THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 8.1962
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Boccaccio
By VINCE YOUNG j
I v Collegian Reviewer
. Be'prepared for a movie ex
perience .quite out of the ordinary
when y6u see the Italian film.
"Boccaccio ’70." If you’re onie
of those who demand a heavy plot
and a happy ending, then you’d
better's lay home and watch TV. !
"BOCCACCIO 70“ is not one
but three separate stories directed
jby three separate directors:
(Federico Fellini <“La Dolce Vita”),
Luchino (“Rocco and His
Brothers”), .and Vittorio DeSica
t'Two Women”). The title stems
.from the fact that the film is.;a
|1970 version of Giovanni Boc
caccio’s bawdy collection of adult
(fairy tales, “The Decameron.” ;
! The idea, works well on paper,
but it enjoys only partial success
•on -the' screen the three di
rectors* individual film styles each
show up like Red missile bases in
Cuba. Each third of the final
159-minute product is superb by
itself, but superimposed with two
other immensely different gems,
they tend to place the viewer in
a;rather fickle emotional condi
tion.
i -THE FIRST segment,'Tell ini’s
'Temptation of. Dr. Antonio," is
undoubtedly the'best.-With less
thap an hour's- worth of film
available, he has preached j.-a
rather, potent sermon against
people who find sex ugly and 're
pulsive, using many of the- same
masterful techniques shown in
“La Dolce Vita.’t y"
Viscanti’s “The Job, however,
is something of a letdown. Noth-
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Services
8 p.m.
Saturday Night 1
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FRIDAY &j12:30 W&RIH6 LOURGE
Revisited
ing really happens during the first
half of the story, but the audience
is led to expect something ironic
that never, quite happens at aIL
Back on the light side. i’The
Raffle” by De Sica places an ex
tremely meek man in the winning
position of a raffle first (prize
is Sophia Loren! This final se
quence vies with “Dr. Antonio”
for top honors. Unfortunately, the
truly bad fault - is the English
dubbing which must have been
done by an illiterate.
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Jean Mayer, lecttirer on the
history of public health at Har
vard University, will speak on
“Obesity: .Physiological, Psycho
logical and'Social Aspects" at 8
p.m. in 121 Sparks.
Ingely Hansmann of the Har
vard-/Radcliffe Program in Busi
ness' Administration will discuss
vocational interests and post
college plans at 8:30 pun. in 209
Home Be South.
MEN'S STORE
STATS COLLEGE
TODAY ON CAMPUS j
Lectures
International Film
The International Film Commit
tee will sponsor the showing of
the 1951 Italian film “Umberto D”
at 3, 7 and 9 p.m. in the Hetzel
Union assembly room.
Tickets are available at the
HUB desk for ,50 cents.
Other Cvents
Ag Hill Party emcee tryouts, 8
p.m., 105 Armsby.
Arnold 'Air Society, 6 p.m., Sim-
COMMITTEES:
AN AGONIZING RE-APPRAISAL
To those of you who stay out of your student government
because you lielieve the committee system is just an excuse
for inaction, let me cite an example to prove that a committee,
property led and directed, can be a great force for good.
Last week the Student Council met at the Duluth College
of Veterinary Medicine and Relies Lettres to discuss purchasing
a new doormat for the students union. It was, I assure you, w
desperate problem bemuse Sherwin K. Sigafoos, janitor of .the
students union, threatened flatly to quit unless a new doormat
was installed immediately. ‘Tm sick and fired of mopping that
dirty old floor,” said Mr. Sigafoos, sobbing convulsively. (Mf.~
Sigafoos, once a jolly outgoing sort,'has been crying almost
steadily since the recent death of his pet.wart hog who had
been his constant companion for 22years. Actually, Mr. Signfooe
is much better off without the wart hog, who tusked him
viciously at least once a day, but a companionship of-22 years
is, I suppose, not lightly relinquished. The college tried to give
Mr. Sigafoos a new wart hog —a frisky little fellow with floppy
ears and a waggly tail—but Mr. Sigafoos only turned his buck
and cried the harder.) *
But 1 digress. The Student Council met, discussed the door
mat for eight or ten hours, and then referred it to a committee.
There were some who scoffed then and said nothing would
ever l* heard of the doormat again, hut they reckoner! without
Invictus Millstone. .
Invictua Millstone, chairman of.-the doormat committee,
was a man A( action—lithe and lean amt keen ami, naturally, a
smoker of Marlboro Cigarettes. Why do I say “naturally”?
Because, dear friends, active men and w ol " cl > don’t have tuna
to brood and bumble about their cigarettes. They need to, ba
certain. They must Have perfect confidence that each time they
light up they will get the same gratifying flavor, the same
Selectrate filter, the same.soft soft-pack, the same flip’top
flip-top box. In brief, dear friends, they need to be sure it’s
Marlboro—for if ever a smoke was true and trusty, it’s Marlboro.
Get some soon, tint matches too, because trie and trusty
though Mariboroa are, your pleasure will be somewhat limited
unless you light them.
Well sir, Invictua Millstone chaired his doormat committee
with Buch vigor and dispatch that when the Htudent Council
met only one week later, he was able to rise and deliver the
following recommendations:
1. That the college build new schools of botany, hydraulie
.engineering, tropical medicine, Indo-Germanic languagea, tad
"'millinery. r
2. That the college drop football, put a roof on the stadium,
and turn it into a low-coat housing project for married students.
3. That the college raise faculty salaries by 13000 per year
across the board.
4. That the college secede from tlie United Sts tea.
5. That the quention of a doormat for the students union
be referred to a subcommittee^
So let us hear no. more defeatist talk about the oommittee
system. It can be made to work! • »«•» Muss-Am*
You don't need a committee to tell you hour good Merlborot
ore. You Ju»t need yourteU, o Marlboro, and a tel of lotto
buds. Buy toma Merlborot toon at your tavorlta tobacco
counter .
mons lounge. <
Dairy Science Club, T pirn., lIT
Borland. i
Gamma Sigma Sigma, 8:30 pm,
212 HUB. i
Greek Week Committee, 8:45 p.m
-218 HUB. j
Liberal Party, 7 p.m., 203 HUEL
Model United Nations, 9 p.m.,117
. HUB. ;
Mortar Board. Scrolls and Chirjiee
combined meeting. 6:30 p.|m.
Pollock dining hall lounge. ;
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