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Gray down a peg or two, they by Cathy Millon not get tacky quite ycl. We don't usually get tacky until we go to think shc"s a loud-mouthed AN EDINBURGH Univer­ print." obnoxious cow.·• sity student was allegedly Sampson then asked us: "And In the July edition of The· Cu t offered £6,500 to sleep with whal about her long-term boy­ magazine Gray was quoted as say­ Muriel Gray and tell all . friend , eh? Does he know about ing: "Get down to the plant where this? ... I'll have to phone him up _ The Sun is printed and fire-bomb - s!/:~:ej~u~~=lti~:d ~~ w;~~~! and ask him." it." - shifts for The Sun that the m,1ney When asked why he thought' Sampson denied that he and was available for anyone with a that anyone who slept with Gray The Sun have a grudge against MFun and Frolics with our Rector" would need a "sympathy pay­ Gray, he said: "She's just a rather Story. ment" he replied: '·Well, she's unattractive girl from Glasgow pretty ugly." who's trying to make it and good On July 17th. Kent, a third year When Sampson discovered that luck to her. We've nothing against Geography student from her at all." Chatham in the South-East. was there was in fact no story he immediately back-tracked and interviewed by the reporter over When Gray heard of The Sun's denied that any money would be an incident in the City's Gilded attempt on her character handed over for any story on Gray Balloon bar, where he was work­ she said: "' If any students arc as ''She not well-known ing. is enough. " struggling fin anciall y just now, they have my complete permis­ When St11dent attempted to sell Sampson said: "The reason I sion to make up any ridiculous Sun News editor Steven Sampson would offer money to people who sexual fantasy they can think of." a spurious MurieJ Gray sex story had a sex session with Muriel ;. After all ir The Sim arc stupid he confirmed that such a sum Gray would be by way or a sym­ enough to pay that kind of money would be paid, ... Especially if they pathy payment for the poor for lies then it's a macvellous way snorted coke." people who had to endurf it." to increase University funding. " He said that proor would be "It would only improve my required, although when we Kent said he got the impression image; most people think of meas offered him the (cnlirely fictiti­ that The Sun is out to get Gray: Miss Jean Brodie which sadly is ons) s1ained sheets, he said "Let's " The Sun wants to bring Muriel nearer the truth .. Chambers St Fire

inflatables with air, causing it to members ext inguished it.. How­ by Graeme Wilson overheat. Ben McNeil, the Cham­ ever, 1he "bouncing" was able to bers Street Union Secretary, resume on one inflatable for 1he ONE OF Freshers' Week's claimed that "the compressors rem_aindcr of the evening. most popular events, The had been placed between the inflatables and the ballroom wa ll , The last incident of ths kind Bouncing Disco on Wednes­ but with so many people about day night, was momentarily occurred just under two years ago there was nothing we could do in the Teviot Union Debatin1 interrupted when a fire broke about it". Hall during a The Men The out. Couldn't Hang concert when the The incident occurred when a As a result of the fire the bal- union had to be cleared fo r about jacket was placed over one of the Ir oom was cleared for about ~0 tq ~w ap ,hour while the fi~ t;~gad« t two comp~ssors whicJl fill the 15minuteswhileunioncommittee dealt with a fire in the bu1ldmg. ! , 2 Thursday, October 6, 1988 News Lusardi Oheap beer at Fraud Chambers Street by Claire Bennet and an emrv fee of S()p and 750 on houses should provide cheap l"ood Thu rsdays and Saturdays respec­ Alan MacDonald as a service to students, who he tively, when there w~II be live believes are an . almost captive STUDENTS may in future cabarets and discos. , market, in preference to cheap alcohol and would fee l unhappy have to pay to enter Cham· Marion Stewart, the Convener about an increase in food prices to be rs Street Union as a result of Teviot Row Union, turned subsidise students' drinki ng down the opportunity to partici­ of the reduction of beer habits. pate in such a ve nture on the prices there. The Management Committee grounds that it would be une thical will be meeting on Thu rsday to The cheaper beer prices, onl y to charge Edinburgh students fo r discuss the possibility or entrance 79p for a pint of lager, are an entry into their own union houses. • charges for entertainments at attempt to regain the Union's Previously ii has been the policy Chambers Street. Assuming that popularit y which fe ll due to the of the union houses to keep prices their approval is given and there is loss of their licence to stage li ve in line with local pubs and bars, a substantial increase in the rock music. preferri ng to subsidise the food. house's popularity. the new policy Yel as a result it is proposed EUSA President, Malcolm may be adopted on a lo ng-term that Chambers Street will charge- Macleod, believes that union basis. Conservative protest Majori ty opinion suggests that Bearsdcn who was ousted from by Ian Robertson the projectile was potato salad one of the most middle-class seats THE VI CE Chairman of the alt hough a sizeable minori ty in Scotland during the last elec­ Scottish Conse rvative Soci· favours the cream bun option. tion argued: "No one can seri- • The web of deception had become ety Michael Hirst was hit by ~ ; i;~~~;~~:·d';;:::~ii~~ : i1\1_be ~::zecnht l~7!~e~h:;:c~~a~l~o~~ increasingly complex involving food thrown by a The food throwing was the sole Scotland. Why else have hun­ bookings with hotels , requests demonstrator at the Conser· incident of rowdiness in a talk dreds of thousands of Scots HACKS, lager louts and 'rad from Aberdeen Universit y for Ms vative Pies and Pints and which concentrated on "ham mer- bought their council houses, fems' alike were treated to the -Lusari's contact number, lengthy Politics last Friday. ing home the message th at 'that bought shares in privitisation debates' committees' biggest interviews with Midweek on the The lone protester came in, woman is good fo r Scotl and'." issues exercised their right to fraud to date last Thursday matter and even faked telephone threw the projectil e and then ran Mr Hirst stressed that "The choose their childrens' school, evening when the expectant calls. out, escaping from several Con- continued national economicrevi- and set up their own businesses." crowd packing Teviot debat­ Not only was Ms Lusardi an :;;t_i v~ ~l~~:: i;~~ ::; n~1: ~~~~u~7,7:!~~e:e:0 ;:•d ~:: "Too many soots expect and ing chamber to full capacity imposter however, all the speak- and he is believed still to be at confidence to Scotland." ~:{oy ~~i~i:~/£1!;~ n:~~ and more were presented not ers, right down to t~e suBperhbly large ·,n the un·,ve-,·,y. The ex-MP for Strathkelvi n and E nglish to vote for it " with luscious Linda Lusardi, 0 1 ·of page three fame but : n~~:~~nl :~~:~~~: re d:a;~ ,,-;====·"======· ==~ from University debating circles. debates' own Mr Gerry "well I think I look sexy in a dress" The culprits were however Corrish. accused of trivialising a very seri­ Ms. Corrish-Lusardi, looking ous subject by Eric Miller, a BAIN AND COMPANY ravishing in her latest yellow debates members himself who wrap-around number (see fashion even asked for a recall motion pages) stunned the confused audi­ against convenor Mark Simpson ence with her confession that and resigned from his committee INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC "anabolic steroids" are penetrat­ position, saying it was a ·'petty MANAGEMENT CONSULT ANTS ing the pornography scene. and petulant wa y of attracting • While stubbly-jawed Ms. Cor­ new members". rish-Lusardi "got these things off her chest" most of the audience The final verdict of the debates had already guessed the deception committee was '" at least it attracted a far larger audience and Union hacks attempled desp­ than any ordinary debate would . erately to appear as if they had Bain and Company is one of the leading strategic hive done 10 raise an im portant been in the know from the start ­ issue." They themselves were cer· naturall y to no avail. management consultancy groups world-wide. We tainly keen to have their joke on There was visible relief on the the rest of Universit y hackdom are recruiting graduates for the position of Associate faces of debates committee mem­ but perhaps "the most positive Consultant in our London office to join in September bers, not to mention Ms Cor· aspect of the debate was !hat it rish-Lurardi herself as it became might have made some or those 1989. clear they were nol all about to be think twice who came in order to physical!~ lynched there and then. meet Miss Lusardi." Outstanding graduates rec1J1ited as Associate Consultants join a dynamic and fast-moving organisation, in which only individuals who welcome intellectual challenge and early responsibility succeed.

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role Bike Warning Autumn term. Mr Ssempeke who will be performing and teaching for by Aiittn McColgan the ethnomusicology prog­ ramme, has previously spent EUSA SECRETARY Mark Southside police station have Wheatley is set to abolish the pos­ time at North West'em Uni­ issued a warning to all stu· versity, Chicago and been a ition of Publciations Board Con­ dents to lock up their push­ musician in the court orthe vener as a result of the demise of bikes extra carefully. former King of Buganda. Polygon, the Associa1ion's inde­ So far this year 345 bikes His visit has been made pendent publishing house. have been stolen. Police financially feasible due to Under Wheatley's proposals advise students to chain generous aid from the British the Convener's remaining respon­ bikes as securely as possible Council. sibilities would be lransferred to and not to leave them in the the·Secretary. common stairs of their flats. Publication Board Convener Police have offered to Jane Cooper at ·presenl acts as an engrave bikes with postal intermediary between EUSA's codes if they are brought 10 Student Hurt sabbatica ls and EU publications Southside police station on While she apparently supports the Causewayside. change there are fears that the Secretary could have increased A foreign s1udent was seri­ direct influence over the proceed­ ously injured as a result ofan ings of the Board's committee and Comic Writing incident 1ha1 took place at 1 ...... :' over the Board's publications, am on Sunday October the photo: Kenneth Simpson including Student. 9th at Barnard's Terrace, off Malcolm MacLeod (right), President of EUSA and member of EU Mark Wheatley -strongly sup­ South Clerk Strecl. The Labour Club, presents 'An Injection of Common Sense' to Michael ports the change and believes that "BURN", the Edinburgh student concerned was (i Forsythe ScoUish health and Education Minister, before he spoke to lhe risk of editorial influence is based comic, has just rushed to hospital where he the Conservative Association on Wednesday. not increased. There is, in his released its latest issue. It underwant emergency view, the additional benefit of was origi nally started by surgery and was released the reducing "red tape" while clarify­ Edinburgh University stu­ following morning. ing lhe EUSA Secretary's role. dents and published by " It would give the next Secret­ EUSPB, though it is now Fairburn scolds ary more influence over the broad self-supporting. It is now framework of lhe publications, looking for contributors fo r but not more di rect contro l over its Autumn edition: all those Befrienders any one publication." He went on interested should contact to s~y lhat the move was more a Michael Jeffries, Flat 5, 90 Scots voters Mayfi_cld Road. case of "revamishing the table" , This was acfiieved by a process by Ewen Ferguson and lhan changing the table itself. BEFRIENDERS are been Ian Robertson or freeing weallh from the state to As far as Smdent is concerned, the individual and letting the mar­ sought by I.he Social Work he believes editorial interference Department to help in a new ket decide how to effectively allo­ at the SCOTLAND is benefitting would damage morale community support scheme cate resources by getting rid of paper, lessening its quality and Seal Help from Thatcherism and only for adults with learning dif­ uneconomic industries such as affecting sales. which would be ficulties. The volunteer bef· the "contra-suggestability" in Gartcosh which was "a salvation gainst EUSA 's financial interest rienders would be paid an the scots character stops army home for 1000s." in the publication. Recent concern over lhe allowance for every day they them realising this, according editor Tom Bradby Mr Fairbai rn argued that the Student epidemic which is wi ping out link up with an individual 10 inability of the Government to get sa id: " I am particularl yconccrned thousands of North Sea seals pursue a social activity, that policy made now will be ( ~~r:~e a;~"~f~~~~:eN~~o~~~ its message across was partially has led to Edinburgh Univer­ hobby or skill . Those who determining the fu1ure of Swdent sity hosting a special confer­ are interested should ring the in the 1990s. This brings us a step ence to explore ways of coordinator of Breaks and closer to being directly under the combatting the virus. Opportunities at 031-556 of EUSA. Whatever they control A wide rang of groups; 9140. ow, will only be a may say n it including the SSPCA, Green­ small step for the Secretary to peace and the n3ture Conser· directly influence the editorial vancy Council, will be content of Student." involved, and organisers hop the conference wi ll allow an Art Comp exchange of information and ~apier's planning of long-term sirategy. .-THE EDINBURGH Canal Centre is staging an art com· image petition in aid or the Seagull Trust, a charity which pr~ by Mark Campi.Dile vides free barge trips for the and Hona Twycross African Muscian handicapped on Scotland's canals. The event is open to NAPIER students are con­ anyone and entries can be cerned that their students' submitted in any medium Fairburn. due to the "contra-suggestability association has not gained ALBERT Ssempeke, one of under the theme, "The Uga nda's most versatile Speaking to Edinburgh Univer­ of Scots" in that they love contrar­ any material benefits from Canalside". For competition il y biting the hand that feeds them traditional musicians, will be and prize de1ails, contact _ sity Conservative Society last the college's recent change of Monday there was a spattering of and talked of "Scots yuppies who joining the University's Patsy Kinny, 031-333 1320. Fairbaimisms such as Edward criticise everything the govem­ status to polytechnic. Faculty of Music for the Oases in November. Heath MP MBE being "The ment is going while making for­ Thousands of pounds have Incredible Sulk" and Neil Kin­ tunes." been spent on cosmetic refurbish- nock a " Red Riding-hood" The press is also to blame in ments and updating the threatened by the big bad wolf that all the Scots media has a left­ poly1echnic's image, while the Ron Todd. wing bias and ''if a hostile press students' association has to man­ NEWS STORIES Fairbairn concentrated on the and media are dail y against us age without any increase in funds , benefits of Thatcherism, he said: then people will believe what they they say. "Scotland has the second highest say." Students' association president, national wage, 40% of capital A thi rd factor was the large John McDermott, said that stu- dents were "fairly indifferent" to investment and 30% more expcn· council estates which he alleged lf your landlord is ripping you off, if your lecturer is a biased marker, if diture on the roads, health service maintained a "stranglehold of the change from college to there's anything you want to complain, report or write about, con1 act and education." socialism" by keeping people in polytechnic. McDermott believes the upgrading could possibly As a resu lt Scotland now has dept to the Labour Party. How· Graeme or Cathy on the News Section in 1he Student offices a14!l t'lea­ the economic role in Britain to ever Thatcherism will free them bring about an increase in funding the SED or from private match the UK's geography in the from this through housing associa­ from sance (558 1117). "Scotland is the head, heart and tions and improve areas such as investment bul he was not very liver of Britain whereas the south Easterhouse where "!here is one hopeful. "The SEO put student 1------1 of England only has the feet and chip-chop with iron bars and a facilities at the bottom of the agenda," he said. ti~~·." postoffice." 4 Thursday, Octoi)er6, 1988 Focus parka. I wait for the next scenes to between the two characters, yet as come and they inevitably show the I watch the film I see that it is the \ \IERIC \ Derryl Davis waving banners. the crowds now audiences, the secondary charac­ si lently cheering, and suddenly, ters which are more different than right under my nose, a thought the two main actors themselves. It strikes me so quick and powerful is the audiences which are liberal Elections '88 that I reel under the weigh! of it. or conservative, white collar or What if there is no sound? What if blue collar, well-educated or SOMEHOW, when I watd mySClf too, that I would stay up till both actors are talking, I can't everyone's movie is silent like uneduated. They fill the the people and events of th€ this late hour waiting for that hear them. There must be some­ mine, is that all anyone sees arc background of the poicture and American presidential race, I channing scene which will warm thing wrong with my television, I images without words, symbols set the mood, the style of each have the overwhelming sen­ my tummy and make me foo~ think, pressing the volume but­ without language or focus, with actor's performance, so that the sa tion that I am really watch­ good all over. But where is it? I ton. But nothing happens. All I which they must identify? actors become symbols of the push rewind. Yes, there are hints get are images, symbols in a sense, Back on the screen is a pin­ audience itself. Images of what ing an old home movie, full ol of its coming: Michael Dukakis without explanation or introduc­ striped George Bush, waving to a the video audience wants to see toothy, ham actors and stage drawing comparison with John tion. crowd of businessmen, rather than messengers bearing,. grins, embarrassing repeti­ kennedy, George Bush recalling Here is Dan Quayle, smiling strockbrokers, church.groups, news the audience needs to hear. tive lines and a general know­ traditional American values. I like Robert Redford with his well-dressed college students. he The film runs on, but I tum the ledge that the fam ily will for­ turn up the volume and sit on the blonde hai r and blue eyes, but stands on a podium before a huge television off. It's very late, and I give any flaw - no matte, edge o f my seat, waiting. And looking somehow disturbed, awk­ American nag, kissies babies, still haven't found that charming how great - in the actors' waiting. And waiting. ward, off-cue beneath that rosy shakes astronauts· hands. And scene I was looking for. And now I pinch myself to wake up, appearance. And there's George here is Michael Dukais in a serge that the sound doesn't work, it's abilities and performance realising that I have been half· Bush. leading pre-shoolers in the suit, speaking to a crowd of not much good just looking at pic­ with a sympathetic nod. snoozing for quite some time. pledge or allegiance and walking labourers, engineers. housewives, tures along with everyone else. Pd After all , we're all famil) There, up on the screen. is around a Pittsburgh steel yard in a unversity professors. He gestures rather really hear something. here, aren't we? Micahcl Dukakis, soldier-like. hard hat - is that George Bush? infrequently, gazes into the audi­ After all, it's not so tedious a~ But as l watch the movie riding a tank. Then comes George And Michael Dukakis, the Bos­ ence, and points to charts on watching slow, silent images, anC unfold. I nervously scratch the Bush, walking around a nag fac­ ton suburbanite, hiking around unemploymen1. It would seem if I have to do that , I'll take'Char, back of my ~ec_k, embarrassed al tory. The odd thing is, although Yellowslone park in a heavy that there is a world of difference lie Chaplin any day.

