Page 8 - Thursday,October 29, 1998 - The Behrcnd College Beacon
Website of the week
By Jon Stubbs
features editor
Many students probably
already know what an .mp 3 file
is. It’s a digital music file that is
about 4 or 5 megabytes in size that
contains an entire song. These
files are played with a program
called Winamp, which can be
downloaded from
www.winamp.com.
The best place to find
these .mp3s on the web is at a site
called www.palavista.com.
Palavista is a search engine that
combines ten or so smaller search
engines into one big one. Alto
gether, the site can search over a
hundred different ftp sites very
ACROSS
Moves up and
down
Well-grounded
Schedule abbr.
Skip
Walk of life
Old card game
Do it alone
Unproved
statement
'0 Like some shirts
!2 Tear
!3 Some rapiers
4 "Rebel Without a
Cause” co-star
5 Gray shade
8 Miss a step
9 Cheers
1 Abrupt transitions
3 Word before bag
or beetle
4 Get out of bed
6 Rummy
1 Actress Sorvino
0 Dealt in used
goods
2 Mortise insertion
3 Take flight
5 Female sheep
7 Obtain
8 Bishops of Rome
9 Entanglement
1 False
mannerisms
2 Within reach
7 School settings
9 Scottish
Highlander
) You there!
I Babbling bird
l Seth’s son
J Wood and Wynn
t Doubleday and
others
> M. Descartes
11
14
15
16
DOWN
Type of pear
Melville novel
List of charges
Snatched
800 shouter
Loftier
City on the
Rhone
Hive population
quickly. Just about any song on<
is looking for can be found ai
Palavista. Newer releases seem
to be easier to find, however.
Now to remain legal, the
downloader must delete the .mp 3
file within 24 hours to comply
with recently instated copyright
laws. However, this is all on the
honor system, because no one can
really tell how long you are go
ing to keep the file. There is no
cost to download songs, and even
though one is encouraged to pur
chase the registered edition of
Winamp, the program never ex
pires. So, pretty much, one can
have access to an unlimited
amount of music for absolutely
nothing, provided they have ad
equate space on their hard drive.
© 1998 Tribune Media Services, Inc.
All rights reserved.
9 Table supports
10 Period
11 Estranging
12 Andy of "60
Minutes”
13 Repetitious
musical themes
19 Roman galley
21 Mimics
24 Floor-cleaning
implement
25 Martino and
Pacino
26 Matched
collection
27 Do holders
29 Is down with
30 Bauxite or galena
32 March forth
33 Cow’s chew
35 Abel to Adam
36 Over the hill
38 Lobster eggs
39 Picnic pest
41 Distress letters
42 Fork-tailed
seabird
43 Southwest
tribesman
44 Seethed
45 Fill with love
46 Belt locations
49 Main Street
structure
Pleasantville:
than just pleasant
By Jon Stubbs
features editor
Finally moviegoers have an
other Oscar contender to go see in the
theaters besides Saving Private Ryan.
Pleasantville. the new release written,
directed and produced by Gary Ross,
proves to be more than just pleasant.
It is a masterpiece fantasy that exam
ines humanity's conceptions of moral
ity, hate and discovering one’s true
identity.
Tobey Maguire stars as
David, a 90s student who hasn’t quite
vet broken into the popularity ring at
his high school: he spends his Friday
nights watching the 'sos sitcom
Pleasantville, which is almost identi
cal to Leave it to Beaver. As he makes
preparations to watch the Pleasantville
marathon one particular evening,
David and his Miss Popularity sister,
Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon) find
themselves trapped inside the black
and white world of Pleasantville. Much
to David's delight and much to
Jennifer's horror, they discover that
they are playing the parts of Bud and
Mary Sue Parker, the son and daugh
ter of Oz/.ie and Harriet clones George
(William H. Macy) and Betty (Joan
Allen).
In Pleasantville there’s no
crime, dinner is always on the table as
soon as one comes home to their dot
ing housewife, and nobody even
knows what sex is. David is quick to
observe that his and especially
Jennifer’s ’9os attitudes aren’t compat
ible with this blissful, conservative
town. So he tries to keep his own as
well as his sister’s comparatively lib
eral views at bay as long as possible.
However, the blandness of
Pleasantville soon gets under their skin
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Lacerated
Cause of ruin
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Otherwise
Healing waters
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and they unwittingly begin to introduce
new ideas and concepts to the denizens
of this quaint little town. As the people
are educated and liberated, they begin
to develop the one thing that
Pleasantville has never had: color.
It’s not hard to find connec
tions between the revolution that is
happening in Pleasantville and various
other uprisings and governmental
quashings that have taken place in his
tory. Whether Mr. Ross did it deliber
ately or not, criticism of historical
events such as the Chinese Cultural
Revolution, Communism and racism in
general can be easily spotted in the
film.
Jeff Daniels, who stars as Mr.
Johnson the malt shop owner, manages
to be amusing and powerful simulta
neously. Joan Allen, who plays Betty,
does a wonderful interpretation of a
woman who is caught between her own
liberation and her duties as a wife and
mother.
Gary Ross is a brilliant writer
as well as a brilliant director. After
watching a black and white film for
about thirty minutes, the way Ross re
introduces color to the audience is
spectacular. The viewer almost feels as
if she is seeing color for the first time.
Pleasantville will make people appre
ciate their own lives, the opportunities
they have, as well as themselves. How
ever, Pleasantville is not just a feel
good movie. It’s an essay on human
behavior; it’s a study of morality in
politics in governments of today and
the past. The creativity that went into
this film is amazing. If Pleasantville
is not at least nominated for Best
Screenplay or Best Special Effects, the
Academy is as colorblind as the people
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10/29/98
more
Jeasantville themselves.
★★★★
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