2 A Thursday, May 26,1983 Daily Nexus :...... -A Fond Farewell...... • Nexites tend to get very self-indulgent two times during the year (that we admit to ): • April Fools’ Day and the last issue of the year. 2 The latter, especially, is a time for inside jokes, sappy sentimentality, thank-yous and • general Nexican Nonsense. Even more important, it is a time to mention as many names 2 as possible of the people who worked on the paper one last time before the year ends. • Obviously, this is not the last issue of the year, but it is the last Arts & Entertainment • section, and so, as editor, I am proud to indulge in the aforementioned self-indulgence, and • at the same time, fill some of the huge holes Spector gave me this week (I know, Jeff, I • asked for it!). 2 First, to all of the people who wrote for me this year, Jonathan “ Deadline, what • deadline?” Alburger, Jane Mooser, John Krist (you’re an okay writer and with a little • work, you could even be good), Evie Dutton, Greg Harris (only once, but it was hot!), Jay • De Dapper (between you and Alburger I had approximately seven nervous breakdowns • this year), Hugh Haggerty (it’s your baby now), Peter Lefevre (House Comic), Catie Lott, J-Cathy Bowman, Dan Gursky (also an incredible sports editor), Alex Llamas, Julie • Desnick, Cheryl Rosenstein, Cyndy Rotolo, Katherine Zimbert, Kathy Ryan, Jonathan • Chard (maybe you can be our English correspondant next year), Rick Dulaney, Rob • Palmer, Anne Marcus, Noel Hastings, Ed Evans, Evette Justus, Johnny Graham, Dan • “The Blues” Flynn, Charles Crellin, Scott Brown, Robert Woodruff, Greta Wedul, Bill J Shinbrot, Rob Noxious, and newcomers Vanessa Grimm and Dan Miller (you did good), • thank you and I ’m sorry for all the times I snapped at you (I warned you never to try to 2 communicate with me on Wednesdays). You all did an incredible job especially con- • sidering the fact that, for the most part, you came up with your own assignments, and your • editor lacks certain organizational skills. Oh, and I forgive you for all the times you missed • your deadlines. • Special thanks to all of you who cranked out copy at the last minute ( like this week) so I ¡wouldn’t go to press with any blank pages, especially Jonathan, John, Jane and Jay. • To those on the other end, Wendy and Roman at A&L, David at the Museum, Ken at the ¡D ram a Department, Lindy at Metro, the whole gang up at Program Board, Steve Cloud, ¡Steve Hoegerman (once again, I must apologize for my lack of organization), Lucy at •E T P , the KCSBers (especially Dan Kerman who gets a special thrill seeing his name in ¡print), Debbie at Adventurous, Les at Warner Brothers, and everyone else on campus and •around town just trying to do their jobs, thank you for your help, all the freebies, and I ¡ hope I was some help to you. I enjoyed working with all of you, but from now on, call Hugh. • To all of the people who helped get the section to Freddy by at least midnight every ¡Wednesday night, that wild bunch of production people, Jane “Get the hell out of my way” ¡Musser, Catie Lott (get your hands out of Barb’s crackers!), Harry Frank (keep that •exacto away from my section!), Mary Doyle (I ’ll have my heads done by about 10 p.m.), ¡and of course, the Other Barb who never actually told me when my deadline was and •assumed I would just meet it, THANKS GU Y S!! ¡ To the rest of the editorial staff, Jackie, Becky, Liz, Noel, Vanessa and Carson, who •never quite understood which hat I was wearing each day, and especially my trusty ¡assistant and sometimes boss, Jean Krist (Gosh, that’s easy to spell), who took over when ¡ I had a bit too much going on at once, Thanks!!! • Finally, to my successor, Hugh Haggerty, have fun and I ’m sorry I never did any filing ¡this year. I recommend you hire a secretary next year. Remember, when the promoters •are ringing the phone off the hook and the writers are pounding down the door to snag the •choice concerts, it’s much worse than you think. Have fun!! (By the second week, you’ll ¡know why I spent so much time at the Pub on Wednesday afternoons.) Last Sunday, Tommy Tutone ( upper left) rocked the crowd at A.S. • I hope I didn’t forget anyone. If I did, I apologize (I seem to be doing a lot of that). I will ¡m iss all of you. show, Program Board’s Sun-day Extravaganza. Toward the end of the • I MISS NA N C Y !!! the crowd could no longer control themselves and invaded the stage. • — Barbara Postman Photos by Larry Leka. - vs

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OPEN LANES ALL WEEKEND Indeed, it’s very easy to say that the band is sporting yet After side one, it’s time to “Reach the Beach.” another “Bowie clone” in lead vocalist Cy Curnin and to The title song opening side two acknowledges the COUNTRY MUSIC describe their music, while catchy enough, as a hybrid of negativism and banality of side one and the hero resolves to previous styles giving it a rather bland quality. All go with the tide and try to reach the beach: DANCING • Thurs-Sat Nite criticizing aside, Reach the Beach, the Fixx’s second ORCHID BOWL • GALLEON ROOM release, is a remarkable and complete piece of artwork Forgotten lies aim to distract me 5925 Calle Real • Goleta • 967-0128 which deserves praise. This mono-mind must not connect The main achievement on this album is the conceptual Purer nature will contain me framework which the songs make as a whole cycle oc­ Freef all in air I will surpass curring within a life-stream. Voyaging into a desperate When I ’m falling, calling, I return void and bouncing back to a ferocious joy, it is an in­ Floating closer to your shore trospection in Hermann Hesse style describing the pen- /ifa n ta X dulation inherent in human nature. I start to drift with the tide The problem is the music fall% short of supporting these Maybe I ’ll reach. I ’ll reach the beach... ideas effectively but it still does not warrant harsh criticism. It has the prettiness of Tears For Fears — Finally, the narrator of the story is willing to accept ^ Barbara^ 1 layering nice melodies on top of odd rhythms and much of it change in “Changing.” “It’s my life and I say/ What for European bed & breakfast is good dance-floor material. Guitarist Jamie West-Oram is this, this what for/1 don’t need those looks so pick your face not Adrian Belew but he handles his Stratocaster with much off the floor...If I’m changing won’t you please let me go,” In the heart of town finesse and Rupert Greenall on keyboards adds interesting which is easier done than said. Kitchens - garden patios textures with his electronics. The music often generates “ Liner” is the other side of the coin to “Opinions.” excitement as in moments where glorious crescendos of Rather than being a victim to intangible forces, you can English country breakfast noise give way to minimalist music with effective use of board the “liner” and become a part of the forces affecting Meeting Facilities dead space. And unfortunately, singer Cy Curnin does tend the world. Now that the narrator is on a roll, he can sing of From $45.00 to oversing the lyrics sometimes. his “Privilege” in having the freedom to make his own The opening song, “ One Thing Leads To Another,” sets decisions. For reservations call Kathy the direction of the album. (805) 965-6532 There must be one thing you can try The deception with tact, just what are you trying to say? There’s always something else to do... You’ve got a blank face which irritates How I begin, tell me how, How? Communicate, pull out your party piece Draw attention to yourself You see dimensions in two Are you tuned in to the show? State your case with black or white She had the frequency, She has the potency... But when one little cross leads to shots, grit your teeth You run for cover so discreet, why don’t they: Psychologists (Jung, Freud et al) have wisely said that you should understand yourself before you try to understand Do what they say, say what you mean and help out the world...and now we can all speculate about One thing leads to another who She really is.... You told me something wrong, I know I listen too long The album closes with a Walt Whitman-esque tran­ But then one thing leads to another. scendentalism in “Outside.” This type of pretentiousness can get old fast, but it is perfectly placed here. Nature and In telling about an affair gone sour, the singer is passing the ocean do have wonderful cleansing qualities and this an initial judgment and while he knows that “ another...” song celebrates this. 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; ; UCSB’s great ! ! pain reliever: La Cumbre Plaza • 687-9048 4 ‘ slow and ! bicycling. 