,,­ MORRISON '\/· t ALLOW ME to blow the top on Edinburgh LAST Thursday th e Debates Club managed to seem. to say the least, a wee bil rich. Cliques. From your archetypal sloan through to The fact is that we live in a status ridden, body orien­ excavate a new cliquey low by pulling off a tated society and thank goodness for that. This will take your paralytical medic, from the pretentious arts debate which was one big "in joke". more than abolishing tits to end and not many people students to the KB Kerrange Kids. Each faculty For those of you who were not '·in the know··, all the would like the potential consequences. boasts its own characteristics, which if you are speakers were actually Edinburgh debaters: Madelaine I am disgusted when I see posters of Ivan Lendl with new to this place soon become apparent. Wilcox was actuall y Krista Johnston, Martin Plat or the what I can only hope arc four tennis balls in his pockets. A meander through George Square produces many Viewers and Listeners Association was actuall y Charles Nothing revolts me more than girls watching the Gillette reactions. For some reason sloans congregate around McGregor, and so on (for those of you who have a Blue Two adverts and making com ments such as "Well coffee tables and di scuss the sun setting over the Punjabi genuine innocence of all things smutty. it was not Linda I'm off for the Kleenex". Personally I find pictures of hills and swap stories of being stuck in Delhi airport for Lusardi, but actuallyGcrryCorrish in a tent). Gasp­ Richard Gere particularly offensive. hours with only a bottle of Pimms and Himalayan rug fo r well what a witty jape! comfort- "' It was a nightmare yah." Once in the library Apparently, the Debates Society were worried thal they tend to walk around as if on a Milan catwalk, this deception would cause riot, chaos and a token lynch­ "I'm not a fan of Sam Fox or her ilk dressed in ripped jeans covered with Laura Ashley ing from an enraged crowd of sexists. Unfortunately this patches. They invariably live in the New Town, far was not the case. But strenuous objections did come and nothing induces me to turn a page enough away to cause any harm - loud, obnoxious, but from those who had naively gone to the debate to expect quicker than seeing a poised pout and invariably approachable. ~ serious discussion of what they 1hought was a serious Medics however are only approachable in bars and ISS UC . chest pushed forward to enhance Just how strong these protests were. even bearing in physical assets." ~~::;e~tfy ~:~ee;~e~;wt::k7o::.~~fs :~/~t:et~:~ if t mind that they followed speeches of an exceptionally .certain extent but this is no match to their drink load. If aggravating inadequacy, was a bit of a shock to a house­ you see some lone figure halfway up a lamp-post in the trained sexist like myself. Despite this I would not want to live in a world where Meadows they might be a medic, if you see someone Every single woman (and that includes several who sexuality was a trip to the sperm bank and physical carrying the lamp-post away they're definitely a medic. were not wearing shawls or dungarees), first righteously appearance of no more importance than the size of a big Arts students vary wildly from the Shifty Cafe berated the debates !lob for their insincere and light­ toe. This is the logical consequence of de-objectifying Bandana Red Stripe crowd to the amphitheatre red tie, weight approach and then proceeded to lay into news­ the female and the male body. only once this is done is grey shoes and shiny suil brigade (who, frighteningly, do papers proffering paps as partly responsible for every there any real chance of sexual discrimination, rape and exist). societal ailment from rap and sexual discrimination, to ogling on buses ceasing to exist. But it's down at KB that the cliques revel. The image gratuitous ogling on buses. Rape was not invented by The Sun. Indeed there is no has become notorious in recent years, one of long hair, One even pledged herself to lining anyone who had evidence whatsoever that rape is incited at all by soft or · Iron Maiden t-shirts, Nike trainers, I can't go as it is so hard porn. Eeminists. in Sweden are quoted by Heb­ ever derived pleasure from media-bourne mammaries sad. up against a wall and deleti ng their smut-filled souls ditch and Anning in 'Porn Gold' as saing they have tried If you find yourself falling into one of these cliques from society; for this she won rapturous applause and their hardest to prove the malign influence of porn but then you know yo u have finally arrived. Some ~an age ~o the prize for the best speech. · cannot in all honesty cite any success. break out of it , some trendies were spotted m KB m Now I'm not a fan of Sam Fox or her ilk and nothing As such, public boobs in the papers, just like the pub­ October ff7, but by and large each faculty maintains induces me to tum a page quickeuhan seeing a poised lic tits in the debating society, are aggravating but these highly specialised chara~eristics. pout and chest pushed forward to enhance visible assets, according to most avail able statistics 8 harmless. lf however to claim that they arc capable of mindwari,ing people enjoy them fair enough. Against the dangers ofa ~------~ the British population into a horde of berserk slippery slope leading to no debate or sex they must be NIGEL GRIFFITHS, MP boobophiles treating women as transportable tit would allowed to continue.

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NYONE up early enough on Sunday morn· F_irst of al l, why do they have to offer money as A ing would have witnessed that unedifying an mducement to sleep with her? Secondly if spectacle of that crawling sycophant Brian they do, why such a paltry sum? I suppose it was Walden interviewing Nigel Ltwson. This would, inevitable that once we had a female Rector The of course, be hardly worthy of comment except Sun would be down here peddling their filthy that Walden actually managed to force the drivel. Everybody likes to look at The Sun now Chancellor into a rather nasty corner. The and then, some more than others. One well question concerned Clause 28 and the Chancellor known but little remembered fact is that this fihh was asked to justify the clause and its peddling makes a lot of individuals miserable. It ramifications. may be that television, music and film This is a near Impossible task - even for lhe most personalities a re relatively fair prey-especially seasoned political ope.-ators, which makes it all the more as they us_ually learn to shrug it off. Still , the rag n lraordinary that the clause should have sunk so quickly ha~ . a fairly good record for upsetting less out of the limelight. The centre piece of lhe legislation is res1hent characters (the fami lies or rape victims still the infamous term ' promotion' - a phrase thal etc). Anyway I fear they are wasting 1heir implies that in some way propaganda can influence how ESTABLISHED I\ 1887 yo u turn out sexually. This would seem rather unlikely, preciou.s time with Muriel - she's a nice lady, for a start if it did there wouldn't now be any something The Sun wouldn't know a lot about. homosexuals. And surely making people aware of homosexuality can only lead to more people being happy The News Editor of The Sun is 3. wi th the way they are-people can follow their own path . without shame. E carry a particularly gruesome story Naturall y the Chancellor told Mr Walden that the W this week about life inside a hanging jail. It legislation was the result of parents calling for action (lo doesn't really matter whether it is South Africa or stop peddling of rilthy perversion). Pu!!!ng across the STAFF LIST somewhere else. diea that homosexuality is alright is unlikely to send UISJidMiiil As the International Amnesty tour draws to a children towards homosexuality if they are heterosexuals close it is worth reflecting on the number of and vice versa. Everyone seems to overlook that there is MANAGER: Jamtt~thc-11 political prisoners and prisoners of conscience something rather fundamenla1 in sexuality. Perhaps Mr ADVERTISING: Colin Howman Lawson is worrioo just in case he or any of his family PROMOTIONS: Andr.>wClooston around the world who undergo untold suffering. suddenly turn gay overnight (and grow boils, become There is a distinct tendency amongst many first deformed, ostracised from society etc, etc. world governments to view this suffering as the EDITOR: TomBnidy unfortunate consequence of 'Real Politik'. It is a DEPUTY EDITOR: ErnmaS[mpson view that seems to be prevalent, for example, in NEWS: Grac-mc"Wilsoo CaChyMIICon Washington. Over the years the CIA and the 1/'ITERNATIONAL: Andy Marshall Pentagon have run p an impressive record of THESUN SPORT: Ca r1Mal'5lon interference in countries overseas. What they SimonPtrry MUSIC: Cl'lligMcLean have forgotten to take into account in their plans HE Sun offers Mick Ken1 £6,500 for a kiss Jafflff Halib urton for assassinations, coups and wars (Vietnam) is and tell a story about our Muriel, or rath;r ARTS: Alison Brown the human cost of their 'diplomacy'. Not that the T SungKti.ng were offering the money for anyone who could FEATURES: Gillian Drummond Americans are responsible for all the evils in the and would sleep with her. This is cheeky, if not MEDIA: David Sttnhoose world, but the point is that the human cost of insulting._ WHATSON: JaneMok playing polilils is often forgotten. Susan Gillanckrs FASHI ON: Briot,YStrgnnc

Lelki:., Troops Out FREE EDINBURGH Dear Editor, that "the people of Northern Ire­ men. land have grown accustomed, IN REPLY to Graeme Wilson's There is only one solution~t o the STREET MAP almost comfortable with their war in Northern Ireland and that "Comment' Srudenl 6th October "state of war". This simply 1988. I would suggest that to is the withdrawal of Britain, not in exposes the anti-Irish chauvinism 15 years time, but now. understand why the so-called of Wilson. Nopeoplecan becom­ 'troubles' in Northern Ireland . Morfydd WUHam, worth £1.25 o o o fortable when they live in a war have persisted for 20 years, it is wne which has an occupying a'nny Graeme Wilson bas in fact li ved if necessary to put the 'troubles' into and police force of over 30,000 Northern Ireland all his life - Ed context. First and foremost it is necessary to recognise that thei:e is a war on in the six counties of Northern Ireland. A war between the nationalist community fight· to all students who visit the ing for self-determinatio n and the oppressive British state machine academic departments of our which has denied them this basic democratic right. main bookshop at 53-59 South All war is violent and bloody, but as in any war there arc two protagonists, least we forget the Bridge, Edinburgh; during D'lUrdcrous record of the British Army. The IRA arc not "heart~ October. Just bring thi~ less psychopaths", but are free· dom fighters, fighting for the liter· advert with you and show ation of their country; they are ordinary men and women fighting your matric card to claim your to be free from British domina­ tion. ,The strength of the IRA is due to the support from the free map. nationalist community. It is from the people who elected Bobby Sands MP, Owen carron MP and Gerry adams MP. What about the moderates? Is Wilson referring to the Democra­ tic Unionist Pany? The Official Unionist Pany? If so, these par· JAMES THIN ties are far from moderate. Both parties have maintained policy of SCOTLAND'S systematic discrimination against Catholics. It is not surprising that there is political intransigence when some members of the Unionist parties have proposed the solution to the 'troubles' to '" inci_nerate Catholics". •,,, 1 Wilson's- fiqaJ ~explanation is • · L---=-======;;;;;;=:,:., News

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by Hugh Pinney any and more than most, from val after the Russians have their Zia's death, which deprived the troop withdrawal. US of a staunch ally in the region. Whet her this judgement of guilt ON AUGUST 17th an Even the military was not above against the Afghan KHAD is American built Hercules suspicion, in particular, one high proved correct or not by history, transport plane took off from ran king officer, General Mirza for the momen t the most impor­ the military airstrip at Baig, who at the last minute failed tant question rniscd by the Bahawalpur in Eastern to board ttJe ill-fated plane in tragedy must be that of Pakistan's order to remain behind with the future, both immediate and long Pakistan. Its load included troops. On Z ia's death , he was term . General Mohammad Zia ul­ immediately promoted to Arm y In power, General Zia was both Haq, Pakistan's premier of Chief of Staff. an autocrat and an auth oritarian , eleven years standingt twenty This is not to mention the many but surprisingly he claimed not to high ranking officials, the opponents Zia had cultivated at believe in dictatorship. It has been 1 United States Ambassador to home during his 11 h. years of iron suggested by observers that he Pakistan, ·Mr Arnold fist rule. Sectarian violence is viewed himself as a father figure, common within the country and but that he more closely resem­ Raphael and several cases of the Shiite minority often bled an over protective parent, mangoes. threatened by the Sunni fun­ unwilling to allow his children the Minutes later the aircraft damentalism espoused by Zia. independence to run their own cartwheeled out of the sky and This sentiment was recently lives. This attitude would explain exploded on the way down, strew­ heightened by the suspected milit­ his promise of holding elections ing wreckage and bodies over a ary supp:>rted assassination of the within 90 da~ of his coming to \ ~ wide area. Shia leader Allama Arif Hussain power in 1977 - they actuall y The an'nouncement or death of al-Hussaini. took place 93 mor.ths later. The the military leader in the news­ Of the Agfhan question, Zia civili an government which Was papers the fo ll owing day was met had always stood firm . He eventually allowed to take office, with a surprising and astonishing pledged the Mujahidin his sup­ after an election which excl uded lack of emotion. Bazaars closed port at the start of their war eight the participation of political par­ down out of dutiful respect and years ago and has stood by his ties, was not surprisingly weak streets fi ll ed with lo ng drawn word ever since. The fact that he and therefore kept permanently faces. It created a paradoxical was equipping the rebels with in check by the military. A disag·. ble that she may find herself left ·there is to be at least some degree scene in most or the cities, as three American supplied weaponery, as reement over foreign policy on high and dry as support slips away . of adherence to the 1985 constitu· days previously they had been well as permitting them to use Afghanistan in May led to the sac­ underneath her. ·1ion , which can only bode weU for celebrating Pakistan's 41 st bases inside Pakistan's borders, king or the civilian Prime Minis-, General Zia was by any stan- the immediate future of the coun­ anniversary as an independant made him an obvious target for ter, Mr Mohammad Khan Junejo dards a devout Muslim. It was the try. Undoubtedly, strict, constitu­ Republic. As a result the bunting th e Afghan and Russian regimes. and his cabinet. strength of his faith which led him tionally outlined elections, held and 'Viva Pakistan' banners Zia then promised elections to to try to unite the country through on a party basis would provide the which adorned the streets pro­ He had repeatedly been accused be held, again on a non-party Islam, implementing the Shariat, most stable democratic base for vi ded an incongrous backdrop fo r of breaking the Geneva accord, basis, on November of this year. or Islamic law, thus introducing thccountryandtheonlymeansby the mourning crowds. under which Russia is removing His partiality for non-party elec­ public floggin~ and drastically which it can break free or the The possibility or the tragedy her troops from Afghanistan . The tions was essentiall y little more reducing the status of.women in national ethos imposed on it by having occurred accidentally Was Soviet trained Afghan secret ser­ than a well conceived plan to public life . Cynics see this 'Islami· eleven years or military rule. quick to be ruled out; a missile vice , KHAD, have become ensure that he maintained a curb cisation'as justonemoreexample The recent government 'prime suspects' in, Zia's death . on his main political adversary, or his guile 10 undermine Mrs announcement that the ' ~~~~:~ a~i:e;!s5;ib:~auS:.nas ~~s; They have allegedly been respon­ Mrs Benazir Bhutto and the wide­ Bhutto's authority, and that he November elections will indeed plan's fighter escort had detected sible for various bombings in pub­ spread support she has through was concealing his authoritarian be contested on a party basis is no incoming missiles. This leads lic places and refugee camps the Pakistan Peoples Party. Politi­ ethos behind a thin ve il of Islamic encouraging. It does however ·10 the inevitable conclusion that within Pakistan prior to this inci­ cal commentators see the Fundamentalism. seem somewhat th.at the military someone had planted a bomb dent, and had also been blamed November elections, if they are On his death however, there will back down ve ry meekly, and abroad the carrier, almost cer­ for the massive explosion of a permitted to take place, as her t:ould be no mistaking the general so fa r, General Mirza Aslam Baig tainly concealed in the cases of munitions dump near Rawalpindi best chance of seizi ng power. It is opinion that he was deeply h~ played his_ cards very close. to mangoes wh ich were accepted as a last April. also possible that the death of Zia, respected for his faith . A fact his chest. With rumours flymg last min ute gi ft from the people or It is doubtful that any successor the man directly resp:msible for brought home by the sight or around suggesting that the recent Bahawalpur. of Zia's, and that includes the the death of her father Sulfikar crowds gathered round public massacres in Hyderabad and The natural following question interim emergency government 'Ali Bhutto, in 1977, has ironically television sets in tears watching Karachi were encouraged by the on everyone's li ps was - who? under Gulam Ishak Khan, will robbed her of some of her previ­ the funeral ceremony in military, to strengthen their posi- Pakistan's traditional enemy, have the same personal drive to ous political clout. Her inspired lslamabad. lion , it may well be worth consid- India, was quick to be blamed; support the Mujahidin cause. If leadership stemmed primarily .- The fact that Gulam Ishak ering that General Aslam Baig Russia, and the Russian backed this is the situation then the Soviet fro m a vehement personal hatred Khan has adopted power on the now occupies the very position Afghan regjime would undoub­ backed Najibullah in Kabul must of Z ia al-Haq. With the target of death of Zia, and that he was per· from which Zia himself unxpec· tedly have benefittcd as much as have an improvs.d chance of survi- her hate now removed , it is possi- mined to do so, suggests that tedlyseizedpowerin 19n. sorrn \FRIC.\ Inside the Hanging Jail

