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By Andrew L. Fish san P. Thomas, MIT's Lutheran MIT President Paul E. Gray chaplain, who delivered the inlvo- '54 told graduating students that cation. "Grant that we may use their education is "more than a the privilege of this MIT educa- meal ticket" and should be used tion and degree wisely - not as to serve "the public interest and an entitlement to power or re- the common good." His remarks gard, but as a means to serve," were made at MIT's 122nd com- Thomas said. "May the technol- mencement on May 27. A total ogy that we use and develop be of 1733 students received 1899 humane, and the world we create degrees at the ceremony, which with it one in which people can was held in Killian Court under live more fully human lives rather sunny skies, than less, a world where clean air The importance of public ser- and water, adequate food and vice was also emphasized by Su- shelter, and freedom from fear and want are commonplace rath- Prof. IVMurman er than exceptional." named to Proj. Text of CGray's commencement address. Page 2. Athena post In his commencement address, By Irene Kuo baseball's National League Presi- Professor Earll Murman of the dent A. Bartlett Giamatti urged Department of Aeronautics and graduates to "have the courage to Astronautics was recently named connect" with people of all ideo- the new director of Project Athe- logies. Equality will come only ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~,,4. na by Gerald L. Wilson, Dean of by keeping "the shouting down Christopher J. Andrews/The Tech the school of engineering and and the conversation open," Gia- Spirits were high at last weekend's Special Olympics, held here at MIT. Athena executive board chair- matti said. b~~~~~IIIIPI -pl~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~--~~~~~~~~~~--~~~~~~~-·-~~~~~~~~~ CI IIC--~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-Ba- I~~~~~~~~~~~~~ man. Murman's three-year tenure Also, Senior Class President as director begins September 1. Lisa A. Martin presented the Dean Wilson's selection class gift, a scholarship fund TEP losesr rooftop baby-blue bathtub was By Annlabelle Boyd throughout the house. Members based on the recommendations of which raised $6900 and $17,800 Neighborhood Association's Ar- The ten month controversy of the fraternity continued to chitectural Committee. The a search committee set up follow- in additional pledges which will over Tau Epsilon Phi's rooftop bathe against the Boston skyline Neighborhood Association was ing the announcement of the res- be given over the next four years. baby-blue bathtub ended on May until last summer when an inci- concerned that the tub would ag- ignation of former director Ste- "Obligation" to public service 11 when the Back Bay Architec- dent with a nude bather promot- gravate relations within the ven R. Lerman '72 in mid-May. tural Commission ruled that the ed the the Neighborhood Associ- neighborhood, she claimed. As co-principal In his charge to the graduates, investigator of tub was not in line with the his- ation of Back Bay to take the In March, TEP first went be- the Athena curriculum develop- Gray invoked the memory of for- mer MIT President James R. Kil- toric neighborhood and had to be issue of the TEP tub before the fore the committee to defend its ment project for his department, dismantled. Back Bay Architectural Corn-.. rooftop bathing facility. The Murman developed software lian Jr. '26 while telling students of their "obligation of public In the Spring of 1983, Dave mission. brothers claimed that they were modules for use in teaching fluid Honing '86 and others TEP TEP President John Gold '87 not aware that the tub was in vio- dynamics. These modules have service." "Jim Killian was a tireless pub- members first connected the said the fraternity received no lation of Back Bay housing been used by approximately 250 rooftop bathtub for outdoor complaints about the tub until codes. students per year in the past three lic servant who served his country with wisdom, courage, and limit- bathing. On hot nights, they July of last summer-when the fra- The commission set May 1 as years, and will soon be licensed would fill the tub with cool water ternity was mailed housing code the date on which TEP could in- to other universities. (Please turn to page 2) and watch the sunset. violations from the Back Bay Ar- troduce its case for the tub in a (Please turn to page 2) The tub's popularity caught on chitectural Commission. public hearing. Residents around the fraternity On that date the commission, said the bathtub was visible from supported by many neighbor- Steinem addresses Wellesley grads their own rooftops, from nearby hood residents, ruled that "Raoof- By Robert E. Maichman riage is the cause of divorce.' high-rise office buildings, and top elements must integrate with "For women, 'having it all' Forcing all people to believe they from sections of the Common- the architecture of the building means doing it all," lamented had to live one way was the cause wealth Avenue Mall, reported and the district as a whole. A writer Gloria Steinem in her corn- of many bad marriages, just as The Cambridge Tab. bathtub is an interior element un- mencement address last month at forcing all people to believe they Mary Castellani, a member of suitabie for a rooftop setting." Wellesley College. had to be parents was the cause the Neighborhood Association of TEP did not plan to appeal the The College graduated 634 of many bad parents and unhap- the Back Bay, called the tub "a decision to the Suffolk Superior women at its 110th commence- py children. No one way of living frivolous item that was used in- Court, Gold