4A Thursday, May 26,1963 Daily Nexus Night Ranger Cooks Up Some Tasteless Schlock By JAY DE DAPPER ion buildups); fame fades. Dawn Patrol is bad — that’s Recipe for Schlock: 10 identical songs (dif­ Sound familiar? Start a given; it’s just that trying One mid-range male vocal ferent lyrics, same idea: back in 1968 with Deep to imitate Sammy Hagar is with just enough gutsy growl cars, women and rock); Purple and pass through like trying to Xerox a blank and high-pitched yelp; One producer (preferably Uriah Heep, Wishbone Ash, page. Two lead guitars that from the Mike Stone school); Black Sabbath, T-Rex, Blue harmonize and sound as Five white males, Oyster Cult, Whites nake, Dawn Patrol is irritating much like Eddie Van Halen (shoulder-length hair, Cheap Trick, Rainbow, only because it’s tough to as possible leather pants, tank tops). Foreigner, Boston, Van remember exactly how Halen, UFO, MSG (Michael many other tunes you’ve Schenker, not monosodium heard these things on. The glutamate), Aerosmith, one hit, “Don’t Tell Me You Ozzy Oz bourne, Journey, Love Me,” is nice enough — Sammy Hagar, Steel Breeze, no, it is catchy in a 15-year- and hundreds of other clones old kind of way. That is that were foolishly com­ really the point here. Night mitted to vinyl, and you Ranger is no more than come to America’s latest another band trying to ex­ schlock rock band — Night ploit the seemingly in­ You Wouldn't Hit A Ranger. satiable adolescent desire If it is possible, these guys for the Power Chord. The are even more cliche-ridden real reason they succeed(?), Rivers, Would You? than any of the aforemen­ however is that the band’s By JONATHAN ALBURGER tioned bands. There isn’t one founder and leader, Jeff Tacky, trite and insensitive, Joan Rivers’ jokes ridicule note, word, progression, Watson, has a tremendous everything and everybody from the National Enquirer to harmony or solo that hasn’t track record. He was none the Queen Mother to gynecologists. She slanders Bo Derek, been done and redone by too other than Ozzy Ozbourne’s Liberace, the entire Royal Family, Stevie Wonder, and Four guitar overdubs (for Mix all ingredients many others. It’s noil that lead guitarist. Oh, so that especially Elizabeth Taylor. No body is safe because, like that thick and heavy sound) ; together, place in a cheap, Night Ranger’s debut album explains it. her male counterpart Don Rickies, she’ll find even the Three background vocal almost modern looking smallest character flaw, blow it out of proportion, and overdubs (simple har­ album cover with lasers or Beer Town Band Debuts never let you forget it. monies, one high tenor) ; similar high-tech ac­ Yet, she doesn’t irritate people the way Rickies does, One over-miked, over­ couterments. Make ap­ because, even though she’s equally as crude and rude, she produced, bass-heavy* pearance on Am erican O n Slash Records isn’t hostile or angry. Rickies always turns red and works drumkit (lots of cymbals Bandstand and get heavy up a sweat; Rivers only works up a lather of laughs. too); MTV play of video con­ “Aren’t rock stars ugly? Ughhhhhhhhh.... Mick Jagger One harmonized bass currently with the release of has child-bearing lips.... And Barry Manilow with that nose (even more thick and the only catchy, moderately — if he were on drugs he could inhale Peru... And Stevie heavy); interesting song. Sit back, Wonder, that poor sonovabitch, who’s gonna tell him he’s One synthesizer (for those count the dollars, laugh at wearing a macrame plant holder on his head.... Elizabeth little quirky fills and the the disparaging critics, and Taylor has more chins than a Chinese phone book. dramatic pre-guitar-explos- do lots of cocaine before the Mosquitos see her and scream, ‘buffet’! I love to take her to MacDonald to watch her eat and watch the numbers change. She’s the only woman I know who can stand in front Continuing Student Orientation of a microwave and yell, ‘H U R R Y’.” Of course Rivers has no taste — and no sex appeal. She’ll for be the first one to admit it. She’s petty, catty and sarcastic, and she has a tendency to go for more than a few really cheap shots. FALL SORORITY But she’s great. Her delivery is impeccable. If she had to rely on the quality of her jokes alone, she would fall flat on RUSH her face. Yes, she’s a very visual comedianne, but Rivers relies primarily on an assortment of strained gasps, Wed. May 25 wretching noices, throated vocals, rapid-fire deliveries, Santa Rosa Formal Lounge and her special buzz phrases: “Can we talk?” and the one that always wins over even the most affronted, unyielding Thursday May 26 audience,/‘Oh, grow up. Just grow up! ” Francisco Torres Esp. 5 By KATHLEEN RYAN a minute. They’re from It’s the ability of this Jew guru, a self-proclaimed title, to 7 : 3 0 p r o Milwaukee. That’s the Milwaukee? laughingly barb herself and parody all the stereotypes town that’s famous for beer; The Violent Femmes are associated with movie stars and public figures that gives Applications may also be picked up there’s no music in full of surprises. First, their her popularity. Her physical appearance epitomizes all the at the Activities P lan n in g Ctr. Milwaukee. Everyone music is not violent, (there’s Hollywood/Beverly Hills pretentiousness and egotism she 3rd floor UCen after 5/26 listens to Rush and Journey, a folk background here), and slashes out at. Donning a Dicker and Dicker Blackglama span, by panhellenic right? The Violent Femmes they’re not femmes (they’re mink and passion pink lip gloss, Rivers’ playful album — they’re from New York or three men). Second, they’re cover is a tickling reminder that we are all semi-legends in Boston or Los Angeles. Wait a young band; lead singer/- our own time. We all go to doctors, have problems with guitarist Gordon Gano is relationships, gossip about our neighbors (just some of us WOODSTOCK’S PIZZA PARLOR only 19, bass Brian Richie is don’t live in the Hills, o.k.?), and occasionally read 22, and drummer Victor De National Enquirer tripe. Oh, come on, “what do you read Brings You.... Lorenzo is the old man of the when you go to the bathroom? It’s replacing bran muffins.” bunch at 28. Thirdly, they If she can kid about her own habits, how could anyone be THE FAR SIDE By GARY LARSON are playing some of the most offended by her punches at others? invigorating music to come “ How do I know who’s gay? I read the National Enquirer, out of the M idwest... since I that’s how I know. Liberace’s fantasy is to have Tom don’t know when. Selleck as a proctologist... U.F.O. sightings — that’s the The Femmes were caliber of the Enquirer. UFO’s never land at Harvard or “discovered,” so the story Yale; it’s always two assholes drinking Coors beer in a goes, playing their music on recreational vehicle.... And U F O ’s never land on Jewish a street corner (as they lawns— we’d turn them over to see who made ’em.” . To an audience member she has discovered is Jewish: (Please turn to pg.!2A, col.l) (Please turn to pg.!2A, col.3) MOVING? 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There are numerous cuts on The Key that show Ar­ Joan Armatradlng matrading at her bounciest best. The one thing the album lacks is the ballads, those bittersweet confessionals that 'The Key' Almost Opens Wrong Door have been her trademark up until now. She sang on her 1976 album “ I am not in love/but I’m open to persuasion” in By JANE MUSSER No flame “ Love and Affection,” and in the beautiful “The Weakness On the one hand, singer/songwriter Joan Armatrading is If you lose that pilot in Me” from Walk Under Ladders: so incredibly good that I want everyone to hear her music. I can fly your plane That makes her latest and most accessible album, The Key, If you want solid ground Why do you come here a step in the right direction. On the other hand, moves Come on and try me When you know I ’ve got troubles toward mainstream accessibility are likely to produce Or I can take you so high Enough more uninspired hits and fewer energetic and intimate That you’re never gonna wanna Why do you call me artistic achievements. And Armatrading comes Come down When you know dangerously close to falling into this familiar syndrome on Drop the pilot I can’t answer the phone The Key. Try my balloon... Make me lie Close, yes. Dangerously so, even. But fortunately A r­ When I don’t want to matrading is simply too energetic and too talented to And make someone else produce uninspired music, even when she isn’t at her best. Some kind of an unknowing fool West Indies-born and a longtime England resident, Ar­ You makeme stay matrading has been on the music scene for years, scoring When I should not fairly substantial successes around the world with her Are you so strong earlier albums that combined folk music lyrics with Or is all the weakness in me reggae-inspired rhythms. In America, Armatrading, though earning widespread critical praise, has never made With such lyrics, the bond she forms with her audience is it big. Even her most accessible album before The Key, last incredibly intimate and special. On The Key, there is plenty year’s fantastic Walk Under Ladders, wasn’t a major of fun, there are plenty of intelligent and catchy songs, but success here. there is far too little of that very special bond. “ Foolish And so with The Key, Armatrading is making a move Pride” and “ Everybody Gotta Know” come the closest to away from the things that American pop audiences tend to being in the Armatrading tradition of bittersweet and reject, that is, intelligent, moving and personal ballads, and beautiful, but all these songs do is make me hungry for toward the things we embrace, that is, danceable, bouncy more of the same, and there isn’t anymore. pop tunes. If Armatrading were just your average pop Even when Armatrading tackles a subject as ripe with An interesting footnote is that two of the most accessible artist, she might take this game plan to its logical com­ potential pop cliches as “The Game of Love,” her approach songs, “Drop The Pilot” and “What Do Boys Dream,” were mercial conclusion and come up with cute and insipid tunes is fresh, her music catchy and spirited: produced by Val Garay, who also produced the Motels’ that would sell well and make her rich and famous. But latest and by far most commercial album, All Four One. Armatrading is not your average pop artist. The game of love Under Garay’s direction, the Motels lost some of their in­ Take for example “Drop The Pilot,” the first single off Everybody plays it timacy, which with singer/songwriter Martha Davis The Key. The sound is the best kind of pop: fast and loud Everybody swears it ain’t translates into a mixture of personal pain and terrifying and fun. And the lyrics are intelligent and amusing. She is That important to them desperation. The album’s pop sound, though much less trying to convince someone