Thursday, November 5, 1998 - The Behrend College Beacon
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Website of the week
By Mike Coursey
Staff Writer
Many people already know that
shopping on the internet is gaining
popularity. But shopping online for a
:ar? There are a few sites that allow
aet surfers to do just that. 'lTtese sites
also offer insurance rates, blue book
values of one’s car, and other useful
information.
Two of the major websites that
buy, sell and trade autos are
Autobytel.com and Autotrader. One
of the many useful tools of these
websites is a feature that allows
people to track down the car they want
in their general vicinity, or move the
search to varying degrees. Here’s an
example: if one U'anted a 1964 Ford
Mustang, and wanted to pay between
$5,000 and $ 15,000 dollars, he or she
could search for a particular car to suit
he Beacon will be featuring a different website every keek
ACROSS - “
1 Lovers’ quarrel
5 Hosts
11 Spoil
14 Something to
think about
15 Peninsula near
Singapore
16 Issue a pink slip
17 Used
19 Soft metal
20 Hamlin TV series
21 Prudent
22 Grow older
25 Kick up a fuss
29 Director Howard
30 Not
Unusual”
31 Actor George
34 Mongrel
35 Get the point
36 Twelve-year-old
37 Excuse
39 Marx Brother
40 Announce
43 Put two and two
together
45 Lawn covering
46 Alternative fuel
47 Zodiac sign
48 Poem of praise
49 Give wrong
instructions
51 Ran first
52 Impersonator
54 Vicinities
56 2,000 pounds
57 Pale dry sherry
63 Third of an
inning
64 Neglect
65 “Vissi d’arte,” e.g.
66 “ Miniver”
67 Nubby wools
68 Sugar source
DOWN
1 Comic Conway
2 Neighbor of Mont.
3 Boggy ground
4 Come up short
5 Copy
6 Mild depression
7 Feline weapons
8 Take in food
9 Scope out
10 Depressed
him or her. In addition, one could
search for a car being sold in his or
her local area.
This process enables the consum
ers to have some leverage when they
approach a car salesman. They can
compare the prices from the dealer
ship with prices on the web. Among
the other services offered are loan
packages, direct links to the major
auto manufacturers and many other
conveniences
The vehicles described usually
come with a color photograph, and
the dealership’s or owner’s name.
The price is sometimes included.
This may help people out when they
are trying to find out the blue book
value of their cars before they think
of trading it in.
Car ''X
shopping \
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Hollywood
heartthrob
Rotation line
Clair or Coty
Some Frenchmen
Breadth
Roofed
passageway
Singer Robert
Fertilizers, e.g.
Mind-reading
letters
Motor vehicle
Based on
incidental
observations
Fall back
Bamboozled
Founder of the
Republican
Party
Five-and-a-half
yards
Actor Wallach
Tipped off
Subterfuges
Mountain
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Crimes of the Heart to open tonight
By Valerie Trost
staff w riter
Tonight is opening night lor the
Penn State Behrend Studio Theatre and
their produetion. Crimes of the Heart
by Beth Henley. The play is set to start
running tonight. November 6, 7. 10,
11. 12. 13, and 14. at «:()()
PM. and November 8 and
15 at 2:30 PM. Direetor
Tony Elliot and east held a
sneak preview Tuesday,
and I have to say that this
Pulitzer Prize winning eon-
temporary production is
just about the most pitch
black comedy 1 have ever
seen on stage
File play looks into the
lives of three Magrath sis
ters, who find themselves
once again reunited in their
home town of Ha/elhurst.
Mississippi. The set
throughout the entire play
is in the kitchen of their
home, which is the center
of insanity and human
chaos to these three sisters.
Not to mention that with
out a doubt the kitchen is
the most central room in
any traditional southern
Lenny, the oldest sister (played by
Jamie Lojewski, 03 Liberal Arts), is
personally celebrating her 3()th birth
day (because just about everyone for
gets) without a love interest, a
"shrunken ovary." a pet horse that just
got struck by lightning, and by sleep
ing on a cot right in the kitchen. Lenny
tries to act as the glue holding the three
sisters together and tends to be seen as
the most stable sister.
division
Bomb type
Rain cats and
dogs
Substantial chunk
Astern
Cut the greens
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55
57
58
Features
Jamie Lojewski, Nadia Drozda, and Amanda Piper play the
Magrath sisters in the fall production of Crimes of the Heart
11/5/98
59 Mine vein
60 You
Lonesome
Tonight?"
