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Vo. 9, No. 16 @ University Community's Weekly Feature Paper * July 18, 1988 I, I I I HUGE COC KROACH SWALLOWS ADMI NIST'RATION BUILDING!

Fl ~ C· -C· -- The Fourth Estate: Editorial Mý YOU'LL NEVER BE A MAI When SUNY Chancellor Dr. Bruce Johnstone was near future. November, nobody's anxious to stymie tax cuts for appointed to his post April 27th, many student It's already bad enough that the Stony Brook owes their constiuents. leaders questioned whether he would be able to ham- almost five million smackers to LILCO for back So do yourself a favor. It's Russian Roulette these mer out budget problems with the often obstinate, electricity bills, and that the University is shelling out days. Which department will it be? Ormaybe a tuition tax- cutting-conscious Governor, and the even more hundreds of thousands of dollars to renovate the hike? Or maybe a lapse in maintenance? Write to obstinate State Legislature. While students hope poisonous ventilation units of the Health Sciences Johnstone (see address below) and tell him to work that the head of the SUNY system would do his best Center. Now a department may have to go. What for his $150,000 a year. Make sure that you and your to bolster SUNY's pathetically dwindling .budget, next, a tuition increase? Johnstone said in April that parents know who is running for your local Legislative Johnstone said in April "that tax cuts are' deeply students "see someone in me who is not as resistant seats; if an incumbent gets in, write or call him and tell important to the Governor" and that "we've seen as they would like to tuition increases" and a "tuition him that we are the future, that we are going nowhere trimming and reallocating...we'll just have to cut hike is inevitable in a year". Wonderful if the only affordable higher education in the state- some more", already a sign of reticence that SUNY Johnstone does have his hands full Cuomo and the believe it or not, that's what SUNY is all about--is can well do without Legislature have not exactly been free with the money butchered in order to plant a cheap, plastic, short- So it's no surprise to hear that when the State during the past several years, but offering your hand lived feather in his cap. Legislature-with its thoughts turning towards the as food to a hungry man when you haven't eaten in a LILCO settlement and vacation-finally agreed on a week is hardly intelligent Cuomo has been in the budget, that SUNY received a 58 million dollar national spotlight for some time now, so he wants Chancellor Dr. Bruce Johnstone budget cut Nearly two million of that will come from everything his way, whether it be the ignoble Shore- State University of New York Stony Brook's budget, prompting university presi- ham settlement or miniscule tax cuts bled from 1400 Washington Ave. dent John Marburger to say in Newsday last week higher education. And the entire Legislature, both Albany, NY 12222 that he might have to eliminate a department in the the Assembly and the Senate, is up for reelection this

4) LEARN TO HATE IT EVERY MINUTI U'J Michael Dukakis' recent choice of Texas Senator Dukakis' shunning of Jackson may also hurt him in elections, whether it was hatred or adoration. Neither Lloyd Bentsen as his running mate ought to be November. Seven million people cast their votes for BushnorDukakis can do that, which is why the choice sending a strong message into the camps of both Jackson in the primaries, and they may not be eager of a running mate is so important for both candidates. parties. Gone are the days when the Democratic for party unity in the fall Jackson was informed of the Dukakis did little but get a yawn over his choice, Presidential nominee panders to special interests, Bentsen selection by a reporter, not by the Dukakis except, of course, from the Jackson camp. This may holds meetings with people of every race, sex, creed people, angering the Reverend by not only barring also happen when Bush announces his running mate and color, allowing every little statement to find its him from the ticket but convincing that him and his next month. way into the party's plank. No, no, this is a year of supporters are being taken for granted. Perhaps this is best though. If Dukakis had chosen moderation, or maybe just mediocrity. It may not matter if the majority of Jackson sup- Jackson as VP, the Democrats might have faced a Bentsen, a conservative oil man who has inherited porters don't vote with Dukakis in the general tidal wave in November. Unfortunately, the only the LBJ/John Connally party machine down in election, however. If moderate and conservative eloquent, passionate politician has been ignored; Texas, is a far cry from recent VP choices. Bentsen's Democrates return to the fold because of the Bentsen we'll never know. nomination is a shrewd, calculated move on Dukakis' choice, Bush could be swamped in November. What's part to attract the moderated Democrats who have still up in the air is how the Democrats will appear at moved over to the Republican side in the last couple the convention this week and who Bush picks to be his The of elections. Dukakis has made it obvious that he running mate at the Houston convention later this doesn't want the bleeding liberal tag anymore, and year. If George can Trump Dukakis, or if the Jackson Stony Brook Bush will have a hard time making that label stick people draw blood at the convention, the importance now. of the Bentsen choice could diminish, and Dukakis The differences in opinion between the two run- himself may drown at the polls. Press ning mates on several issues, and the anger of the Of course, all this nonsense would mean nothing if Jackson people over the choice may hurt Dukakis, half the eligible voters ignore the election booth, however. Bentsen has voted with the Reagan admin- preferring to remain at home rather than casting Summer Staff '88 istration on many issues, including Contra aid, Star votes for candidates they have no opinion about This Wars, and the Reagan budget Can this really be a is ultimately the problem both parties are facing this marriage made in heaven? year. At least Nixon and Reagan created emotional Executive Editor...... Craig Goldsmith Assistant Editor ...... Karin Falcone Editor Emeritus...... Michael DePhillips

