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College, Bryan f ($4.99 value) ^ A m, m m m 4 Page 6/The Battalion/Friday, February 24, 1984 Prof considers films sacred By LISA PEDERSEN Reporter Films are sacred to a profes sor from Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry New York. Professor Joseph Cuneen spoke on “Film as Sacred” last night (2/23/84), suggesting that when handling religous materi als in films “less is more”. Films are more religiously suggestive when handled in a subnminally delicate way, Cu neen said. Earilier films which por trayed religous events or think ing tended to reconstruct bibli cal events learned from history in a grandiose aesthetic point of view which didn’t bring the au dience into the movie m terms of the present, Cuneen said. “Directors in the past were concerned more with produc ing a magic show when dealing with religous materials,” Cu neen said. “Jesus walking on water ... now that’s a good shot.” The films Cuneen emphasied as having a direct impact on the audience religously were those presenting a religious concern with an underlying meaning. Cuneen sees the art of minima lism, were no direct reference to religion is seen, as more pow erful and perhaps more impor tant than referring to religion physically. An effective way to reveal something is to use the hidden, Cuneen said. The effects of Jesus on peo ple have a far more significant value as a kind of sugesstive as pect then utilizing a particular religious representative, Cu neen said. By leaving something open, the audience can enter in and participate, he said. Cuneen mentioned directors Dreyer, De Mille, Griffith and Ozu and their different tech niques for handling religious Dead pauper might have been rich United Press International CHICAGO — The Cook County j . TWISTIES 30%-50% »« Fossil Beads - Large shipment of Twisty Beads Just Received FROM FAR EAST. GOOD QUALITY, MANY TO SELECT FROM — Gold, Fossils, Stones. LOWEST PRICE! New Merchandise Arriving Daily from the Orient and Around the World. Pearls Directly from Japan Custom Designing and Restringing Oriental Treasures Post Oak Mall College Station 764-0655 (Next to Wilson’s) Medical Examiner awaited a relative’s identifica tion Thursday of an apparently wealthy hermit who died in a fire in his dilapidated apart ment after saving the lives of 19 tenants. he lived to warn fellow residents of the fire Monday. The man, who faced a paup er’s burial if his body went un claimed, was identified by the building landlord as Chauncey M. Briggs Jr., who apparently came from a wealthy family. Authorities said the blaze be gan in the dead man’s basement apartment and was caused by careless smoking. Businessman Harry Levant, who runs a construction-tool firm, told the Chicago Sun- Times he had known Briggs for 20 years. He said Briggs was a Chicago native, whose mother had moved to Florida years ago and married a millionaire. The man, who appeared to be in his late 50s, succumbed to smoke after he raced through the apartment building where Levant said Briggs’ brother, Sheldon, was reached in Sea- brook, Texas, and was expected to arrive in Chicago to identify the body. The brother was un- IBzautij J£ a C 0 n STYLING FOR MEN & WOMEN HAIRCUTS 8 8.00 SCULPTURED NAILS reg. *40.00 *35.00 PERMS *32.00 i*eg. £42.00 includes haircut and style Offer good thru March 10 CALL TODAY 846-6364 704 N. Rosemary Dr. Across from Luby’s M S C yspGiE c iN ™\ PRESENTS Tony Manero knows the old days are over- But nobodys gonna tell him he cant feel that good again. John Travolta smvinG nuii Friday & Saturday, February 24 & 25 7:30 & 9:45 p.m. Rudder Theatre Tickets are $1.50 with A&M I.D. Advance tickets are available at MSC Box Office Mon-Fri 8:50-4:30. Tickets also available 45 minutes- before showtime. ©1977 Paramount Pictcres Corporation Al F ...Catchit. Friday & Saturday, February 24 & 25 Midnight, Rudder Theatre Robert Altman's award-winning film Tickets are $3.00 Come Back To The 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean A Jimmy Dean Fan Club reunites in a small Texas town to commemorate the actor's death and to reminisce of old times. Sunday, February 26, 7:30 p.m. Rudder Theatre reachable Thursday. “We’re still expecting (his) brother to come in ... at any time. We don’t know when,” said Joanna Krutulis, secretary for Dr. Robert Stein, the Cook County Medical Examiner. Levant said Sheldon Briggs mailed his brother a monthly $200 check. In addition, Levant — who often held Briggs’ mail