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Park City, Utah 649-8656 Farmers New WorM Lile Insurance Co. Mercer Island, WA r-9 9-i n r or CALENDAR 21 THURSDAY Supper at the Senior Citizens Center, 5 p.m. City Council, regular meeting, Memorial Building, 5 p.m. Library Board, regular meeting, Park City Library, 7: 30 p.m. 22 FRIDAY Nordic relay race, White Pine Touring Center, registration at 9a.m. Intermountain Division Nor-Am qualifying race, Park City Ski Area, 9:30 a.m. Basketball : Park City at South Summit, 5: 45 and 7:30 p.m. 23 SATURDAY Wrestling. Park City and North Summit at South Summit Intermountain Division Nor-Am qualifying race, Park City Ski Area, 9:30 a.m. Heber Creeper Snow Fun Luncheon Safari, Heber, 1 p.m. Hockey : Salt Lake Golden Eagles vs. Fort Worth, Salt Palace, 7:30 p.m. Utah Opera Company, Capitol Theatre, 8 p.m. 24 SUNDAY Heber Creeper Snow Fun Luncheon Safari, Heber, 1 p.m. Concert: Foreigner, Salt Palace, 8p.m. 25 MONDAY Supper at the Senior Citizens Center, 5 p.m. Entry deadline, New Year's Classic Racquetball Tournament, Park City Racquet Club, 6 p.m. League basketball, Carl Winters Middle School, 6 : 30 to 9 : 30 p.m . Board meeting, Snyderville Basin Sewer District, 7 p.m. Hockey: Salt Lake Golden Eagles vs. Fort Worth, Salt Palace, 7:30 p.m. Utah Opera Company, Capitol Theatre, Salt Lake City, 8 p.m. 26 TUESDAY Motor vehicle registration, Memorial Building, 9 to 11 a.m., 1 to 4 p.m. Summit County Commission, regular meeting, Summit County Courthouse, Coalville, 10 a.m. ChamberBureau annual meeting, Grub Steak Restaurant, 5 p.m. Open volleyball, Park City High School,6:30to9:30p.m. Summit County Planning Commission, regular meeting, Summit County Courthouse, Coalville, 7:30 p.m. Basketball: Utah Jazz vs. New Jersey, Salt Palace, 7:30 p.m. 27 WEDNESDAY League basketball, Carl Winters Middle School, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Park City Planning Commission, regular meeting, 7 p.m. Utah Opera Company. Capitol Theatre, Salt Lake City, 8 p.m. Taps' carries on love-hate affair with the military A Classic it Recommended Good double-feature double-feature material Time-killer For masochists only V2 Taps "Taps" sets up an interesting interest-ing premise, sweeps you along as well as any movie playing today, and sets you down hard. But its thinking is so muddled, its tragedies so obvious, that one cannot recommend it without grave reservations. The movie denounces the military-academy tradition that incubates youngsters on ideas of honor and violent glory. But, at the same time, there's a sneaking admiration admira-tion for those ideals, and the world of Bunker Hill Academy, Aca-demy, for all its mistakes, seems more admirable than what is outside its gates. At the end of Bunker Hill's academic year, the board of trustees decided to sell off the school property to a condominium con-dominium project, to the sorrow sor-row of the school's director, General Harlan Bache (George C. Scott) and the consternation of Cadet Brian Moreland (Timothy Hut-ton), Hut-ton), who has been appointed cadet major for the upcoming up-coming year. When a heart attack takes Bache out of action, More-land More-land leads the students into a revolt in which they confiscate confis-cate the weapons from an on-campus armory and promise to return them after they've seen the trustees. Moreland's demands are reasonable and his logic persuasive ("Other kids are vandalizing their schools. We're trying to save ours.") But he gradually comes to realize the horror and the tragedy of giving submachine sub-machine guns to kids barely old enough to shave. If director Harold Becker and the scriptwriters brought out this point effectively, ef-fectively, the film would be a blazing indictment of the warrior-class mentality. But the message is fumbled, because the adults fighting the kids are shown to be more trigger-happy than the youngsters. After the campus takeover, take-over, the largest convoy of police cars since the "Blues Brothers" roars up to the gates. There is provocation here. It follows an incident in town where a cadet fires ammunition to fend off an attack from the local hoods. But the reaction from the cops still seems excessive. They are followed by truck-loads truck-loads of National Guard troops, and, finally, even a tank! The Guard commander com-mander (Ronny Cox) wants to avoid bloodshed but you never see him wondering if all this firepower aimed at the cadets won't merely escalate the situation. The movie never tells us much about the Guardsmen. How do they feel about attacking students young enough to be their kids? (The students are portrayed as worried about their course of action. Only one, a fanatic played by granite-faced Tom Cruise, is itching for a fight.) Why are they so quick to fire in panic when the kids fire off shots accidentally? With 12-year-olds manning fire bases, they would logically expect some of that. Moreland and his officers create the atmosphere for violence, but the adults often supply the spark. Bunker Hill is portrayed as a place which extends more respect and understanding to its cadets than they might sometimes get in the outside world. Gen. Bache is a dignified, compassionate man when he speaks of those who regard military man as "slightly crazy", he seems