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by Joe DiStefano The New York State Dormitory Author- On May 19 Chapin residents ended a rent ity has hired a private contractor for the two strike which began on April 19th. The res- year renovation. Gary Matthews, directorof idents removed $65,000 in rent monies the Physical Plant remarked that, "while from an escrow account in time to pay their work started in May, it has been planned for rent for the 88-89 fiscal year which was due one and a half years" Matthews cited a shift on June 1st. in concern from building to maintenance as The rent strike was organized by the a reason for the scheduled repairs. Chapin Apartments Residents Association The first phase of three in the renovation (CARA) in response to a proposed 4.4 per began in May and is currently under way. cent rent increase. Outraged residents of Interior repairs and gutting of the buildings the Chapin complex arranged to withold for structural and heating repairs will follow payment until the administration ad- the first phase which includes roofing, in- dressed their complaints. sulating and installing aluminum siding, CARA members managed to decrease Until the heating system is completely the original 10 per cent rent increase to 4.4 overhauled in the third phase, measures will per cent and their strike forced the admin- be taken to improve it Buildings will be istration to drop the figure to 1.8 per cent gutted two at a time to minimize incon- The decrease was made possible by cutting venience to residents. expenses and not billing students for out of In response to complaints concerning the service units in the Chapin Apartments. mandatory ROLM phones, administrators Insufficient heat and hot water was one of granted the choice of refusing ROLM ser- the problems listed in a letter sent by vice to residents who previously had New Renovations are underway at the Chapin Apartments. CARA to Vice President for Student York Telephone Service. The parking Affairs Dr. Fred Preston. The letter, sent in situation is expected to be remedied by The three officers who formed the core of elected in September. Former CARA Presi- April, also requested a rent freeze, more September with one lot being refurbished CARA have since moved out of the Chapin dent Ramona Vogt hopes that "CARA will parking, and an alternative to the new and a new one to be built behind the future Apartments. Although CARA has dis- continue to monitor the progress of mandatorx RROLM ohone syvstenm veteran's hospitaL banded for the summer, new officers will be renovation."

WUSB Walks The FCC Line 2 DJs Suspended by Rob Rothenberg avoid future problems. "It's double-check- Two DJs were suspended from WUSB, ing on the one thing that can really get us in the campus radio station, for violation of the trouble," said Station General Manager new FCC regulations regarding indecency. Norman Prusslin. Irin Strauss and Arnie Pritchett, both The suspensions and staff meeting also SWUSB veterans, aired material containing allow the radio station to go on record as offensive language (Amiri Baraka reading attempting to follow FCC guidelines and to the poem "Against Bourgeois Art" and a prevent any further violations, according to song by Zoogs Rift, respectively) before Prusslin. midnight The two-week-long suspensions FCC regulations forbid the broadcasting came a month ago, one of them after a of obscenities-material which appeals to complaint by a listener. The decision came "prurient interests"-and restricts in- from the radio station's executive board decent material-material which contains and not the FCC. offensive language or inuendo, but is not In response, an emergency staff meeting obscene-between the hours of midnight was called after the incidents to clarify sta- and 6am. tion and FCC policies dealing with obscen- Violations are punishable by fines or loss ity and indecency. of station licence (WUSB's licence is WUSB is requiring all programmers to owned by the State University of New know the material that they air in order to York). July 18, 1988 page 3 -From the Bourgeois Chair I ,_ - The Fat and Filthy Rich Dept. The venomous Ed Meese, after months of accusations and innuendos, has finally departed from the hallowed halls Down and Out in an Easy Chair of the Reagan administration. Okay, now we're not expert political pundits or anything like that, but isn't there some- by The Not-Ready-For-a-Real-Newspaper thing wrong with the highest lawyer in the land becoming Two Guys Who Don't Get Along embroiled in more scandal than John Gotti? How can an Bourgeois Players We'd like to introduce this exciting new idea we have for Attorney General be tough on crime when he seems to have From the Bourgeois Chair will be appearing regularly in moviemaking which was created after a