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Titian Schlummernde Venus” (1510) Erotica? Pornography? Who Sees What? rt and the erotic and/or pornographic image have maintained a long and in­ cestuous alliance. Indeed, perhaps the first known work of sculpture recovered, the Paleolithic “ Venus of Wildendorf” reflects in a size somewhat larger than a person’s thumb a avoluptuous fem ale form radiating with sexual potency. The representation of woman as sexual goddess has continued to preoccupy virtually every cultural epoch. Our own age is no ex­ ception. In fact, images of women in a sexual context have become so alarmingly com­ monplace that one is coerced into endorsing it. And that is precisely why the accelerated ex­ ploitation of these images through the media is so insidious. A naked woman lying suggestively upon a bed is a scene celebrated and culturally legitamatized by Titian, Rembrandt, Goya, Watteau, Manet and just about every other greater or lesser talent that has applied paint to a surface. This particular kind of image has become so ingrained in us that we accept and even pay homage to it as part of our history. In both a high and low art form people of both sexes continue to help foster and encourage it. The men who buy Playboy and the women who buy Cosmopolitan are, in truth, purchasing one and the same image. In fact, we have become so saturated with these images that they tend to cancel one another out, leaving us benumbed to their subtle manipulation. This is commonplace, a fam iliar aspect of everyday life. We are continually, through the various media, assaulted with seductive images, images which are often dangerously por­ nographic. It’s all so inescapable. But what about art? What has its role become? Shouldn’t art be a refuge from the vulgar? Shouldn’t it ennoble and enlighten? Must art also propagate the spiritual, cultural, political and economic enslavement of a society through this coarse stereotype? It is naive idealism to believe that art and por­ nography are antithetical to one another. Art, like life, is not exempt from sleaze. The history of art has bequeathed to us too many exasperating examples of hard and soft-core images to trumpet its Olympian moral stature. Sue Coe; (1983) When Gustave Courbet, one of the great vir- “ W o m a n Walks into a Bar, Is Raped by Four Men on a Pool Table, While 20 Watch" (See EROTICA, p.3A) 2A Thursday, May 15,1966 Daily Nexus EXTRA VA GANZA '86 ^ f t V j u r