" fT WAS only as a prisoner for the instruction to march off. Youstand,silentlywaiting. Youdon'tseeanyofthat, wait· - as a bandeit in a South On Tuesdays or Thursdays - The workshop warders, in their ing int~ soccer yard. All you see African jail - that I could ~o:f~i:sa ~~~/:J~e~.i~~~;: ~~:~:it.vat~:~~ tow=~~tat t;~ _isthelockeddoorinthewall.And begin to realise what life is extra for you to chew a piCce of stay silent. You can hear knock- ·h~~i~~~~~;~:~~i_nfh~nt~:e:~~ like fo( mOst South Africans. final breakfast katkop, or try to ing. From behind the wall ahead, a Jong silence, broken at times by I am white. I had to go inside catch an extra puff or two in cup- the wa ll beside the gallows, you ,he distant sound of a 1ruck pul­ to know what is like to be pcdhands, hidingbehindtheback canhearadistantknocking. You ling off, or by a warder ahead black of the man in front- and waving stand in the soccer yard in the opening ,a gate and peering "I spent 18 months among ordi· your hand to disperse the smoke early morning and hear knocking, through, and coming back to wait nary criminals in a maximum sec- so that no wandering warder sometimes not much knocking - until ifs all right for us to walk urity jail. The hanging jail. I think would see. • as they put on the coffin lids. through to the shop. . that any person, in any society, On Tuesdays and Thursdays, The small room on the left as Until everything's been cleared ' should know what it is like to live after the unusual delay in th~ sec· you go through the gate is the lay- up and finished . i,t a hanging jail."· · tion after breakfast, you come ing-out room. The bodies are Then you're marched off, iwo Hangings usually took place on through into the soccer yard and brought through !he door on the by two, up through the door in the Tuesdays and Thursdays. We stand waiting in teams. The gate right, up the steps and across the ~all and along the short pasageon

lined up as we did ev~ry;cjay~(tc;i:: ,- ll~~a(J ,-,tlJe ~\C qext ,to,tp~ ~a}I , ppssa~ey;ay1 iNo the small room . , :: .;. , • _ •. :: ! ;. .•• ~, .... f' ~~~fas ~. ~~u::~Y: our, waiting o~ the ga!lows bu'.lding - ts shut. on.th.e lef!, and into the<:'?ffins. ' continued 0 International Thursday, October 13, 1988 8

- were directly opposite tjle Con­ to hear, sometimes at night, demneds in B2. For them the sing­ babies crying; and the shouts of ing was ever-present, close at the wardresses next door, switch­ hand, right through the long ing the lights off at eight in the Inside the Hanging Jail nights before hangings. evening with cries of "Stille/ Silence" - and one who a lways continued "Abide with me, Abide with screamed "Bliksem/B itch !". the Ot her side, past the steps going workshoJ) warders. There's often A ll the skin from his chin me" -all night. "Abide with me" down on the right and small room lots of blood at a hanging, he said. upwards was up over his nose. All - swelling with intensity towards They brought the woman on the left, and through the large It comes from all over the place. the blood around and everything. morning and then, as the lights through as the li ghts came on. double gates leading to the work­ When they hang women , he said, They leave them hanging for 20 came on in the cells around the Into the silence and darkness out­ shops. they have to strap them up bet· minutes or so to see that they're prison, a fi nal intense burst and side our windows there was a sud­ den whimpering and crying, deep ·once - it was in earl y May. I ween the legs beforehand. T hey dead. It's a hell of a mess, said sudden sil ence, silence as the dou­ scauer sawdust on the ground so "Henning. ble doors open and close. sobs of crying moving across the remember - we were kept wait­ yard. ing a particularly long time, and that on your way to the shops you don't step in the blood from the He didn't want to see another one like that. A woman , a young woman it ~~':kin~~~g l~~;d i~~;!~ee;~b~~ bodies on their way to the coffins. They brought the woman through S01..\nded like, gulping deep who- One day at the shops - on a room on the left as we went past. The first thing you notice as you ::ie~~: ~i!;i:.;~~~o:~~;: !~~ ops of weeping. morning in the week when we had come into Central is the singing, . The windows that were usuall y windows there was a sudden I thought at first I was alseep, shut were open. waited in the soccer yard - thesound oftheCondemneds. Up another of the you ng shop war· behind the huge sign in the hall whimpering and crying, deep sobs dreaming the nightmare cries, Inside was a table, like an ders came in , looking grim . .H e saying Stilte/Silence, the Con­ orcryingmovingacrosstheyan:t. •then I turned in my tight-drawn blankets and saw the black operating table, flat and hard. On was normall y a sunny sort of per­ demned si ng, chant, sing through polished floor and the light bright it lay a pair of khaki shorts , the son and spent quite a while chat­ in the ceiling and I lay puzzled, lis­ short khaki /shorts worn by Afri­ ' ting to Jackie and me in our weld­ ~~:o~ih ~~:.·n~:~~~e an execution, 'Qle hangings took place at can bandiete. ing bay. T his day he looked bad, about 5.30 in the morning, about tening, then cold with horror. I green about the gilts. At times the chant is quiet, a the time they switched our lights realised where I was and what it That d_ay, said o ne riftheyoung We laughed "at him , joked, and distant murmur or quiet hum- on. For those ofusin Csection the was, and I followed the cries past ~arders m the shop, th~y ha nged. made some remark about people ming, softly. The it swells: you can singing and the sounds surround­ my window in the yard down six or them at the same time. That who came to work with hangov­ hear a more strident note in the ing the hangings were indistinct. below and round the corner, dis­ was why w.e had waited so _long in ers. He had been to his first hang­ th appearing inside . the ya rd , six at once, he said . The ing. ~~~~n, ~fn~i~tt\e ~~:':l~hat e ·· ~~s e:~e :;r;~nr~s :i~~nsil:~~ man who does it, he said, is very A nd-I lay, cold still, imagining will take them through the double times: it was always difficult wak­ how she walked up at the iron good with them: he puts the doors into the gallows. Fifty, ing up, returning to the reality of stairs and along the passage, and blindfolds on quickly and easil y Our early mornings when the sixty, sometimes seventy at a the mats and the blankets on the then through the heavy doors and talks to them all the time and lights came on were cold, silent time, waiti ng, singi ng their fel- Ooor and the cold cell. pulls the lever without the guy leading to the gallows. times; it wu always difficult lows through their last nights. was always diffi.cult to wake ever reall y knowing it 's going to waking up, returning to the reality 11 happen when it does happen. of the mats and the blankets on the My cell in C section was right at up - except the day when they sa~~~ ~aa~~~r~~~ths~~~;;~g:p 4II They go all right like that, he said. floor and the cold cell. the far end of the corridor, on the brought through a young woman in a straitjacket. She was an Afri­ Sometimes - not every week outside, away from the inner way . . to be hanged. can who had smothered her child. - there's sawdust scattered on Once in my cell , the singing She had hysterics when they the pathway between the door on Every warder is required, at Women's Jail - the section for least once, to attend a hanging. receded - only occasionally, hanged her, he said. the right and the room on the left. especially late at· night before a women - was alongside Cent ral. Sometimes were was enough saw­ This was Henning's first. He said The wa ll of the women's formed She didn't go well. he didn't want to see anothe r. hanging, the swell of the chanting dust to cover the dark marks on would surge through, eerily fi lling one o(..thc walls for the kitchen/ the ground. There was this guy, this kaffir, hospital yard •at Central. Our who was hanged and the rope sort the ni,~ht . ce ll s, up at the end of C section, Student News Service Why sawdust, I asked? 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Woeful Decline DISORDER has already reared its ugly head twcrmonths into the foot­ THE APPEARANCE of two British go lfers in the Suntory result is usuall y a defeat in five ball season. Following dislurbances among supporters in Germany thlS summer, this season could have been the opporlunily for players and W.orld Match Play Champio nships on Monday came as a wel­ gruelling sets. Unfortunately, there is still very little mol1ey or managers to reverse: the growing trend or violence wilhin lhe game, and come relief to British sPort after what has been a rather disap­ opportunity for young home-bred thus gh·e less leeilimacy to those who cause trouble in and around soccer pointing yea r of our fa ir isle. Indeed, apart from the nulable players to reach the 1op' in their stadiums. Alas, after Terry Butcher's bnSl with the referee following Ran­ exceptions of hockey, golf and snooker, British sport is in a ' sport. Indoor courts, willingspon· gers' game with Aberdeen and, in England, the breaking of South· state of woefu l decline. sors , and inadequate traini ng ampton player Glen Cockerill's jaw by Arsenal's Paul Davis, the oppor­ facilities are all sad ly lacking in tunity has been wasted. The English cricket team had growth of one-day slogging com· this country, and the youth of Butcher was interviewed by Aberdeen politt an er lbe door to the 0 · more captains this summer than petitions have left England trail­ loday have no national figur~head referee's chancing room was kicked. The Ran2ers and Er1&land defen­ their soccer counterparts scored ing in a sport that used to be the · 10 look to fo r inspiration. der had previously questioned the refertt's competen« as players and goals in the European Champion­ hallmark: of their national herit­ officials left the pitch. ships; British tennis players con­ age. T he handful of Swedes that Even if the pollc~ do not charge Butcher, referee, Louis Thow, lS to tinue to make as much impression have now reached the world 's top report the incident to the Scottish Football Association and lhe game will on the world ci rcuit as Frank While the Scottish soccer team twe nty, including Wilander and have been tarnished still further. Bruno's verbal contributions spent last season recording mun­ Egberg, we re undoubtedly The anger of the Rangers players - and manager Graeme Sot.mess• make toan intellectual discussio n; dane draws against such mighty inspired by the former mastery of ste.mmed from Thow's decision not to send off Aberdeen's Neil Simpson, and Britain's athletes won as opposition as Saudia Arabia and a certail'! Bjorn Borg. It is very dif­ for a four on Ian Durrant which will leave the midfielder out for months. many gold medals at the Olympics Luxembourg the English team fi cult to become equall y The foul is inexcusable, but the amount of publicity surrounding a deci­ as Berwick Rangers have won relurned home . from Germany . enthusiastic about the likes of sion that is meant to be nnal C'an only bring the game inlo disrepute. matches so far this season. with no points and no friends after Jeremy Bates and And rew Castle. Souness could well fatt a hearing with the SF A following his criticism the European Championships. of the referu's judgement. Discipline should come from the top if unruly It is probably just as we ll that Onl y their supporters succeeded Yet all is not doom and despon­ behaviour by footballers is to be stamped out, but it is difficull to see how India will not be playing host to in making an impression on the de ncy. British· hockey has taken this will happen while losing managers question decisions and - in Sou­ England's cricketi!lg fraternity Contineni . great strides forward in the last ness's case - com mil similar foUls when actually playing. this winter. England were not fi ve yea rs, culminating i{I a gold II was hoped that the angry exchange between Celtic and Rangers impressive against theWest Indies The main problem that the medal at Seoul; the perfo rmances pla}'ers last season - resulling in court appearanas by Butcher and over the summer. Four of the fi ve English team faces is the absence of Li nford Chri stie, Liz McCo~ Woods of Rangers and Celtic's Frank McAvennie- was to be the begin· test matches ended in defeat; of any experience in European gill' , Colin Jackson, Peter Elliot ning and end or the politt's involvement in football, but that now seems Mike Gatting decided to channel cl ub competition for the majority and othe rs in Seoul have con­ to have been fa lse optimism. his energies 10wards fomale com­ or their players. Scotland , how­ fi rmed Britain's strength in a1h le­ The English clubs and authorities are doing their best to keep the pany at a hotel rather than con- ever, are beginning to find some tics, despite the dias1ers of Mes­ police at bay. After Pa ul Davis's right-hook al Highbury, Arsenal wert form in the prelude to the World se urs Cram, Thompson and pressured by some to sack the player. The dub responded by fining him ' :~!:~t~~~;es~:::i;~i~~~~iti;J Cup, although as yet they have McKean; and British golf has severely and he has been banned for nine weeks, allhough he will appeal Emburey captained the side for onl y played the fj ord fa rmers never been in a heahhier state. this week. Putting their own house in order is the only way for clubs lo two matches, losing them both from Norway .. The consistency of Faldo• the calm hysteria and prevent the government becoming Involved in a sport and thus securi ng his evi ction casual brilliance of Lyle.,and the that it doesn't understand. from the team; and Colin Cow­ Wimbledon remains an embar­ power of Woosnam have suc­ With the membership card system th e result of governmental inyolve­ drey's son did not even last two rass ment fo r our so-called British ceeded in squashing the American ment in football following pressure to so~ the hooligan problem, one matches. 10 wonders what will be suggested if players a nd managers do not refrain "stars'' in the world of te nnis. ego. This, if nothing else, is be applauded. from such unsporting public dis plays. Thank goodness for Sri Lanka. Jeremy Bates always displays greal courage, stamina and deter­ The poor standard of pitches, the Simon Perry innux of fore igll"players~ and the mination on court, ijut 1hc net Carl Marston

Churchill Closes Coffin 2201816 DDDFEllOWSon'&TOBER . · T H E 3RD X I whic h turned 6ti THE BEAUTIFUL IU/1 out to play Grange V 's ca n II o nly be descri bed as t he most GDDU"GI/IE I' motley crew ever to assemble THEWEIDYS 'Iii. .. o n the Superturf a t Pe ffe r- mill! W ith a left back in goal, MDDSEHEADB51 .ai,t~ two goalkeepers at left wing Bfi AUST/I EIIY BAND . , a nd le ft half, a nd the rug by lllkDR/ll+WDDD · . p laying Sports U nio n Presi­ dent as strik er the o dds d id l2tiSCDTTISH OPEi BEER DRIMKIIG not seem to favour the U ni­ CHAMP/DISH/PS versity side. l3fi GDDIJ"GOIE +TEX FILLET 5 JACK DAI/ELS 151 Edin. Univ. 2; MORE BAIDS MORE DAMGERDI/S COCKTAILS Grange V's 0 MDBE PHI/MDT/DIS MORE MIHAL BE&l/lE...

However, the lack of elegance BANGALORE and fi nesse was easily compen­ FRESHERS' SUNDAY OF SPORT HIMALAYA sated for with a spirited perfor­ TANDOORI TANDOORI mance by the whole team and the LAST SUNDAY in the Sports Centre ove r 350 Freshers took part in RESTAURANT home goal never really seemed the fi rs! Intra-Mural event of the year. The Freshers' Sunday of Spon. RESTAURANT threatened. Al the other end lain People were put into teams, told the ru les and ma~e toge! on with it. 171 BRUNTSFIELD PLACE 52 HOME STREET Turnbull converted a penalty At variom times netball , volleyball ,_ basketball , indoor hockey and stroke and Andy Churchill firmly EDINBURGH EDINBURGH ladies football was played , nobody remembers or cares who wo~ (opp. King's ThHtrf) knocked the coffin lid down on 0 Telephone 031-229 8216 Grange by putting away the ~ ~a~1~e~:~,~~f~~i;:J!~~e,fk~ ~hf:~~7~ F~~~rr~~~:r~~,~~ ~;:ro~; (Ttl""1- Aruwrriff1 MM:hint) Telephone 031-2291348 rebound from :t Turnbull shot. for ruture Intra·Mural events, the first of which is on 23rd october More goals could have fo llowed which is a 5-a-~ide Football in the Sports Centre. See you there . OPEN SEVEN DAYS with goalkeeper Jamie Maden· Mon-Sat 12 noon-2.30 p.m. FUU Y UCENSED nan coming cl ose twice. • Andrew Sherwood Mon-Thur Evenings 5-12 midnight CARRY-OUT WELCOME Vice-President (lnlra.Mural) Fri-SatSp.m.-1 a.m. LARGE PARTIES WELCOME Wilh two teams through to the- 1---....,;------==--==~I Sun 4-12 midnight next round the Hockey Club could fi nd themselves in the 1 n Brief embarrassing position of having FULLY LICENSED MONDAY-SUNDAY to lose a match because we cannot Attention all clubs: In the sixth week o f this term's Student PARTI ES WELCOME 5p. m.·1.30a.m. afford two ·long up runs but !his there will be a m ega sports supple ~ ent of e ight scintillating FRIDAY-SATURDAY small cloud on the horizolt'does pages. Yo u may conside r yo11:r part~cula r club to be sma ll a nd 20%Discount Mo~Silt Lunches 5 p. m.·2 a.m. nol detract from a successful weeend's hockey. insignifica nt at p resent. A bn ef article , however' can cha nge Student concessions Monday and StudentConttSSions Mon-Thurs: all this and put yo u r club right back on the sporting map. · ,Tuesday for evening meal Contact Mr Majid BrianJenner EUMAC Submil your anicles to Jhc.S t11.deJll~Qf.fi~e.s.

