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Page D2, Sunday, June 28, 1992 The Beacon Journal 1 1 Can TV capture the spectacle of fireworks? WUAB to try I WISH AUNANS WMF sr. Lr1 ANCJWEe WfOn a 3 0ST1Hft 1 ymo mm ukw fll) "N5 III Im 1 July 4th extravaganza is at Edgewater Park Some events hockey games come to mind simply don't work very well on television. In the case of hockey, the puck is too small. At other times, the problem is the opposite: The scope of an event is too big. I've always thought that fireworks displays were too large for TV.

But WUAB (Channel 43) is newscast at 6 p.m., too? Doubtful. Look for that second half-hour to be blown up. That wouldn't be a great loss. Although several elements of the second half-hour weather, sports and financial news are strong, the final 15 minutes on most nights are pretty lame. The show simply runs out of steam after about 45 or 50 minutes and the quarter-hour ratings reflect that.

Still, it won't be an easy decision, because Channel 8 has won four consecutive ratings races with its current 6 p.m. format. Meanwhile, Channel 8 has announced that Laurie Jennings will be the featured reporter on the new show. Jennings joined the station in February as morning anchor. Also, Hayes' old weekend anchor spot will be taken by Kelly O'Donnell.

Art review Exhibit from Amenhotep III shows dazzle of ancient Egypt WKSU enters crunch time Although the race is going right down to the wire, Kent public radio station WKSU (89.7-FM) believes it will be able to meet its end-of-June fund-raising deadline and cash in on a six-figure challenge grant to help finance its new headquarters. WKSU's long-sought broadcast center, at Summit and Loop streets on campus, is nearing completion. But a key to the funding was a $100,000 grant from the Kresge Foundation that is contingent on WKSU raising the rest of the $2.1 million for the project. That grant helped spur a $100,000 donation from the Akron-based GAR Foundation. But otherwise the war has been waged with piggy banks, relatively speaking: WKSU has sold, engraved bricks on a walkway; staged an art auction; and, this weekend, held a golf outing.

"June started out really strong, then things slowed up a bit," reports WKSU spokesman Bob Bur-ford. "But usually there's some momentum at the end (of a fund drive), so we think that's going to carry us." At midweek, the station still needed about $19,000. The WKSU office staff will move in early next month, but the studios will not be ready until the end of the year, mainly because of the time needed to run and connect all the wiring. At this point, the new headquarters looks like a spaghetti factory run amok. Staff writer Bob Dyer covers local television and radio.

New boss at WONEWAKR An outsider has been called in to take the reins at Akron radio stations WAKR (1590-AM) and WONE (97.5-FM), where longtime General Manager Fred Anthony recently resigned to become head honcho at Cuyahoga Falls General Hospital. The new GM is Peter Acquavi-va, who arrives from WDZR in Detroit, another station in the radio empire of Philadelphia lawyer Ragan Henry, who bought the Akron stations 2y2 years ago. Acquaviva also has worked in Dayton, Columbus, Cincinnati, Delaware and New York. 1 GHCHi, HUDSON 650-1888 WATERLOO 773-7663 America's 10-OZ. TOP sirloin STEAK Ourfamous U.S.

D.A. choice Top Sirloin Steak Dinner includes our Fabulous Super Salad Table, choice of potato or rice pilaf homemade onion rings and fresh baked bread. $95 This Pharaoh believed to have outshone rest; art from his era includes two colossal statues BY DOROTHY SHEVN Beacon Journal art critic So, you're going to see the Egyptian show at the Cleveland Museum of Art, and you want to know what to expect. Expect to be really impressed. Expect to feel just totally bummed out if you don't see it, because you can see it.

Expect to hear people talking about Egypt's Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep III and His World for years to come. And, expect to spend some time at the exhibit, and wear your comfortable shoes. What you will see has been a long time getting here. When you enter this show, which opens Wednesday and runs through Sept. 27, you will be walking into a world that has fascinated people since ancient times.

Young and old, scholar and soldier, adventurer and devotee of Anne Rice novels have been held in the thrall of Egypt's lore for a very long time. And no wonder. Pharaohs sat on the throne of Egypt for nearly 3,000 years. (And at least two of them were women.) This show, though, concentrates on the Pharaoh whose reign is considered by scholars to have taken ancient Egypt to its peak of power, cultural and artistic achievement. Amenhotep Ill's importance was understood from the time his tomb was discovered in 1798 by scholars who accompanied Napoleon Bonaparte's troops to Egypt.

Throughout the 19th century, Amenhotep was considered to be one of the most important of the Pharaohs. Only recently, with the discovery of the lavish secret tomb of the boy-king Tutankhamen, was the brilliance of Amenhotep Ill's reign temporarily dimmed. Egyptologists know, however, that this is the guy who outshone them all. The show is divided into two sections, downstairs and upstairs, neatly separating works made for the land of the living and those made for the land of the dead. Downstairs, the show has sculpture from temples, quarries and palaces.

Upstairs, it features sculpture made for the afterlife: sarcophagi, tomb equipment, effigies and offerings. To begin, you will pass through the entrance flanked by two colossal statues, the Monumental Ram of Amen Protecting the King, who wears gilded horns and the sacred sun disc, and the Monumental Royal Lion, representing Amenhotep III himself. The ram is from an avenue of rams that led to the Soleb Temple in the Sudan. The entrance to this temple was flanked by a pair of lions, of which the lion in the Cleveland show is one. TWfT.