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UCen Gallery Last Week's Show EROTICA... Seven large canvases draped the ceiling, walls, and floor of a dimly lit (Continued from front page) (for personal collections not necessariy intended for UCen Gallery. Covered with tones of white, black, grey and an acidic yellow, tuoso painters of the 19th century, depicts the public display). Today, many contemporary artists, some are abstract, allowing the viewer to roam through ambiguity. Others salaciously exposed sex of a woman, art history Salle not the least among them, use pornography in are representational, conveying a sense of real forms. Still others, a shuffles its feet and pretends not to look. Or, far the name of art to captivate their widespread disembodied figure for instance, are abstractions rooted in the physical worse, when the darling of 19th century French audience. They claim the auspices of past artists, that world. Amidst the canvases a group of sculptured busts, all alike, spiral in a academic painting, Bougereau, represents a peasant they are continuing and building on erotic tradition in hierarchical procession toward the ceiling. Hollowed out, they sit atop girl near a well with a broken jug and remorseful look, art. It is, however, one thing to use art in the name of gauze-covered columns of various sizes that taper downward. Sounds of it is treated with a bland superciliousness by the same eroticism, and quite another to perpetuate por­ muffled voices, footsteps, and closing doors contribute to the overall effect. art history. Both images gain strength through this nography in the name of art. For those who took the opportunity to experience the untitled installation tacit refusal to address the issue of why these artists Another dilemma in drawing the vague line between by art studio senior Bryan Burkhart in the UCen Gallery from May 5-10, the have chosen (Courbet, at least, in a more honest way) art and pornography is the problem of intention and venture was an insightful and enjoyable break from the pressing concerns of to perpetuate a dangerously demeaning image of perception. Sue Coe’s 1983 work Woman Walks into a the day. women for the titillation of male patrons. Bar, Is Raped by Four Men on a Pool Table While 20 Burkhart’s formal undertaking was an ambitious one: to transform a Contemporary art has appropriated Courbet’s Watch is based on a brutal incident, originally incited white-walled rectangular room into a more complex space. A ceiling canvas, graphic vulgarity. Art, after all, is voyeurism; the by a Penthouse article. The painting is a horrific, depicting a team of masked surgeons whose hanging garb reinforces their artist acts as the transmitter of images to the violently graphic commentary against the imposing scale, peer down at the participant (view er), who in turn looks patronvoyeur. Television has continued to escalate this glamorization of rape. Yet who’s to stop some twisted down upon a floor canvas of figures standing around a trampoline. The effect voyeuristic tendency in our culture. Contemporary mind from interpreting this as arousing, and thus of the canvases creates enlarged vertical space in both directions, placing television has claimed Bourgereau’s “ tee-hee-hee, unintentionally furthers existing violence against the participant on middle ground. The physical position of the participant hubba hubba” approach of its own. (One need only women? The artist’s intention helps to determine the produces tension, as he/she is seemingly under the control of the figures watch reruns of Three’s Company to see the fruition of statement of the art, but ultimately it is up to the above, and in control of the situation below. Burkhart achieves these effects Bourgereau’s watered-down lust through innuendo.) At spectator, the individual, on how s/he wants to in­ with excellent draughtsmanship and handling of line. the present time when values in art and television terpret the work. In the end, the power of artistic He refrained from titling the installation, preferring for the participant to appear frighteningly similar it is useful to remember commentary and persuasion is limited by how the interact with the expressiveness of the work in his or her own way. The that art and Courbet can still brutally shock us while audience choses to percieve it. images mirror in some way the experience of the artist. television and Bourgereau cannot. Though the artist still has the power to shock, that Ultimately, Burkhart is concerned with conveying the same ideas and Today, Wesselman presents faceless, pop visions of power has been drastically reduced. The artist has feelings on various levels, and from different perspectives. Control and lack women as human as wallpaper; Robert Longo offers been engulfed by the media’s increasing flood of of control, along with the feelings that accompany this situation, are at the us an intimate yet strangely alienating view of images and is restricted within the same psychological heart of the work. This situation and feeling permeate not only the images copulation, and rather more disturbing, David Salle confines as the society that patronizes her/him. Artists presented, but also the process of integrating those images, and the ex­ layers his painted tableaux with patently degrading and their calling, like everything else in life, can fall perience of interacting with those images. In this sense, artist and par­ images of women. Is this pornography, or merely prey to corruption. It could be that painters like David ticipant are aligned, the artwork between the two. eroticism? Or is it something else? Salle have sacrificed themselves to the revulsion we — Paul Scolari Many past masters have used their artistic abilities all share. Perhaps it is just these images of revulsion for erotic, perhaps even pornographic reasons. Bon­ in the context of a r t-----an inescapably serious forum nard obsessively painted his wife in the bathtub, and -----that will ultimately incite the communal cry of Baroque artists such as Boucher and Fragonard often “ we’ve had enough", the magic phase out of which the painted their client’s mistresses in suggestive poses truly marvelous is engendered. — Shirley Tatum

