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By BRAD ELLIS
“0 Lucky Man” is a surrealis
tic movie, based on an original
idea by the star, Malcolm Mc
Dowell.
This movie is almost a satire,
except that where satix - es tend to
be comical and cynical, the main
thrust of this movie is neither. It
is about people who are caught
up in a game which they perceive
to be their real life. These peo
ple need derive no understanding
or philosophical congruence from
the people they work with, as
long as all the people pretend to
play their game.
The protagonist is caught up
in success, and for Michael Trav
is, played by McDowell, success
comes to those pragmatists who
play by the rules of the present
situation. Travis, who has almost
no character of his own, lies with
his entire being to succeed.
The movie is blatantly surreal,
being a realistic presentation of
an obvious fantasy. Many of the
sequences could have been played
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Old Biology Bldg. Guest speaker is
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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF INDUS
TRIAL ENGINEERS (AIIE) will meet
at 7:30 p. m. in Lecture Room 2,
Zachry Engineering Center. Guest
speaker is the vice president of Delta
Air Lines.
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CLUB will meet at 7:30 P. m. at
Debrorah Duddleston’s at Oak Forest
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as comedy with a few slight
changes and a different attitude
(the annecdotes are that ridicu
lous). But everything is played
straight-faced, presented as real.
This movie is executed as if it
has inspiration behind it, which
is a compliment to the director,
but the inspiration is deep and
not really obvious.
The director plays funny games
with heavy handed and ponder
ous cuts. Such cuts are deliber
ate, though, as the scenes which
are fast paced move quickly and
smoothly. Throughout the movie,
music is inserted, performed by
a band which is shown in perform
ance several times, and is even
worked into the story for a se
quence. The title song is per
formed by this band, and basic
ally says that if one has a reliable
friend one is a lucky man. Travis
is not a lucky man.
The story begins as Mike Trav
is is training to become a coffee
salesman. As a salesman must be
aggressive and engaging to be
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This will be the last meeting of the
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and refreshments will be served.
WEDNESDAY
MONTGOMERY COUNTY CLUB will
meet at 8 p. m. in Lounge A-l near
Fowler. Plans for the New Year’s
party will be made.
EL PASO HOMETOWN CLUB will
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Tower. Rides home and recruitment
will be discussed.
TA!MU SHEET AND TRAP CLUB will
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Tower. This is an important meeting,
all members urged to attend.
CAP AND GOWN will meet at 6 :30 p. m.
in the Lobby of Zachry Engineering
Center. Aggieland photo to be taken.
V. D. LECTURE AND FILM will be
given at 7 p. m. in Rm. 103 Zachry
Engineering Center. No admission will
be charged.
BLACK AWARENESS COMMITTEE
will meet at 7:30 p. m. in Rm. 231,
MSC. Everyone is welcomed.
AIR FORCE SELECTION TEAM will
be in the MSC from 9 a. m. to 2 p. m.
to meet with students interested in
being a pilot, navigator, or officer,
for further information call 846-5521
and ask for Sgt. Jones.
successful, and as Travis is ob
sessed with success, he meets his
new job with the necessary quali
ties, which qualities lead him di
rectly into unexpected problems.
A salesman must suspend judge
ment and disbelief to accomplish
anything at all, but these prob
lems tend to tax the viewer’s ca
pacity to this, unless treated as
fantasy.
The men in this movie are
treated as greedy, ruthless, nar
row and paranoid. The women are
CLAUDI GARCIA AND SUSAN ROGERS are repaint
ing the Brazos County Community Outreach Center as part
of a Psi Chi service project. (Photo by Gary Baldasari)
flighty and sexually hungry. The
technology is science fiction, the
intrigue James Bondian, and the
social commentary skeptical. As
the sequences of new, perhaps
fascinating, perhaps shocking sit
uations drag on through the three-
and-a-quarter hour film, they
build to a cyclical conclusion
which is denied in a quite fantas
tic and surprising conclusion.
Most of the actors with major
parts played several major parts
each. This one may discover from
the credits or, if forewarned,
from exceedingly close inspection
of the characters. This fact, too,
is not real obvious, nor does it
carry much special significance,
except it makes it easier to show
all the characters as being alike
or having similar foibles.
This is Malcolm McDowell’s
first movie since “A Clockwork
Orange,” in which he played Alex
ander DeLarge, the major char
acter. The two movies are com
parable in that they both deal
in absurdities in modem society,
especially as regards prisons. But
where “A Clockwork Orange” un
folds as a crazy underground
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Foundrymen from across Texas
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Scholarship awards, visiting
high school students and installa
tion of a TAMU student chapter
of the American Foundrymen’s
Association will highlight activi
ties, according to Jon F. Bots-
ford, assistant professor of engi
neering technology.
comic book, “O Lucky Man” reels
off like a big British novel, full
of boldly executed injustices and
affrontery on all sides. “O Lucky
Man” is playing at the Campus
Theater for two dollars.
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WASHINGTON (AP)—Some government agencies and major oil
companies have been warned by the U.S. Postal Service that letter
bombs may have been mailed to them.
A spokesman for the postal inspection service said the agency has
offered to screen the mail of possible targets. He declined to say to
whom the letters may have been mailed.
Despite this information however, the spokesman said the service
had “no indication any letter bombs are in the mail.”
“The agencies and oil companies were contacted purely as a
precautionary measure,” said spokesman Bernie Roswig.
Roswig said that in its normal course of contacts with other
government agencies the postal service received information that
“letters containing explosives might be mailed from Toronto around
Dec. 1.”
He said the initial information came from the “intelligence
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“Anytime they, the inspection service, have any kind of tip that a
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He said he could not confirm whether such an alert was in
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Canadian postal official Ed Roworth in Toronto said officials
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