Cleveland Museum of Art opens its Egyptian exhibit on Wednesday. journey Beacon magazine offers a preview peek of the world of Amenhotep III through photos and a bit of history of the pieces in the Cleveland exhibit. The ram comes from the Egyptian Museum in Berlin, in what used to be East Berlin. The curator who accompanied it to Cleveland had never been outside Berlin and had never flown in a plane before, but flew in the cockpit of a 747 cargo plane, just to deliver this hefty piece of mutton. Notice that all the images are very formal and they all seem to follow set formulas.

That's because in ancient Egypt, art and language were one. The picture writings known as hieroglyphs were not only phonetic symbols; they were signs that even the illiterate could read. "One of the reasons the basic forms of Egyptian art did not change over the centuries is that those basic forms communicated ideas that the Egyptians wanted them to communicate and did so very clearly," said Arielle Kozloff, Cleveland's curator of ancient art and exhibit originator, along with mmmwm it Timed entrance tickets for the Egyptian show at the Cleveland Museum of Art are $5 for adults and $4 for students and senior citizens. There is no charge for children under 12. Museum members need a ticket for admission but may get it free.

All telephone ticket orders must be made through Advantix. Call (800) 492-6048. A $2 service fee will be added. Tickets may be bought at the museum with no service charge (cash or check only). Call 421-7340, Ext.

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High school If U- By Barbara Brandon mm "One of the reasons the basic forms of Egyptian art did not change over the centuries is that those basic forms communicated ideas that the Egyptians wanted them to communicate and did so very clearly." Ardelle Kozloff exhibit originator Betsy Bryan, the Alexander Bad-awy assistant professor of Egyptian art and archaeology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. "So many of these forms that you will see as statues, inscriptions, bas relief, are also formed in such a way that they could also appear in a written text as a hieroglyph," Kozloff said. A faience (tin-glazed ceramic) sphinx from the Metropolitan Museum shows Amenhotep in as a lion. The forelegs of the lion are held out straight with the paws extended upward. This is a glyph meaning to give or to offer.

A large, seated figure, originally of Amenhotep III, but later usurped and recarved by Harnesses is meant literally to say what it represents, the power of the king. One of the things attempted by Kozloff, Bryan and co-organizer Lawrence Berman, CMA curatorial assistant in the department of ancient art, is to tie the various sculptures made during the reign of Amenhotep III to different workshops. The trio spent endless hours measuring and comparing shapes of faces, eyes, mouths and the lengths of noses, arms, fingers and legs. They now believe they can pinpoint which workshops made most of the statues during Amenhotep m's reign. Most of the black and red granite sculptures came from a workshop in upper (southern) Egypt, for instance, and the beautiful, expensive quartzite works came from another workshop in lower (northern) Egypt.

The use of these materials symbolized the unity of upper and lower Egypt. Visitors also may notice that many of these ancient Egyptians, both royal and nonroyal, look alike. That's because "the king's features were very popular, and those who were close to the king preferred to have themselves portrayed as looking like him. It was a mark of status," Berman said. Even the Great Royal Wife, Queen Tiy, is shown with the king's face.

Until the king dies, that is. Then Tiy appears with her own face for the first time. Then comes pay-back time: In a bas relief showing a post-mortem portrait of Amenhotep III, guess what? He has Queen Try's face. friends time-travel in comedy series based on theater film with similar name. 70515 Best of Television: I Love Lucy (WTBS) Host Louie Anderson.

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Although those holiday blasts have been presented before on live TV public station WVE (Channel 25) tried it in the late 1970s this marks the first time the TV coverage will include a choreographed soundtrack. Channel 43 will simulcast with radio station WMJI (105.7-FM), which for the past six years has provided the musical accompaniment. WMJI morning man John Lanigan and Channel 43 anchor Eric Greene will co-host, starting alS p.m. Saturday. The first 40 minutes will consist of feature stories about the huge crowd 300,000 attended last year with the final 20 minutes being commercial-free coverage of the rockets' red glare.

But do fireworks work on TV? "One of the most spectacular fireworks displays in history was probably the anniversary of the Statue of Liberty, and that was broadcast on TV," says WUAB spokeswoman Maureen Foti. "If it's presented right, I think it can go off very nicely." WUAB will give it its best shot, trotting out five cameras. You get what you pay for Andy Graham, the czar of popular Akron radio station WKDD (96.5-FM), this week will intro duce a tune-tested method for cutting costs: free labor. Among the pushovers he has lined up to substitute gratis for the vacationing Matt Patrick is Yours Truly, whose melodious voice will be beamed out into the cosmos from 7 to 10 a.m. Tuesday.

At least I've got an easy act to follow. On Monday, the microphone will be given to Mayor Don Plusquellic. Wednesday's show will be handled by the legendary comedy team Kambrich Williamson (Jim and Mark of Channel 23). Thursday you'll hear the dulcet tones of University of Akron football coach Gerry Faust, who is bringing along some of A cheerleaders. Friday's guest is a secret.

In other words, they probably haven't found anyone yet. WKDD has promised to let the subs air some of their own personal favorite records which ought to knock WKDD's ratings down a couple more notches. End of winning newscast? In case you missed it (and it was a teeny, tiny story), WJW (Channel 8) is introducing a p.m. newscast at the end of August, to be hosted by Eleanor Hayes and Tim Taylor. Taylor beat out former Clevelander Dale Solly, who had been flown in from Washington, D.C., for a tryout.

The larger story may be this: If things go as planned, the new newscast probably will be expanded to an hour within a year. Assuming that happens, would Channel 8 continue to air an hourlong Snorks (TNT) 447813 6:30 a.m. Pink Panther (TNT) 639287 7 a.m. Today (Ch. 3, 21, WTOV) Miss America 1992 Carolyn Sapp; A League of Their Own theater film; authors Bill Fleming, Judy Petersen-Fleming (A Tiger on Your Couch); author Richard B.

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