horrible night of such an affinity for it? And don't you think his wife and the Stony Brook Press, and will consist of a series of ether binging. It's called Two Guys Who Don't GetAlong and children should be sold into slavery as punishment? As long insightful and poignant observations that have occurred Have to Solve a Crime. as we're going to be tough on crime anyway... while sitting in and around an elegant plush, green nauga- Okay, now we know you're cursing yourselves and hyde recliner. Like our direct predecessor, Hamilton, smacking at your heads with blunt objects for not thinking Madison and Jay's Federalist Papers From the Bourgeois of this novel idea on your own, but fair's fair, since we do Maybe Black Shorts? Chair will try to discerningly analyze the present to build for a have a patent..anyway, think of the acting teams you could As anyone with any sense has noticed, it's summertime, better future- And as our friend Dan Aykroyd described it use in this type of movie. Maybe Arnold Schwarzenegger as when heat, humidity, and glare combine to make it much we'll be doing this from a "radicaE rowdy roadhouse, where a Russian cop and Jim Belushi as an American cop at- more comfortable wearing loose, light-colored clothing. they sit around all day watching television and sucking back tempting to solve a case. How about an old guy, like Robert This fact has escaped those from the pretentious, know-it- beers.. " Duvall, and a young one, like Sean Penn? Ora black guy, say all arty crowd, who persist in wearing black turtlenecks and For those of you interested in the legal aspects of these Eddie Murphy, or maybe Danny Glover, teamed with a jackets, as a kind of uniform for their intellectual achieve- things, From the Bourgeois Chairdoes not necessarily reflect white guy like Nick Nolte, or Mel Gibson, if we can steal him ments. Shunners of professional sports, American authors, the opinions of the Stony Brook Press, Inc or its editorial away from those Road Warrior movies. God, the ideas are and movies produced in English, our local cultural titans board endless. are too cool to be affected by the climate. Not so for we regular people, however, who have to sweat ' TANNER '88: Jack's Off and Running under both the weather and the pretentious crew's hot Another Presidential election is upon us, and, as usual air. when these dreary things roll around, there is again little difference between the candidates. Dukakis and Bush are It's Miserable both dull, unimaginative men with little popular appeal and Lately, several of the Chair's friends have ventured into even less personality. Hell, if we actually voted, we'd rather Manhattan to watch the Broadway hit Les Miserables. sit at home watching the Playboy Channel and pull some- Everyone said it was fantastic, but we're not so sure. For the thing besides an election machine lever, which is what most $100 or more that a pair of tickets, transportation into and people do. out of the city, and some dinner costs, we think a lot more That's why we're now declaring our support of Jack could be done for poor people in the sewers than just Tanner for President Tanner, the fictional candidate run- watching them. ning for the democratic nomination on an HBO show written by Gary Trudeau, is better qualified to clean up the An Open Letter to Anheuser-Busch- toxic aftermath of the Reagan administration than either As Americans, we have become deeply distraught over Dukakis or Bush. Tanner is intelligent, witty, liberal, and an the erosion of the values and ethics in our society. Ed exciting alternative from the regular party candidates. His Meese, Irangate, and Falwell and their ilk are all examples political record is impeccable, and although there was that of the degeneration this country is experiencing. As we grow nasty sex scandal with a top Dukakis adviser recently, older we become more and more cynical, and can not place Tanner is still electable. trust in any of our revered institutions. Only the good old If Tanner chooses a popular running mate-say Jack Red, White, and Blue remains untarnished in our eyes, and Nicholson-to counter Dukakis' recent, shrewd choice of that's why, as we crack open cans of frosty amber things, we senator Lloyd Bentsen as Vice-president, the ticket will are declaring our support and devotion to the Anheuser- have a good chance of succeeding. Of course we could be Busch people. wrong, and on an early November morning we may all wake True Americans like George Washington and Thomas up to the New York Times headline: "Dukakis Licks Jefferson would be proud of those who strive to create that Bush..." Dead Farms clean, crisp, taste we call Budweiser. For those about to One of our favorite bands is the Grateful Dead. Friends of collapse in the gutter, we salute you. What's All This We Hear About Lyme Disease? the Bourgeois Chair have been catching shows from Alpine As if we weren't under siege enough already from scary Valley, Wisconsin, to Oxford, Maine. Hot Off the Gonzo Press: diseases, the suburabn/rural regions of Long Island are now In Wisconsin, Jerry and the boys were doing their bit to Hunter S. Thompson's new book, A Generation of host to a new menace-Lyme Disease. combat the horrible economic consequences of the Mid- Swine, has just been released. In between liquor swilling' Spread by deer ticks, Lyme Disease (which hits you right western drought The $5-a-car farmers were charging for and doberman raising, Thompson has actually managed to in the neurons and synapses) has been described as being parking on their fields