to try her for love, rather than But they form the lines convincing than the Motels’ earlier efforts, propelled the staying in a ho-hum relationship: Round corners group into the mainstream. Intimacy with Armatrading Five miles long translates into a mixture of exuberance and tender You’re kissing cousins To be in that two player team longings, and though that has not been entirely lost on The There’s no smoke For the game of love Key, it certainly is not as lovingly demonstrated as in her earlier works. Armatrading is good on The Key; she just isn’t at her very best. But Armatrading at not-her-very-best is still so Weeds Grow on Suburban Lawns good that The Key makes for fun, intelligent and wor­ thwhile listening. Armatrading will be playing at the Santa By KATHLEEN RYAN better, before. background. “Cowboy,” wonder if he was the person Barbara County Bowl June 24. Who is this band calling Granted, some of the songs however, also points out the who told Su Tissue to sing? themselves the Suburban are innovative at times. major problem the band has. On “ Baby,” Tissue’s unique Lawns? There was a band “Flavor Crystals,” the E P ’s The Suburban Lawns have form of sing-speaking (the from Los Angeles called the opening track, has a catchy interesting ideas (like the bored flat delivery as in BOOKS Suburban Lawns who riff. But that’s all the song break in “ Cowboy” ) but they “Janitor’”s “Boom, boom, P f wf ^ J l x m released a quirky little has — and it’s repeated can’t translate any of these boom boom” ) has been r « tS single, “Janitor.” Shortly innumerably through the ideas into entire songs. forsaken. Not only does the s>i©oa thereafter, they released a song, so that by the time The Lawns aren’t entirely band lose a unique aspect of self-titled album, on IRS. their music, but they don’t BOOKS t r a * ÆJbl in, IX After that, I thought the gain anything either — band broke up; they were Tissue’s singing isn’t that USED BOOKS C j t J invisible for at least a year. great. But then this band called the The sad thing about this is Merlin's Bookshop Suburban Lawns started the band probably changed playing around Los Angeles, the style to gain more (805)968-7946 and then released an EP, widespread popularity and Baby. acceptance. If a band which This is not the same has strong material alters UCSB Dramatic Art Presents Suburban Lawns which their style to gain ac­ released “Janitor” in 1981. ceptance, but still produces Bertolt Brecht's Oh, the members are still the strong material, then it is same: Su Tissue, Frankie acceptable (Combat Rock by Ennui, Chuck Roast and the Clash is a prime THE G O O D William Ranson. And they’re example, a notorious sell­ still recording for IRS, but out, but a strong album PERSON the music is most em­ nonetheless). But when a OF SZECHWAN phatically not the same as band sells out to produce an the band’s first two releases. album of consistently weak The Suburban Lawns call material, there’s no excuse. Directed by John Harrop their new sound “ body Of course, I could be wrong, music.” That translates there could be a hit single on May 26,27 & 28 pretty simply into funk- Baby and then I’ll have to influenced rock — heavy on eat my words. Even if that 8 pm UCSB Main Theatre the bass and drums. does happen, I’ll still think Imagine Bow Wow Wow these Suburban Lawns need Tickets $4 ($3 UCSB Students) with Su Tissue, and oc­ Roast, Tissue, Ranson, Ennui a gardener. casionally Frankie Ennui Arts & Lectures Ticket Office and William Ranson singing “ Flavor Crystals” ends, the to blame for the problems lead vocals, and you have catchy riff isn’t catchy; it’s they have with their “new” the “new” Suburban Lawns. just annoying. sound — I ’m sure new The sound really isn’t that “Cowboy” features . a producer Richard Mazda “ new” at all. The Lawns are great break; the band (Fleshtones, Wall of Voodoo, producing music which is harmonizes singing “do” Birthday Party) had new to the band, but has staccato, over a haunting something to do with the already been done, generally guitar synthesizer band’s new direction. 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BAUBLES & BANGELS Solid 14k Gold Jewelry 'Breathless' Bodies M elt W ithout Passion O N SALE By VANESSA GRIMM inside the Bookstore Though the bodies of its stars may be flawless, the the clothing choice for Gere; the models of the cars; and the T h is W eek! remake of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1959 classic Breathless does bizarre use of poor rear projection filming during driving not shock and stimulate the nerve endings in as tantalizing sequences. Kaprisky’s character represents the more Very Special Prices on a fashion as the original. The new version shifts the locale modern image of the woman on her own, wearing the latest Diamond Earrings from dreamy Paris to rugged Los Angeles with a foot-loose fashions, and indulging in affairs with her professors. and fancy-free American male chasing the skirt of a young Obviously this split in the key characters’ personalities is a & Grad Charms French art/architecture student, instead of a French rake major facet of the film’s plot. Nonetheless, Gere’s Jesse gallivanting after a young American woman studying art in remains buried in dated images, not just set in a different France. With this change in backdrop come some disap­ view of reality than Monica. pointments. Characterization of other The reckless actions taken focal characters in the plot FREE GM AT by the 1959 star, Jean-Paul by McBride and Carson Belmondo, in pursuit of his often overshadows the true- TEST PREPARATION would-be lover, played by to-iife potentials of these The Academic Skills Center is offering a Jean Seberg, were more characters. The writers free workshop to help students prepare easily swallowed simply tended to brand the because Paris is viewed as characters with extreme for their GMAT exam. Our GMAT review the city of amour and of overdoses of symbolism or to group w ill discuss: secret trysts. The seedy side levy them with easily 1) test taking strategies for the test of L.A. and the sordid recognizable stereotypes: ravages of Las Vegas, overall as well as for each section the lovesick professor; the however, do not a lovers’ brainless bullying street 2) a review of materials haven make. cop; the slick but sweet GMAT review groups will meet Tuesday, Although this change in hoodlum; and the slovenly scenery may seem a petty May 31 and Thursday, June 2 from 3*5 yet weasely dump yard grievance, it sets up the manager. They are all there pm. entire film for a series of and a few extras to boot. As Please sign up in advance at the difficult-to-believe con­ each new character is Academic Skills Center, Bldg. 477, trivances. The plot centers phased in or out of the plot, a around the addiction of Jesse feeling of deja vu is ex­ (behind the Women’s Center) M-F, 8-5 Lujack (Richard Gere), perienced: what other show alias Jack Burns, for the or movie has this character young French student Monica (Valerie Kaprisky). Yet, the viewer is left won­ been in before? Perhaps this is not entirely impossible or dering why this passion exists and from what it evolved. improbable. MBHOBW. MW WEEKEND Two brief nights in a Las Vegas motel, as Monica claims? Despite the lack of strong artistic qualities, Breathless is This lust does not appear vital enough to create the drive not completely without praise. A certain degree of en­ SPECIALS exhibited by Jesse in capturing the French woman, nor tertainment value definitely exists. Symbols of pop culture does it explain Monica’s initial swift dismissal of Jesse abound to provide temporal amusement. The Venice (L.A. upon his arrival in L.A. An initial energy connection not Italy) setting with its roller skating populace and two- eliciting a sense of deep-rooted passion is missing. story wall murals, the music spectrum, the vari-colored 12 Paefcs As the pair move from scene to scene, the risks involved extras, and the flip-flop dialogue cue into the culture traps Only seem tailor made to the filming not the plot. Jesse is por­ of the ’80s. The portrayal of Jesse as a throw back from a -C o o « trayed as a character who has lived his life vicariously previous generation only serves to intensify and highlight through the wealth of others. Robbery, auto theft, and even these time-bound elements. Jesse’s music is in the Jerry -Coo« light homocide adorn his rap sheet. Yet, in the multitude of in­ Lee Lewis venue; his chest is adorned with a tattered * 4 ” terconnecting phases of the story, the viewer sees the broken heart tattoo; his library is limited to well-thumbed camera not the characters grappling with the risks and Silver Surfer comic books; and his taste in clothes (though -Budweiser crises of the moment as one clip slides effortlessly into the hinting slightly of rock-a-billy) is definitely of a late ’50s next. All the pieces of the puzzle fall together too easily, too aura. -Miller quickly. Gere falls successfully into character as the “all or Additionally, the use of plot techniques, such as nothing” boy who like a wild cat seems not to realize that foreshadowing and symbolism, stampedes the audience fire can burn. At every turn, the unexpected by his Dont Miss The like a herd of cattle. Nothing is left to the viewer’s character is expected. What will Jesse do next? This line of 1983 Coots Santo Barbara imagination or intelligence. Hemingway’s theory of a story reasoning is played comically to the hilt — right down to an being only as good as that which is deleted is definitely not outrageously humorous last scene. The film marvelously ULTIMATE CUtSSIC followed by Jim McBride and L.M. Kit Carson, the writers ’ mocks Jesse’s serious belief in his actions, making