said. According to ment exercises on May 27. The can be right for all people.... discreetly" in a May 31 Tab ar- TEP members, they now plan to Class of 1988 is the largest since Don't worry if your life doesn't ticle. install the tub on the third floor the school opened in 1875. look like a Dick-and-Jane The fraternity had "not been and open all of the windows. Steinem criticized the "Super- primer. .. . the best of neighbors," said "But it just won't be the same, woman Syndrome" as a creation (Please turn to page 3) Frances Duffy, co-chair of the mourned one brother. not of the women's movement, Photo courtesy Wei!esiey College but of its adversaries. "You can Media Relations Dean, Gharekhan: India-US relations improved work full time in the paid labor Gloria Steinem ments in Union, whenever force only if you keep on work- By Prabhat Mehta trade, Dean discussed favorable offers and children as much as women improvements in technology in military and civilian technol- ing full time in the unpaid labor do.... Despite the persistence of fun- damental political differences, transfer, especially with regards ogy are made. force, cook three gourmet meals, v "We can recognize Women's the relationship between India to the military. "Four years ago, raise perfect children, dress for Studies, Black Studies, Hispanic Political differences persist and the United States has been you couldn't have talked about success, and as a women's maga- Studies, Native American Studies improving in recent years, agreed anything, today ... the relation- Gharekhan emphasized the im- zine once put it, 'you are multi- as what they are: remedial stud- US Ambassador to India John ship in the defense area is one of portance of India's policy of non- orgasmic till dawn,' " ies. Anyone who doesn't have Gunther Dean and Indian Am- working together in making India alignment, which makes India The graduates have an obliga- them is actually taking White bassador to the United self-reliant." The recent deal be- neutral in "the superpower tion to be as radical today as Male Studies.... Nations C. R. Gharekhan. The current tween the United States and In- game." While noting that India Henry and Pauline Durant were e "Diversify and complete the state of India-US relations was dia to build light combat aircraft and the United States "see things in 1875 when they founded student body [by giving the funds the topic of a discussion together is one example, he said. from slightly different perspec- Wellesley College, Steinem de- necessary to encourage minorities spon- sored by the Cambridge Group. Both Dean and Gharekhan tives," he criticized the often- clared. She listed six ideas that to come to Wellesley].... Dean focused upon the positive praised the growth in joint ven- stated belief that India sides with would work "profound changes" * "When people used to say changes in the relationship, not- tures between US technological the Soviet Union because of the in the future: to me, 'Feminism is the cause of ing "There is not a single disci- firms and Indian corporations. close political and economic rela- 0 "That men care for infants divorce,' I always said, 'No, mar- pline in life where [the United Recent cooperative ventures have tionship between the two nations. States] is not involved with the involved such American compa- Dean agreed that issues such as __~~~~~~~~ Indian people." nies as DuPont, General Electric, non-alignment and America's He described the current rela- and Xerox. Dean noted that he close association with Pakistan tionship as a broadening one, had just negotiated a deal which make dialogue between the Unit- contrasting it with the "much will bring a supercomputer to In- ed States and India more diffi- narrower," aid-based approach dia in October. cult, saying "'You can't change Photo essay of this year's commencement. Pages 6,7. taken in the late 1950s and '60s. While both Dean and Gharek- things overnight." Dean went on to emphasize that han said these developments are On several occasions,. Gharek- * * * * progress in the last four years has all evidence of a growing Indo- han challenged US foreign policy reopened a friendly dialogue be- US partnership in research and towards Pakistan, India's neigh- Witch-hunting hysteria explored at new theatre tween the leaders of the two development, Gharekhan noted bor and frequent enemy. He production. Page 9. nations. that India will still turn to other questioned whether the United Acknowledging recent develop- nations, including the Soviet (Please turn to page 2) j a~~~~~~~~ _ I 81= PAGE 2 The Tech TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1988 _I _ _F~~~_~I~YsS~PM G iarnatti urges openness Ambassadors say India, (Continued from page 1) the courage to strive to keep the In his address, Giamatti, a for- shouting down and the conversa- US cooperating more less dedication to the common- mer president of Yale University, weal and the ideals of democra- tion open - for only in that way (Continued from page 1) India's relationship with the praised the role of higher educa- cy," Gray said. eventually will equality ... and States will reduce aid to Pakistan United States and over India's de- tion as a "conveyor of civiliza- Gray noted that Killian said a opportunity finally come." after the Soviet pull-out from Af- velopment as a whole is the corm- tion." In his wide-ranging ad- was "a ghanistan. Gharekhan did reiter- munity of Indians who live in the trip around the country dress, Giamatti poked fun at One arrest at ceremony to get a ate, however, that such political United States, Dean stated. wonderful opportunity congressmen, management con- for the great- During the commencement differences should not "come in E