was probably the only income they make the deadline for his syndicated column and collect "like syphilis without the sex." As a friend of ours described will see all year. In Maine the attitude was best expressed this recent work in Swine. modern society, "You can't lay in the sun too long, walk in by an old man who picked up our hitching friends. He said Unfortunately, in between liquor swilling and doberman long grass, or have sex. And if you have sex in the long grass, " You kids are a lot nicer than those Monsters of Rock freaks raising, we in the Bourgeois Chair were unable to actually in the sun, you're just asking for trouble." who were here last week." read the book. Next issue, however... C no other way to write the song, to sing about lyrics; the June 30th version was straight out nobody else was dancing either. the subject of the studio. It wouldn't seem to take much brain You Can Dylan's customary acoustic set was pure But the real problem with the concert was power to be able to dance and listen to the pleasure: while he generally accompanies the audience in the bleachers anyway. No- words at the same time, but it's hard to himself on harmonica Call Me while playing acous- body danced. I mean nobody. As soon as the explain to people who are staring at the tic, at Jones Beach Smith backed him on first number began our little group jumped stage in rapt attention, never smiling, hard- lead acoustic, often playing an in exagger- up and danced. Before the second verse ly tapping their feet, that dancing is not a sin Zimmie ated flamenco style. This set included a someone's hand was on my shoulder, and a at a Bob Dylan concert Sure, Dylan has continued from back page tune only recently added to Dylan's reper- voice asked me to sit down. 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Steve Winwood at the Cat Club Robert Cray we don't know exactly at Jones Beach Doc Watson at Pier 84 Cro Mags where, so call -and Aug. 13 Friday, July 22 at the Bottom Line at Irving Plaza (212) 227-6268 for Friday, August Kiss 26 Tuesday, July 26 more info... * & The New York Citizens at the Ritz Asha Bhotse Secret Service June Carter Cash Monday, August 1 -and Aug. 13 at the Felt Forum Outside on the The Yellowjackets at the Ritz at the Blue Note Grad. Chem Plaza Fats Domino Saturday, August 13 Meat Puppets Saturday, August 27 9pm at the Ritz Buck Dets Wednesday, July 27 -thru Aug. 5 Joe Cocker at Maxwell's 0 Neil Young & The Bluenotes at Pier 84 Roy Orbison at Jones Beach Vinnie Vincent Invasion Friday, August Southside Johnny 5 Seduce Thursday, August 18 at Pier 84 Monday, August 29 Tuesday, July 19 at the Ritz Pinetop Perkins 0 at Tramps Ranking Roger Andrew Tosh George Benson Buckwheat Zydeco Squeeze -and Aug 6 at the Ritz Judy Mowatt Dianne Reeves at the Lone Star The Smithereens at S.O.B.'s at Pier 84 at Jones Beach Donovan The Beach Boys Ryo Noda at the Bottom Line at Jones Beach 333 Thursday, September 2 at Kampo Cultural Center Riot -and Aug. 19 True Faith at Sundance Saturday, August K-Rouge 6 Boz Scaggs Murphy's Law Friday, August 19 at Irving Plaza Condition Red at Jones Beach Robyn Hitchcock at the Ritz Johnny Winter 10,000 Maniacs Greg Allman Stevie Ray Vaughan Saturday, September 4 Keith Sweat Treat Her Right at Pier 84 at Pier 84 Thursday, Melissa Morgan July 28 at Pier 84 -and Aug. 20 Santana at Westbury Music Fair Nuclear Assault Milton Nascimento at Jones Beach at Showcase Crosby, Stills & Nash The Ramones Toure Kunda at Radio City at Jones Beach at the Ritz -with the Toasters James Cotton at the Palladium Cajun Zydeco Fuiev:r- -- at the Lone Star Rockin Sidney Al Rapone & Urban Blight The Circle Jerks Zydeco Express No Trend at Irving Plaza Allen Fontenot D"Oub DU®OfUU®'00)[M.c Rare Essence at the Ritz at Automatic Slim's Divinyls at the Ritz Friday, July 29 0 Livingston Taylor Wednesday, July 20 Taj Mahal Bonnie Koloc The Nighthawks at the Bottom Line Ambitious Lovers at the Bottom Line Defunkt -and July 30 at Automatic Slim's Saturday, July 23 Jeffrey Osborne at the Ritz Robyn Hitchcock John Mayall's at Maxwell's Bluesbreakers Robert Gordon Koko Taylor & at the Lone Star Her Blues Machine at the Ritz - Fate's Warning Saturday, July 30 Cycle Sluts From Hell Johnny Maestro Bonnie Raitt The Trobbs The Penguins at the Cat Club NRBQ at Westbury Music Fair IUT'^z at51« LIIt155 RitL Colors, Cubes and Crilelty continued from page 7 chain link ferice. themselves across the stage, tossed each us it is theatre even as it draws us into its played by Diedra Hanbury, replies Both Hanlbury and Aristidou were ex- other to the floor, ran from end to end of the illusions It's as though we're being let in on "Madame will wear the red dress." Later cellent in their roles. Both remained pliant cell-like circle, or slid across the floor with the joke, that of fantasy. But what is the she cries, "Red will be the color of our vehicles for the devastating range of perfect form. joke? And who is it on? Are we the spec- shame," turning cne of the cubes from black ecstatic transport and desparate degrad- The play is continually conscious of itself; tators-the joke as we lose ourselves in the to red. The only real props consisted of a ation at the core of Genet's disturbing it knows it is theatre and presents itself as flight between rationality and imaginative suspended shelf on which an alarm clock sat vision. Aristidou, in the role of Clair, be- such to its audience. As the audience, we are detour? What are we doing here? If reality is (the two must tinie their performances with came cold an.d commanding