light of this wooksfid! of the 1983 version of Breathless. McBride, also the his baboon-like thinking at every opportunity. director, appears to need the assurance that his viewers Contrasting Jesse’s swirling opaque qualities, Kaprisky will miss nothing regardless if it is at the cost of his work. plays Monica as the dark thinker. As a novice to the screen, The film never makes a distinct time period transition however, Kaprisky’s attempt at creating a multi-textured Ace's of either, and McBride seems torn between linking the movie character is not quite perfected. Is she playing a moody to its 1959 time frame and focusing on the present. This need mysterious Monica or is she deciding what Valerie needs to Goleta to rekindle past spirits can be cited in several instances: (Please turn topg.lOA, col.3) 7f2?IMMw 'Hammett' Revives '40s Moviola I« Udiversity VMogo Pitia By KATHERINE D. ZIMBERT Hammett, who at the beginning of the movie is seen Don’t be fooled into thinking that Hammett is another one coughing his lungs out and frequently sampling whiskey, is of those biographical movies. “ He not only wrote the transformed into his own creation — a hard-boiled detec­ greatest detective stories; he lived them,” reads the ad, tive like Sam Spade; he even starts to talk like Bogie. which implies that this is a true-to-life movie about the life Hammett and Ryan meet a whole bunch of interesting MANDARIN of the creator of hard-boiled detective fiction, Dashiell villains on their way; they start the evening off trying to Hammett, with a little bit of fiction thrown in to spice it up. dodge a punk with an ominous hoarse voice, and Ryan CUISINE Not quite. This is a purely fictional account of Hammett’s disappears in the process. Hammett is forced to find his kestcm rant life as a writer/detective in the tradition of his great friend and solve the mystery on his own despite his being creation Sam Spade. What Hammett really is is a triple harassed by the authorities, who for some reason do not tribute — to Hammett, Humphrey Bogart, and the types of want the truth to come out, and the head of a Chinese movies which made them famous — those ’40s detective prostitution ring — Fong, a polite but evil man with his own flicks. reasons for wanting to keep things mum. The only difference between Hammetand The Maltese Forrest is very effective as the dry but cool Hammett; he SANTA BARBARA'S FINEST Falcon besides the plot is that one was filmed in black and has the kind of unaffected masculine charm that Bogart CHINESE white and the other in color. Hammett is a ’40s movie had, in The Maltese Falcon, and a similar personality as through and through, but it was made in the ’80s. The style well. After he has returned home after being beaten up by RESTAURANT and intricacy of the script is reminiscent of the early Hit­ one of Fong’s heavies, and roughly interrogated by the chcock movies; it was a style that was risque in its day but police, one of his neighbors asks him what happened. “ I is refreshingly innocent in our own. slipped on a banana peel, Rose,” he responds out of the Remember? No blood, no gore, and no heavy sex scenes; Hot Sour Soup Fish in Hot Sauce corner of his mouth, then hobbles up the stairs to his all was tastefully implied without the nitty gritty details apartment to find it ransacked. “Sometimes I don’t know Lemon Chicken' Sizzling Rice Soup which we are constantly being bombarded with today. My when the detective story ends and reality begins,” Kit says, Pot Stickers Moo Shu Pork, point is this: If you are a fan of movies like The Maltese and I don’t think the audience is supposed to know either. (Dumplings) Chicken, Shrimp Falcon, The Thirty-nine Steps, Charade, and North by When everything in the apartment is thrashed except Shrimp in Abalone in Northwest, chances are you will also enjoy Hammett. Hammett’s typewriter, the film hints at being symbolic. Lobster Sauce Oyster Sauce Somehow director Wim Wenders has managed to recreate The means for creating fantasy remains unscarred perhaps Mongolian Beef Moo Goo Gai Pan the look of those movies without it going stale in the to remind us that this is another fictional detective movie. Mandarin Steak Almond Duck process. Boyle and Henner are appropriate sidekicks for Forrest; Peking Pork Hot Bean Cake etc. Frederic Forrest stars as Hammett, with Marilu Henner the three of them master the cool unaffected ’40s image as his Bacallesque neighbor and sleuthing companion Kit, wonderfully. The tasteful filming of some of the scarier Also Special Vegetarian Dishes and Peter Boyle stars as his very large detective friend, moments in the film also help contribute to the illusion that Jim Ryan. The movie begins with Forrest typing on his we are watching 'a film from another decade. When faithful Underwood, and as the camera covers the internal Hammett goes to the morgue to indentify the bloody Lunch 11-30-2:00 Dinner 4:30-9:30 workings of the typewriter, the words on the page come to remains of one of the suspects we don’t have to look at the Sun.4:30-9:00 life inacted by Henner and Boyle. Later Ryan accuses bloody remains; we just get to see Hammett’s reaction to Open 7 Days a Weak Hammett of basing his leading character on him; “ I taught them which with Forrest’s economy of facial expression is you everything you know and what do you do with it? Sell it enough to conjure up a gruesome image in our own minds. Imported Beer & Wine • Food to Go in cheap magazines.” Visa, M/C, A/E Cards The movie is a little like a muted version of Louis Maile’s Ryan invites Hammett to go down to Chinatown with him Atlantic City in terms of its overall look; classy music by 3514 State St. 682-2606 to look for a 17-year-old prostitute named Crystal Ling who John Barry completes the picture. Hammett is all for fun; Across from the San Roque Plaza has disappeared and is mixed up in something very sticky. if you are in for an evening of pure fun and entertainment, From here on in the element of fiction takes over and go see it. Daily Nexus Thursday, May 26,1983 7 A Exposed' King’s Wrist Club Awards Free Watch Bands To: Beauty Saves a Beastly Movie Scott B row n

By JONATHAN ALBURGER bad Kinski hasn’t had a great role since her first major and Exposed is little more than writer-director James film, Roman Polanski’s Tess. She has all the “ big star” Toback’s film fantasy about Nastassia Kinski. The makings, but she seems to need a strong director guiding K aren Constanti scenario: her, or perhaps another agent to begin with. . Pick them up at: She’s a nobody from Wisconsin — a university drop-out — W.A. King Co 9 E. Figueroa, S.B. who risks all to become a New York City pianist, but she is With a cast like Kinski, Rudolf Nureyev and Harvey Traditional Clothingfo r Men 9 Women forced to play the dishes as a waitress cum international Keitel, it would not be unreasonable to expect rich, colorful cover model. Life is tough. But wait. Throw in some characters in a deeply engrossing film, but Toback transcontinental intrigue. Now she’s the unsuspecting demonstrates as much sensibility and artistic verve as an electric potato masher. Instead of a study of characters in PLAYING GAMES unusual circumstances, we are subjected to a series of pointless, but fashionable fantasies. The cover girl in chaos WITH stuff that daydreams are made of can be fun, maybe even profound, but the treatment here isn’t much more exciting HE GODS than a Charlie’s Angels rerun. A play by Lisa Merkl THEATRE FOR Danger is supposed to induce a delightful delirium, but YOUNG ADULTS Exposed delivers no punch. Leading man Rudolf Nureyev is far too sedate and mysterious in all the wrong ways to be SATURDAY a believable, mesmerizing lover for Kinski. He can’t quench her thirst or snuff her fire. She dominates every JUNE 4th scene and demolishes what little persona he has. The much- 11am & 2pm publicized “erotic” encounter when Nureyev strokes Kinski with his violin bow is supposed to make movie OUTDOORS ON music, but if the actors don’t feel what they are doing, how THE LAWN are we supposed to? ENSEMBLE THEATRE PROJECT 914 Santa Barbara St. Nureyev at one time possessed an eminently alluring •62*860« eastern Europe mystique — his thickly accented voice, sculpted face and flawless dancing — but Exposed reduces him to reciting pretentious verse from William Carlos Williams about the inner bomb in men: “ Every man is his own clock, ‘teek’ tock, ‘teek’ tock....” This fascinates Nastassia only because the director told her it does. Anyone with brains, however, would still wonder what the hell she sees in him. She has the ability to bring the weird out in people — to expose them, you might say — so we’re to understand and accept everyone’s neurotic behavior. Nastassia Kinski _ _ _ ^ Nureyev carries an obscure vendetta toward a Paris mobster, well played by Keitel (an actor with these gritty victim of a strange romantic encounter which transports character types in his blood), stemming from his ex­ her half way around the world into the sticky web of (jjtC U d m d periences as a Holocaust child exposed to the horrors of Parisian terrorism. Although she is the catalyst who brings Nazi Germany. We learn this when Nastassia looks through about a bloody culmination of events, Kinski remains un­ a file in Rudy’s open desk drawer: two minutes of cheap blemished, of course, because she’s the star and she’s close-ups of fuzzy photographs is Toback’s idea of narrative Suicide precious. Silly? The film is actually worse. It’s relentlessly ridiculous. V th & n Toback even gives himself a part to play with 22-year-old Nasty as a Svengali-like English literature professor who The, nurtures her mind and warms her bed. He kisses her. He slaps her. He calls her