Shankar Comes to Campbell Arts & Lectures presents master luring the last 20 years, largely due ballet. His poignant score for film sitar player Ravi Shankar in ;o Shankar’s influence on con- director Satyajit Ray’s celebrated Campbell Hall on Friday, May 16 at om n/ipom r U/ocfom m nci/nanc ciii'h Apu trilogy raised film music to a 8 p.m. Tickets are on sale now. new standard of excellence. He also Raging Reggae Raiders A world-renowned composer and composed two Concertos for sitar musician, Ravi Shankar is a and orchestra, as well as the film Kwame Marc and the Kushite Raiders began their career as a band over phenomenon in the classical music score for the Academy Award­ three years ago on the Venice Boardwalk. Inspired and nourished by the of both East and West. He has winning film Ghandi. Recently he cultural diversity of the Venice area, the Kushites quickly developed a performed to popular and critical wrote new music for flute virtuoso powerful stage show. In the early months of their career they amassed a acclaim in all of the major concert Jean-Pierre Rampai, violin com­ large following in the west Los Angeles area. Since then their audience has halls of Europe, North and South positions for Yehudi Menuhin and widened to include all of Southern California. Now they are loved as far as America, North Africa, and Asia. himself, and works for Hosan Houston, Texas. Through his performances, com­ Yamamoto, master of the Kushite sounds are infectious, incorporating the rhythm and roots of positions and teaching, Ravi shafeuhachi (Japanese bass flute). reggae, the soul of R & B, and the drive and power of rock. Raider music is Shankar has been a cultural in­ Shankar will play a concert of highly danceable stateside reggae music, firm ly based at the root of fluence in the West for the past three Indian classical music, ac­ America’s very own cultural music. decades as India’s most recognized companied on sitar by his son, From a wide range of musical backgrounds, including Kofi Obrubri’s and esteemed musical ambassador. Shubbo Shankar, and on tabla African Jazz Friends, and the Jimmy Castor Bunch, the Kushite Raiders are Shankar plays the sitar, a long­ ( Indian drums) by Kumar Bose. preparing to Rock the Nations. Seven players, singers and songwriters necked guitar-like instrument that For more information, or to rocking as one, to quote a prestigious reggae DJ. “ One of the most excitingly has been an integral part of Indian as George Harrison. charge tickets by phone, call the innovative reggae bands rooted in California” (Roger Steffens, Reggae classical music for centuries and As a composer, Shankar has Arts & Lectures Ticket Office at 961- B eat). has gained popularity in the West written extensively for film and 3535.

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Though not officially acknowledged, 1985 and 1986 can and should be referred to as the “ Years of the Wimprock.” Spawning from good ol’ Athens, Ga., this contemporary breed of modern folk music has taken the world by storm. Featuring the legendary Don Dixon at the production helm, Maryland’s Dumptruck has just released their second album, ap­ propriately titled Positively Dumptruck. Founded by guitarists/vocalists Kirk Swan and Seth Tiven, Dumptruck just might be on to something. With a now per­ Dinner manent line-up, the frayed edges and weak production that Lunch Sundays & Weekdays haunted their first album have been replaced by a tight and Monday-Friday 5:30-9:30 more refined sound. Though Positively Dumptruck offers 11:00-2:00 pm Friday-Saturday nothing new to music, it is an above-average work of straight­ 5 :3 0 -1 1 :0 0 forward, no-frills “ wimprock” that deserves a listen. Along with the folk roots, a generous dose of neo-psychedelic can be traced to “ Back Where I Belong,” “ Nine People,” and “ Walk Into Mirrors.” And it is on the majestic “ Back Where I Belong,” that Dumptruck’s refined sound is at its best, even they are Dumptruck though the guitar antics sound incredibly similar to the ultra- bitchin’ guitar on the Guess Who’s “ American Woman,” but then again I can think of dozens of “ American Woman” rip-offs. Backed by the newly-acquired rhythm section of drummer 962-3131 Shaun Devlin and bassist Michael Prigger (the latter not featured on the album), the band is now complete. For now this Downtown off Chapala between De la Guerra & Canon Perdido is Positively Wimprockily Dumptruck. — Cesar Padilla FALL REGISTRATION PRIORITY REBISTIUTION FOR FALL QUARTER: CHINESE RESTAURANT AUTHENTIC MANDARIN, SZECHWAN HUNAN CUISINE TUES. MAY 20 - FBI. MAY 23 SEAFOOD SPECIALTIES SPECIAL DISHES, FIRST TIME PRIORITY DAYS ARE ASSIGNED BY CLASS LEVEL. CONSULT YOUR SERVED IN SANTA BARBARA REGISTRATION FORM AND THE SCHEDULE OF CLASSES.______SPECIAL PARTY SERVICES OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK 11:30 am - 10:00 pm TURN IN YOUR REGISTRATION FORM AT THE DROP-OFF POINT IN LUNCH-11:30 am-3.00pm FRONT OF THE MAIN LIBRARY, OR AT CHEADLE NALL IN CASE OF FRIDAY & SATURDAY TO 10:30 pm 9 6 7 - 8 1 3 0 RAIN. LUNCH S P E C IA L - O N LY $3.15, Served 7 Days a Week • LOOK FOR THE BLUE AND WHITE STRIPED CANOPY • Includee; Appetizer, Soup, Fried Rice, Entrees of the Day, Tea & Cookies 5688 CALLE REAL, GOLETA (Near Holiday Inn) lexus Thursday, May 15,1986 5A ÌRoooe

