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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1983-06-01, Page 27Ultimate 1 4.95 Woodstains 4litres StClair mum The paint and paper people WATERLOO SQUARE Waterloo (Near K Mart) 886-3791 Mon. - Wed_ —9:30-5:30 Thum - Fri. —9:30-9:00 Sal. — 9:30 - 5:30 CONESTOGA MALL Waterloo (Near K Mart) 886-2789 Mon. -Fn --9:30-9:30 Sat. — 9:30 - 6:00 Shirley Wieittingto -_ A stitch in time Digital watches are selling for a song these days. With metal or leather straps, in men's and ladies' sizes, in- stalled in pendants, writing pens or cigarette lighters, their squared -off faces look forlornly out of a lot of shop windows, under signs saying "Reduced." The digital craze extends to wall clocks too. Here, ef- forts have been made to make them look distinctive and classic. But you can't make pulsing phosphores- cent green numbers look ele- gant. Those digits are grace- less, designed to conform with concealed inner circuit- ry panels. Somehow, I don't think digital wall clocks will be passed down from generation to genera ion like the grandfather clock which has been in the Squire's family for two hundred years. There's scarcely a family that doesn't have a beloved grandpa's watch tucked away somewhere. Will grandpa's digital watch be treated with the same rever- ence and affection? So while people use digital time pieces for efficiency's sake, I don't think they be- come attached to them. There are reasons for this. First, few of us really understand how a digital watch works. We know that if we press a button, a magically illumined number tells us the time, right to the second. In fact, these wat- ches are so unrelentingly efficient, they blip off the en- suing seconds right before your eyes. These wonder watches don't need to be wound. They just lie there on your wrist, sucking quietly on their bat- teries and waiting for you to consult them. Regular watches — even the battery operated ones — appear to work comprehen- sibly with gears and balance wheels and tinkerable parts where all we know we could adjust with a little training. Their apparent simplicity is Theendecond virture of regular watches with faces and hands is that they give a sense of elapsing time. You can look at the face of a watch and instantly realize It's all ±±,.!I'i1: quite demen airy From my neck of the woods, there IS really no publication that serves my needs like Crossroads. Along with 55,000 other people I find current and accurate TV listings, great advertising bargains, interesting features and topical often humorous columnists. Like I said, it's really quite elementary - there's no other choice for me but Crossroads. Cro oads The largest circulation weekly in midwestern Ontario. 0 that half an hour has elapsed since your last cigarette. A glance at a traditional man- tle clock gives you a direct sense of how much time you have before the company ar- rives or the kids get home from school. Time's passage is inexor- able. Yet everyone — from a kid hurrying to a music les- son to a matron hurrying to a plastic surgeon — struggles against it. I think that by creating beautiful time pieces with filagreed hands and elegantly drawn num- bers and exquisitely balanced cases, we may feel as if we are able to manipu- late a small element of time. Watches with big and little hands and big fullmoon faces seem trustworthy, con- nected through Big Ben and all the town hall clocks of one's lifetime to history. Digital watches lack that sense of history. They also lack souls. If you don't believe me, ask yourself how many crippled wristwatches you have lying around in your dresser drawers. I have five. Three are terminally ill. The others work only with fre- quent ministrations from local watchmakers. But I cannot bring myself to throw them away. They deserve Weare b` a casual -r -into--change it. the garbage with coffee "I could never put Holywood Strip Crossroads—June 1, 1983—Page 7 Crystal true to her principles HOLLYWOOD — The film, "The Night They Raided Minsky's" is, in part, the story of a young woman from an intensely religious home who wants to be on stage and acciden- tally creates the striptease. In fact, throughout film history there have been other lesser epics about minister's daughters who have gone into show busi- ness and gone bad. CRYSTAL BERNARD who plays Marion Cunning - ham's niece on ABC's "Happy Days," is the daughter of an evangelist and is no stranger to the gospel stage. Yet, this is one actress -singer who is remaining true to her prin- ciples while forging ahead with an acting career that bcan only be described as "I do have strong relig- ious principles," she said. "I won't do anything with nudity, strong language or sex. "I was supposed to do a 'Fantasy Island' last year with a love -making mon- tage and they __had -._to___ grounds and orange peels. A ff :6e31s r-ne s 's sav- ing her collection of dead Timex watches for the sum- mer, when she plans to give them a naval funeral. This, she says, is fitting for those plucky and tough little watches. I don't think a puls- ing squarefaced digital watch inspires that kind of affection. Perhaps by rejecting the digital phenomenon we're fighting back against a world that seems suddenly menac- iafg melanin and Bald Along with windows full of low-priced digital watches, I've also noticed an almost hysterical urgency in the televised advertisements for home computers. There seems to he a real effort to make them warm and cuddly and friendly — like Teddy bears with key- boards. Cute, but dangerous — just like Ronnie Reagan's lop- sided boyish grin. myself in that position. It would be like condoning fornication. I'm not saying it's wrong it's just not for me." Despite the restrictions and rules she has imposed on herself, Crystal is much in demand in Hollywood, and all after being in town only a little over a year. The 19 -year-old, who got her first taste of perform- ing as a singer at her fa- ther's crusades, says she always wanted to be an en- tertainer. But it took some convincing to get her fa- ther to let her stay in Cali- fornia to act and modeL She lives alone — or, rather, with a bird and a rabbit named Chewy — and is a very selective dater. She went to college for one year, and began be- fore her 16th birthday, so dating is not a pastime she has had much experience with. Performing is. Crystal is trying to get a record deal, and has already performed with BOBBIE GENTRY in Las Vegas. She's_especally_ exciit hat producers of "Happy Days" have de- cided to let her character sing_a bit next season_ "I Wilt ire_ is a little too naive right now," Crys- tal said. 'Td like to see them expand her, to make her more intelligent. She's got to be her own person." And that's something Crystal knows firsthand KATE JACKSON is ready to come back to se- ries TV, and the vehicle she's chosen is "Scarecrow and Mrs. King," in which she plays a divorced home - CRYSTAL BERNARD .. I do have strong religious principles' maker whose ticket back into the job market is a po- sition in espionage. Her boss is BRUCE BOX- LEITNER, who is taking the crown as TV's hero. ALAN ALDA is guiding his "Four Seasons" movie into series, but will not take a part in front of the cameras. JACK WESTON, who also starred in the fea- ture, will reprise his role, but his movie wife, RITA MORENO, is unavailable, since she's toplining "9 to 5" for ABC. "Seasons" is for CBS. GEORGE HAMILTON has chosen a concept for his CBS pilot. He'll play a moderately successful actor who loses all his money and sells his house to a newly rich black busi- nessman. Then he moves back in as the new owner's butler, trying to keep up the ruse that he's still an actor. 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