Page 4 By Bob Buckingham Bluegrass comes to Capitol Campus this Friday, thanks to the Meade Heights Board of Governors. Paired with Swamp Water, a panacea for the academic doldrums, your spir its will be lifted and your nervous ticks cured. Someitme after 8 p.m. the driving sounds of bluegrass in the Student Center will serve as a mixer for a good evening. The Bluegrass All Stars, so named as they were gleaned from area bands, will provide an evening of high spirited By Grace M. Cole The last few years have brought forth a body of fiction which some ardent PH. D. candidate should christen "The Sexually Promiscuous Single Woman Novel of the 1970'5." Looking For Mr. Goodbar by Judith Rossner can easily be mistaken for one such novel. Roseann Quinn, a 28-yearold elementary schoolteacher, was brutally murdered on New Years Day, 1973. Her alleged murderer was a petty thief and drifter from the South' whom she picked up in a singles bar and brought back to her apartment. The murder evoked widespread, intensive newspa per coverage which attempted to deal with the controversy of why a well-educated, respect able Catholic girl from a good home was cruising bars for men. Rossner based her novel on "a real murder," which though not identified, brings to mind the Roseann Quinn murder. But Rossiier has done more than reconstruct a murder, she has created a thrilling 'page turner' which will make every woman leery of the next strange man she meets. Rossner presents this novel in a clean, clear, almost reportorial style. But ARTS and CULTURE local area floobeb wtb 14'; ratio teach-in for the bluegrass instruments Sunday, February 5, at 7 p.m. at the Friends Meeting House in Lancaster. Dobro, fiddle, banjo, mandolin guitar and bass workshops will be held. This ambitious event will feature some of the finest musicians in the area. John Farmer of The American Music Lab in Red Lion, Mark Sherman of the Home of Bluegrass in Harrisburg and Greg Boughter will be among those leading workshops. Sue Trammell will also unveil some of her spell binding guitar looking for 331 r. igoobbar entertainment The All Stars include, Greg Boughter, banjo picker of The South Mountain Ramblers, Warren Newman and Bruce Campbell from Still On The Hill on mandolin and bass respec tively, Sue Trammell the dixie darling on lead guitar and Bob Buckingham on his last leg. Other pickers are welcome, expected and needed for a true coffeehouse atmosphere, so we're looking forward to seeing them there. The Lancaster County Folk Song Society will sponsor a violence flashes here and there--talk of switchblades, robbery, and death--creates a chilling glaze of suspense. For Theresa Dunn, the heroine of Looking For Mr. Goodbar, (Mr. Goodbar is the name of a singles bar) life is a series of affectionless one night stands. As Rossner traces her history, a shallow first love, and a move to her own apartment, we accompany her to the lower depths. But, nonetheless, Theresa seems destined for the straight life; a conventional girl from a conventional background with a teaching career. Rossner uses her one freakish quirk--a limp caused by a bout with polio--to provide psychoanalytic high light for her sexual escapades. But this is one technique of the novel that, although trying to explain perverse behavior, is least convincing. What the author captures best is the basic theme of why an innocent like Theresa Dunn gets caught up in the sexual manifesto of the free love generation, and mistakes promiscuity for free mindedness. Free and single, Theresa makes no close relationships with either men or women. But she is tortured by a nagging loneliness which is relieved only by momentary sexual C.C. Raider encounters. The satisfaction she finds in these sexual liaisons is fleeting, somewhat like eating a candy bar (a Mr. Goodbar?) - very delicious, but leaving one empty and craving for more. The degradation and emotional distance do not catch up with Theresa until she comes face to face with her killer, Gary Cooper White. (The name is not so strange, it parallels that of Roseann Quinn's murderer, John Wayne Wilson—a good guy gone bad?) After engaging in sexual intercourse with White, Theresa tries to oust him from her bed. But White does not comprehend the ethos of the New York City singles scene. His ego is offended, he becomes frightened at Theresa's sudden panic at his refusal to leave, and kills her by stabbing her repeatedly. He then gives her one last, final assault. Rossner is adept at using the printed medium. By writing a thrilling novel, she creates total audience participation with form and forces the reader into emotional introspection through content, which touches a common denominator of the female sexual psyche. Rossner deals with universal emotions that provide a common thread in every woman's sexual experience. Her dialogue is technique. For more informa tion stop by or call the Home of Bluegrass, 3613 Walnut St., 652-7714. The Bluegrass Cardinals will play a make up date this Thursday, February 2 (tonight) at the Open Hearth. LP Review Richard Greene Richard Greene formerly of Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys and Sea Train has produced one hot LP here. Greene has a West Coast approach to bluegrass blunt and realistic, and she is able to capture the essence of a character on one line. The murder scene is the most effective technique em ployed in the book. It is presented twice, once at the beginning of the book through White's respite confession and again at the end, as we witness the vent itself through the victim's eyes. Not until Rossner ingeniously repeats lines of dialogue verbatim, which in tensifies the horror and eerie sense of deja vu, does the reader experience an immedi ate click in the mind's eye of what is to come. True to the thriller genre, our expectations are confirmed. Once the association takes place, there is no turning back, the murder has begun. But the murder brings no resolution, no relief of tension, only a lingering sense of terror. Rossner's techniques cer tainly do complement Looking For Mr. Goodbor, but her effectiveness and genius lie in the creation of the character of Theresa Dunn or what that character communicates to the reader. Theresa Dunn acts out a fantasy that most women will identify with, but few will admit to. This book is every woman's inccmprehensible, most paranoid nightmare. which adheres little to strict traditional bluegrass while enhancing the elements of the music. Fiddle and banjo duets are as old as stringbands and here Greene teams-up in duet with J.D. Crowe and Tony Triscka to produce some of the finest duets on LP. Greene strays into swing and jazz on the other arts with David Grisman, Tony Rice, and others. If you like innovation and drive this album has it. - Duets Rounder Tarnhelm has scheduled a series of fourteen films to be shown in four groupings during February. The films will spotlight major poets and writers, plus short features in the related arts and even a classic Charlie Chaplin comedy. Admission to all showings is free. Featured in the first group of films is Chaplin's 1925 silent comedy The Gold Rush. This movie, Chaplin's favorite a mong his films, depicts the adventures of a Yukon pro spector. Also on the opening bill are short films on poets William Carlos Williams and e.e. cummings. Future films will feature James Dickey, Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, Pablo Neruda, Alan Ginesburg, Robert Lowell, and John Updike. Also to be presented are a short feature on director Ingmar Bergman, the classic dance film Moor's Pavane; and the fantasy Seven Authors In Search of A Reader. A new group of films will be presented every Thursday at 7 p.m. in Room 1 of the Multi-Purpose Building, and repeated the following Tuesdays at 12:15 in the auditorium. Check advertise ments for weekly schedules. February 2, 1978 th lb
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