THIS COULD be an extremely good team. It could have been a very entertaining match. Unfortunately I couldn't escape the feeling that Edinburgh could have walked away with this one -and they didn't, quite.

They a~e blessed wit h a )'oung Stevens makes a hell of a differ­ and ex1remely talented back divi­ ence to the game as a whole-he sion. Chris Newton at the back seems to manage to get looked very solid , particularly everywhere and seems quite under the high ball. J.J. Wilson at happy to get down on the deck centre and Chris Simmers at fly­ and do the dirty work . Steve half both have a touch of cl ass, McKi nty on the open side flank is Wilson especially is fast and agile qui ck and covered well to make at and difficult to get hold of. Garth least one saving tackle but doesn't McAlpine at centre didn't miss a seem very willing to get his hands penalty all day and both the wings dirty and occasionally seems to looked dangerous when they got have an anethma to hard work. the chance, although Ted Linehan could have done with holding on The final score line o f 24- 12 to i1 few more passes. They all had wasn't particularly refl ective of their moments on Saturday and at the two teams.abilities. It could times made their opposite num­ have been a whitewash. There bers look like boy scouts o n a Sun­ were a few nice breaks from the day school picnic. pack - by Stratton in particular, Sadly nothing really began to and a few moments of class from tick . They spent too much time the three-quarters. Simmers messing around in their own half, ·Started a lovely dummy switch giving away a few stupid and a few towards the end that led to a try dubious penal!ies. The pack but on the whole there was a gen­ looked solid and fed Nick Burnell eral lack ofcohesibn and purpose. at scrum half with some good, Still , there's no mistaking that this clean , ball, but towards the end is a team with great potential. they looked unfit and were much too slow to the breakdown. Dave Tom Bradby

DO YOU get bored on Sunday afternoons? Then come down to th e rifle range in the Sports Centre, Pleasancc for a go at target shooting. The range is open every Sunday from 2-5 pm and all the equipment . you need is prqvided free of charge. Some coaching will also be availa­ ble for complete beginners. Starting o n October 30th is a'\lntra-Mural Shooting Competition. This is run on a handicap basis so everyone has an equal chance of win­ ning a medal. If you aren't interested in competing, come down any­ way, you' ll still be welcome., One small snag is that our insurance requires you to be a member of the Rine Club before you are allowed to shoot. Thiscosts£3 and gives you a ll the benefits of full membership of the club. For more information contact Alan Richardson at the Rifle Range most evenings and on Sunday afternoons.

Alan Richardson

TENNIS CLUB •"R£.5HERS TOURNAMENT Over 30 budding Stefans and Steffi s turned up at King's Buildings on Sunday ready to play in the Tennis, C lub's an nual fre shers' tournament. Colts Backfire Unfortunately no results can be given due to the ienvitable downpour at the semi-fin al stage. Nevertheless an enjoyable day was had by one and all. One tip for next year's organiser though - try to consider the THE UNIVERSITY'S most successful soccer team of last year, the Colts XI, were brought necessity of tennis balls in a tennis tournament a little before 11 am on down to earth by Meadow Thistle, in their first game of the season at Peffern1ill o n Saturday. the day. We're not going to let you forget that one Boris!

The team, which had one of its effort. punished the Burgh with two best seasons in the Lothian Picking the ball up just outside more goals in the second half. L...------­ Amateur League and won it~ the penalty area, he beat two Ifs the University champion­ Inte r-University Championship defenders before characteristi­ shi ps that really matter - the last year, got off to a bad start , giv­ call y rining a shot to the top Queen's Park Shie ld , in particular ing away three early goals. Not corner of the Thistle go!I. - and the season promises much. THE dispirited, the Colts kept their The ht XI are playing well and Concentration, and perhaps heads, played some controlled with last year's winners, Aber­ match fitness, played their parts in football and we re rewarded with a deen, losing ten of their first team, the CoitS eventual downfall as GOLDEN goal shortly before half time. Edin burgh are tipped for the top. Meado w Thistle fought to This will be the year when the Uni Kevin Murphy, always in0uen­ increase thei r lead. sweep the board! tial in midfield, received posses­ A 25 yard shot made the score BENGAL sion on the .half-way line, after a 4-2, and two late substitutio ns Simon Perry move of sho rt passes brought the were not enough to stop Thistle 9a ANTIGUA STREET ball o ut of defence. adding a fiflh and putting the He released Alan Dickson , game beyond reach. l11 Bril'f' EDINBURGH beating the fragile Thistle offside trap. The return pass left Murphy • The 1st XI are well into their TEL: 556 3460 in acres of room , and with the sim­ campaign and have had a promis­ THE HOT AIR Balloon C lub will ple task of putting the ball in the ing start. Saturday, however, saw be flyi ng every weekend from ow CURRY FROM £2.9S net. them go down 3-0 at Pencaitland (weather permitting). Meet at the reenmantle Pub on Friday 8.)9- Recorrimended by Good Food Guide The second half started well fo r in the East of Scotland League. .30 or ring Caroline 667 2815 on Hotel Guide 1988-89, WfAC the Colts and earl y pressure After going one goal down, the Restaurant and ridays 6.30-7.30 for details. brought another goal. After a Uni pushed back and Milan 12 noon-2.00 p.m. series of corners, the Thistle Goven hit the post with a blister­ 5.00p. '!'··Midnigbt defence was looking r~ttled an~ , ing shot from 18 yards. Paul ~Ro~erson, .exp~1t~ t~1rr fvlQ~ ~cessurf t'/1~ t"Qt .tµro ed 111 Brid " M-P\QO~IN\3S WELCOME nervousness with a bnlhant solo into .&.~.~l~i.i \a114 u/~'!f:J itli!'}d:, ·4. E ~ICEISAVAILABLE Student Review Thursday, October 13, 1988 I I Rattlin' Through

A_II Along the Wat~htower, U2'.s live cover of 1he Dylan classic , is spoiled by Bono trying to get his voice to soum;t like Bob Dylan. Why ~e docs !~at here is beyond me , yet he does manage a very touching rcnd1t1on of Lo ve Rescue Me, which he wrote and sings with Bob Dylan. It is almost as if Bono is not happy with the rock figure he cuts fo r himself and is pretending to various olher significant idols as substitutes. This does not work . U2's sound is still recognisable instantly and shouldn't be interfered with. Bono's voice throughout the whole album maintains an excellent controlled power which has deve loped throughout U2's career. _Adam's bass pounds solidly through the speakers over Larry's raucous drums, while The Edge's guitar is mostly as creative as.ever. The new studio material, not corrupted b,j pretCnsions to other ~ styles, is astounding. U2's ability to write atmospheric songs (most t was hard to believe that U2 could possibly have grown arter Thi obviously on their first album Boy) is demonstrated on Heon/and, Surely U1 are stretching it a I Josh'!a Tree album and tour. The epic proportions of this era had more of a dream than a song; I'd pick the excel.lent Hawkmoon 269 bit. The release of this the feehng of being the peak achievement of a band whose following as the next ass-kicking single to tho, current Desire: Van Diemon's album is even more has grown steadily since the release of the U2-3 EP in 1979 received Landis a surprise which works extremely well with the Edge on lead modest success on the independent scene in Ireland. Each U2 vocals; and the closin·g number All I Wanr Is You is a classic U2 epic to, meticulously timed than album release increased the following until it was so huge that the building up in emotion and dying in a cascade of orchestral sounds Joshua Tree: the radio hordes buying the third album War caused it to crash into the album causing the listener to immediately flip to side one again. Fantastic. stations had it last charts at No. I in 1983. U2 were a stadium rock band by the time of Indeed, this is one feature this LP does have in common with other Live Aid and the following increased even further making The U2 albums - its addictiveness. A few nights on the tiles will be Wednesday and the release Joshua Tree the fas test selling album in musical history. This has forsaken to listen to this album just one more time. There a.re many is simultaneous throughout caused even more interest and more fans still. It won't be surprising Jukebox classics on this album with drinkers pronouncing how much the entirety of Western to see Raufe and Hum sell even faster than their lastj...P. • they love this or that song and becoming lost in it . !he cur~ent U2 bears absolutely no resemblance to that which They won't be i:noti?~less, thou~h , for,t~is album is startling in its civilisation. Th e selling existed dunng the Under a Blood Red Sky period. The band at this time sheer power. Their bnlhantly rousmg version or The Beatles' Helter pace of Ra/Ile and Hum were still distinctively Irish. Bono still lulled us in the tones of that Skeller puts us in the mood for the rest of the disc. The album , if will depend on this business country's accent dressed in black canvasses and T-shirt, waving a white anythi ng, is under-produced, rather than over. The mood of The !lag. and writing songs such asS11rre11derand Rejoice. The band are now Joshua Tree is continued and expanded as Jimmy lovine's strategy as well aS on its American, using words such as "dollar bill '' in their songs and recording production lends a very live fee l to the new studio songs. Even the quality. The machinery all ofthis albumsave three tracksinthehomeofcapitalism.Cashingin quieter numbers (such as The Edge's Von Diemon's Land) carry a continues, forcing a book and being as big as possible (very American) does seem to be a theme strong raw atmosphere. There is none of the poetic gentleness of as the U2 machine takes over the world. The very character of the band Octobe~ here. ~e album has been made to be played and generally and a film on the public has changed as they act in their documentaries and, no doubt, in their sounds 1mpress1ve when one does so. within two weeks of the record's release. This set­ :~~!"~i~~·p~~~c~u~;:;~~;\:~~:;t~!~ ~:gc~~~~t:t:j~~ J~; .B e~~~r~~~~: ~~~ r:t:'dY~ t:n~~u1~~:;:~~sr'e ~~rr~~~~r::i~. 'i0~ another band. So far , though , the music has been unaffected , and has the li ve material I'd pick Pride as the highlight. It is often said that up dictates that many music been extremely impressive. Unfortunately, after their cover on Rolling this U2 classic doesn't carry too we ll live , but not here. When Bono fans will do nothing but ' Stone magazine - and the rarity of The Joshua Tree being critically says "For the Reverend Martin Luther King, sing", you do. The listen to, watch, or read AND hugely successful- the band now KNOW they are good. grinding force of present-day live U2 translates superbiy to this LP This album, consequently, is not on ly overwhelming in its hype and rnot least on Bullet The Blue Sky, surely one of the greatest rock songs about U2 during the distribution but also overbearingly pretentious in its conception: Bob ever written. autumn o/~88. Is music Dylan and BB King both make significant appearances on this album; This politically poignant song sounds more desperate and quality sacrificed because they dedicate songs to John Lennon and Billie Holiday ; and U2 wish to personal here than it did on Th e Joshua Tree, enhancing the effect. align themselves with almost every musical style that has existed in the The song is satricial of, even aggressive towards, the US. U2, of U2 the business empire? 20th century, including folk (Van Dieman's Land), blues (When Love however, have become American in their dress and music ; a Will music fans keep Comes to Town). and even so ul (Angel of Harlem). Why not , though? contradiction of which they are all obviously aware. And so the listening to U2 for years to Most modern musical styles are derived somewhere along the line from highlighting of personal problems such as the drug addic1ion of come? Neil Finnie reviews the album and looks beyond the hype.

one of these areas. Although one of the main features of U2's previous Run11i,ig To Stand Still and the confused religion of In God's five studio albums was their originality, even that distinctive U2 style Country is continued here. God Part II is one of the best songs I had its influences. Why shouldn't they now be direct in acknowledging have ever heard dealing wilh many personal issues. Bono is utterly them? convincing when he cries: he band , in some ways, seem to wish 10 go backwards after " I don 't believe in exccess, success is 10 give, TThe Joshua Tree. The experimentation on some of the songs "I don't believe in riches but you should see where I live ." here is blatant emulation rather than acknowledgement. U2's U2 are (not surprisingly) having problems with their wealth. We moulding themselves into these styles falls down notably on side cannot help sympathising here, not because of the rousing and far. three. Bono, here, altempts to sing soul on Angel of Harlem and reaching quality of the track, but also because we realise U2 will do fails abysmally. The Memphis horns do nothing to enhance this very well to avoid a downfall due to their wealth. We know that all piece which would have sounded far superior with Diana Ross on things that go up must come down and there·s nolhing in the rock 1 ~e;~t~a~~u?iry t~;s~g~, ~~;;raru:~e'~~~~;: s;~rit!~hi~ it~a;}~~ w~~~;g::: ~~;~ ~: ~=tj~~w:~:1, musically already which drags Sky. Bono's · voiCC belongs to rock. When Love Comes To Town down the overall impression of the album. Its running time of 72 (their trip into blues with BB King) also appears on this side and is minutes could have been reduced to around 55 without losing much. very entertaining. But that's all. It would be great at a party to15ee This LP is good, very good, but it is not another Joshua Tree. I ,_ ,; , • , , t8.ij ~in£.ju~upon stage with \Jf fM.1Jtrhh1ihktMs101'1 bU\ h'S'Mt 'sincerely ~opt; it doesn't hlltrtoomUt:h whCr1 U2 hit thegroondbut. 1 1 1 1 ·-·. ·---- ·-·--. -- -- . ---· _r~

It was probably Alan Moore and Dave Gib­ bons' celebrated Watchmen saga that brought most attention to the comics medium. Here was a radical ince the fifties the jibes at it. Indeed if Viz isn't ca re- innova1ive scripting, Marve/man see the worst of so many cities reworking of the tired decline in comics' ful it will overwork its own alter- and (currently being reprinted as around us, and via the artist's old theme ofcostumed standards has made native comedy formula. But a ten issue series) the downbeat ambiguous, subtle and shadowy superheroes righting 0 S them open to much ~i~~::~!:;~:~:i~:ts~s;~: ~~~!~~;u~~~-'::r7i~,':·0~~~:~\::~ ~~;;~~,!~:0~ :~:~sp~~c~~~;~ wrongs, which mixed criticism: corrupting the before its circulation suffers. The work includes Ramin, The accusation that comics are imagination, -childish, kids'II always want their blood Sarriurai futuristic novel. just a fa ntasy world for adolescent politics, sex, violence unrealistic and worthless fan- and violence. V is arguably the best of this escapism is thrown away - who ' and realism. With its tasy. Stereotyped As in the heyday of comics, it's bunch, in which the masked would want to escape to here, release to the world of superheroes, bad scripts and theAmericanswholeadtheway, anarchist, V, stands alone in a where the adolescent is just the '80s and '90s, the unimaginative artwork have chopping up the market between neo-fascist Britain of the future. another potential rape victim? given them a bad reputation ~~~. ~:1a:gn~~~:e~~r~:\~as:; ~oore m~kes :iss:ti~gsa:learly The gadgets have been snapped idea ofcomics as being as pulp escapism for kids. do companies, and small publish- n~7i~:. ut t e .. 0 t ~Y· . up so the Batmobile looks some- for kids only was This has not been unde- is su~ess ts impressive m thing close to a tank, having been th 0 quickly shaken. As served, )'et a dip into e Theaccusationthatcomicsarejustafantasyworldfor ·~ :!~;:~:o~~~;if;~hnea!~~~~~ sales of other more pages of '80s comic fiction cial and characterless cast of the • would show those whose adolescent escapism is thrown away- who wOuld stories have been treated adult-orientated com­ impression has been based on want to escape to here, where the adolescent is just ruthlessly too. The original Robin ics (2000 AD, V for past or casual encounter another potential rape victim? was a prattish Peter Pan in tights Vendetta continue to quite literally a whole new (the new one is a young girl with world. ing houses have boomed. Dark itself, but it's through Dark dope-smokingparents); Commis- increase, Tim Daniels Old influences have handed florse, Comic Co. and First Knight and Watchmen that they've sioner Gord0n is unpopular in a takes a look at the over to new, and these new Eclipse are examples, aiming at had their greatest influence and crime-bent city and hounded by medium everybody's creators have moved on to do the niore adult market. Well, reaped the high financial rewards. bureaucrats for refusing to arrest their own thing. Many of today's "adult market'' is perhaps some- The Dark Knight Returns is a the Caped Crusader; and Joker talking about. writers and artists no longer want thing of a misnomer - late-teens Batman story, but underneath the becomes something close to evil in to keep spewing out the same trite and twenties is more appropriate, traditional mask, fans of the out- his insanity. (There is a develop­ th fiction, and a radical change in but First Eclip~ is one very gCY.XI rageously camp Adam West TV ~~:e:fn ~~:a~a,::;~~:~~e."1 style, ideas and presentation has example of how lucrative that series will find little in the charac- taken place. lll'e comic has market is. They've found their ter they recognise. Miller's hero theme continued in The Killing become a more adult phenome- niche in the demand for glossy hasbecomehumanandquestion• ~ok~~~ok~!s~00:r)~i;ew~~~ • Next week . .. The non, and is once again big busi- graphic novels and ifs from such · able. So too has Gotham City, two bro\hers behind ness. novds that big things have come Robin, and all the rest of the sur- superheroes are given the 20- 2000 AD and the other wide sel- about. . rounding mythology. years-on-and-past-it treatment, the leading comic Viz ler Viz are the British contribu- Most of the new awareness of Gotham is grim. Gotham is no with the exception of Clark Kent, talk to Oraig McLean tions to the comics world, comics stems from two such. longer an urban playground fi lled the only real Superman, por­ although Viz is exceptional to the books: Frank Miller's The Dark with flashing phones and holy trayed as a ki nd of earth-bound movement: part parody of the Night Returns and Alan Moore smoke rings. Gotham has been god. Beano/Dandy genre, part "wit- and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen. givenahealthydoseofthathorri- But by far the most stri'king' . lessly fo ul-mouthed cartoon Moore and Gibbons come with ble term "social realism": change isin the Dark Knight him-• strips" (London Evening Stan- pedigree records from 2000 AD sociopathic street gangs, TV cul- se lf. Batman has aged, gets hurt, dard), it does little to dispel the andDoctorWhoWeekly, buthave ture, child kidnappings, violent hasrages, andisno longersocon­ overworkinl{ of the pre-'80s man- wider credentials too. Moore's crime, atrocities and age-old civi- fident in what he's doing. Behind with-amazi(!g-powers type for- extend to Swamp Thing for DC, lian apathy and self-interest. him lurks a question throughout , , , , , mula., ,Rather 1it prefers, ,taking , With its organic · graphics-- and Through the autho.r!s cynicism we the whole book: are he and his ilk Features Thursday, October 13 , 1988 13