as steel as she made acutely aware that we are watching a that tenuous to begin with, shouldn't be out Madame's absenice), and a telephone. All assumed the role of Madame, and as crip- play, that this is a pocket of reality within making conscious alterations on our lives? the more easily to involve the spectator in pled and sul)servient as jello in the pres- our own. Like two maids, we are involved in Reality itself seems somehow to have been the participation of the creation-so much ence of the 1true Madame. Hanbury leapt a fantasy and made to see this. The play exploited, just as the maids are exploited by more which it is required of the audience to from illuminated transcendance to blind reminds us it is a play from the start as it their snooty Madame. act on-we suppdly the set, which was not rage and back to docile servant with ama- tells us to "Come see the show..." The The performance on the whole was complete until it is perceived by the viewer zing style anid convincing grace. Her face dialogue is free to play upon our emotions ambitious and exciting rm sure many were and acted upon thereby. The circle further was apparenttly the servant of her slightest and grey matter with every licence artifice pleased to see a play of this experimental added to the aiready oppressive scene as degree of whiimsy-through an incredible allows; we have the entire range of theatre nature performed at Stony Brook. Perhaps the actresses luraged toward its perimeter control, her faces cut through the question to play with including hyperbole, spectacle, other plays as daring and vital as The ("red...the color )f our shame") only to stop of convincing performance and carried her poetry, the dialogue is consciously elo- Maids have some chance of enriching the frozen at the edge, like dogs crashing into a character to immediate life. Both flung quent, consciously weighted. This reminds theatre department in the future. Be part of the Stony Brook Press. We crave your affection. Suite 020 Central Hall. July 18, 1988 page 5 -- Vinyl--- · ~ --- I __ Celluloid It' s simplistic yet slick, like a high-budget Geography MTV video. It's ridiculously long and New Always August Plastic ridiculously uneventful (unless you want to watch Susan Sarandon cavort around in her From the mellow music doesn't have to most, uh, exposed role since Rocky Horror Releases Picture Show..."Toucha toucha touch me, I be lame department, Always Augusts new Land ep is a rich array of acoustic guitars and tap wanna be dirty'). drums with a very, ahem, earthy feel Jazz The Milagro The characters aspire to complexity, and influences and stirring rhythms help carry Beanfield War wondrously, gloriously, achieve...medioc- the middle-of-the-road rock and roll voc- rity. They learn nothing as they practice als. political baseball and sex, neither does the "Flatland" is the choice cut, taking the I'l preface this by saying that I only paid audience. Except maybe, just maybe, that it time to develop the wisdom and sound of $2.50 to see Robert Redford's second ain't so bad to spend six bucks for two hours the ep's title and concept directing effort (his last was 1980's Ord- worth of air-conditioning. -K. FaPcone inary People); had I paid $5, I might not have enjoyed as much. -C. Goldsmith & M. Rafferty The War was a real series of events in New Mexico, not a war of guns and bodies, but more a war of rights. In the Southwest, Who Framed water means money and political clout The Roger Rabbit? so-called "War" is about one man's long dead beanfield. See, there used to be lots of water in irrigation channels for all the Dying Disney Studios walk hand-in-hand Mexican-Americans to use on their farms, with Lucas and Spielberg (who have that but the evil white developer who owns the money-making blockbuster knack) down water rights (if you can understand the Animation Avenue. JLouoIC DuInImer whole concept of water rights, but hey, this Returning to a decent standard of ani- is America) needs all the water for his big mation-this ain't no silicon-cel anemia Bongwater vacation development So he jacks up the cartoon produced on a Hyundai computer price of the water to the point where the in a Tokyo basement-Roger Rabbit Bongwater's Double Bummer double- farmers just can't afford to irrigate, and the brings together all of the crowd pleasers is beyond the grasp of a rational beanfields dry up and die. This is how that Disney/Spielberg/Lucas could muster mind. It is uncooked insanity expanding things stand at the beginning of the movie frighteningly real 3-D interaction between and reaching in several-hundred directions, (which is based on true events). animated "Toons" and humans, catchy qnmohnw havin•r qn eleme.t of cnt , Q- 4L- T _•_ TTT-f - --- __ - _ -__ .