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Shortsighted Artistry Santa Barbara (805) 966-1585 North Carolina’s Let’s Active is In the meantime, Mitch Easter written, produced, mixed and sung has delivered a fine collection of by guitarist Mitch Easter. Pretty eleven songs recorded, as expected, impressive, huh? at his infamous Drive-In Studio in Big Plans for Everybody picks up Winston-Salem, North Carolina. where Let’s Active’s first full-length While this album as a whole teeters album, Cypress, left off. Though on creative limbo, various tracks described as a guitar record with a stand out as excellent, particularly non-purist approach, Big Plans “ Last Chance Town” and sounds more like classic wimprock “ Reflecting Pool.” The rest of this drowned by guitar solos. Lost on this album borders on pleasant and at album is the playfulness and times, though very rarely, falls into Let’s Active’s Mitch Easter childlike approach that made their the monotonous category. Maybe if There has been yet another mildly E.P. Affot and Cypress so pleasantly Mitch stepped outside of his greedy addictive dose of “wimprock” listenable. This approach had been artistic boundaries a more fluid brought to us by none other than the abandoned for a more sophisticated work might be the outcome. He may technical wizard himself, Mitch and mature one. The new one, have done wonders producing for Easter. As it stands now I can however, is only semi-successful. R.E.M. and other folk rockers, but assume Mitch Easter is Let’s Active Plagued by excessive in­ his artistic insight falls short in Big and anyone previously affiliated strumentation, Let’s Active’s Plans. I suggest Michael Stipe (lead with the band has left or faded in the redefined sound is still in early singer of R.E.M.) producing Mitch backdrop. A bit greedy, you might developmental stages that shall Easter. Now, that sounds like Big say, but Big Plans for Everybody, hopefully be resolved in the next Plans. Where Good the second full-length album by release. — Cesar Pedilla Friends Meet! Bangle Bliss Returns to S.B. SOLETA I realize everyone has had an overdose of the hit Top standards. Turn off the groove tube, make a stop at the 40 smash single “ Manic Monday” , but Monday, May 19 Versatel, and boogie on over to the Arlington. Bring the is not your everyday Monday. The grooviest goddesses kids, the family, the neighbors for an evening of nonstop of pop radio shall invade Santa Barbara’s Arlington pop entertainment. Theatre for an onslaught of Bangle Bliss. An angelic If you still aren’t satiated and your auditory passages choral mesh featuring Susanna, Vicki, Debbi, and don’t think this is enough, you should arrive ontime for Micheál shall penetrate the eardrums and make its way one of Australia’s premier bands, the Hoodoo Gurus. Out into your heart, for a feeling and sound like none before. on the road with a new major label recording contract as Rocks tars they may be. Beautiful they appear. Bit- well as promoting their latest album, Mars Needs chin’ they are. And they do a Prince song that I ’U forget I Guitars, the Hoodoo Gurus bring their own homespun mentioned. Don’t let Monday boredom bring you to a version of Aussie pop for one magical and momentous lull. Check out the Bangles as they shred through songs evening. off their latest album, Different Light, and other Bangle — Cesar Pedilla

