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The Border COMING SOON Friday 13th III Young Doctors in Love An Officer and Gentleman The Boat The Prize Fighter From pots to portraits Utah artist David Fernandez Fernan-dez will exhibit his drawings and ceramics in the Kimball Art Center's Main Gallery March 6 through 31. This is the first time Fernandez has shown his drawings in a group show. The theme of his drawings will be "people I admire and respect, people who have influenced me." Fernandez says that his drawings are of artists, writers, family and friends. "All are of real people who have faced the same human problems we all have." In addition to his drawings, draw-ings, Fernandez will be exhibiting his ceramics. He says his ceramics provide him with the challenge of creating and refining forms. "When the form is pleasing and the glazes move in just the right way, a magical thing happens that never can be duplicated. It is the pursuit of this simple, magical magi-cal expression that has become a major part of my life." Fernandez has had numerous nu-merous one-man shows in Utah and has been included in many group shows, including includ-ing an exhibition at the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian. In 1982, Fernandez Fer-nandez was selected as one of 90 artists from the western states to participate in the Western States Art Foundation's Founda-tion's Architectural Crafts Catalog, (Madona, 1982). His most recent one-man show was at the Bertha Eccles Gallery, Ogden. Utah in 1982. California artist Manuel de Arce and ceramist Mona Rowley, also from California Califor-nia wUl combine their artwork art-work for the Kimball Art Center's Little Gallery exhibit exhi-bit March 6 through March 29. There will be an opening reception for the three artists art-ists March 6 from 3 to 5 p.m. The public is invited. Why Ghandi didn't drive by Jeff Howrey Mohandas K. Gandhi whose life is exquisitely detailed in a four-hour film now playing at Holiday Village Cinemas is the kind of guy who wouldn't own a car. To understand why Gandhi wouldn't drive, one need simply look at his succinct entry in the "Time" almanac. alma-nac. It reads: "Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)- Indian ascetic who advocated non-violent resistance to secure independence inde-pendence of India from Great Britain." TteO K.'""JS3f1 CSfT Jl h e foodl Sample the sumptuous Roast Goose, savor the Salmon a la Grenobloise, indulge in the delicious Veal Marsala. The Birkebeiner Restaurant: Blue checkered napkins, Norwegian freshness, a view of snowy mountains, and warm hospitality. Enjoy its charming ambience for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Glitretind Gourmet Room: Elegant crystal, candlelight, fine wine, cozy fireplaces and world class service. Ski in for lunch or drive up for dinner. am am oiseraar , -'-..' :fj- - - &9 "if Mil "it 1 J jf v; if M IIP - Surroundings, food and treatment in the tradition of a Gold Medal Winner. Stein's Lodge would have nothing less. TEIN ERIKSEN Located just west of Silver Lake in Deer Valley. Reservations r ' " re Suggestk w-3700 It's clear as clear can be. Gandhi was an ascetic. Ascetics don't own cars., ; iTo find that out, all you've got to do is look up the meaning of the word. The entry in the "Reader's Digest" dictionary defines an ascetic as "one who renounces comfort for religious reli-gious devotion... one who leads a very austere and self-denying self-denying life... one who practices prac-tices self denial." Yep, that's Gandhi to the core. No frills no phony baloney. ba-loney. Lots of austere self denial. Taking the fate of mankind seriously. Taking God seriously. Living life accordingly. That's all that Gandhi did. And he did a damn good job of it, too. Gandhi was the kind of guy who'd walk a couple of thousand miles or so to the ocean just to pick up a handful of salt in order to make a point to the vicious British tyrants who occupied his homeland. Two thousand mile trip to the ocean? Sure, no problem. Gandhi's ready. Who's driving? Get serious. We're talking asceticism here. Ascetics walk. Ascetics don't own cars. Gandhi was far too devoted de-voted to anti-materialism to ever own a car. In the midst of this extravagant film biographywhich bio-graphywhich was recently nominated for eleven Oscars Gandhi, played with stunning stun-ning magnificence by Ben Kingsley, is quoted as saying, say-ing, "True happiness can not be found in material objects. Happiness can, however, be found in work if one is doing a task one enjoys." Eternally Eternal-ly a man who practiced what he