valid crimefighters, or just man­ the book abounds with recurri~g Ronin skit at first- still hangs in iacal gun-crazed vigilantes? Think symbols, shapes and images, and there, but others such as the pro­ or this as he tells Two-Face's hen­ operates on a sublimin al level lific Mark Martin ran into trouble chman (who he's jusl thrown with picture details including, for and had to go and think up new through a window) " You've got example, posters for events occur­ ideas. Essentially black and white rights. Lots of rights. Sometimes I ring later in the story. parody hit a glut and then flop­ count them just to make myself By several techniques, Watch­ ped. fee l crazy. But right now you've men steps outside its own world: a Meanwhile old Moore stories got a piece of glass shoved pirate story is serialised through­ boomed and graphic novel type through a major artery in your out and read in conjunction with copies of old 2000 AD stuff took arm ... I'm the only one in the the plot itself, and the characters off in a big way as well. Seemingly world who can get you to a hospi­ are given a chance to explain pricey al first , graphic novels and tal in time." themselves. For some the cos­ the like actually work out cheaper Miller gives criminal rights a tume isan escapism ID, others "a and better value than their com- firm right hook to the jaw, and and its treatment of the third bons as ilustrator, and as an artist Batman secretly pays the fees of The original Robin was a prattish Peter Pan in tights world. It's a sound story (so far), himself Miller should be able 10 his captured foes' psychologists well presented, if perhaps tending feed Gibbons ideas better than (the new one is a young girl with dope-smoking towards being "trendy lefiie". only 10 have them condemn him parents.) Moore. for the damage he's done to their "New Statesman .. , the second half Look out also fo r newcomers psyches. Ironically the Joker kills of the publication, is another Gaimon and McKean's Black his analyst on live TV anyway. sexual thing", and for another ponent serialised issues. And the attempt at the what-if-Superman Orchid, tipped to be stunning, and The Dark Knight Returns takes publicity for a modelling career. punters agree. The Science Fic­ really-existed? category. Mills a whole host of Batman books a look at crimefighters from an It's a book designed to make tion Bookshop on West Causeway and Co. do it well, but they're next year to celebrate his 50th adult viewpoint and questions the you think , if you can spot the is a treasure trove for any of this neither Moores not Millers yet. anniversary - particularly Dave rights of individuals by concen­ clues. A blood-covered clock face kind or material. (They deserve a Yet they will make more money McKean and Grant Morrison-'s trating on established characters. moves a minute nearer midnight .plug for their help in compi li ng deservedly than others . Arkhanm Asylum. at the start of each chapter. It's a thisanicle.) 2000 AD continues, having just A Batman film in the style of fast-paced story to which there is But beware, while some of the gone bigger and glossier after Dark Knight is being made, 100, being bought by Robert Max­ 0 little else comparable. I find it stuff around is very good - such for which Pinewood have con­ w~~stth~si~li%n;:e~ :;:t~!~ hard to think of books from any as the, well, weird but visuall y well's Aeetway Publications. Viz verted five blocks into a Gotham too continues to flourish , so far Watchmen, Moore and Gibbons' genre that I've enjoyed more. stunning-and original Stray Toas­ similar to the city in Brazil. The With the arrival of these two ters by Bill Sienkie)ViCZ - other without needing a rethink. whole thing's to have a Bladenm­ brainchild is questioning on a far Moore has had his last word on larger scale. All the characters ar& books the comics industry must material smacks of DC and Mar­ nerish feel to it and is to star have felt like it had been hit by a vel trying to join the boom. Sales superheroes really and has gone Micfiael Keaton, Jack Nicholson new, from the useless Captain on to set up his own company Metropolis - a subject of ridicule lump of green kryptonite. Sales of Green Arrow, for example, are and a 15-year-old unknown as boomed, interest and awareness pretty much gratuitous and it's a Mad Love Graphics ' whose Robin. An abridged Watchmen for trying to emulate comics- to AARGH! (Artists Against Rorsarch who creates morality shot up and everyone rethought book that rea lly wants to be Dark movie is being planned too. their ideas about their own stuff. Knight. Rampant Government That these two should transfer where he sees none. . Homophobia) is to come out One of the appeals of the book Not surprisingly, two things hap­ Similarly, Pat Mills and others to screen seems fitting. It's largely pened - people tried to emulate from 2fXXJ AD seem intent at try­ soon, all royalties and fees being due to their impact that the whole is in the way it refers to both its waived to promote awareness own ideas - such as the pattern­ the new formula , and people tried ing their hands at being Alan comics industry is alive again. about Section 29. There's much wonh reading, less Rorsarch blot -and othCrs in to knock it. Moore - hence the arrival of this case Nietzsche, though Eins­ Those who tried parody ran Crisis, a new magazine . In it , Miller is doing a graphic novel whatever your views on comics. tei n, Junt and many others appear into trouble after a whi le. Mills' .. Third World War"' is pre­ for DCs Electra and has been It's the sceptics that lose out, and these days they have an awful lot too. Apart f~om setti.ng the mind Eastman and Laird·s Teenage dominantly a well-researched contracted for a six novel series racing ttie eye is kept alert too as Mwant Ninja Turtles - a idirect attack q n the corporate. company , calle,d 1libertr1 \\'.ith Dave Gib- (A lose out on. 1 , 1 1 14 · Thursday, October 6, 1988 Music

THE WONDER STUFF WE FREE KINGS Queen Margaret Un ion Potterrow PERSONALLY, I'm impre­ SUCH IS the splendour of ssed by bands who "give it all Glasgow University's Queen they've got" rather than Margaret Union that even those who present displays of the disco before The Wonder studied indifference or Stuff hit the stage stomps all assumed "cool". We Free over anything seen or heard Kings began their set fast and in any of our unions for a long somehow stayed fast without time. With such an opening any loss of complexiw in the ir (the exercrable support band pursuit of speed. notwithstanding), The Won­ As the band chased each song der Stuff couldn't fail. to a frenzied and we expected the And they didn't. Their non-stop inevitable surrender to inertia and rqck n' roll monster cha rged a slower, less "all-out" effort, but straight into the audience, maim­ after absurdly short pauses the ~ng and discarding anyone too singer launched them into yet pathetic 10 handle the groove another attack- each song com- (machine). The music exploded in plex enough in its own right so your head, letting you r heart and that we didn't get ·'over-exposed" reel do nothing save yell '' Yeah, by this constant level of assault. Yeah. yeah!'' Total devotion to So what kept this rhythmic engine the sound is obligatory, and pumping? - everything pivoted guaranteed at that. -ar~und the singer whose c~incent­ The twin towers of The Stuffies· rat10n was complete and energy set the si ngles Give Givt Give and unfailing - ir his words were A Wish Away, are unleashed sometimes indistinct them tonight upon the audiencs:, leaving not a this was besides the point. If you hope for sa nity. As the crowd gib­ think st ring sections are twee then bers se nselessly, groove after let We Free Kings prove you groove rockets through the air: wrong. A bass, cello, and fiddle Poison, Merry Go Around, Astley were integral and furious ele- ~ :~~~- Noose, they just keep a- ments - applied primarily as ,,; rhyth mic instruments to create But it is Unbearable that deliv­ this blistering folk stomp. If you ers the killer blow. A slower, want reference points to define chugging version is delivered, and the sound then think of them but its the crowd's realisation that The remember to double the speed. Stuffies can do better, coupled An American in my vicinity men­ with Miles· precocious little boy tioned sq uare-dancin·g - cer­ arrogance, that makes everybody tainly, from the opening bars or save that last litre of sweat. And Motorcycle Rai11 onwards, the then it comes, as do the audience: crowd were drawn into a hyperac- mass faial orgasm bursts out as tive and chaotic hoedown. Aspir- Unbearable charges across the ing young shamans flailed and col-_ soundwaves. tided like over-excited molecules. · In the aftermath of the battle, drawing, like the musicians them­ broken and bloodied goths, hip­ selves, on seemingly limitless pies, skinheads, trendies, leather energy. You could mention The boys drag themselves from the Pogues but this is so much more arena. A truly splendid time was accomplished and efficient had by all. although.no less powerful. And in my opinion it is so mu:e~~::·lh ... Craig McLean

player and added a rather redun­ that resolution, soar, COiiide, ing the audience continuall y aware of his recklessness, like a THE BEAUTIFUL SUIT dant second drummer but we ·n BAND OF SUSANS/ reproduce, fa ll back to earth. forgive them for that. What they RAPEMAN Speed metal at its height is your thrashing stick insect. The depth Oddfellows still have is that edge, the sugges­ blood bubbling. of noise from the single guitar tion that however they sound now The Venue seemed more than Band of they'll be ten times better in a Susans' three guitars, but it was Whereas the first group's sound ready to leave you suddenly in 1988, AND it's just like P_pst­ year's time. It's D.5:1nna , singer, guitarist and songwriter who was a basic headbang beat which silence and expectation. card never happened . Scot­ 10 dominates with that a bit of per­ Although this was exciting, and tish bands seem interested THESE two noise bands ::: ~~~n~:d ;:tir:i;~~a1~! you were never quite sure what sonality and presence that every­ worked in different direc- caprice of stcve A lbini, the lead only in b land white-boy funk body else seems to lack these would happen next, the sound was tions, but each achieved sue- guitarist. This band did not work or in trying to sound like days. harsher, more violent, thatn the Steely Dan., Only Pailsley's cess in their formats. For the in layers - A lbin in was the sole first band's orchestral ri chness. Ifs all a bit rough as ye1 so don't sonic catharsis to be com-· screech. His drum/bass colleagues C lose Lobsters seem.capable expect The Beautiful Scuit to be of rising above the dross. brilliant if you go to see them. plete, a degree of drun_ke n- !:t~~:d {~~';fig ~l~cknt;~iu:~~ And m aybe The Beautiful Give them a chance. There just ~;s~o:~~i~~~:a~~~:~im~~~; the time. He jerked around, mak- James Saller Suit. might be something going on here., magnificent absenceofori en- ~-...-.....,.------, Just maybe. Since I last saw ta~ion _a nd judgement. them they've los_t a fey harmonica Dessie Fahy Band of Susans were quiet bet­ _____..;;;;;;;;;;~ g~r:oo~v;,ey;:,o:mmercial jingles and ween songs: there was no help WIN adopted a harder sound making given towards the meaning of them sound like any other ordi- · each song. Even the lyrics were The Venue nary ho usehold band. Maybe inaudible as words - instead the because they were playing the vocalist was just another layer to Venue they felt they had to over top the richness of drums, bass IT WAS probably the fact do the guitar sound. However the and three screeching guitars. A New U2(2 LP) £7.99 that it's been a while since new single What'II You Do Til song began with grasping the bass Proclaimers (Sunshine) £5.99 we'd hea rd anything from Sund0y is quite a catchy li1tle rhythm, which usually remained Acid Trax 2 (2 LP) £6.99 Win that made me hope that number and should hopefully help the same, growing toa frenzy at House Hallucinates (2 LP) £7.99 Bill Withe rs Greates t Hits £3.49 this would be something spe­ Win to receive the recognition the climax, as the guitar/vocal they deserve. If only the band whirl branched out into new House of Love LP £5.99 cial but I'm sad to say that I Cocteau Twins New LP £5.49 could get a following half as big as, dimensions. wasn't as impressed by their Davie Henderson's ego they'd be· Yello Stella LP £3.49 performance as I had been doing fine. It was a short set with Various Ac:id US 12" £4.99 Various Acid T-shirts £7.99 last year at Coasters whe n the their claim to fame You've Got A gi rl bassist is a great thing: band seemed set for big The Power as an encore, to keep ·1his one sounded earthquakes, things. the fans happy - which it did. I _headaches, maybe the accent of was bored, but who am I to argue decision and no turning back. The SALE NOW ON A year or so on lrom· Super­ with fift>: ~~,~~ ~~a_d_~as uals? rhythm sect ion s~gnalled the pQpQid GrQQl!.t. tias_n 't done much manic inevitabiliJX ~o.f, lV,hatev,e!, 1 1 ,.42 Cockburn Street.(031-220 0133)' for Win , they've given up the LttMurray the guitars made that absence, Music Thu;sday, October 13, 1988 15 ,

Hallelujah Men_ vinyl PET SHOP BOYS delivery and precious sensitivi1 y Introspective arc the perfect format fo r his Parlophone LP tri vi al , neurotic songs. There's the Patsy Kensit·less version of I get ow of bed a, half past 1e11 , I'm Not Scared, the 8-side / Want Phone up a friend who's a paarty • A Dogandthenewones (l think) animal. Lefl To My Own Devices and the And so it begins. the remix pretty boring (actually) It's album by those mise rable bug· 4friglu. gerr; , the Pct Shop Boys .. The only problem is the sheer Along the same lines as the length of !he songs - shortest is Disco album with last year's over six minulcs. For me the Christmas' No. I sounding like an appeal of the Pct Shop Boys is early Depeche Mode song and their three minu1c radio.fri endly the flip single Domino Da11cing in jingles and to stretch them over a ll its glory. nine minutes loses theor popiness. Dead good though. The Pct Shop Boys are hilari· ous. Neil Tennant's po·£aced James Haliburton