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also figures in briefly, with a white supremiscist leader who resembles Adolph Hitler. All this is relatively unimportant, however, for storyline, as in most musicals, is not terribly crucial. Beginners most resembles Brazil visually. It is an explosion of neon images and novel camera angles. Some of the visual effects are quite clever; there are hundreds of things to look at in every frame. Ultimately, this film basks in its own hip energy, and with so much ex­ pended, along with so many fascinating distractions, it is hard not to like it. It can survive on pure cool. The producers have made good use of a prestigious cast, and a few of the players are wonderful. Ray David Bowie and Patsy Kensit Davies, for instance, plays a minor □□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□ part as Colin’s father. His song, “ All I Want is a Quiet L ife” is sung while he strolls frantically through his Beginners' Pure, Hip & Cool schizophrenic household. The set is three-sided, so that one observes the □□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□ ludicrous activity in each room Decadence seems especially in 1958, and are real people, if a little simultaneously, as with a large style these days. For instance, of stylized to fit into the limited plot. dollhouse. Sade puts in a stunning two recent films, one featured a Colin (Eddie O’Connell) is a young moment or two at the Chez Nobody child’s wonderland of red bicyles aspirant who carries his camera jazz club and another minor and magical inventions, and the around Soho, and keeps an internal character, Mr. Cool, is, well, cool. A g g » other an overwhelming collection of journal which serves as useful David Bowie is most used of the political and social icons. Both were narration. Suzette (Patsy Kensit) is featured artists and his is an fairly successful at the box office. a chic if underpaid assistant to a adequate performance. Most of the Julien Temple’s A b s o lu te fashion designer who also others are also quite effective. Beginners has realistic hopes of desperately desires success, and success, for it is young, beautiful, goes for the fastest and easiest way Absolute Beginners is not as in- and energetic. A friend accurately to it, creating some problems for the tellegent a film as Brazil, but then described it as a cross between somewhat more idealistic Colin. again doesn’t need to be. It mimics Brazil and West Side Story. Com­ While they feverishly chase that film ’s energy and is quite parison to the latter work is perhaps elusive success, there are race riots wonderful on its simple, energetic most valid. The films share a certain in Colin’s neighborhood, providing level. Like Brazil and Pee Wee’s Big won young naivete. Both take place in an excuse for some brilliantly Adventure, this is a world of clever SOLO ACOUSTIC GUITAR special quarters of a large city. choreographed fight scenes at the pop inventions. (Colin stores his There is the classic boy loves/loses/- climax. The whole affair, of course, shirts and records in an old ARLINGTON THEATRE - SANTA BARBARA regains girl theme so common in is rounded out rather nicely in the refrigerator, for instance). TUESDAY, JUNE 10 8:00PM musicals, and also a bit of racial end. Youth, after all, is nearly im­ It is also a big party. The guests Tickets: $16.50. $15.00 conflict. possible to squelch. are young, exuberant, ruthless, and Tickets available at Arlington Theatre box office, But this is definitely not the story Absolute Beginners also shares a well-dressed. They will grab success Morninglory Music, all Tri-County outlets and at all of a modern Romeo and Juliet in theme or two with Brazil. while they can and revel in it. A hard including jailhouse Records in Ventura London. The two protagonists are Capitalism catalyzes certain events, attitude, perhaps, but it makes for ' ' " ‘ and Leopold Records. “ proto-teenagers” at the beginning for instance, and David Bowie is the some marvelous entertainment. TO CHARGE BY PHONE (805)583-8700 of the youth movement in London, principal profit hunter. Fascism — S.M. Wenrick