dirty names. He threatens her. He hounds her. But he’s the director, and, dammit, it’s his movie. The scenes are so excruciatingly bad — especially Toback’s acting — that one has to wonder if he is trying to inject some sort of perverted humor into the film. Whatever E n u £ the motive, the yield is negligible. In one of his incredibly boring lectures, Toback tells his MAY 13 - JUNE 18 8:00 P.M. students that the heroine of the novel they are reading personifies the theme of the woman who brings out the Plays Every Thursday - Saturday Night Wednesday Nights - May 18. June 1 & 15 worst in men — or something equally as absurd. Crosscuts Sunday Matinee at 2:00 PM May 29. June 12 to a pensive Nastassia. Oh, I get it: theme. At home, Nastassia has a heart to heart with her mom who tells ENSEMBLE THEATRE PROJECT Nasty she has the potential to bring out and intensify the Director Toback puts hands in pockets while BOX OFFICE 962-8606 914 SANTA BARBARA ST deepest, most essential qualities of people. Hmmm, Nasty rants. possible plot clue? Nasty’s parents are portrayed with exposition. Meanwhile, Keitel masterminds the deaths of overblown authoritarianism, but her mother, Bibi An- hundreds and expounds metaphysical, sociopolitical dersson, is strength with compassion. Ah ha, character * * 1 t l \ bullshit to Nastassia. “Did you think I was all talk?” Keitel lü iH A MAJOR WAY PRODUCTIONS WELCOME • • • • • I background for Nastassia! asks Kinski after sticking a stiletto into a double-dealing E Well, Exposed plods its way from one godawful scene to follower. Nastassia trembles a lot and quivers her full, the next — contrived and cliche, overwritten, underacted, pouty lips. She doesn’t quite know why she’s with this and generally misdirected. LINDA RONSTADT madman, and nor do we. But somehow Kinski rises above this abysmal quagmire. She manages to make us care about her, beyond a simple Cinematographer Henri Decae deserves most of the jerk’s worth of lust. Sure, she’s beautiful, but she can act, film’s debatable credit for his depiction of dirty, hazy, too, which saves the film from being an utter waste of time. congested big cities. But pretty pictures — no matter how She conveys a nice blend of innocence and vulnerabilty with beautiful the face — can’t compensate for a foul script and assertive self-reliance and impulsive worldliness. It’s too weak direction. Force Continues in 'Return of the Jedi'

By DANIEL MILLER Return of the Jedi departs Empire and 545 in Star film’s suspense and in­ Unbelievable. Incredible. from its predecessors, Wars. triguing plot twists. Once Awe-inspiring. None of these however, in the sheer force Although the effects are again, the rebel forces, with adjectives sufficiently with which it conveys the sometimes too much — the familiar Luke describe the long-awaited aforementioned captivating indeed, some scenes have Skywalker, Hans Solo, and much heralded third elements. Equipped with 10 more species of creatures Princess Leia, Chewbacca, episode of George Lucas’ years of experience since the than our local zoo — they are C-3PO and R2-D2, take on Star Wars: Return of the making of the original Star always entertaining. But in the evil Darth Vader and the Jedi. Wars, and aided by Jedi, more than the other dreaded emperor. And as Like a massive burst of technological advancements Star Wars, the creatures and you might expect, the out­ ■SUNDAY, JUNE 5 2 PM hyper-space, Return of the in special effects, Lucas has effects are more amusing come is.... Jedi sends the viewer produced a fitting finale to a than they are frightening or Don’t worry...for the through a two-hour non-stop film trilogy that goes beyond believable. It becomes too movie buffs, let it be known SANTA BARBARA. journey of action, suspense, even the wildest of obvious that Lucas is con­ that nothing will be revealed : c o u n t y b o w l :-: and special effects. Like its imaginations. stantly trying to better the here. Suffice it to say that predecessors, Star Wars and For Lucas, this finale has previous scene by presenting whatever you think will . • . • . ‘TICKETS: $22.50,18.50 17.50, 12.50.•.•.*, »••••• plus 50C Bowl Restoration Charge e ■ a • a a • The Empire Strikes Back, it not been without its costs. yet another bizarre beast or happen is wrong, and that Available at: County Bowl Box Office. Music Galaxy. Morninglory Music,-Isla * captivates the audience with With a final bill of $32.5 illuminating laser lightshow. you will glide out of the * Vista, Ticketron Outlets including Licorice Pizza. Sears-Oxnard. Gottschalks- , high-speed space battles, million, Jedi cost more than The result is that the , Santa Maria. Cone Ranger-San Luis Obispo. All Cheap Thrills stores. theater, filled with feelings a • a a a Jailhouse Records & Salzers-Ventura.» • • • • « strangely configured three times the original Star audience is pushed beyond of shock and excitement and ► • • • • ’ • For Information Call (805) 963-8634 a # a e • creatures that make E.T. Wars. This increases is awe to “Aw, come on — this seized with surges of seem beautiful and clean- largely due to the plethora of is almost too incredible.” adrenalin. In a word, the cut, and seat-riveting con­ special effects in Jedi : it has Still, Jedi’s overemphasis force will be with you. flicts between good and “ the a total of 942 special effects, on special effects is a pitfall H dark side of the force.” compared with 763 in The that is overshadowed by the 8A Thursday, May 26,1983 Daily Nexus Sen. Gary Hart Puts It To The People By EVETTE JUSTUS Because 1984 is a national ingenuity an d m - is moral, not economic- scheduled 10 percent per­ confrontational attitude in “ ...1984 must be a year in election year and because ventiveness.” ethical, not political. sonal tax cut, and in­ business, labor and which our people truly Hart is a candidate for the Many of the statements vestment in job training and government.” debate the kind of future presidential nomination, it Hart makes are not very In later chapters, other programs to cut down Next, Hart believes in­ they seek, and how they seems like a good idea to concrete, and as such cannot however, Hart deals with on unemployment. He also ternational trade issues intend to achieve it...." read this book to become be considered as more than America’s problems in less wants to establish a capital should be more central in Senator Gary Hart (D- better informed with regard part of Hart’s personal abstract terms and presents investment budget. economic policy making. Colorado), a 1984 to the issues as Hart beliefs. For example, he concrete solutions. H e also calls for “The ideal objective should presidential hopeful, has presents them. writes: First, he calls for revitalization of industry to be the elimination of all written a book entitled A “ Ours is thé only nation revitalization of the Federal “ make the health and government subsidies. Until N e w Democracy: A ever to have defined the The philosophy of pur Reserve Board, restruc­ competitiveness of in­ that time, our system should Democratic Vision for the pursuit of happiness as a current administration is to turing of the national budget, dividual industries a make it possible for a foreign 1980’s and Beyond. In this fundamental right...and as substitute individual ‘kind­ reform and modernization of primary economic goal, purchaser to buy American book Hart discusses the such we must meet these ness’ for social justice and entitlement programs establish a coherent products by borrowing in issues, as he views them, basic goals — not through private charity for economic (Social Security, medical framework for government America.” facing the nation and his simple solutions nor sheer opportunity and fairness. programs, pensions, and programs affecting those He states a Council on proposals regarding these power —■■ but primarily The test of America’s retirement programs), industries, and instilling a Emerging Issues should be issues. through creative use of our character in this generation elimination of the last cooperative rather than set up as an “early warning system” on changes and challenges before they surface as crises in the political arena. He insists the council “ would have full access to information and projections, but no authority to implement policy. ’ ’ As part of Hart’s em­ ployment strategy, he calls for realization that “ the human suffering of these jobless and underemployed men and women is a moral tragedy.” Hart calls for education, training and retraining, encouragement of on-the-job innovations, aiding displaced workers, introduction of more flexibility in work hours, and more continuing education programs. Hart’s defense strategy includes his belief that “any national security policy that does not assign top priority to preventing the use of nuclear weapons is not only irresponsible but, ultimately, immoral.” He calls for more effective defense which he believes must initiate “restoration of United States naval superiority,.. .assuring our military personnel of a standard of living com­ parable to what they could expect as civilians,...officer training and promotion...and, a new approach to military doc­ trine.” He also calls for buildup of energy security by “ building up our national emergency stockpile of oil, reducing unnecessary energy con­ sumption, developing new energy technologies, helping increase domestic energy production, and authorizing a standby oil import fee.” Finally, he makes the connection between nuclear energy and nuclear weapons stating, “ Nuclear power has not proved to be as economical as once ex­ pected, and utilities have not ordered a new nuclear power plant since 1978 — indeed they’ve canceled 38 planned reactors since 1980....”