Venue From the d·istinctive funk sound I WAS worried about this of Alf You Need Is . . classics _ one as I was ex pecting a Cheeseburger, River of People Their reaction at the Celtic vie- and Candybar Express through to ' C:' ry over Honved on the same reasonable conce rt fro m a ll hc new more subtle, laid back, night caused them to move into band that should have made strange kind of love tracks, the set top gear. As with the Cells, Love it big years ago. But I was was highlighted by compilant pro- and Money are back. Hallelujah proved wrong, as James fcss io nali sm to humour. The audi- Mna. Grant and the boys we re bril - cnce revelled in the new sound John-Paul Morrison TRANSVISION VAMP of "clean li vi ng in a hostile envi- Love 'n' Such, Beautiful Pop Art MCA LP JAMES TAYLOR ronment''. C uriously however, Hands _and Big Gum high­ QUARTET their new single The Theme From lighted the ir performance , so Potterrow Su,rsky and Hutch evoked a more this group deserve nothing _:_=='------recen t memory - that or Satur· W~NDY_JAMES is in no position to despise 'bimbos'. Despite her days spent sipping cocoa while b ut su ccess. claims of .. tongue-in.cheek" presemation. whether she feels she is in The Man From Del Monte control or not she still comes across as a pouting sex toy. Butwho cares - NOTTO be confused with a n awaiting 'Match or the Day' . Great days indeed. a re a Manchester thrash band this is a brilliant record. • age d hippy b lessed w ith the with a n exuberant front man, lt·s pop . it's rock . it's throwaway and lyricall yemp1 y. If s wonderful . same mo niker , the real The only cr~ss ~ o~ ent is Wild Star with its overl y breathy, croaky Paul Rogerson Mike W est. They proved J a m es T ayulo ris a virtuoso o f vocal~ culm10at1_ng in her giggli ngly kissing the speake rr;. Despite this once ag ain the depth and Hang1~g Om Wuh HCflolones and Andy Warh ol's Dead along with the t h e H a mmo nd o rga n and a ------­ strength of the Manchester well d e f geezer to boot. MAN FROM DEL MONTE three smgles ~re as good examples of"di sposable pop" anyone is likely BIG BLUE72 music scene and displayed a to come up with. vio lently. visual performance ~e curious cont~adiction between the largely technology-Obsessed Forgive the stilted verbals, but Teviot lyncs and the essentiall y standard rock presentation are just one of the this lot really looked as if they on stage, coupled with the BIG BLUE 72 are on the sound that dominated the reasons this album is more than a soundtrack for adolescent wet might presage a 1989 Mod revival. dreams. There's more namc-droping than Lloyd Cole and more '·baby" verge of achieving succe ss Indepe nde nt chart in recent The recent recruitment or youth than ~ e C~amps. Andy Warhol , William Burroughs and Halo Jones £u l sticksman and fo rmer Style and if the acclaim the y times . Will Nobody Save arc '!uxed. wit~ T·_Rex, The Sweet and Sigue Sigue Sputnik. the liberal, Councillor Steve White is surely rece ive d from the T eviot Louise proved ths band's musical pilfe ring 1s great fun and more innovative than a thousand ·no coincidence. Though it may audience is anything to go by potential. Both bands have samples. Not b~d at all. not be difficult to activate an audi­ it will be ve ry soon. their foot in the door, it is ence of Freshen;, the event cer­ Enthusiasm and profes· only a matter of time when James Haliburt tainly did not lack Sixties spon­ both wil walk through to .______..;,..;,,.. .. ;..,1 taneity. Blood, sweat and dapper sionalism mixed with their threads all the way - renccting brass , soul feel to cre ate the acclaim and success. the hallowed mode------rnist aphorism latest sound from Dunde e . John-Paul Morrison . which the harassed drinker often r------THE HONEST JOHNS confronts in this modern-da)' Comp Results

_N~eg~o_c_ia_n_ts______::~:;· d:~~ ; 1~; n ho~~ t~he~ Here they are, the lucky winners accordion? of the Music Pages' fab Wedding Present and That Petrol Emotion competition; ie the only people ALL MALE semi-acoustic who had lhe right anwers: troupe The Ho nest Johns m~as!:!lyat ~~:-fri;~~s ;~~ o ffered a degree o f musical decidedl y bracing; no ironic barbs Gavin Deas, 42 Craigmillar Park Theatre in Edinburgh is exciting, want to see. With a Student entertaining and innovative. The Theatre Saver Card you can see sophistication which scarce ly here. ·Honest' was certainly their HughKerr, 60 South Clerk Street Sha ron Davies, 13 Rdbertsons The Royal Lyceum - Scotland's it and save £1 on your ticket every b e fitte d the ve nue. mi ddle name, in deed as well as targest repertory theatre company time you do. II also entitles you Close. Valerie Walker, J Neve rtheless, thoug h Tuesd - word. A glib comparison mi ght -stages ambitious and highly to bf'ing a friend along at the day nights in N egocia nts gen-"' like~ them to a mo re whi~sical Marchmont Street popular productions form the reduced rate too! e rally a ttract a diffide nt a udi- vcrr;mn ~f The Housemartms - classics to contempornrywork. th You can buy one from the e nce , this quinte t o f off-b e at more Budd an bold. The above should col'M and collect Lyceum's box office in Grindlay their prizes at the student offices al There is always something you'll Geo rdie roma ntics sOOrl h ad Street behind the Usher Hall, it One reservation ; they did seem 1.15 on Friday. costs £1 and is valid !or a year. the m a ll ro lling in the a isles. a bit one-paced, even though their The correct answers were, of finale, a rousing, red·neck coun· course, Sean O' Neil is leaving the No queues. No stand--bys. Their precise melodies and try pastiche was anything but. Petrols 'cos his wire is having a Noproblems. deftl y observed harmonies con· · Away the lads. baby, and The Wedding Present 031-2299697 ,ra~~d.agr1reabJy 11itl\. \he.. ~ir~ute t, < _ • recorded their IHI single in 1 1 I 1 1 ' f I • ; : ; 1 : ·, .. rre,e~ rof 1tonc'Cloaf guittt r·bCIV ' ~ Paul R~rson :r~·e... n~~ ; ~as~'-r~ri 1 ~ ~- .i • ' 1 ' ~ - ••• •••••••• - ... - · - ...... I \l.'f.. J ll"··.1'.'- 16 Thursday, October 13, 1988 Film

A FISH CALLED WANDA A WORLD APART Cannon Cameo Dir: Charles Chrichton Dir: Chris Menges

THIS EXCELLENT com­ get entangled along the way. and OUR KNOWLEDGE of edy is convincing proof of the the results are chaotic and almost apartheid entai ls paradox. argument that, in the nands always funny. Nine black letters on a white of experienced and talented It is slightly disappointing, if backgroulld wilh a fury and artists, even the most understandable, that Cleese the rage thal is intestinal to it! scriptwriter has felt it necessary to unlikely or unpromising tailor the film to suit American very definition For a country material can be moulded into tastes in humour, bu1 if the end five lhosuand miles away something rather excep­ product is comedy which is rather South Africa is rarely far tional. simple•minded arid basic, at least from our television sets , it is basic humour at its very best. rarely near to our thoughts. The plot is rather far-fetched, In any event, Cleese the comic and the main roles are, for the actor (who re deems himself with Despite its clumsy failings, we - most part, stereotyped carica-, his finest big·screen performance) desperately require film s like A tores. However, this is no prob­ is easy to forgive, and is well World Apart to make us apprec· lem to veteran 'Ealing' director backed up by Kevin Kline (a reve· diate that the suffering caused by Barbara Hershey and Jodhi May are A World Apm:t. Charles Chrichton and to perfor­ lation in the part of Wanda's apartheid isas passionately real as mers (in order of merit) John deranged brother, Otto), Nlichael the newspapers that report it. where she discovers her own inde- with the crude cliches of agitprop, Cleese, Kevin Kline , Michael Palin and a host of more than able penance. bu! then again, the aesthetics only South Africa, 1963: the story of By the moving close of the exist to present an ethical answer Ruth Firs1 (Barbara Hershey) is to apartheid. seen through the eyes of her 1hir­ movie we find mother and child teen year old daughter Molly reconciled in the bonds or a pow­ The dogmatic presentation of (Joclhi May). As an active jour· erful solidarity of politics and fam­ this suggested solution, namely nalist she finds he r commitments ily as their world erupts into vio­ that South Africa's problems can to political action em pinging upon lence around them. be solved through internal vio­ her responsibilities for her own The narrative structu~e is lence and revolution, will hope· fully have the film 's audiences family, leading to her own deten· metaphorical insofar as Molly's tion under the 90 days law and the education through experience spilling ou1 or 1he Cameo cinema alienation or her daughter from mirrors that of the audience. and arging in the pouring rain fo r friends and family. Molly's onl y Menges' cinematic s!yle (honed as ;na;rs:~~:~it:c:;e. Absolutely • source of solace lies in the cinema,1ographe r on The Killing township black communities Fieldsand The Mission) is riddled Stuart Allardyce

ir'I the form of the irrespressable his time off the airwaves teaching GOOD MORNING Williams, he traces more critical his Vietnamese friends American VIETNAM themes in Good Morning Viet­ obscenities and baseball, unable nam. In a recent interview he says to understand the war around Odeon .. I know it sounds stupid, but I've him . Dir: Barry Levinson never seen the Vielnamesc in a Good Morning Vietnam has movie about Vietnam". He uses many good points. Most notable Williams' character to gain access of these is Robin Williams, who's REMEMBER Mork. and to the "rear' Vietnam and unique brand of humour is given Mindy? Alie n-being Mork attempts a more human approach free reign in 1he scriopt. Ho',l,!­ has ret urned to earth disguis· 10 this increasingly popular sub, ever, it fails to succeed on a higher ing himself as a US Anny ject. level as the "Vietnam Movie'' disc-jockey. As a fo llow upto genre yellows with age. Levin· Unfortunately. this crusade son's simplicity, the strength of his out in a patronising form. the witty and successful Tin comes previous film s, proves to be his Men, Barry Levinson's Good Levinson seems unable to come to downfall as it betrays his lack of terms with both Uncle Sam and John Cleese with Jamie Lee Curtis in A Fish CalJttl Wanda. Morning Vietnam has already insight into the real issues behind proved itself in the States. Ha.Chi·Minh. Cronauer spends 1hewar. Palin and Jamie Lee Curtis, minor actors. Adrian Cronauer (Robin Wil­ Adrian Searle whose combined cinematic and Director Charles Chrichton liams) is a wacky DJ posted to comic gifts ensure that a frenetic shows there is no substitute fo r • Saigon in the mid-sixties. He is pace and 1ight structure are main· experience, and the whole thing unconventional to say the least, tained 1hroughoul the film. has a distinct air of polished pro­ and as a result lands in hot waler fessionalism about it. There are wi th virtually all his superiors. weaknesses, but when there are so Cleese plays the archetypal However, the outrageous many good points al the same straighl· laced English barris1er Craonaucr is so popular with the time. who cares? Archie Leach. who becomes soldiers he cannot be sacked. He involved with an eccentric band or A Fish Called Wanda is one of gradually moves from irreverent Anglo·American jewel thieves. 1hat rare breed, a comedy film remarks aboul army life 10 libel­ Whal is more surprising than this which actually makes you laugh. ous impressions of Richard Nixon is his fa lling in love with its leader, even if you occasionally feel guilty and events move towards their a certain Wanda Gcrshwilz (lee doing so. In fact, it is a film which predictable climax.. Cunis). Several other strange grows on you even while you are people , puppy dogs and fish (!?) watching it. Levinson uses his latest offering to make his own personal com· · William Dale ment on Vietnam. While the com· II edy of his previous films still exis1s Robin Williams and hls military radio crew in Good Morning Vietnam. ODEON 8 CANNON • CLERK STREET 031-667 7331/2 Q Anew«tionoomedy5UJM8 tltMMiib'i•• ROBERT DE NIRO and CHARLES GOODlN IF YOU'RE LOOKING MIDNIGHT RUN (15) FOR A FLAT - YOU'VE Interested in writ­ • PHIL COLLINS JULIE WALTERS in 5ep. perfs. 1.S0,4.50,7.50. JUST FOUND IT. BUSTER(15I Complete programmes at: EJ Wha tbeg.ani15aholidayinParis ing Film reviews Friday/Saturday 1 .45. 4 .00. 6 .20. 8.45. becllmeajoumey intosuspt11S1?. Factotum understands the Sunday/Thur•day 1.35, 3.45, 6 .05. 8.30. HARRISON FORD special needs of students. and features? ROBINWILUAMS atan1 in GOOD M0RNlNG VIETNAM (15) FRANTIC(IS) That's why registratio,i is Comple1eprogrammeaat2.15,S.30,a1s. Sep.peris.2.00.5.00,8.00. free. No longer do you have Come down to Speciel Ille night ahowing Fridav.is.wrday at 11 .45 pm, lo put up with dingy THE RUfHNG MAN {18) D BARRY HUMPHRIES the Pleasance and Complete programmes at 6.10, a.JO. properties on the wrong side LESPAmRSONSAVES of town. We understand speak to the Film MASTBIS OF THE UNrvERSE (PG) THE WORLD Complete programmes SI 1.45. you're human and treat you Sep.ptris.13),5.ll,UI. as such. Editor at the Stu­ THREE MEN AND A BABY (PG) NotshowingThursdayXlth Octobtt. Sepe.-1111 programme at 4.00. l1u1rsd.y20th0ctobff 031-2201838 dent Offices. SomeGrHtMOYieaTolookr:orw.rdTo: From 11th November Onrd.iyonly. ln i'llmm. From21d0ttoti.r SNnPenn,RobertDuvall TOMCRUISE KEU.YMcCILUS TOM HANKS ,u,- In . COi.ORS (18) BKi(PGI TOPGUN(IS) .tltM(•H 1Ni•• From2ndo.c.tnber ,,,, ~,ll'!f\H•,•,\O,O,IQ .••••• 0 808 HOSKINS .i.,- in STEVEN SPIELBERG S We take care of everything. WHO FRAMED AOGER RAB8IT7 {PG) ·li,ursday, October 13, 1988 17

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his friend, Seamus Shields (Stuart bly strong anti-British sentiment), Hepburn). Davoren, a young but also a belief that in times of poet, is mistaken by the local resi- war there are no heroes, only vie------his way to the church and con- 1 1 =Rc-o-ya""'l-:,L-y-ce_u_m-::Th=-e-a-t,-e --::.1:sm:~~~:c !~:u::g': 1~: ~~~~~a~~~f~~:~~e)~~~:!: TEMPORARY RUPTURE sei~:~~: :,~~,c~~~~e~;ry~he 7-22 October misconception because he enjoys not help but feel, though , that Black Theatre Co-operative returns to find a much changed SEAN O'CASEY'S Th the obsequiousness of the resi- thCre was 1an excessive0 comical- Theatre Workshop Beverley to the woman he jilted. S~adow of a Gunman_ i: :~~;~:d·h;~~~~~~:~l~~:I~ ;~: :~~cnh ::~=1~! ~;:rs!~d;u: _O_ct_6-_8___ ~--- ~~~ ;~~n;ua":d ha~~o;a: ~h=~~! /4a widely regarded as show:mg from the pretty Minnie Powell views that O'Casey is trying to put relationship with a younger man. 9only flashes of the poellcal·(Lisa Grindall). However, this forward. THE THEATRE Work- Raymondhowcverwasnotassuc· and emotional brilliance that lighthearted pretence turns to Therefore, despitesomesuperb shop with its compact ccssfulinhis fiveyearsof '·explor· were to become the outstand- tragedy when Minnie is killed foJ. performances by the cast (notably ~udilorium and close proxi~- · ~!; -b:cr i~~:~~/;~~!:~o~:ff his ing features of his later lowing an unnecessarily violent by Mr Hepburn and Miss Grin· ity of actor/actress to aud1- . Reggae PlUsic skilfully th nd ~orks. The current produc- c notorious Black a 1~~d ;~: th~;~~~lpl~;fa~f~ii~ ence provided the pefect smoothed th :.. separate scenes th ;~~/Y ;! tl';>n at e Royal ~yce~~ The freq_uent use of humour is its attempt 10 depict the terrible surroundings and atmos- 10gether, while the scenery served f~ils to suppress this cnt1- presumably intended to hold the suffering endured by the Irish phere for Michael Eilis's first as a r~n:iinder ofth_e tribal ~heme, ctsm. audience's anent.ion, and to rein- people during the slruggle for play which relates the stormy com?mi~g dramatically with an- Set in Dublin in the 1920s, the force, by way of a contrast, the Home Rule at the beginning of affair between two people. ful hghtmg ~o crea!e a vocxloo playcentresonthefortunesofone play's major themes. The latter thisccnlury. Beverley and Raymond were typeaur~of1mpend_mgdangeras Donal Davoren (played by Jamie include not only passionate Irish Karim Nath superbly portrayed by Jo Martin Beverley s strategic pl~n of Newall) who comes to stay w_ith nationalist (and therefore inevita· and Sylvester Williams who revenge ~ucceeds b_y_ allowmg her seemed to relish the interesting to crushmgly hum1ha~e the man "iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii1;::-:;~::-:::-:::;:-:;-;:;;~:;.;;;;;;J;::;;;;;;;1• in rCkindling the nostalgia of Bracknell is told by Mi- Wonhing combination of wit and cunning who once caused a temporary THE IMPORTANCE OF manyOAP's. Beyond that I found that he was originally f~und in ,,a evident in their incessant verbal rupture., of her heart. . BEING HILDA 1he combination didn't work. handbag she echoes found? · battles triggered by Raymond's Altogether, the precan°:us Kings Theatre Oscar Wilde thrives on a subtle The masculine approach to this sudden re-appearance after bal~ncc of humour a~d reahty presentation. His plot may be , line by Bracket wou_l~ certainly desertingBcverleyat the altar five . b~ically work~d , creatmg_a most Oct 10-15 slightly hackneyed, the theme not hav~ been ~n~ ic_ipated. by years before , with the rather sus- unusually com ical production. blatantly sarirical, but lhe Ian- , Oscar Wilde a~d 11 ts 1":'possible j,ect excuse of £alliflg off a bus o'n ldlTO REST AGE an Oscar guage is subtle and the characters not to laugh_ ~t 1tsabsurd1ty. Morag Johnstone ..,. "round". Hinge and Bracket The trans1t1on~ from Bracket to Wilde play as well known as blunt much of Wilde's spirired Bracknell ~nd Hmge to ~w~n~o· "The Importance of Being dialogue and render his characters len are sw1!t. Th~ comic timing PHOTOGRAPHS BY Earnest" is an awesome task ridiculous. This might yet have thro~g_hout 1s adnma.ble. But , the JAMES COX 1849-19 1 - even more so jf you are worked if they had transformed !rans1t10~ mfde, the Jo~es t~nd to Hinge and Bracket. The the play into a complete farce but Jar as Wilde s para_dox1cal riddles National Portrait Gallery plays is aimed at scxtagena- ~~:urilaxe':le::o;!n~!dth~thA~h: :~~.;e)~akc:sd ~~~t,~eanih~r=~ · THJS IS a small collection of rians and in this respect is a delightofafarceandthemagicof Flower Show, Mommgs1de, around forty photographic Oscar Wilde. metabolic steroids and lemon There were moments, however~ souffl6s. prints. James Cox, who pro- when the Bracket touch prom pied duced his work in the 1870s an unexpected laugh. When Lady Emily Robinson and 1880s was an enthusiastic 1 and accomplished. amateur _whose subject matter ranges widely over landscape and portraiture. Blessed with wealth, leisu re, and privilege, Cox was initially content to document the Victorian bourgeoisie at play. His studio portraits of contemporary artists and amateur thespians arc techni­ cally advanced, but florid and