A N O T H E R PaCIFICOnCERTS PRESENTATION □□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□ A Poet Presents RECHERCHÉ Novelist Joy Kogawa will present Japanese and Japanese Canadians the second in a series of free in the interior of British Columbia. readings by writers entitled After the war she moves to the harsh “ Breaking Silence: Three Con­ prairie of Alberta, forbidden by the temporary Asian American Woman government to return to Canada’s Writers.” Kogawa will be at UCSB Pacific Coast. on Thursday, May 22 at 4 p.m. in the Obasan is renowned for its poetic UCen Pavilion. style as well as its piercing Kogawa is the author of four narrative that reveals the racism volumes of poetry. Her well- and injustice rampant during the received first novel, Obasan (1982), war. “ This novel burns your hand,” won the Books in Canada First Novel wrote a reviewer in the Washington Award and the Before Columbus Post. But the fire is in its quiet Foundation American Book Award. poetry. “ Rage mellows into sorrow; Obasan is a fictional biography of sorrow illumines love.” It is love Kogawa’s family. Her parents are that you come away with, finally, in Joy Kogawa Nisei (second generation Obasan. Canadians) in Vancouver, where she The final author in the “ Breaking Union, A.S. Commission on the You remember them from Del Playa! was born. Her grandparents im­ Silence” series will be poet Cathy Status of Women, the College of migrated to Canada from Japan in Song, at UCSB on Thursday, May 29. Creative Studies and the Women’s Now see them AGAIN! the late 19th century. Obasan is the The series is sponsored by Arts & Center. - IN M A Y - story of a young girl who grows up in Lectures, Asian American Studies, For more information call Arts & Joseppis, 434 State St. Thursday, May 15,9:30 pm a World War II internment camp for Asian Pacific American Student Lectures at 961-3535. The Shack, 5796 Dawson Ave., Goleta Saturday, May 1 7 ,10 pm Arts Bar, 2611 De la Vina Wednesday, May 21 & Thursday, May 22,9:30 pm PACIFIC Undergraduate HOLIDAYS

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AFTER 5 PM ’ Restrictions apply The deadline for submission of camera-ready manuscripts is June 2 0 . Students in­ 955 Emb. del Mar tending to submit a paper but needing more time may be allowed to submit after this date s— i— sruotm L z TI f .7 f TKAVll provided they make their intentions known early to the editorial office. 968-RIBS CzJLM k J wnwom S. BARBARA (800) 654-9749 Daily Nexus Thursday, May 15,1966 7A 'A Room With A View ' With an extremely distinguished of prime directing. Some gorgeous ARTS EDITOR: cast of characters, the potential was turn-of-the-century costumes and limitless, but often when the film detailed sets are displayed, and the S u sann e * Romance o f Europe took off in some direction, it sud­ quaint soundtrack includes the great denly fell back into a slow limp. One opera voice of Kiri Te Kanawa (who * VanCleave □□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□i of the protagonists, the young amant will be at the Arlington theater There is something in the quiet protagonist and this George George, is provided no dialogue with soon). beauty of Florence that instantly Emerson. The elder Emerson also which to grow. His biggest The film ’s opening passage easily Asst. A rts Editor: seduced the mind of this avid pushes the match. He is a good- aspiration, having a sensitive mind, seduces you with its splendour and filmgoer. Laced with the gentle hearted but cynical man (when a comes across as poorly as Lucy’s romantic atmosphere. Its Sabrina Wenrick grain present in A Room with a guide at the Duomo reminds his tour repeat performance of the very “ Englishness” is not a drawback in View, I doubt anyone else in the that it was built on faith, he remarks same lines. While he criticizes her itself, as it conveys a special aura audience differed in opinion. The “ that only means the workers fiance for wanting her for show, he added to a sharply debonair style. CONTRIBUTORS: immeasurable charm of the heroine, weren’t paid properly.” ) himself comes out as a sex-starved Take a close friend and share the Maureen Fan Lucy Honeychurch, only adds to the Things are not so different back in buffoon. Predictability and a slight beauty, the romantic setting and the beauty, if not outrightly stealing our England, where the rose-tinted sappiness take a toll as well. memorable moments that save the ic Karl Irving attention away from it. cinematography still prevails, and Nevertheless, Room With A View film from being a self-parody. It is Once the scenery and the soft the scenery is as picturesque as has its qualities of excellence. It is an alluring view of a sweet tale, Cesar Padilla focus have beguiled you, a rather ever. (I believe the location is subtle and charming with some albeit a simple one. Paul Scolari * interesting assortment of characters Surrey.) Another batch of superb cinematography and a mark — Karl Irving is introduced. They are all English, characters displays an amazing Shirley Tatum and have taken lodgings in the lavish variety of idiosyncracies. Lucy’s Pensione Bertolini. fiance is the worst, a snobby fellow Besides Miss Honeychurch, a with his nose perpetually planted in somewhat subdued and inex­ a book. He kisses quite clumsily. perienced but headstrong young One wonders why he was not given woman, there is her cousin/- the pastor’s name, Mr. Beeb. He chaperone, an older woman with pays hardly any attention to Lucy at good intentions who manages to all, save for admiring her beauty bungle her way through the film. (“ You’re like a Leonardo” ) or her They encounter the Emersons, a skill in playing Beethoven on the curious father/son team who happen piano. to be in possession of the room with The film is a hodge-podge of sights the view, which they kindly offer to and scattered thoughts both the two ladies. Etiquette dictates esthetically pleasing and quite stubborn refusal on the part of entertaining. There are countless cousin Charlotte, who does not want moments that bring out laughter, her charge to fall under the the nude bathing scene in particular. obligation of strangers, particularly However, the whole thing is when one of them happens to be somewhat weighed down by a Lucy’s age. However, the resident distinctive British dryness and a plot “ philosophizing pastor” smoothes that goes nowhere save the logical things out, and later encourages the conclusion for any romance (it is inevitable match of the lovely based on the novel by E.M. Forster).