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By CATHERINE BOWMAN A Reader's Delight In the Haagen-Dazs Marathon of Life, I am running in first place. Every evening I pack away as many pints as I By ALEX LLAMAS can. I always go for that extra spoonful, no matter how nauseous it makes me. For the past 25 years, Spectrum magazine (published by 'UCSB with a present volunteer staff of two grads and four —Linda Sunshine, author of Plain Jane Works Out undergrads) has gained national and international If you hate exercise, love ice cream in particular, white recognition, as well as being a favorite to local literary sugar products in general, and are tired of Jane Fonda, circles in and around UCSB. there’s a new “fitness” program for you — a program for This year is no exception. the terminally out-of-shape-and-proud-of-it workaholic whose abhorrence for exercise is surpassed only by an From out of 1,500 entries, 45 were honored to vacate the spaces once held by the likes of William Carlos Williams addiction to additives, six-syllable preservatives (read: the among other reputable writers. ingredients of a Twinkie) and having a good timp. Although the emphasis of material is on UCSB and local In her Plain Jane Works Out, author Linda Sunshine has writers (50 percent), the magazine encourages and accepts compiled the sugar junkie’s counterpart to actress/- entries from all over the world. activist/exercise fanatic Jane Fonda’s famous workout Spectrum is a well-rounded journey from as nearby as book. Outfitted in an identical red and black striped leotard “Berkeley Mole” by Edith Sanford Wiley to as far away as and matching leg warmers, Sunshine proceeds to ridicule India in Hilary Ruston’s “Forced Retirement” and back the main ingredients of the Beverly Hills/Fonda-type fit­ ness craze currently preoccupying the junior Victoria “On The Road To Some Place West,” by David Harrison. Principals of society. There is also a small section on artwork which display Certainly, there’s nothing immoral about being in shape. themselves like sensitive windows to the human, condition and the human character. But the designer outfits and Fonda-inspired paraphernalia that seems to clutter a simple thing such as exercise is what The one essay in Spectrum ,written by Jim Steinke, gives Sunshine seems to be protesting against. Think, for in­ an excellent analysis of Ernest Hemingway’s,“Cat in the stance, about the current epidemic of leg warmers. On Rain.” “ ...Its subject is more frequent in and accessible to dress code, she writes: “ In order to get any benefit at all anyone’s experience than what is usually agreed upon to be from this (or any exercise program), you absolutely must about...” , writes Steinke. wear leg warmers, preferably several pairs.” In addition to “ Cat,” written by Kim Beury, is a magnification of life a clever cover that depicts a woman who looks very much situations, that reads like a casual conversation in her like the real Jane plus 40 or 50 pounds, the book offers simple sentence style. several ways to bypass exercise at any cost. She begins completely descriptive and ends in the same The book is a little too long and probably not worth $4.95, way. “ Grandpa lives in an old house in the country with my even for a few laughs. Then again, this might be the perfect epileptic uncle who seems 18 years old, although he is really 35” ...poor cat. gift for those friends who are driving you crazy in the A mother and daughter visit to the country home reveals morning with 6 a.m. calesthenics and the “Oh, but I never Tips for exercise class include: “ Stand next to the fattest eat white flour” diets. Like most satirical paperbacks, all kinds of obscurities, like the poisonous strip of paper woman in class. Watch her in the mirror and remind Plain Jane is an expose that has been done before. This is that attracts flies over the dining room table. It also has a yourself things could always be worse. Work in the back of the kind of book that would be perfect near the cash clever ending that brings the reader relief to the collar. the room. You don’t want anyone to select you as the fattest register; a book for people who tend to glance at People Jo Anne Lee Perry’s “To Phobia,” is a complete irony on woman in class.” And of course, don’t forget methods of magazine while waiting in line. You wouldn’t buy it, but you all those scary, realistic fears you might have had in your improving your intimate relationship with the bathroom still read it. lifetime. scale: “ Set your bathroom scale for 10 pounds un­ Plain Jane (dedicated to: “ my mother — who made me ...Get into an elevator derweight... tentatively place one foot on the scale. If you eat everything on my plate — and then told me to go on a with a strange, large man. don’t like what you see, jump off at once. Never let the dial diet” ) does, however, have its moments. Calorie counting, ...When you are home alone and want settle on one number. Keep it moving by shifting your claims Sunshine, “ is about as effective for dieting as the to take a nap, unlock all doors and weight back and forth. Jump off the scale when the dial is rhythm method is for birth control.” A good guideline: windows first. Then, smoke in bed... on the downswing.” simply “round off the number into general areas” such as She reinforces the nature of the human species by Perhaps the best laugh of all is Sunshine’s ability to poke “under 50 calories: water, coffee, celery” and “over 1,000 negating it — by prescribing contradictions: fun at Fonda’s activism pitch carefully added on in the last calories: anything worth eating in the first place.” ...Mix(ing) prescription drugs few pages of her best-selling, money-making workout book. and washing them down with martinis: Warm-up exercises, Sunshine warns, must be done sitting In Plain Jane, Sunshine writes: “ No beauty book by Plain in a chair. The Full Body Lift, she says (picture the real If you feel drowsy, take a drive Jane would be complete if it didn’t conclude with an in­ or operate heavy machinery. Jane doing one of her oh-c’mon-can’t-everybody-do-the- terminable, but sincere, discussion of nuclear proliferation, splits poses now replaced by a smiling chubby woman being Macduff Everton’s photographs on “Luis Chichimilia, pollution, chemical waste, corporate control of America, effortessly lifted off the floor by a friend) is quick and easy. Yucatan” is a cultural trip through the life of a man who the hazards of asbestos, Love Canal, and petrochemicals Starting position: “Lie on right side with legs extended. seems so simple, perhaps owing to his environment, but his (whatever they are)...for the moment, it will suffice to say Friend lifts your legs and then lowers them to the floor. (Please turn to pg.lOA, col.5) A Repeat five times. Release legs.” (Please turn to pg.lOA, col.5) "FLY THE PACIFIC COAST"

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By PETER LEFE VRE rather lofty, but after reading the book it is one that I agree The material covered in the book ranges from improving For those interested in up-to-date information on the with. individual involvement and meeting skills, to beginning complex legal issues that face women, gays, prisoners or Lead On is the second book written by the team of new organizations and improving publicity. the critically ill, Bantam has just published a series of Franklyn D. Donant, Leslie Griffin Lawson and her In addition to the usual topics of leadership that are handbooks from the American Civil Liberties Union. These husband, John D. Lawson. Lead On is a sequel to their generally covered, there is an interesting chapter on books are concise and comprehensive guides to what Leadership is Everybody’s Business. handling cultural and ethnic differences within a group. amounts to be a staggering number of problems indigenous Leslie Griffin Lawson works as the director of the Office This chapter includes suggestions on improving awareness to those particular groups. of Student Life at UCSB, a job which relates well to the on the part "of both the leaders and the general group in the Written in an accessible, yet still legally specific style, topics of the books she has worked on. area of cultural differences that exist between people. these books give advice, addresses of where to seek help, According to Lawson, the first book grew out of a class Lawson agrees that the chapter on differences is in­ samples of legal forms such as wills, lists of criminal that she and her husband taught at Cal Poly San Luis teresting. “The tendency is to not pay attention to it statutes and their penalties by state, and rulings from the Obisbo. The book rose out of handouts that the Lawsons (cultural differences),” she said. “ Most people just ignore state and federal level on issues such as employment wrote to substitute as a textbook for the class in leadership it entirely.” Lawson is a little surprised that the authors discrimination and active euthanasia from as recent as late and general group dynamics. have not had much feedback yet on this chapter. 