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...Hawaiian freshman David Fazi led the Crimson with three goals and five assists, while teammate Steve Munatones chipped in two goals and three assists. Houston Hall collected a single tally and a pair of assists...
...blockbuster without the block, which opened last week at the Art Institute of Chicago. Until 1983, as it trundles from one major museum to another around the U.S., this show of more than 300 objects will be flacked up as a "major" statement about the ethnic culture of the Hawaiians and the reactions of Europeans to it. In fact, it is nothing of the kind. Such a show would be eminently worth doing, but it would require a major curatorial effort. "Hawaii: The Royal Isles" (the kitschy title sounds a warning gong at once) took no such exertion...
...reason for this is largely historical. Europeans, intoxicated with the cult of the Noble Savage, got interested in Hawaii through the Pacific explorers of the 18th century. Large quantities of porta ble Hawaiian artifacts went back on the boats to Europe, where they remain in the British Museum and other collections from Ireland to Germany. European collectors also gathered most of the paintings and drawings of real historical significance that whites made of Hawaii. (How much clearer our sense of English cultural attitudes to the Hawaiians would be, for instance, if the show had borrowed Johann Zoffany's ambitious...
...historical interest, few of them have any aesthetic dimension at all, and the effect tends to fluctuate between Trader Vic's and Portobello Road: old photos, crude portraits, a throne run up by a lo cal German carpenter in 1847 for King Kamehameha III. More recent currents in Hawaiian culture are sketchily represented by the attempts of living artists to make art based on aboriginal myth. These efforts at nostalgic revivalism look like airport...
DIED. Douglas Kenney, 33, a founder and onetime editor of the humor magazine National Lampoon and co-author of the screenplays for the 1978 hit Animal House and this summer's Caddyshack, which he also produced; in a fall from a 30-ft. bluff on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, where he was vacationing. A 1968 graduate of Harvard, where he was an editor of the collegiate Lampoon, Kenney and two other former editors in 1970 launched the National Lampoon, which has since spun off movies, stage revues, a radio show, records and books...