U.C.S.B. Department of Dramatic Art Readers Theatre Project presents: Yonnondio From the Thirties by Tillie Olsen

Adapted fo r the stage and Directed by Patricia Bower

U.C.S.B. Main Theatre May 21 and 22 N o Admission Charged 8i00 p.m.

JAPANESE CLASSIC FARCE CO M ED Y LECTURE - PERFORMANCE In English by the KENNY-OGAWA KYOGEN COMPANY OF TOKYO M o n d a y —May 19—4 pm 8A Thursday, May 15.1986 Daily Nexus I AS PB SA TURDA Y EXTRA VAGANZA 5 BANDS • FREE • GAMES • FREE • DRAWINGS

generalizations, as all the members are minorities. In their own words, LONE JUSTICE they play “ minimum wage rock n’ roll.” Lone Justice will head the free “ Soap, Soup and Salvation” — ex­ Brian O’Neal of the Busboys in­ concert this Saturday at the 6th pect a rousing set. troduced Fishbone to his manager annual Extravaganza in Harder The Babylon Warriors, considered after seeing them perform at Stadium. The outdoor concert, the first L.A. band to play nothing Madame Wong’s in L.A. Fishbone, which also features the Bus boys, but reggae, have captivated club who is also included in the line-up on Babylon Warriors, Fishbone and the audiences with numbers such as Saturday, serve up an eclectic I.V. All-Stars, is A.S. Program “One Love” and “Dreadlock musical stew that is difficult to Board’s way of saying thank-you for Beware.” Their debut EP “For­ catagorize. your student support throughout the ward,” while not exactly getting the “ It’s a brand of ethnic rock n’ year. most airplay, covered the group’s roll,” says guitarist Kendall Rey The band that will open for U2’s wide range of styles, including ska, Jones. “ If a person was a reggae North American tour features lead R&B, roots reggae and touches of fan, then he would call us reggae. If singer Maria McKee, who has sung West African jazz, calypso and rock. he liked funk, then we were a funk with country punkers Rank & File The band’s unique ability to sound band.” The youngest member of the and Top Jimmy, the blues chimney. both gutsy and soulful may stem group, and drummer, is Fish (for three hours in the Pub in early April build the biggest or most creative Lone Justice’s sound is a barn­ from their heritage — most of the whom the band is named). “ Our to raise close to $3000 for a pub pyramid you can. Other activities storming combination of hard members have deep roots in Belize, music is like a mutt; it’s made up of employee who had to have open- include a water balloon toss, four country traditions and rock n’ roll Central America. Other members different things,” he insists. heart surgery. They play a fantastic legged race and tug-a-war com­ sensibility. are from the West Indies, Jamaica And when it is all put together, it is set of blues, and render the most petition. “ We’re aiming for something raw, and Ghana in West Africa. spontaneously sparkling stuff. Their danceable covers of the Grateful How does a brand new compact with lots of emotion, loud, agressive “The reggae beat is like 20,000 E P of six original songs en­ Dead, the Allman Brothers, Lou disc player sound? Try your luck at and fun,” says McKee. Co-founder of tons of bass thrown right at you compasses ska, rock reggae, post­ Reed and others— don’t miss out. winning one at the Extravaganza the group and guitarist Ryan while the drummer is setting up the punk, new wave, and even (perhaps) Harder