1982. “ We didn’t feel that there was a good book on the Lawson has to fit writing into her schedule which includes They are all impeccably researched, though at times they market,” she said. Since they could not find a book they not only her duties on campus, but consultant work that she are a bit too enthusiastic in their advice to file suit. Also, as could use, they decided to write one. The result was and her husband do for various groups and organizations. the books were written by attorneys most sympathetic with Leadership is Everybody’s Business. In the future Lawson says she and her husband would like the particular group discussed, a particular sense of bias Lawson says the first book has gone through three to write a more theoretical textbook on the subjects of creeps in on occasion. This is especially evident when printings, and sold in the neighborhood of 20,000 copies, 90 group dynamics and volunteer leadership. discussing issues that have not been decided with any percent of which she figures went to universities. The high “W e’re sort of waiting for responses from users, that’s finality such as the conflict between pro-choice activists percentage of use by universities had an effect on the how we got our good ideas on how to improve this book,” and right-to-life organizations. The Rights of Women is second effort of the trio, Lead On. Lawson said. written from the standpoint of pro-choice and as such, Lawson says that Lead On began as a critique of the first While Lead On is certainly not the kind of book that you many times a tone emerges that is not as objective as it book. After examining the first book, the authors felt they would want to read for the sheer pleasure of doing so, might be. Still, the book is written in a no-nonsense way, a had slighted the areas of communication and motivation, so anyone who is a leader of a group — no matter the size — style that cuts through much of the rhetoric surrounding the in this new book they tried to do more to address these would find the information in the book of great value. The political system of justice. areas, in addition to speaking to problems of university problem of overwriting that often'occurs with, multiple What is most refreshing about this book, and of the other groups. authors has been avoided. The result is a concise 160 pages three books that make up the series, is the wealth of facts In writing Lead On the authors began with their first of valuable advice and suggestions that no group leader and their accessibility. The form and the content of all of should do without. the books show an integrity. One is never unsure about whether or not what one is reading is the authoritative voice GIANT on the subject. These books are valuable for their reference 'Breathless' material and not for their ability to be read casually over a bowl of cereal. Because of this, the books are of use to a ( Continued from pg.6A) ACTIVE WEAR select group of people — those who are a member of one of pick up at the market after the day’s filming? The answer the groups mentioned, or those who wish to help members to this query will have to wait until the actress tries her of those groups. SIDEWALK SALE hand at future roles. Kaprisky can bring a wonderfully There are quite a few surprises and some interesting bits voracious cast to her glance, which warns of deeper of trivia contained in the series. The opening section of The frothing sentiments. Today at The Rights of the Critically III acknowledges the right of a Gere and Kaprisky exist on the screen as a pair of pretty competent adult to refuse medical treatment, yet it also picture images whose bodies meld together lusciously but points out that such an act is registered on the death cer­ DISCOUNT CONNECTIO who lack any real emotional — passionate or otherwise — tifícate as a suicide, which presents a myriad of insurance 900 Embarcadero del War interconnection. No matter how many times Monica tells 5 problems for the survivors. Information like this may or Jesse she is affraid of his scatter-brain nature, no matter may not be of use, but it is handy to know in case one is ever that the two move from pool to apartment to shower confronted with the problem. splendidly and erotically, and no matter that Monica finally The Rights of Gay People examines many of the issues in chooses to carefreely giveup her future ambitions to flee to The Rights of Women. Both groups encounter problems in Mexico with Jesse, the necessary bond between the two is areas such as the right to equal employment opportunities, m m non-existant. Is their life for these two after passion? Not in antidiscrimination laws in regard to housing and the right b o r s o d i ’ s my book. to fight in the armed forces. Still, the issues only share a — Without this crucial coupling between the key characters COFFEEHOUSE passing relationship under the 14th Amendment and unless and with the other flaws in the film, Breathless can never one is a member of both groups, both books are not needed. 938 embarcadero del norte . hope to stir the viewer as the original did. And, though the To be sure, one only needs the whole set if one is interested Z2S objective should not be to match the earlier version, the 968-2414 in law or if one happens to be a gay female prisoner with a comparison cannot help but be made because the 1983 FEATURING: terminal disease. model so closely follows the original plot. Remakes will THURSDAY: always be caught in this “must be dUferent but not too TALENT NIGHT different” catch-22. 2^ FRIDAY: As a mirage of the times tainted with moments of Plain Jane... ROBERT & SUSAN whimsical caprice, the movie will entertain and spark SATURDAY: boisterous bouts of laughter. Do not go, however, hoping for (Continued from pg.9A) BOB LEDNER JAZZ QUARTET a revelation of the nature of vehement passion in that I am against most of these things.” SUNDAY: ACCIDENTAL relationships between two human beings — wait for a rerun Sunshine notes that Plain Jane’s political views will be DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST 3E of the 1959 version! elaborated upon in the next book, Plain Jane Speaks Out. In the meantime, avid readers will have to satisfy themselves m i# with the workout book. Afterall, as Sunshine writes, it’s & “the perfect exercise plan for every woman who knows she’ll never have thighs like Jane Fonda, so why bother? ” Spectrum Arrives Shibuki Gardens (Continued from pg.9A) facial expression reveals a thousand stories. Spa & Sauna This past year, Spectrum has opened up a little more in an attempt to draw more attention to themselves. This is deservedly so. Every quarter they’ve held public poetry readings and receptions and have had good turn-outs. The Spectrum is an important showcase for the up-and- comig contemporary writer looking for channels of ex­ pression. Spectrum is available at the UCen Bookstore, I V. Booksto|gyand other local bookstores. The cost is $5.

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By PETER LEFEVRE New questions are raised in this production that were not hackneyed Jimmy Cagney/film noir style street cliches. Under the direction of John Harrop, the UCSB Depart­ raised when Brecht first had this play produced. There is Also, the title of the play is generally known as The Good ment of Dramatic Art’s production of Bertolt Brecht’s play now the question of live theater versus the mass media as Woman of Szechwan. One can only imagine that the new The Good Person of Szechwan poses as many questions as represented by television and radio. title is designed to give the performance more of a sense of the script does itself; even more, when considering the time Here some points are made that are quite interesting universality. period in which the play was written and the relevance that indeed, for while in Brecht’s time, the issue ofxommunism William Koseluk’s original music sounds both authen­ the play has today. accounted for much heated discussion and general tically Oriental and modern in its composition. In its As in most of Brecht’s plays, the issues are complex and brouhaha, now people prefer to have their brouhaha execution, however, the music is sporadically out of tune layered inside a fascinating story. It deals with humanity delivered to them on screen, and thus, the quality of and often off beat without being intentionally so. and inhumanity, rich and poor, capitalism and com­ brouhaha has seen a decline in recent years. In other It is an immense task to coordinate such a variety of munism, idealism and realism, and themes such as the words, why go to the theater when one can have car crashes expression into a coherent and entertaining form, but indifference of the gods, the failure of morals; the list goes and tales of the sexually hyperactivespobrrrfédto you on the director Harrop has created a mosaic of ritual that suc­ on. What defines the individual production is the amount of tube? • - aiari) eovn ceeds at an epic level. The masks of the actors, the cigar The answer provided by this production is that you might smoke, and the clever irony of the slide projections all become stupid. That you can get information and political combine to create an exceptional world of living theater. motivation in the live theater that you cannot get anywhere The presence of live actors is the most engaging aspect of else, most especially on television which rarely gets more the evening, as if to say that the real problems of the world controversial than whether Láveme can skip work to be at cannot possibly be packed into politically sanitized, prime­ the big bowling match or not, is a fact that is used in the time, half-hour blocks. The length of the play could be play with experience. helped only by solving a few of the issues. Not a bad idea. While the questions themselves are presented to us as Good Person continues this weekend at the Main Theatre. being nearly equal in their possesion of both good and bad Showtime is 8 p.m. and tickets are available at the Arts & qualities, the production concludes with a rendition of the Lectures Ticket Office (961-3535) and at the door. Internationale, a song not designed for the American top 40; an iconoclastic but respectable choice, and one that is consistent with the concerns of the playwright. Don’t have The plot tells the story of a number of gods who come to Time to earth in search of a good person. After finding one (presupposing that a prostitute can be a good person), they TYPE?? reward her for offering them lodging by giving her a large sum of money. Her goodness drives her to help the needy, Find Help even though the needy are an ungrateful bunch. She cannot in the afford charity for long, and in order to preserve what she has been given, she must assume the disguise of a ruthless Nexus Classifieds! capitalist that is feared, hated and rich. Debra Loja in the dual role of the prostitute Shen Te and her evil cousin Shui Ta is remarkable for her stamina ampng other things. To be able to sustain two distinct and As part of the 1983 Commencement diametrically opposed