-_. &L_ VPt oo nte Lone nero aecides to open tne one-liners, loveable/hateable actors (Bob inuity and coherence. irrigation gate on his property-he can't Hoskins as a gumshoe and Christopher Innovative mixing, use of drop-ins and 1933 find a job, his wife and kids are hungry-so Lloyd as Dr. Doom), and cameos by every other nuances allow songs to melt into each that he can grow beans. The tar-paper Loony Toon and Disney character in other and move towards a new direction. Its Missing Foundation shack town that he lives in is shocked; they existence. closest relative is ' White are afraid of the white developer. The only Album. Breaking the barriers of music and people on his side are the gorgeous Mexican Yet Bongwater goes off on an entirely instrumentation, Missing Foundation does woman who runs the town's only garage, different tangent-laughing at the values, not make music, but crude, thrashy in- and her friend, a white lawyer/civil rights politics and music of the last twenty years. dustrial noise. Listen with an open mind type (John Heard) who prints-occaison- Things may be sacred, but nothing is and emotions are conveyed. (Otherwise the ally-an inflammatory paper devoted to the serious. listener may end up writhing in pain on the oppressed poor of Southern New Mexico (if It's one of the few double- worth floor.) I didn't know better, rd swear that Heard, paying for. 1933, Missing Foundation's latest album who delivers his paper himself in a batterd -R. Rothenberg is an intense assault of nihilism. The hyper- VW Bus, is a refugee from the Press). active mellowness excellently sets the The rest of the movie is all resolution; the mood: U.S.A. 1988 is Germany 1933. quality or the size of the crop becomes "There is no hope," only alienation and des- irrevelant, just getting the crop in under the truction, doom and despair, etc...which can mental and physical pressure brought to be expected from people out of the melan- bear by the evil developer and the unsup- choly and maudlin New York underground. portive townspeople is what counts. A must for noise-fiends. The acting is superb, the directing is -R. Rothenberg beautiful: you can feel the heat off the Jessica Rabbit and Bob Hoskins. desert, the sweat of the field workers, the air-conditioning of the developer's estate. Attention to detail is what makes Roger But something wasn't quite right, perhaps Rabbit so fun, as well as a bit over- the simpistic definitions of the characters; whelming. The animation and artwork are you know who's evil, who's good, and who's top-notch, probably the best acetate eel too weak to go either way (particularly animation since Fantasia. At times so musician Ruben Blades as the town's sher- much is happening on screen that your eye riff, a Mexican-American paid by the white just can't follow it all-whirling flowing developer). houses, talking Old West bullets, dancing This is one of Redford's biggest prob- animals, squadrons of sentient flying steak lens. In Ordinary People Mary Moore knives. You leave feeling as if you haven't was too obviously a bitch, Donald Suther- caught half the visual details. land was too obviously weak; in The All this animated wizadry is hung on a Natural the good guys and bad guys wore plot too thin to skate on, not really a sur- Twelve Flights Up white and black It's too easy to affect you. prise because Roger Rabbit is the logical Cynics What a shame from an otherwise excellent (and inevitable) extension of every bit of film. good vs. evil detective story and main- -C.J. Morgan The Cynics are one of the few garage- stream cartoon ever produced. Rabbit is bands who can imitate sixties-psychedelia, the lowest common denominator, it appeals yet retain subtle bits of life and originality. Bull Durham to 8 year-olds at the Saturday matinee as As other bands drift like burnt-out capsules well as the adults after midnight The Beef Sisters It's got lots of cartoon violence (with a through known space, the Cynics are a e real question about Bull Durham is capital V), melodrama, good guys and bad boiling-mass bursting into inner space. The Beef Sisters n, as many have said, why wasn't such a guys, a moral or two for good measure, and They give a new vitality to their influences m ie made before, but why was this movie the sexiest cartoon female that makes them unique. A strong acoustic ep. The Beef Sisters m de at all? ever-Jessica, Roger Rabbit's human-shaped Toon wife- Their latest album Twelve Flights Up spotless record deserves raves. This flick is getting rave reviews and who performs a mild strip-tease at an "All has that grooving heaviness of a great Comparisons to the Roches aside, the tremendous box office sales all over the Toon Revue" for human males only (listen garage band-noisy guitars, slow key- Sisters' harmonies are intoxicating and country, Kevin Costner's Crash Davis is for Kathleen Turner's uncredited sultry, boards and not-overbearing drums, which actually have lyrical content "The Rev- touted as his best role yet, and Susan seductive voice as Jessica). gives their sound a rudimentary erence" is a sparkling commentary on men Sarandon has received similar praise. Bob Hoskins said that Roger Rabbit psychedelic feeling, and women and "Rosh Hoshana" sends Why? is the pinnacle of animation--"Where can you Twelve Flights Up fails as an album chills. "Patti Smith" is better than anything Bull Durham is the embodiment of 80's go from here?" he asked-but hopefully the however,-adjacent songs vary too much on Patti's new album. Big Studio American film. If this movie, as crew animators who worked so painstaking- with little or no transition. It sounds like a The Beef Sisters have taken what its advertising blitz is so quick to point out, ly for two years on Rabbit will apply "Best of..." compilation, which isn't bad appeared to be a sound exhausted and their is the best movie of the year (ha, ha, yuk, considerable talents to since it's the Cynics' best charged it with life and originality. a film that satisfies yuk), than American film has nowhere to go more than the need for pure, albeit excel- -R. Rothenberg -K. Falcone but down. It's movies like this, unfortunate- lent, entertainment. ly, that set standards, and if this is the high -R. Sienna water mark, god help Hollywood. page 6 The Stony Brook Press I : ~ - : - MIMMAIIIIB