grassroots feeling sultants, various media organiza- The number of Indians living ness of this institution by observ- processional Metropolitan Dis- the way of establishing a produc- tions and the university "special in America who return to India is ing close up what its alumni have trict Commission Police arrested tive, constructive, positive rela- on the rise, he said. The US Em- interest group" (which takes of- Ronald Francis G for allegedly tionship" between the United accomplished, what they contrib- fense if no one else does). bassy in New Delhi is trying to ute to the welfare of this country harassing graduates in the pro- States and India. "facilitate" the return of Indians, cessional and disrupting the cere- and the variety of ways they have The main focus his address, Dean said, because they will have of mony. Francis was speaking Defending US policy toward enriched the quality of American was the of considerable influence in both though, importance about divestment and other issues Pakistan, Dean described the re- life." conversation and debate to the the p uhlir and privnta sectorr with marching graduates outside iationship as a stabilizing one "If he were here today," Gray university, which "lives through Killian Court when he was appre- which benefits the entire sub-con- Also noting the importance of continued, "I believe Jim Killian all its voices." hended. He will be tried for dis- tinent region. He also noted that the 18,000 Indian students now would say that your alma mater "The sound of all these voices turbing the peace on July 14. the US received criticism from studying in the United States, expects no less from you." through the years giving and tak- Only about a dozen protesters nations such as Pakistan for its Dean said that "honest-to-good- ing - that is the sound of civili- "You, above most others in marched on the sidewalk outside support of the Indian interven- ness students who wish to go zation," he said. this society, possess the gift of re- the court, most protesting MIT's tion in Sri Lanka. back to India have no problem markable intellect, enriched and But he cautioned that "when development of University Park getting [student] visas." Both ambassadors saw a calm, enabled by superb education." that conversation - the to-and in Cambridgeport. Students were Dean incorporated his belief in mature dialogue between the two Gray said. "Yours is the obliga- fro of ideas - is stymied or fore- not permitted to distribute litera- the return of non-resident Indi- nations as the most productive tion to help heal this society closed or frozen, when the quest- ture inside Killian Court, but af- ans to their homeland in what he in relations in the where healing is required, to help ing for truth is told it must cease ter persistent complaints copies development called "the India Question." The strengthen this country where because there is only one truth of The Thistle, a left-wing stu- last few years. heart of the question, according strengthening is required and to and it is complete, then the insti- dent newspaper, were allowed to The India Question to Dean, is whether the dreams help bring harmony among the tution in its essence is chilled and be placed in the Court next, to the of the Indian people can be real- world wherever E nations of this its life threatened." spot where The Tech had been An important group which will ized under the present political w discord obtains." permitted to distribute issues. have considerable influence over system. Iw Gray also warned of the dan- "The enemy of a university is ger scientific illiteracy poses to ... not dissent, not disagree- I democratic civilization. "How ment, not disagreeableness," Gia- Murmnan discusses outlook for Project Athena Ip (Continued fiom page 1) system." The length of Murman's tenure can a democratically based soci- matti said. "Gentility is the mark "His software has been well re- "We need to smooth out oper- was based on the three-year ex- z such as ours prosper when of a great finishing school, not a ety ceived by students," according to ations so that we can conduct the tension of support and funding significant numbers of our citi- university." ex-officio member of experiment of using computers in Athena granted by Interna- zens don't even have a rude un- Lerman, for the search committee. "He knows education," said Murman. tional Business Machines and the derstanding ofsmofsome of the Imajor At the same time he blasted what works. His work should en- His second goal is to develop forces that shape and direct our "the simplifiers who tell you that Digital Equipment Corporation courage other faculty members to better user interface software to society?" he asked. "Without they are idealistic because they in February. develop software for their lessen the distinction between that such understanding, how can our have boiled life down to a bump- "The initial expectation courses," Lerman said. Presently classes of computing machines. citizens and leaders make respon- er sticker" and others who under- five years would be adequate about 100 subjects use Athena to Specifically, he intends to provide sible decisions concerning future take simple analyses as the "ene- time to establish the network, to varying degrees. better connectivity between Athe- energy sources and the environ- mies of give and take." He said develop educational software, In addition, Murman has na and MacIntosh/IBM PC ment, defense systems and arms-- "the shouters who want it now and to use educational software served as a member of the Athe- classes of computers, whose ca- control, public health policy and care nothing for exchange, for was too ambitious," said Mur- na executive committee