un~~r~!~1~terest in the cxhibi· kie's Boat'' is particul;riy good­ tion li es in Cox's landscape work. and the portraits he took amongst Away from the studio, he adopted these communities arc marked by a more ge ntle and unstructured their simplici ty and quality of approach that gives his landscapes expression. a natural , impressionis1 quality. This gritty realism contrasts His pictures of the fishin~ com- sharply with the irritating artifi­ munities a1ong the north-east ctahty of his studio work What IS coast are the most interesting and mtercstmg 1s thal Cox, a man of the most beautiful in the exhibi· his times, continued throughout tion. Taken during the heyday of his career to swing ~pparen!IY the Scots fishing industry around effortlessly between serious ~al the coastal vi llages of realism and drawing room fnvol­ Auchmuthie and West Haven. ity. These photographs s~ow a r~al Wildly incons!st~nt and ar1isti­ respect for the hardship and quiet cally diverse, this 1s an unassum­ digni1yofworking life. the images ing ye! intriguing exhibition. are simple and unstructured - , ''Boy and Girl by William Sw!',n- . , _ , Joanna Swanson , I , ~ I .t ~ I > • , t; I , ~ I I II .ti I I • 1 1'.WJ.I.W.li.V.mt\!Htl h1', I .. , ... , .,,,. ;_:}.'..'_!_!i.'.~'-~~ \ ':~~~-'':;'"'.', ••• •• .• •.•• J 18 Thursday, October 6, 1988 Arts . greens_.9nd. oranges of his fields of calm beauty. WILLIAM CROZIER and foliage are fiercely contrasted Th·e expressionistic theme of BARBARA RAE against cobalt blue to create a this exhibition is continued in the CRAWFURD ADAMSON s1ark physical image of the very work of Crawford Adamson roots of nature; removed from " Hard Decision" which captures a The Scottish Gallery reality in terms of representation particular moment in time, Oct 10-Nov2 yet frighteningly real in terms of expressing a snatch of spontane­ the artist's spontaneous feeling ous mood and movement, for his landscape. reminiscent oft he work of DCgas. THE SCOTTISH Gallery's Still on the theme of Scottish A mood of pensive expectancy is international reputation as landscape, Barbara Rae's art pro­ created by cleverly positioned exhibitor of contemporary vides a subdued and serene con­ body auitudes and facial expres­ crafts and promising national trast to Crozier in terms of both sions whilst carefull y juxtaposed colour and composition . The rich talent is triumphantly upheld colours and geometrical forms are tapestry of russet and ochre soil used to capture the movement by their present exhibition of tones in "Quinag" takes us down within the scene. hence, paradox­ contemporary Scottish art into the very depths of the land to icall y, this sense of spontanei ty is featuring Barbara Rae, Wil­ its ancient history and culture, the direct resul t of meticulous liam Crozier and Crawfurd wh il st o ur eye is simultaneously composi tion. Adamson. · lead up the patchwork mountain An exhi bition with definite con­ The exciting and brilliant Wii­ to a typicall y Scottish blustery sequence and without doubt, ham Crozier is captured in his sky. Unlike Crozier's work, th is another jewel in the crown of con­ expressionistic piece '· Road to the painting demands no sudden temporary Scottish A rt. Strand". The luminous fauve like realisation, rather radiates an air · , Ki rsteen S1.1th~rland.

the contrasting characters of the atmosphere associa1e d with _ ___. I HOW LIKE AN ANGEL Charge (Alan Sharpe) who also · such institutions. With this lack Of directed this production) and Bill The Theatre Co-op a regular pattern within the se1, (Graham de Barrie!). Bill 's Feigning blindness probably the disordered minds of the Traverse Theatre youthfu l inexperience precipi­ BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE requires collsiderable · practise, patients were also indicated. tated a more human approach to Kings Theatre and in addition, Don's American Oct4-9 mental illness than that of the accent gave O'Brian plenty to The audience was drawn into brisk Charge whose wider experi­ Oct3-8 think about, but the performance , the performance due to the close AN EXPLORATION into ence had engendered a "cruel to was a convincing one. proximity between the setting and be kind" altitude. the disordered mind forms their seating and the skilful use of Various stages of treatment THESE Australian soap th~:~~!"~v~~e e~~~~~l~;~e:~;f~ the focus of John Clifford's audience participation. Members were explored where Fred, an stars get everywhere, our sit- piece, largely due to the female play involving the portrayal of the audience were handed pills arsonist in his youth (Stephen ting rooms, our top forty, characters. Maria Friedman as of daily existence in an along with the patients and were McGrath), had progressed from everywhere. So it was no real Jill, the archetypal blonde bimbo institution for the mentally equall y patronized and cajoled electric shocks to drugs alone, surprise that that now well from next door, tantalised the into submission. This encroach­ along with the old man of the ward ill. Both patients and staff established lady killer, Shane audience with glimpses of ment on the traditional right of (Harry Glass), yet he craved the come under scrutiny within the audience to merely spectate relieving effects shock treatment of " Neighbours" should be ~r~~.~et~id:~~t,s~;~ ~7:~~!~ the closed environs of hospi­ resulted in the natural flow from had on the disturbed mind. This seen to strut and fret his stuff after their introductory greeting, tal life. physical involvement in the pro­ production could be paradoxicall y upon the stage of the Kiags she and Dbn were emeshed in a ceedings to a deep emotional described as delightfully distllrb­ Theatre last week. passionate clinch. This moment The simplicity of the setting, involvement. ing for John Clifford so compe­ Shane, or rather Peter O'Brian was modesly handled with lower­ which involved a series of wooden tently fuses laughter wi,th disquiet was playing Don Baker - just ingofthestagefights,butpresum­ chairs arranged at diverse angles, Th~ " A~gels of Mercy" who coupled with a superb cast. anot~er young m~n tryin_g tofor~e ab)y, this is the point when good gave the clinica,I and impersonal administer this treatment were Sarah Saunderson an existence for himself m the Big neighbours become good friends. Apple of new York. Socomforta- Also worthy or a mention was ble does he appear in the familiar Ursula Smith as Don's mother, SCOTTISH SINFONIA 1 :~;~ftui~~~t~~~:d~~:el;~;~;:~! ~~f~;!1~1~ ~~~~M~r ~i!.c; Queen's Hall {hatheisblind.Whenthissurpris- proval by means of the snappy Oct9 ing fact is revealed, the play is ele- put-down and wrilhering glance. vated from the confines of mere All in all, great entertainment THE SCOTTISH Sinfonia sit-comandamoreprofoundmes- foritseemsthatthewittydialogue would be a fine orchestra if sage sounds out: Never underesti- was in the capable hands or a cast they played more as an mate the ability of those appa- enjoying themselves as much as ensemble than as individual th :;t,!y~~;/~~~:c~:e ~~al~v:~nf[; e audience. sections. It is necessary to 1 0 1 far more full }'. than most. Johnnie Williams point out this problem at the ~-'--.....C.------. outset as it was sadly in evi- .-!!-.-~\ ,Lff._o · I n "T!C' AS dence at their concert on _..- 1 J iyJ .1 '.l__./J.. 1 ~ Sunday evening at the Queen's Hall. PIZZERIA · RESTAURANT Thebiggestproblemswerepre- 11A FREOEIUCK STREET. EDINBURGH 0)1-225 5697 scnted by S!ravinsky's 1947 ver- Sa,np/e 1he so/1 surroundings ar,d friendly atmosphere sion of "Petrushka". It was of Modica's and enjoy 1he-superb food 'and rather over-ambitious to expect varie~ menu at affor71able price:s. this orchestra, made up largely of non-professional musicians to STEAKS· VEAL· CHICKEN· SEAFOODS conquer such a piece, and the ESSEN'l)AL READING ITALIAN SPECIALITIES result was often a chaotic struggle FORTNIGHTLY FROM MOUTHWATERING SWEETS for conductor Neil Mantle to hold NEWSAGENTS the players together. The perfor- mance, although spirited, was rid­ dle with mistakes as the orchestra U11iversi1y':s were not up to the technical Largest demands presented by this piece. · Society <<< This was unfortunate, as the con­ 1988-89 Season Includes cert had opened brightly with an impressive performance of METROPOLIS EMPIRE OF THE SUN STUDENTS' OWN GUEST HOUSE Rimsky-Korsakov's suite from EAST OF EDEN CASABLANCA THE LAST EMPEROR ANDY WARHOL'S FLESH the opera "Mlada". The dance ROBOCOP HAIRSPRAY sections in particular were deli­ WITHNAIL&I SIGN OF THE TIMES vered with great spirit and EASY RIDER LUST IN THE DUST SHALIMAR enthusiasm. JEAN DE FLORETTE DEATH RACE 2000 The second large-scale work of LA 00..CE VITA A BOUT DE SOUFFLE HOLLYWOOO SHUFFLE 2001 : A SPACE COYS.SEY 20 NEWINGTON ROAD, EDINBURGH EH9 IQS the evening was a performance of BED AND BREAKFAST-Terms from £°12.()0 Braham's d Minor Piano con­ >>> over 120 movies in all <« certo. Pianist Richard Lhe best in offbeat film, box office smashes, cinema classics, Beauchamp, playing from mem­ Fire Certificate,. Showers. 1V Lounge, Ample Facilitiu, foreign movies, and camp exll'3vaganzas ory; gave an impressive and accu­ Hand C in all rooms. rate, if rather· shallow, perfor­ ALL SHOWS FREE WITH AN £11 MEMBERSHIP Two family rooms with facilities. Private Car Parking. mance. In the orchestra however :;:-:d o:at mor• .c 01i,- .,p•ci• l 10% DlscoulJt for sbHknts. there were the same problems with ensemble , and it was ~ mon THE FLY fri TRUE Under the persona] supervision of relatively rare to find soloist FREE S:) HANNAH & STORIES and orchestra together in . the FRESHERS WEEK ~ : :::R:STERSAI MEN Mr and Mrs N. AHMAD GRUMMAN accompanied sections. Neverthe­ (e11-E.U. students) less this performance was the at GEORGE SQUARE THEATRE- at4pm--· - Telephones: 03i~7 2827 Guesis;"03U67 0789 Office, highlight of a disapoointine: con- cert. ~...... Jake Perry •. i ·;.;·.;.· .;_· ..;·.;.·.;.· ;.;· >;.;=~ > -.;.>.;.· ·;.;·.::"""=:::':::"".;.' :::'"";.;""=· "";.;"';:.::;' «::;•;.;'"';.;'.;;;"';..' _.;.;.._._ Features· Thursday, October 13, 1988 19 Take Six Freshers all right but if you we re like in a Mike: I don't see any point in it. If Susan: I can't see us stayi ng In case you hadn't noticed, another motley job you wouldn't go patronising you're that depressed that you together. selection of Freshers have just descended on someone just because they we re a need todo drugs you're in a pretty year younger than you. bad state. us. Student has picked a sample of them and, Politics in an "exclusive" series, will interview them Andrew: ·On the whole a lot of effort's been put in . Sex, Love and AIDS Neil : You can ' 1 go anywhere with­ each term and trace their firs t year at Uni. out someone trying to 0og you a - This term, Cathy Milton talks to them about Kirsteen: Well, if it was ten years Socialist Worker . ... I've been drugs, sex and politics. Drinking ago I probably would have been here four days and I'm already more promiscuous. I'm very con­ expected 10 decide what religion I Fiona: I don't like dri nking with scious of AIDS. I think people arc am and which polilical parly I sup­ strangers. mo re likely to stick together in port. friendly - li ke fra ntic to meet Why EU? Fra nk: I don't drink at all . I don·1 lo ng-term relationships - there·s Andrew: I find the Radical other people. But I think you have see any point. I just can't stand defini tely been a change. Socialists rea ll y aggressive. to really push yourself. Neil: Well , I'm going to be brut­ this "Oh, you should have seen Susan: It 's reall y irresponsible to Kirsleen: At the same time I've all y honest: because Oxford Fiona: I was rCa ll y stuck because me last night. I was that pissed it go to bed with someone you don't had conservatism s1uffed dow n wouldn't accept me and Edin­ I'm not living in halls and I didn't was unreal". I thin k they're all reall y know and not use a con­ my throa1. So I suppose it just burgh was my second choice and I have my Freshers' Week informa­ just trying to be heroes and I just dom. That's jusl asking fo r trou­ depends what kind of person it is hated my other choices. tion pack. I didn't really know can't stand it. ble. that's stuffi ng it down your throat what to expect. I wasn't ve ry Neil : When you get stuck in the Neil: It seems very little bother to 'cos rm definitely a socialist. Fiona: I came because its the only impressed. It all seems quite sup­ · middle of the rugby cl ub . place that does Scandinavian erficial. You go round and you avoid getting killed . Mike: J don"t really care ... just studies - my course. meet all these people .... You say Chorus: O h , God! . Fiona: I'd be more worried ~bout because you believe something "Hi, my name·s Fiona. I'm from getting pregnant than getting it's not going to change anyth ing. Susan: Actualy, I'd been to Edin­ Fr'a nk:. I was surprised too at all Oxford - who ·re you?" And they ~IDS .. That'd be my more Kirsteen: think it's very impor- burgh before. I stayed with my the alcoho l promotions. Even at r sey, "Hey, yeah! Pleased to meet the opening ceremony they were 1mm~daate worry. tant to have a good time and be cousin quite a lot and had been you" and the n run off in another out with her so that's how I liked saying " Don't get drunk 100 Susan: Now that I've moved away happy but I'm not happy with 1his direction. much." Everyone just assumes from my boyfriend I don't know situation. Susan: It got a lot better on the that we're all pissheads. They 0 :;.~i;it~~~ o7,h:~~t ~:iu,t;f:~~~: : ~ :~~eh=~~~~ f,!:y:~~ Andrew: Loads '!f people ObJect Faculty day because there was a should be encouragi ng people 110 1 ~~~! law. to talk to him to Thatcher treating students and wine reception and that knocked to drink. · old people like that but . Mike: Well , it's handy for me cos I down all the barriers because can sponge of my parents- I live everyone was staggering around ~;:a~~~ r; !:'t:~~d~~~~~ Susan: _I just. don't 1hink there's in Edinburgh. with their glasses. I got to meet a Drugs men but don't sleep with them. any altemat1\·~ ~o !hatche~. I lot of people and I felt a lot better I'm like "Me?" . mean look al Ned Kinnock, Just Freshers' Week about things. look at him. He seems to be Kirsteen: I sniffed it from behind Neil: My girlfriend and I agreed to andoning everything his pany's Susan: A few of the Freshers' someone at my fi rst Siouxsie and split up but it didn't reall y work stood fo r. fo r decades. A nd the Kirsteen: I was pctrifie·d before I Week helpers are a wee bit, like, the Banshees concert . I think I got 8 came down but everyone was so paironising. On the whole they're a wee bit high there . ~~~~ ~ea~ii\t.i; : ~~g : : : ·: wZ;.m ~~uL:~n .~:~ ~ 'kn:~!~:~;' na:C~'.·

BREAKS AND OPPORTUNITIES Do you have the commitment and enthusiasm necessary to work on this exciting new community su pport scheme for ad ults with learning difficulties (mental handicap) in Lothian?

7 OLD FISHMARKETCLOSE The Social Work. De partment need BEFRI ENDE RS who could EDINBURGH link up with an individual to pursue a social activity, hobby or skill. Befrienders would be pa id an a Iowa nee for every day they work with a person.