Conk out
Single cereal
grain
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Meg, the middle sister (played by up with some incriminating photo- “poor old eat" in the cellar, and you
Amanda Pieper, 01 DUS), has just re- graphs of Babe and her affair with a have what the Magrath sisters call a
turned home after she escaped town for
a singing career but ended up working
for a dog food company, which has sent
her to a stay in the psychiatric ward.
She is described more than once as
"cheap Christmas trash," and has sup
posedly left one man crippled. She
drinks and smokes cigarettes and is
both envied and adored by the other
two.
Babe, the youngest sister (played by
Nadia Dro/.da, 01, DUS) is perhaps the
most outrageous of the three. She has
just shot her husband because she
"didn’t like his looks" and then pro
ceeded to make a pitcher of lemonade;
while her husband in return has come
Teletubby toy craze hits Behrend
By Nicole McGee
staff writer
Alien-like stuffed animals w ith tele
visions on their stomachs and anten
nas on their heads are changing the
television world we once knew.
They’re taking over Sesame Street.
The program is called Teletubbies and
ratings prove that among children, it is
replacing Sesame Street in popularity.
A Teletubby can be described as a
’’techno-baby” that sings, dances,
plays, and converses in baby talk.
There are four of them on the show.
Individual characteristics include color,
size, name, and the shape of the an
tenna on the Teletubby’s head. On the
television program, they play in a field
and watch television on one another’s
stomachs.
Though the British program has
only been airing in the U.S. for nine
fifteen-year-old black boy. Babe
proves throughout the play to be not
only homicidal but suicidal as well,
following in her mother's footsteps.
Put these three sisters together
along with an old love interest. Doc
photo courtesy ot Tony Elliot
Porter (played by Dallas Skeens), a
new young lawyer. Barnette Lloyd
(played by Josh Is/kula) and a nag
ging cousin. Chick i played by
Ldinboro student Jessica Dows) and
you have the complete east of Beth
Henley's Crums of the Heart.
Complete this picture with a co
matose grandfather in the hospital
just alter a stroke, and a mother w ho
years ago hung herself with her
months, sales of items related to
these creatures are predieted to hit
$6OO million this holiday season.
Thiscra/e may he just in time to rec
reate demands equivalent to The
Cabbage Patch Dolls or Tickle-Me-
Llmo buying fren/ies of the past.
Like these novelties. Teletubbies
have appeal to some people fat be
yond the range of their preschool
target audience. Tubbyland, the set
of the television show, now attracts
more visitors than its neighbor,
Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare's
birthplace.
Like all toys, Teletubbies are sub-
ject to controversy, criticism, and
even confusion. When asked their
opinions of the new toys. Behrend
students responded with a combina
tion of all three.
Sarah Pratt, 10 Psychology, of
fered her experience with the new
creatures, "I really don’t know much
’bad dav'
1 guarantee that nothing predict
able will happen in this performance.
There is really no sound resolution,
and that is perhaps the best part. The
story is invariably spontaneous and
w'ill leave you with similar im
pulsive reactions. You will
want to laugh, cry, gasp, and
sigh all within minutes of each
Stanley Kaufmann, cri
tique for the New Yorker,
comments about this Beth
Henley production. He says.
"It presents a condition that,
in minuscule, implies much
about the state of the world,
as well as the state of Missis
sippi. and about human chaos;
it says, 'resolution is not my
business. Ludicrously horri
fying honesty is.’ “
"I really think the students
are going to love this perfor
mance," says director Tony
Elliot. It’s true, it is just so
deranged, unbalanced and
zany. However, at the same
time it is touching and senti
mental." Enjoying this hilari-
ous adventure of these three
sisters in their small town Mississippi
kilehen is an easy and delightful task.
Tickets for the production are $3
for students and $5 for general admis
sion. To make reservations, please
call the Studio Theatre box office at
(814) 898-6016.
about them. My niece, Hanna, is two
and she thinks they’re a riot, but her
parents think they’re dumb ... they’re
pretty ugly and scary too.”
Chad Irwin, 03 Telecommunica
tions, agreed that “they’re freaky,
they’re scary. If I was a kid I’d be
having nightmares about them.”
Becky Gray, 01 Elementary Educa
tion! said “I think they’re a little re
tarded but they’re cute. The little girl
I baby-sit loves them, she always
wants me to watch them -no please!”
Nichole Fiske, 03 DUS said,
“They scare me!” Hanna Kim, 01
International Politics, thought
“they’re ugly.” Matt Jones, 03 En
glish, said, “I’m impressed with the
Teletubbies’ creators ability to show
that good things can come out of
LSD.”
Bethany Boarts, 03 Liberal Arts,
offered the least critical standpoint, “I
think they’re good entertainment for
one-year olds.”