characters for what amounts to over festivities, the Chancellor will be hosting the three hours is a feat in itself. To perform so long and to do it Senior Barbecue on Friday, June 10th at 5:30pm well is what gives her performance distinction. While her on the University Center lawn. This informal Shen Te appears to be limited in gesture at times, it doesn’t The nice gods played by Katie Mickey, R. occasion will provide an opportunity for all detract too considerably from the execution of the role. graduating seniors, parents, and guests to meet Michael Guinn and Neil Barton. Todd Barker as the narrator and Wang the Water Seller one another and to chat with University ad­ emphasis that particular issues and points of view receive performs both roles with enthusiasm and confidence. His ministrators, deans, and department chairmen. over others, and this raises the question of whether or not concern and understanding amongst the parasites that The traditional "Santa Maria" style Barbecue these issues have impact and relevance today. inhabit the play make Wang easily one of the most sym­ w ill be served. Buy your tickets at the UCSB With this criterion, Harrop’s staging is fascinating in its pathetic roles. This is not lost in the actor’s performance. Bookstore before June 3, 1983. scope, but once the sense of largeness is overcome, it says Doug Kaback as Yang Sun, a former pilot that Shen Te less in a practical, personal way. The issues are both falls in love with, is appropriately bitter for posing his job politically vital and didactic to an extreme. Whether one and his ability to show us both Yang’s love for Shen Te and favors capitalism or communism, or both, or neither, is a his love for Shen Te’s money marks hard work and *««■ question of taste for the most part, but one could be patience. The play contains several songs and it is to the thoroughly familiar with each and every single, detailed benefit of the show that Kaback is gifted with a good singing STUDENTS argument by the night’s end and still not know what to do voice. about it. The script admits as much, and in bringing As the nice but naive gods, Neil Barton, Katie Mickey and FREE LEGAL SERVICES genuine controversy to an otherwise indolent political R. Michael Guinn are all amusing and not unduly con­ sphere, Harrop has done a remarkable job. descending. Several of the best moments of the evening are Brecht was not a capitalist. This is evident in his scripts. provided by these uncomprehending deities. Guinn’s voice Isla Vista Legal Clinic He writes symbolically of capitalism, and shows his dislike becomes predictable and cartoonish after awhile, but it’s as 9 7 0 Emb.del Mar IE for the system in many subtle and unsubtle ways. The godlike as one might expect. These actors seem to enjoy a non-profit corporation production illustrates this by using Marxist slogans in the their roles more than most, but who wouldn't enjoy being a decoration of the set, and in a less serious tone by the use of god? a video program outside the theater before the show that Lee Strasburg and Theresa Petach’s lighting is excellent. Land lord /Tenant, Consumer & presents a number of typical UCSB students in the UCen Most effective are the stark tableaus at the conclusion of Criminal Law reacting to the question “What do you know about Karl scenes. 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Violent Femmes Joan Rivers' Kick ~»Eventualities~~ Accidental Death of an Anarchist, a politcal farce by Dario Fo, will be presented by the Gorilla Theatre May 29, 30, (Continued from pg.4A) love, described in simple, (Continued from pg.4A) Rivers is most affective, June 5 and 6 at Borsodi’s Coffeehouse in Isla Vista, and tended to do) by Chrissie straightforward images. In “You’re a Jew and you took however, when she relates to June 12,13,19, 20, 26 and 27 at the Unitarian Church, 1535 Hynde and James “Promise,” Gano expresses that shitty ring. It’s a piece basic emotions we all share: Santa Barbara-St., Santa Barbara. The play is based on an Honeyman-Scott before the the conflicting feelings of of shit in four prongs. Is your “Even if you’ve had an easy actual occurence in Milan in 1969, when a railway worker Pretender’s show in love: mother alive? Then there’s birth, never let them (your accused of a terrorist bombing fell to his death from an Miwaukee. The two were so You kow that I want your no excuse.” She chokes on children) know, because open window during police interrogation. Showtime is 8:30 impressed that they invited loving her own laughter, making it they’ll grow up normal and p.m. the Femmes to open their But Mr. Logic tells me it’s clear that she’s enjoying leave you. Wake them up in show that very evening. And never going to happen herself, that nothing is too the middle of the night... Austrian playwright Wolfgang Bauer will give a dramatic from the Violent Femmes Then my defense’d say I personal or too sensitive to ‘Melissa, you ripped me to reading in German from his own work today at 8 p.m. in the self-entitled debut LP, it’s never wanted it anyway escape a little humor. Don’t shreds go back to sleep.’” UCSB Centennial House. The event is free. easy to see what caught the But you know sometimes I'm take things so seriously, she In addition to an update on big timer’s ear. a liar. tells people; laugh at the escapades of everyone’s The Found Objects from Santa Barbara will be the guests Gano has been compared In the racy “Add it up,” he yourself. favorite high school tramp, on the Sunday Night Townhouse on KCSB-FM 92, this to Lou Reed and Jonathon tells how futile words are to “I was a bridesmaid ftifte Heidi Abromowitz, Rivers Sunday at 10 p.m. Listen in for live music and interviews. Richman umpteen times but express pure desire: times in one year.” What is spends a good deal of the The guests the following Sunday will be L.A.’s The Rain the comparison holds water. Words to memorize Joan to do with nine kelly album examining the dif­ Parade. He writes songs which are words to hypnotize green, three-quarter sleeve, ferences — God-given and sardonic and cynical ob­ words to make my mouth acetate dresses? “ They lie to sociological — between men For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the servations of love. In “ Gone exercise you; they tell you you can and women, “Men do not rainbow is enuf continues at the Ensemble Theatre Project Daddy Gone,” Gano sings, words all fail the magic prize always wear it some other know what bravery is. through June 18. For tickets and information, call 962-8606. Beautiful girl, love your nothing I can say when I ’m time... How many Puerto Bravery is to make a dress in your thighs. Rican proms do you go to? ” gynecologist appointment The UCSB Flute Choir will give a free concert on Tuesday, High school smile, oh, yes... The sound of the band is What Becomes A Semi- and show up.. .. Men go to the May 31 at 8 p.m. in Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall. Where she is now I can only clean, yet full of energy. Legend Most never stops for proctologist... they’re guess. Even when Richie veers off a breath of air. Rivers, rips flipped over on their The UCSB Shakespeareans’ production of Macbeth con­ Cause she’s gone daddy into pure noise on his bass, and roars her way through stomach — they can fan­ tinues through May 28. Showtime is 8 p.m. in Girvetz 1004. gone... or the band breaks up into 40-minutes of well-rehearsed tasize they’re in a war, spy Love is gone away. experimentation with sound monologue, fully in com­ movie: ‘I’ll tell you nothing, Hie Sixth Annual Montessori Folk and Bluegrass Festival On all of the album, but (on “Gone Daddy Gone” mand of her talents and Nazi pig!” ’ A tidal wave of will be held this Sunday, May 29, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on especially “Kiss Off” and Richie plays xylophone), the leaving her Comedy Store — laughter follows. the school campus at 3970 La Colina Rd. The festival is “To the Kill” Richie pulls off Femmes still return to the and home — audience rolling “I think we’ve all learned sponsored by the school to raise money for scholarships. some incredible lead bass rhythm in time. The result, with laughter. You might something very wise here Food, beer, face painting, tarot reading, jam sessions, t- lines. That’s right, lead bass. as on “ Kiss Off,” is a think or say, ‘oh, that’s tonight,” Rivers muses at shirts, and posters will be available at the event, in addition He plays acoustic guitar as blistering background over really bad,’ but you’ll say it the end of Legend. Well, not to the line-up of musicians. well as an electric bass as if which Gano sings: with a big, wide grin on your really. But we have had a lot they were electric guitars. You know this will go down face. of fun losing ourselves in Equally impressive is De on your permanent record There is an assortment of mindless laughter, and Lorenzo’s drumming. He But you didn’t even look fast one-liners: “Gloria that’s what the album is all plays a kit which consists of distressed, Vanderbilt... looks like she about. Oh, grow up. two cymbals, a snare drum, Did I ever tell you I was had an enema with a a Scotch marching bass impressed? vacuum cleaner.” drum, and a trancophone (a Well, I’m impressed— this “Aren’t stewardesses washtub overtuned on tom­ is easily the best debut bitchy to women? toms.). He plays the kit with album so far this year. The ‘Stewardess, my window is brushes (a la jazz Femmes are fresh, inspired open.’ ‘Not my aisle’... musicians), which adds up to and original. And they led ‘Stewardess, my husband is quite a unique sound. me to believe that there’s cold.’ ‘He wasn’t last But the mainstay of the more to Milwaukee, and the night’.... ‘Stewardess, I need album is Gano’s lyrics. Midwest, than meets the eye a throw-up bag.’ ‘What’s the Every song on the record is (or is that the ear?) matter, doesn’t your dress about losing love or desiring have a pocket?’ IN TR IB U TE To 4,200,000 Vietnam Veterans 2,500 Missing in Action 100.000 Maimed in Action 57,969 Killed in Action 60.000 Post War Suicides