more hurt than angry. But his tragic flaw is that he regards civilian authority as a lesser form of intelligence, and inoculates his students with that attitude. (George C. Scott, in a brief role, brings all of Patton's strength with the anger quenched to the role of a good fighting man who's been allowed to indulge too long in vainglorious ideas.) It's easy to see why Moreland prefers Bache to his real father (Wayne Tippett, a master sergeant, who is brought in to mediate the situation. Despite good intentions, Sgt. Moreland can't resist ordering his son around and patronizing him. ("Do you expect me to call you major?" he huffs.) The movie is surprisingly good entertainment, con sidering all the unwieldly elements within it. For tragedy, it resorts to the most obvious tear-jerking plot device possible. (Guess for yourself and you'll be right.) On the other hand, it also has incongruities worthy of "Doonesbury": outside the gates the National Guard plays recordings from parents par-ents pleading with their 12-year-old soldiers to desert, de-sert, and come home for dinner; in the cadet dorm, casual conversation is made up of lines like, "Hey, any you guys got a grenade?" And there are intriguing glimpses of life at Bunker Hill that are never quite analyzed. (The cadets are shown watching "Star Trek" and "MASH," two of the most pacifistic shows on the tube.) The film is held together by Timothy Hutton, who gives a performance equal to "Ordinary People". Hutton begins as a staunchly self-assured self-assured hero whose rectitude recti-tude is slowly worn away to the final point where, drained and weeping over a cadet's death, he confesses how little Bache's ideals now mean to him. "Taps" seems caught up in a love-hate affair with the military. In a way it is only reflecting the state of the country. Respect and scorn for the military seem to run in cycles. But the film doesn't illuminate this confusion. con-fusion. It illustrates it. Exhibit focuses on local artists A glimpse of genius by Michael Spaulding Park City was treated to a glimpse of genius Saturday night at the Egyptian Theatre, with Ed Metzger's one-man play, "Einstein the Practical Bohemian." In addition to acting, Metzger co-wrote the play with Laya Gelff, ,-r .. .... ... A sizable portion of the script was made up of actual quotes from Einstein, and the format consisted of a series of reminiscenses about his life. The tone alternated between bet-ween whimsical observation and more serious inspection of the range of topics which most interested Einstein, in cluding physics, politics, philosophy, and psychology. A central theme of the play was Einstein's inability to reconcile idealism with the more conventional thinking he found all around him. One recollection which particularly pointed this up was a conversation, with Sigmund Freud in - which Einstein complained that he could not understand man's willingness to go to war. Freud replied that Einstein knew as little about psychology as he knew about physics, and as an intellectual intellec-tual Einstein's motivations were different from those of the great majority of mankind. The talents of fourteen Park City artists will be gathered together in an exhibit at the Johnson Gallery, Gal-lery, running Jan. 21-31. The gallery, at the Park City Resort Center, is hosting a champagne reception today and all the artists will be available to meet with the public and discuss their work. g , ...... Gallery owner Robin Val- line said aboutr30 - 50 works will be on display. Most are paintings, but two dimensional dimen-sional in a variety of techniquesoils, tech-niquesoils, collages, batik, drawing, and acrylic. Sculpture Sculp-ture and bronze work can also be seen. The list of artists is made up of such familiar names as Holly Meeker Rom, Diane Balaban, and Judy Summer, along with "Focus" editor Nan Chalet (who is exhibiting exhibit-ing her photographs) and other works too numerous to mention by Trisha Arentz, Ginger Cherry, Marilyn Car-avaglia, Car-avaglia, Bill Kranstover, Gail Price, Doti Reynolds, Sally Rosenblat, Abbie Whitney, Whit-ney, Valeria Yost, and John Tinklepaugh. Valline said this is his second exhibit since the opening of ski season. "The first with Gail Price went very well," he said. "I might have one more before the season's over. It's always a spontaneous thing." The champagne reception is from 3 to 6 p.m. today. Johnson Gallery is open 12 -6 p.m. Monday through Saturday. UBijrtlidlay Stars January 21 Abbey Peterson David Chaplin Jerry Shimelpfenig Julie Young January 22 Bobby Mann Don Hamilton Craig Sanchez Judy Erickson January 23 Merril Street Davie Berry January 24 Ron Schultz Michael Delmotte Terry Lambert Mickey James Johnny Carpenter Terry Casey Toby Tolpingrud January 25 Peter Najar Leigh Terry Debbie Barrett Jim King Shawn Styles January 26 RuthDrapkin Eric Smith Holly Rom Tom Bock Pat McDowell Butch Warren Marc Vance Malcolm Vance Greg King Craig Haren Priscilla Nelson January 27 BobPinder Marty Lofquist Pam Sandberg Steven Wellever MaryTuttle Debra Dietz Haefeli Country Pine Antiques Unique Accessories 818 South 9th East Salt Lake Citv. Utah 84102 (801)328-4888 PARK CITY PROPERTIES g..Bifcm.Y."a....A ... 1ll "-twfc nil 'JjlJiJHIjtlijljffHimiJ! 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