for him — said the dead man occasionally received what ap peared to be stock dividends. “He didn’t care for money,” Levant said. “He lived like a hermit. He looked very un kempt. I guess it was the way he wanted to live.” He described Briggs as a handyman who did odd-jobs for neighboring businessmen. Rick Los, landlord in the Northwest Side building, first | identified the dead man as Briggs. He said the man lived in the building for nearly a year. His basement apartment had a dirt floor, no running water and no bathroom. An official at the Medical Ex aminer’s office said the body could remain at there for 90 days, but must be claimed by a relative or identified through fingerprints, medical records or surgical scars. If not, he said, it will be buried in a pauper’s grave. Attorney General backed by PUC United Press International AUSTIN — Attorney Gen eral Jim Mattox’s opinion that Southwestern Bell Telephone cannot begin collecting a $279.7 million bonded rate increase until April 22 was affirmed Thursday by the Public Utility Commission. But the issue was immedi ately thrown into the courts. Bell attorney Jon Dee Law rence said the company would seek a state court judge in Aus tin Thursday “to hear both sides of the argument.” dential ratepayers, filed suit I Wednesday when it appeared! the PUC would reject Mattox’sl opinion and allow the bondedl rates to go into effect Thursday ! Bell filed a cross-action to I that complaint Thursday and! sought an expedited hearing. PUC Chairman Al Erwin conceded before the commis sion voted unanimously to uphold Mattox’s advisory opin ion that the issue of the effec tive dates of bonded rates in Bell’s case would eventually be decided in the courts. John Cunningham, execudvel director and acting general! counsel for the PUC, urged the! three commissioners to accept! Mattox’s advisory, opinion. [ “It’s been our practice to fol low the attorney general’s opin-l ions in the past,” he said. “We| didn’t always agree with them,! but that never stopped us from! following them.” But he added, “I think it is appropriate to have the burden of proof on the utility in this What the courts must deter mine is whether Bell’s pending $1.3 billion rate filing last June comes under an old state law or a new law that took effect last Sept. 1. Mattox, who attended the! PUC hearing, said, “I think they! (PUC) made an appropriate de l cision.” Under the company’s pro-1 posed rate hike, the average monthly bill for Texas resi-| dential ratepayers would jump by $2.75. Boyle said it amounts to a 25 percent increase for residenda customers and warned that] “thousands” of Texans would be forced to give up their telej phones should Bell win the rate hike. Bell filed for a $1.3 billion rate hike on June 24, 1983, be fore the new law took effect, but Mattox ruled the company’s case was not finalized until Oct. 19, 1983. Lawrence said Bell “feels very strongly” it has the law on its side, citing an earlier ruling in Bell’s favor by a PUC admin istrative lawjudge. “They (opponents) feel strongly they’re right and we feel strongly we’re right,” he said. “Whichever way the com mission goes, the issue is joined at the courthouse, where it be longs.” Public utility counsel Jim Boyle, who represents resi- The nearly $280 million iii bonded rates would be in addij tion to a $653.3 million interin rate increase granted Southwes] tern Bell in December. The! PUC has said it plans to decidfl Bell’s chief rate case by mkt April. There was speculation thatGo' j Mark White may have inf fluenced the three commission ers, all of whom are his appoin tees. But White would not si whether he played any role i the PUC decision. “I was delighted to read about that in the newspaper! morning,” he quipped. “It been my long held belief a former attorney general th everbody ought to listen to tl attorney general when he issue an opinion.” 1A materials in films. Directors, like Ozu for example, who in volve participation from their audience have far more possi bilities religiously speaking than others, Cuneen said. Most of the films Cuneen talked about are not mass media products and are hard to find, he said. Cuneen is presently assistant j chairperson of philosophy and religion at Mercy College and editor and chief of a small pub lication “Cross Current” in New York. ATLAS TRANSMISSION SERVICE TRANSMISSION TUNEI UP $17.95 AGGIE DISCOUNT) COUPON 10% off major transmission work with this coupon and student I.D. 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