Stadium will not only be drawing. Tickets for the drawing are Hedgecock describes their music as time for a double explosion,” says jazz. One piece is a tempest-tossed filled with people and music but being sold today and tomorrow in “ a cross between Bill Munroe and leader and founder Patrick Barrow. number with political commentary games as well. In between each front of the UCen for $1, they will the Rolling Stones in 1969.” The Busboys, who peformed in “ 48 and another uses a cool, catchy bass band, activities will take place in­ also be sold at the Extravaganza. The band’s debut album features a Hours,” are a “ real bluesy rock n’ line. volving anyone who want to have Besides the compact disc player, Tom Petty tune called “ Ways To Be roll” band. As a performance group Completing the set, and starting some fun. The first game is a other prizes will be given away such Wicked” as well as other per­ like the Untouchables, they always the Extravaganza at 11:30 a.m., is a pyramid competition. Get your as bikinis, pizzas, sandwiches, formance favorites including “ East provide the most energetic of shows. popular local band called the I.V. friends, roomies, dorm buddies or clothes, a wall-sized swatch watch of Eden,” “After The Flood” and Their name appears to be a play on Allstars. They played for almost anyone else you know together to and many others. BUSBOYS BABYLON WARRIORS

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Tropics Revealed James Dean In ‘Rebel Without A Cause' at the Pub Tonight A Pre-Extravaganza Film Special

For every 17th person, admission is free. If you wear a costume the cost is only $1, without costume it’s $2. The movie will be shown in I.V. theatre at 7 p.m. and again at 9 p.m.

Help Save Our Lady - Bike for the 1986 Kodak Liberty Ride Festival The 1986 Kodak Liberty Ride recreational bicycle ride, the picnic, unique electronic photo exhibit of Festival, sponsored by the Eastman local entertainment and the thousands of Am ericans’ Kodak Company with seven major broadcast of “ America Rocks,” plus photographs to be displayed STINGRAYS, BELFIRES corporations and organizations, is a a 1986 Kodak Liberty Ride Festival beginning July 5 at the base of the nationwide event celebrating the commemorative T-shirt and a pre­ Statue of Liberty. The program is completion of the statue to be held in paid coupon to submit one part of Kodak’s continuing com­ more than 100 cities, including Santa photograph to “ America’s Family mitment to the restoration effort, as a # * * J1“ % . Barbara, on May 18. Album.” America’s Family Album one of the six founding sponsors of (jW Friday, at 4 p.m. s Admission is $23 and includes the is Eastman Kodak Company’s the Liberty Centennial Campaign. The blockbuster “ America Rocks” concert, to be beamed by satellite from the Louisana Superdome ex­ Gregory clusively to each Festival city, will star a line-up of top contemporary Daggett performers designed to appeal to a Sculpture broad spectrum of ages and musical tastes. Daryl Hall and John Oates in May 12-17 their only appearance together this Rally, March and Dance University Center Gallery year, the Hooters and the Neville Against Sexual Assault Brothers will join Grammy winning Thursday. May 15. I*#86 Huey Lewis and the News. Tickets Stork? Plaza. I TSR available at the A.S. Ticket Office.