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-On Stage- - -- by Chris Volpe By making me guess what was in the box, and immediately discounting my answer for one more grisly and morbid. She deliberate- T simplehough plotit consists concerning of thethea fairly pas- ly made me feel uncomfortable. But she was damnation of two Genet's The Maids sion and also making me part of the drama, drawing domestic maids, The Maids by me into the fantasy of theatre. It was the Jean Genet is primarily about the infinite Weirdness Theatre theme of the play-we were the play as par- play between reality and fantasy, domin- ticipated in the exchange, ourselves ance and subserviance, spectator and suddenly the characters. Genet's drama spectacle. The Maids was performed in a was no soliloquy--it was a dialogue in limited run at the Stony Brook Fine Arts which each member of the audience was Center July 6th-9th. inescapably involved-involved in the fan- Aside from its story line, The Maids con- tasy of art cerns itself with the structure of theatre as In the plot of the play, two domestic an art form, calling into question the maids engage each other in a fantasy world purpose and intent of drama, and ultimate- of sexual and psychological play acting. The ly, of art itself It is impossible to simply game consists of the trading back and forth view The Maids. The play is constructed in of the roles of the master (Madame) and such a way that the spectator is inextricably slave (Madamoiselle) in the absence of their involved in the work as a whole. The employer, the real Madame. A deeply erotic audience becomes a part of the play. That intimacy exists as an undercurrent to the delicate exchange between perception and tortured scenes which ensue. The players the thing being perceived (in this case, a are clad in black brass and skin-tight min- play), is suddenly thrust into the floodlights imals suggesting a sado-masochistic as a part of the play, as a theme; the psych- relationship. Through a barrage of verbal ology of art becomes the art itself. The play abuse and degradation (a sort of catharsis asks questions like "What happens when for the maids), meant to dissipate the frust- we view art?" and "What interchanges ration of their social position as servants occur in that dialogue?" and women-the tension increases each Entering the Fine Arts Center from the time they play, and the game comes closer Union side was like entering a wax museum. to a very real disaster. The servant desires In the double doors, a prone female figure the death of the master. The line between lay, with her hair splayed, motionless. fantasy and reality becomes hazy; the game Directly across and against the wall inside, a gets increasingly violent, closer to the man in carnival clothes with an accordian actual act of murder, closer to the door in sat frozen and silent The hallway was filled reality marked EXIT. Finally both are left with inanimate monuments to vaudeville; staring accross a cup of tea laced with phen- figures dressed in theatrical fashion, all olbarbitol (sleeping pills) originally in- made up, silent and slightly disturbing. tended for the true Madame. Until a piercing whistle screamed ACTION The action takes place on a stage bare of and all was noise, the decadence of the 4. props save three cubes (white, red and travelling circus: frenzy, surreality, and black) set within a red circle painted on the madness. A blind artist with a painted floor. White tape separates the audience moustache offered portraits. A woman in 12from the play. The spectators, seated on black and grave-pale makeup exulted in the &' cushions on the floor around the perimeter possible morbidities an ambiguous box of the circle, were bracketed (as were the contained-"Perhaps it is your mother's players and their roles) by color. Madame mutilated corpse!" she squealed over the wears white (presumably for purity, the voice of another black-makeup-bloodied inaccessibility of her station), and the maids woman screaming "Tickets" and monotone wear black. Red, white and black are the chants of "Come see the show. The show. colors that dominate the play. Clair, played Come see the show. The show." "Perhaps if by Georgia Aristidou, in the fantasy role of the price is right you can touch it," the wom- Madame exclaims, "I will wear a white an with the box was saying. "Would you like spangled gown tonight!" to which Solange, that? Come on...guess what's in the box!" continued on page 5 July 18, 1988 page 7 - Spotlight 'I Ain't Never Seen No Place Like This' Live Jazz Hits Stony Brook

by Karin Falcone audience to brief snacks of sound upon each return. His trombone spoke with the ex- 9th, the Grachan MoncurSaturday, Quartet July performedperformed in the pressiveness of conversational speech. OnFine Arts Center Recital HalL The This made the inclusion of a vocalist super- timing couldn't have been better- fluous. Young Jackie Jones' stiff present- during the heart of the Summer Theatre ation marred her fine, feeling-filled vocals. Festival, immediately after the final per- Still, she seemed to bring the quartet to a formance of Sophiatown. But alas, the high point at the start of the second set community citizens were caught off balance After a long break and the loss of much of or were nodding off in their living rooms the audience, the quartet and vocalist re- again. It was difficult to sell even the turned to perform a sweet rendering of"My Sophiatown crowd two dollar tickets to a Funny Valentine," with a slower pace and jazz concert tighter sound. Despite these problems, the quartet hit The next