Expe rience of mental handicap may be helpful but it is not essential. If you feel you might be able to help please contact:

Co-ordinator, Breaks and Opportunities, Supported Accommodation Tea m, 20-24 Albany Street, EDINBURGH. TEL: 0J/-1255428 Telephone (office hours) 031-556 9140 - ·.. 1., .. ,., ' . . - ,,fl')' ...... '![fl'' ,. . .._,, ... , t "l , ,.,,._ , f•• :; a •,1 111' " It 1. 1.• • 'f'~" I,._".'. "' ...... ~ ...... The Weekly Guide Thursday, October 13 , 1988 To What's On STllJdeNt Thurs Oct 13

SCOTTISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Usher Hall, Lothian Rd 668 2019 THAT PETROL1111111111 EMOTION ALEX MACLEAN 7.45 pm; £3.30-£9.60 Glasgow Barrowlands Royal Oak. Infirmary St Mozart's Concerto for two Evening Sun Oct 16 5572976 pianos, with guests Katia and Worth trekking down to G lesgy if SHIVER N' SHAKE Evening Marielle Labcquc. at all interested. Preservation Hall , Victoria St TON IG HT AT NOON Folk music from a young singer/ GREENTREE 2263816 Preservation Hall , Victoria SI songwri ter from G lasgow. JIM KNIGHT Evening. Cowgate 226 3816 Scotch and Rye, Evening NORTH SEA GAS Evening 50 George IV Bridge Instrumental folk music . Late 225 1681 bar. Platform 12, Rutland S1 JIM KNIG HT/COLIN Evening Evening; free CAFE BIARRITZ RAMAGE/ROBIN LA ING Tues Oct 18 Resident folk band. Folk Music 61 Frederick St . Ensign Ewarl, Lawnmarkcl BILLY JONES 225 5244 EVening Lord Darnley, West Port 9-12pm THE ADVENT URES 229 4341 Live band- jazz/blues Sat Oct 15 BARONY JAZZ The Playhouse, Grccnside Pl 10pm; Free Barony Bar, Broughton St 5572590 CHRISTY MOORE 557 0546 7.30 pm ; £6.00 THE DAN BLOCKER Fri Oct 14 The Playhouse, G reenside Pl Worth seeing - songs include E XPERIENCE 5572590 THE LAST DETAIL 'Drowning in the Sea o_f Love'. Negociants, Lothian St. THE HOUSE OF LOVE 7.30 pm; £6.50, £:1.50 Lord Darnley, Wes! Port 225 6313 The Venue, Calton Rd Modem Irish folk . 229 434 1 SHORE MUSIC 9 pm; Free 5573073 Local residency, but check to con­ The Shore Bar. Leith Country firm 9 pm ; free ~:~~t~gavailable from Virgin and TOTO AND THE JAZZ IO pm; free THE BROTHERS rd nd Preservation Hall , Victoria St. ~~i~ngcl~J:. s. Late bar a :~~~~:n Hall, Victoria St Wed Oct 19 226 3816 226 3816 BLUEFINGER 6 .30 pm ; Free JOE LOUIS WALKER and Aflernoon. The Music Box, Vicloria St ~ esident band. BIG JOE DUSKJN 220 1708 Queen's hall, Clerk St BLACK MARKET £1 after 9 pm CLI FF RICHARD EDINBURGH JAZZ 668 2019 Preserva1ion Hall , Victoria St Rhythm n' blues. The Playhouse, Greenside Pl QUARTET Evening 2263816 5572590 Coppers, Cockburn St Jazz and blues. Evening Eveni ng. Sold Oul. n5 1441 Tickets from Virgin and Ripping he's back1 Still with his clean cut Evening; Free Records. Mon0ct17 evangalist 1Y--1'PY songs, though. nd T HE FLATMATES I~Jo1:~li~~~i~kVE a GERRY MULVENNA The Venue , Calton Rd GAS Oddfellows, Forrest Rd . Royal Oak, infirmary St 557 3074 EAST COAST JAZZ BAND NORTH SEA Platform 1, Rutland St 220 1816 5572976 Evening Blue Lagoon, Angle Park Ter. Evening· Free IOpm-1 am; free Tickets available in advance from 331 9922 Evening th st 9- 12 pm; free . Resident folk band. ~nuri/J~~~d Blues, but still to be ~~hF~~~\:O~~~r;;,_ e ar of Vi rgin and Ripping Records.

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Fruitmarket Gallerv Includes work by David Bailey, Talbot Rice Gallen Hiro Sato afld Andy Wiener. The best range ... ~29~M~A~RK~ET~SccTR.ccEET=-----'225=238:::2 OLD COLLEGE 6671011(ext4308) "WORK BY GLEN ONWIN SEA SANCTUARY Tue-Sat IO am-5 .30 pm ; by Elizabeth Ogilvie Sun 1.30 pm-5.30 pm T ill 5th Nov 369 Gallen """"'""""" A Scottish artist who lives and Mon-Fri IO am-5 pm 209COWGATE 2253013 "'"'-"""'~-­ works in Edinburgh. = u• -....,,.,~ National Gallen· Stills Gallen' Mon-Sat to.30 am-5.30 pm - 1-22Oct 105 HIGH STREIT S57 1140 MARGARET HlJNTER _..., .... -~&'l'ffl),6 of Scotland "Ideas and Images": sketches, TIIEMOUNO 5568921 REGARDING studies and paintings. PHOTOGRAPH WILLIAM JOHNSTON JOHN MUIR WOOD Unti15Nov "Major Paintings": large works, 5th Nov Tue-Sat N"oon-6 pm mostl y using airbrush. Pholography Work by 40 photographers which MARCELLO CONNOR Mon-Sat IO am-5 pm; aims 10 explore the nature and "Paintings": abstract works by Sun 2-5 pm vocabulary _of photography. famous Irish painter. The best brand names ... THEATRE Traverse 112WESTBOW King's Theatre L1ceum 2299697 ALL OF ME LOVES ::,LEV=EN:.:;STR=EET"------'"'= "'°= GRINOLAYSTREO LOVES ALL OF YOU 18-23 Oct THE IMPORTANCE OF 7 .30 pm; £4.50 (£2.50 cone) BEING HILDA A one-woman comedy starring The best value .. Mon JO.Sat 15 Oct THE SHADOW OF Jenny Landreth: ifs set in 1975 Mon-Fri7.30 pm ; A GUNMAN and tartan flairs are in. To miss Sat5pm& 8 pm Fri 7-Sat 22 Oct the Bay City Rollers wolild be to £3-£5.50 7.45 pm; £2.50-; BROWN die. " Full of the pain and joy of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of 3.15 pm (all tickets£3) STAT15NERS a dolescence" - Independent. Being Ernest modified by the Scan o·easey's tale about a timid WE'RE BETTER BLOOD AND ICE astounding Dame Hilda Hinge young poet mistaken for a gun­ Tues II-Sun \6Oct and Dr Evadne Bracket. man on the run. 7.3~ P~! £4.50 (£2.50 C?tc) _._, 1 .····· ··· ·········· ...... · .·:.-.. Thursday, October 13, 1988 The Weekly Guide. STl)deNt To What'-s On

Thurs Oct 13 UN/VENTS EU BALLROOM DANCINU SOCIETY FRIENDS OF THE EARTH MEGAD!SCO EU SHOTOKAN KARATE EU BALLROOM DANCING 7.30-8.30 pm 7.30pm: Pleasance 8 pm; Teviot Debating Hall CLUB SOCIETY Chaplaincy Centre Discuss local environmental Boppabilly. 3.30-5.30 pm ; Trust Upper Hall 6--8pm ; McEwan Hall , (Social Dance); issues. Pleasance Bristo Square 8.30-9 .30 pm, Chaplaincy Centre (Medal Class) PARK ROOM DISCO Beginners and all other levels we!- GREAT HIGHLAND BAG­ All beginners. ROCK NIGHT 8 pm; Park Room, Teviot PIPE fr!:; Chmbers St Union Bal- . FRENCH SOPCIETY- EU MEDIEVAL . SOCIETY ANULICAN SOCIETY ENACTMENT SOCIETY 8·10 pm; Societies Centre 7.30 pm; Chaplaincy Centre The usual heavy thras~. i~!;~r~~l1n~:;~ment 7.30 pm; Teviot Snack Bar Social events include Burns Sup­ Speakers and suppers. T he "Firs1 Co~n". All welcome. per and ceilidh. NEW SCOTLAND COUNTRY CATHOLIC STUDENTS DANCE SOCIETY O Wed Oct 19 7.30pm; McEwan Hall , ~fio ~-2 pm ; Common ~oom Bristo Square 23 George Square Mon Oct 17 Tues Oct 18 Fonnal classes fo r beginners 10 Bread and cheese lunch, 70p. STUDENT CHRISTIAN the advanced. MOVEMENT EU CHESS CLUB 7 pm; Chaplaincy Centre Sat Oct 15 Evening; Pleasance POLYGON BOOK CLUB A nalional organisation with Fri Oct 14 Opportunities to play in club 1-2 pm; Library Coffee Room termly conferences ANNIE NIGHTINGALE AT events and University teams. Bring and buy. CHAMBERS STREET SCOTTISH NATIONALISTS DIAGNOSTIC sucu::TY SCHUMACHER SOCIETY POETRY SOCIETY 8pm; Moor Court , 8 pm; Chambers St Ball room ASSOCIATION INTRODUCTORY MEETING Evening; Pleasance Old College 7. 15 pm; Ochil Room, Pleasance Radio One DJ graces Chambers 7.30 pm; Executive Room, St, along with a special rum prom­ Student and guest readers. Debating Society in an o ld­ A discussion of the year's objec­ Pleasance. otion. Always packed, so go early fashioned tradi1ion. tives about "all topics Green and FOLK SONG SOCIETY alternative". All welcome. for the rum and a boogie. · POLITICS SOCIETY l pm; Politics Department 8 pm ; 48a Pleasance DEBATES WORKSHOP.JO r CEILI DH All welcome. Starts with a fiddle workshop, fol- pm ; Teviot Debating Hall CHRISTIAN UNION Edinburgh College of Art lowed at 9 pm by the astounding Beginners welcome. 7 pm; Chaplaincy Centre 8 pm; Wee Red Bar THIRD WORLD FIRST king of fo lk, Gerry Mulvenna - All welcome. £2 (£1 concession) not to be missed! EU SHOTOKAN KARATE 7.30 pm; Pleasance C LUB . MODERN DANCE CLASS Issues concerning the Third World discussed. 7-9.30 pm; Trust Upper Hall Chambers St Union Ballroom ENGINEERING SOCIETY - Pleasance 12noon- I pm;50p Sun Oct 16 MEETING All welcome. Jazz class . WINE APPRECIATION 1.30pm; Eng Soc Room, EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY CATHL!C STUDENTS UNION SOCIETY Sanderson Building, GREEN BANANA CLUB King's Buildings 1HEATRE COMPANY 8 pm; Potterrow Union - academic mass Chaplaincy Centre Introductory 1as1ings. Run by students. Al l welcome. Afternoon; Bedlam lheatre Happy hour and disco. 7.15 pm; 24 George Square Lunchtime play plus free lunch. · f. I Ill._

DISTANT VOICES, BLUE VELVET (18) 3. CROCODILE DUNDEE ll 3. POLTERGEIST Ill (15) Odeon STILL LIVES 2 .1 5 pm; Sun 16 Oct (PG) 2.20 pm, 5.20 pm, 8.20 pm SOUTH CLERK STREET 2.45 pm (Wed 19 Oct only) Last year's be-there-or-be-square 2 pm , 5 pm , 8 pm; Fri 14 Oc1- The usual " horror" movie in the GOOD MORNING 6.30 pm (not Sun), 8.30 pm Sun event. Thurs 20Oct same vein as the previous two Pol-· A sequel that fa ils to match up to ter1:eis1 offerings. VIETNAM (15) gn~:~~ed 19 Oct Dominion the original. ~!~i~~~j~::a~~ \~ ~~s funny CITIZEN KANE (PG) NEWBAffiETERRACE 8 15 Cannon but !ouching drama. t:;_pm, - pm; h~r~~j 1. SNOW WH ITE & THE LOlliIANROAD SEVEN DWARFS (U) BUSTER (15) DROWNING BY Fri 14th Oct The Odeon 1.45 pm , 4 pm, 6.20 pm, 8.45 pm NUMBERS ( l ) 2. 15 pm, 4.15 pm, 6.15 pm; Fri 14 1. MlDNJGHT R UN (15) 5 Oct-Thurs20 oct 1.50 pm, 4.50 pm, 7 .50 pm 11.15 ROXANNE Fri l4-Su n 16Oct; 2.45pm,6pm,8.30pm 1.15 FATALATIRACTION 1.35 pm , 3.45 pm,_6.05 pm , 8-3° Fri 14 Oct and Sat 15 Oct BUG BUSINESS (PG) 2. FRANTIC (1 5) pm Mon 17·Thurs 20 A Cl.lfious tale of th ree women of 8.30 pm; Fri 14 oct-Thurs 20 Oct 2 pm , 5 pm, 8 pm Sun 16th Oct, GST Hilarious comedy wit h Bette A Roman Polanski film starring 0.45 THE BIG PARADE ~~~~!'::a: ! ~~v~~:~~sar~nu~i,t~~ the same name whose solidarity Midler and Liiv Tiim lin Harrison Ford as a cardiologist 8.35 FULL METLA JACKET famous train robbery. Fast-mov- !~;~:t~:: ~:: ; ~¥.iae~~~::~~: 2. BETTLEJUICE (15) who gets involved in international 2.20 pm, 5.20 pm, 8.20 porn; Fri Wed 19th Oct, OST ing comedy. · is provided with the game of spot- espionage after the disappearance 7.00JEAN DE FLORETTE THE Ri.JNN ING MAN (18) ling the numbers I 10 100 which 14 oct-Thurs 20 oct of his wife . 1.05 pm , 4 pm, 6. 10 pm, 8.30pm appear throughout the fil m. Sat 15 and Sun 16 Oct J' VE HEAHJJ TH.I:: Set in the year 20 19 - the Run- MERMAIDS SINGING (15) ning Man is a deadly game no one 31 _40 pm, 8.40 pm; Information 4 LYCEUM has ever survived! Bui ... he has . Mon 17 and Tues 18 Oct ODEON yet to pl_ay. So says the blurb! THE POINTSMAN Pe rformances up to 6 pm cost Theatre Saver concession cards £1.50 and after 6 pm cost £2 wilh cost £1 and las! all year Th" 6.20 pm, 8.20 pm ; Wed 19 Oct..- matriculation card. Not applicable ALMSOC t~~bl~s mem~rs lo gel £1 ~ff fdmhou,e Membership of £10 to sludents t~: on Friday end Salurday evenings. go,~: r~:i;;;_eyou end a friend WTIUAN ROAO allows free enlrance to an Cameo performances. Non·members may Cinema 1 purchase guest tickets in advance BEDLAM HOM ES TR EET CAMEO EUTC members may purchase THE UNBEARABLE Afternoon shows ere £1.20, from any Union Shop. A WORLD APART tickets al discounl rates. Company LIGHTNESS OF BEING (18) evenings £2 and last show £2.90. meelings are arranged at the 2. 15 pm , 7 pm, Thurs 13 Oct 2.15 pm (not Sun), 4.30 pm, ALMHOUSE Bedlam for anyone interested in and Fri 14 Oct; 4 pm, 7.30 pm 6.30pm. 9pm Student prices are 75p for any aspect of the theatre. Phooe Sat IS Oct runs 10 Thurs 20 Oct CANNON matinees, early evening shows 225 9893 for details From Milan K~ndera's 1984 inter­ PRISON (18) & COP (1 8) Performances are £2.50 end £2.90. £1.50 and £2.50 for main evening ESCA national bestseller of love and 11.1 5 pm; Fri 14 Oct shows which are bookable in advance. No concessions Edinburgh Students Charilies erotica set against the Russian Prison - a tough entertaining DOMINION Saturdays. Appeal are at 17/19 Guthrie S1reet invasion of Czechoslovakia. hybrid of hard-ass prison drama Students pay £1 .50 for all (225 4061). Anyone is welcome to YOUNG SHERLOCK HOMES and shock horror exploiter. In performances except evening QUEEN'S HAU pop down and meelings ere from 1 2 pm; Sat 15 Oct Cop , a half-demented detective performances in Cinema 3. The ti112 on Tuesdays. Dominion is closed on Sundays. Plalform Jazz concerts offer THE CITADEL with marital problems pursues student discounts where standby SNO 6pm, 8. 15 pm ; Sun 16Oct serial killer. tickets can be purchased for 0.00. Scottish National Orchestra WISH YOU WERE HERE (15) TRAVERSE Subject to availability. concerts offer sludent concessions BROADCAST NEWS (PG) PRICK UP YOUR EARS Student membership is £4 for four on Frid!Y evenings on presentalion ' 2.45pm, Mon 17andTues 18Oct 11.1) pm: Sat 15 Oct "ears. THIS TERM, GET THE COMPLETE STUDENT'S GUIDE ID KNOWLEDGE ... FOR ONLY 15p.

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