preached, the Mahatma (or "great soul") owned little more than a walking stick and the homemade shawls he draped across his frame in his humble manner of dress. Even though Gandhi was a respected, articulate, worldly world-ly and educated man ( he was a lawyer before he became an ascetic), he humbled himself throughout most of his adult life. Besides fighting British imperialistic oppression, Gandhi also addressed the social and cultural ills of his homeland. In one of many bold moves throughout a lifetime of non-violent daring-do, Gandhi went so far as to suggest that his fellow In dians dismantle their traditional tradi-tional social caste system. Gandhi said that there should be no more "untouch ables," the lowest class 'ori the social scale, roughly equivalent in contemporary American society to bums, winos, garbagemen and sewer workers. Gandhi, the Lincoln of India, said everybody every-body was equal. To illustrate his point, Gandhi dressed in the manner man-ner of a turn of the century Indian peasant. Gandhi dressed that way no matter where he went. Even at big meetings with heads of state. Gandhi even went to have tea with the Queen of England while bedecked in little more than a bunch of towels wrapped around him. He looked like he just got out of the shower. Now that's hard-core asceticism. as-ceticism. Since he did dress like an Indian bum, it just wouldn't have looked right if Gandhi owned a car. Anyway, cars were hard to come by in India back in those days, shortly after the turn of the century. Henry Ford who was born about the same time as the Mahatma, had barely started cranking Model T's off the assembly line. That's not to say that old Mohandas couldn't have used a few getaway cars now and again. But then, that really wasn't his style. But if he had had, say, a supercharged Corvette or a customized Porsche or something like that handy, the Mahatma probably could have gotten out of a few tough jams. By 1919, he was causing big trouble. That was the year that Gandhi organized the first of many passive mass resistance resis-tance campaigns that the British hated but could do nothing about without em-barassing em-barassing themselves in international circles. (The Mahatma was a crafty guy.) But even though Gandhi's stubborn campaign of nonviolent non-violent resistance did eventually even-tually frustrate the Limeys right out of the country, it took a long time and there was a price to pay. No one played a bigger role nor payed a bigger price than Gandhi himself. Besides the debilitating fasts he occasionally put himself through to get his followers to lay down their arms, Gandhi ws also often thrown in jail. And he was too much of a diehard ascetic religious fanatic to just take the easy M'urott ntit anti inmn in a car and hightail it out of town before the British could throw him behind bars again. Just once during the lengthy "Gandhi" it would have been nice to see that little bugger Gandhi get in some high-powered vehicle and drive right away from trouble. Especially the day he got assassinated. But that wasn't the way old Gandhi did it. He just stood there and took it. Whatever came his way. He didn't fight back. No matter what happened, he remained a passive religious reli-gious ascetic. Gandhi was a gem. But there must have been another side to him. Didn't Gandhi ever walk 'on the wild side? Didn't he ever long to jump behind the wheel of some super-charged turbo monster mon-ster hot rod and go out cruising? Everybody likes to cut loose once in awhile. Just once during "Gandhi" it would be nice to see the Mahatma live it up and act like, say, Burt Reynolds in "Smokey and the Bandit." Y'know, have the Mahatma at the wheel of some awesome machine just like the Bandit's. Maybe they could wort it into the sequel. 1 They could call it "Smokey and the Mahatma." Gandhi doesn't even have to drive. He could just ride shotgun to Reynolds. It would be a great film. An across the board success. It would attract everybody from the rednecks to the religious nuts. The car chase scenes would be classic. Gandhi would sink low in the passenger's seat, giggle a lot and open brews or Reynolds whenever he asked. Reynolds would keep the pedal to the metal end talk on the CB alot. Maybe they'd pick up Sally Fields hitch-hiking just to get a little t&a in the flick. If so, the Mahatma would sit in the back seat and keep his mitts off of her. (He's an ascetic, you know.) As they hit the road in a screech of smoke and rubber, rub-ber, the camera would pan in on their bumper sticker. It would read: QUESTION AUTHORITY, The Mahatma put it there. |