number, a Sonny Rollins tune, the FAC at 11:15 to about 150 spirits, many found each musician at his best, with Mon- used to a reasonable bedtime and leery of cur leading this fruition of the groove. His anything they've never encountered. Enter trombone melifluously laughing, again in the Grachan Moncur Quartet they begin ; brief sentences; he only stalked off twice. with a piece called "Frankenstein," during The bright, airy recital hall seemed in- which minor sound difficulties, such as appropriate for the Newark based quartet Johnny Ore's unplugged bass, were cleared | A more informal setting would have en- up. Drummer Winnard Harper and vibra- hanced the intimacy and perhaps drawn a phonist Bryan Carrott played with naive looser, larger crowd. ease while Moncur paced, paused and re- Grachan Moncur Quartet at FAC The low ticket price was a step in the right sumed playing his trombone in brief sen- direction. It just seems that crowds are hard tences of sound The dapper drummer was the intense, elder, the mock tension created was merely to come by on this end of the island. One The second piece, "Hipnosis," was sway- inaccessible crowd pleaser. His mastery of melodramatic eye contact quartet member drove around the campus ing. Taken from the period of Moncur's fine his instrument and flamboyance drew ap- Clad in khaki, Moncur continued stalking for an hour before the show began. Lost, he work with Jackie McLean, it provided a plause, but his whiz-kid lack of subtlety was on and off stage throughout most of both said, "I ain't never seen no place like taste of each player's proficiency. irritating. Next to Moncur, the smooth sets, perhaps for cigarettes, treating the this." 'All My Records Are Comedy RecordIs' Bob Dylan At Jones Beach by Craig Goldsmith The Alarm played a half-hour set, and their exuberance and sense of fun seemed a S ecurity check after security check bit lost on the audience. It s almost as if the aftersecurity check at Jones Beach audience had never heard of dancing, but Theatre. Tickets are checked twice the set was fairly weak for the Alarm, which for authenticity and then torn once mixed their numerical anthems ("68 Guns", for posterity. Some guy who is paid five "Spirit of'76") with some new material All bucks an hour by the State Park Service to in all a tepid performance, which brought wear a white t-shirt and plastic jacket is maybe ten Alarm fans to their feet screaming through a megaphone "...no bot- and left me searching for the beach (don't tles, no alcohol in the theatre...no alcohol be fooled, there's no beach at Jones Beach allowed in the theatre...", but the first thing Theatre, there is water, but the surly seen after wrangling through all the gates is security boys who guard the railing over- a huge sign that reads Miller Concerts at the looking the Great South Bay wouldn't even Beach. let you stand there looking). Thats right kids, Miller Highlife, brewed So Dylan comes on stage wearing the in America is sponsoring a concert by the latest in cowhide clothes, sporting patent man who once sang "I been sucking too leather pointy boots and shades; bad press many eggs, drinking too many kegs" and I has followed him on tour, he's got a new wonder if he'll come on stage and sing record out that is actually getting (for better "Everee-bodee must drink beeeer..." Every or for worse) top 40 airplay; he approaches ten or twenty feet is a yellow t-shirted-and- the microphone, his face all puffy, his knees jacketed fellow sweeping garbage and knocking together, his hands grip the guitar taking orders from the guys in the green like it's an artifact from another planet shirts, who run around with walkie-talkies (What's this? A guitar?) and.. set to volume 10. Tres 1988. He tears into "Subterranean Homesick Inside the amphitheatre, guys in red t- Blues" with the energy and force of twenty- shirts tell the audience to keep moving, find year-old, the slickness and precision of a 47 your seats, find yourseats, no standingin the year-old who has been on the road since aisles, find your seat have a good show, sir, 1960, and the sheer presence and power of find your seat keep moving... a nearly con- Bob Dylan. He ripped through song after stant drone of human traffic lights and high- song, old ones, new ones, every note saying way signs, all of them being paid out of tax "Tm Bob Dylan, these are my songs, so dollars and ticket receipts. The air is cool listen to this you fuckers, this is what it'sall and clear, the porta-pots are clean, a full about" and nobody doubts him. moon is rising over the water, a perfect night Backed by a spare trio-most notably for music and dancing. The crowd ranges in G.E. Smith of Saturday Night Live age from kids to grandparents, all very po- fame-Dylan fired through his songs, doing lite (no-one argues when the rightful ticket unnameable things with his voice. Con- holder of a seat asks a group of squatters to tortion would be an understatement, as move), all very mellow, a bit too mellow, a would howling, baying, screaming, crying, bit too polite for either the opening Alarm, and nose humming, leaving his band mem- most of whose die-hard fans are up front, or bers to dance and writhe and gape wide- Zimmerman, whose arrogance, justified eyed at the man who has been playing and self-righteousness, or thumb-waving cha- singing since they (and we) were in diapers, risma have not been dulled by his kids or his or just a thought in our parents' brains. years. continued on rase 4 r o- I- -1- · Llld- -r · - - : 1- · ' -JL · ' -- - I -- - -- : - I _