a woman who read
their ads placed in the personal col-
umn of a New York newspaper.
Since one of the killings took place
in Brooklyn, Frank is being assisted
by Sherman from the Brooklyn
Police Department. Sherman is
played by John Goodman, who stars
in Roseanne Barr’s sitcom this fall.
It is the typical A1 Pacino film; he
is an unhappy man facing an unhap-
py life.
Unfortunately, the talents of both
Barkin and Pacino are wasted on
this movie. John Goofiman plays his
usual typecast character of the hap-
py fat man putting in his usual
uninspiring performance.
The screenplay, written by
Richard Price, is not substantial
enough to hold water. This leaves
the major characters to try to glue it
together, and, unbelievably, they
manage quite well.
Though I have painted it in a
somewhat glum light, seeing the
“Sea of Love” is not a bad way to
spend two hours, and it’s much bet-
ter than the premiere week chi TV.
“Sea of Love” is being shown at
Parkdale Cinema. Admission [nice
is $4.50.
The Life of The Party
is Death on The Road
Please don’t drink and drive
SETZER STUDENT CENTER COUNCIL
...music to soothe the wild fish...
MBACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!!!
Tomorrow - 12:30pm
Setzer Student Center Arbor
SSCC POSITIONS OPEN
Two positions are available on the
Setzer Student Center Council...
♦Concert Chair
♦Performing Arts Chair
If you are interested, call ext.8734
or stop by Room 200 SSC. Ask for Dan,
Alan or Billye
1
■ The Setzer Student Center Council
of Lamar University, Beaumont
requests the honor of your presence
at a
Lecture by
** ■ G. Gordon Liddy
‘‘What Goes on
Inside Government’
Mr. Liddy will appear
Thursday, the fifth of October
Nineteen Hundred and eighty-nine
at eight o’clock in the evening
Setzer Student Center Ballroom
DAVE
He’s GUILTY...
JR Guilty of Entertainment
RUDOLF
Tomorrow - 9pm
Perch
Comedy that captivates the audience with
disarming wit along with musical abilities
both polished and unique.
^Homecoming, October 3-5
^Homecoming, October 3-5
^Homecoming, October 3-5
^Homecoming, October 3-5
^Homecoming, October 3-5
^Homecoming, October 3 - 5
^Homecoming, October 3-5
GO BIG RED!
Monday Night FOOTBALL
is happening at the Perch.
Bring your friends and enjoy
. a relaxed evening.
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Murley, Bryan. University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 9, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 27, 1989, newspaper, September 27, 1989; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth499824/m1/3/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.