and pacities have grown rapidly over international trade?" connection ... for working it man. "We are where we would out;" they are in some-ways "the chairman of the school of engi- the past five years. have liked to have been two years "You have the talent and you subtlest enemies of the university neering resource allocation com- Third, he intends to open ago. This year, we worked mainly have the tools," Gray said. "And . .. splintering the very sense of mittee for Athena. Athena to all graduate students. on providing stable network." if you take Dr. Killian as your community they ache to form." In enumerating his objectives, Last, he plans to work on the Murman said he will not teach model, .you have the will to put Murman stated that his main transition to a post-Athena sys- for the next three years, but will these' tlbls-to to 'work in the ser- Giarnatti urged the graduates goal is to develop Athena into a tem when the project ends in continue his research. vice of the public good. to have "the courage to connect, "friendly, reliable, supportive three years. Gray urges graduates to pursue public service

service. Yours is the obligation to help Few would argue that - for Without such understanding, (Editor'snote: The following is heal this society where healing is good or bad - our society, our how can our citizens - and lead- the text of the charge to the grad- It is an obligation embodied irn required, to help strengthen this culture, our lives have come to be ers - make responsible decisions uates delivered by President Paul the life and work of MIT's tenth country where strengthening is E. Gray M54.) president, James Rhyne Killian, required, and to help bring har- Jr. This past winter, we were sad- Martin. Dr. mony among the nations of this you have to Thank you, Ms. the death of this major What, you may ask, do dened by world wherever discord obtains. Saxon, Dr. Giamatti, ladies and figure in MIT history, a man of bring to this world? I would submit that ... good morning. gentlemen enviable erudition, natural elo- You won't have to look far for your education. .. This is, before all else, an oc- quence and charm, and rare opportunities to meet these chal- casion for congratulating people. qualities of mind and spirit and lenges. We live in a world divided First, I extend to each of you vision. A distinguished leader in by poverty, disease, racial differ- concerning future energy sources who receive degrees today the American higher education and ences, conflicting religious be- increasingly dependent on techni- and the environment, defense congratulations and best wishes an advisor to a long succession of liefs, political hostilities, igno- cal knowledge. At the same time, systems and arms control, public of the faculty, the administration, American presidents, Jim Killian rance, and fear. A world in which there is widespread and increas- health policy, and international and the Corporation. was a tireless public servant who the divisions among peoples and ing scientific ignorance, even hos- trade? nations cause unimaginable hu- general popula- tility, among the You have the talent and you man suffering. the supposedly tion, even among have the tools. And if you take and you have the the de- You have the talent educated. Just consider Dr. Killian as your model, you in the tools. cline in science education have the will to put these tools to What, you may ask, do you public schools, the widespread ig- ., -_ have to bring to this world? I work in the service of the public served his country with wisdom, norance of elementary and cru- The road that has brought you would submit that your educa- good. courage, and limitless dedication cially important scientific con- to these ceremonies has not been tion - based in the sciences- to the commonweal and the cepts, or the confusion between an easy one. If excellence has gives you more than a meal tick- been your guide, then rigor has ideals of democracy. astronomy and astrology - not et, more than the key to profes- to mention the remarkable influ- Carved on the marble fireplace been your companion. In com- In his memoir, The Education sional opportunity. Your educa- pleting the journey thorough ence of the latter. in the office that has served MIT of a College President, he re- tion has given you the presidents for 72 years is the Lat- MIT, you have traveled far, and There is little need here to called that upon his retirement in opportunity and the obligation to in phrase: 'Ptlia Initia e Fine." we all take pride in this special elaborate on the consequences 1971 he and Mrs. Killian made a participate fully in the political, Freely translated, it says: "From moment for you. of a public unable swing around the country, paying economic, and cultural life of so- for the nation an ending, other beginnings." to distinguish sense from non- Special congratulations are farewell visits to gatherings of ciety - to be servants of the How well that describes this mo- sense in the domain of science due, also, to the parents and MIT alumni. "It was," he said- public interest and the common ment in the lives of each of you. and its applications; of an elec- families of the graduates. Their "a wonderful opportunity to get good. James R. Killian once described torate unable to comprehend the steadfast support and sacrifices a grassroots feeling for the great- the central challenge facing arguments arising at the intersec- have made this day possible for ness of this institution by observ- Science and technology are the American universities as "the im- of science, technology, and many of you. By way of thanks, ing close up what its alumni have agents of much of the change we tion perative to be relentlessly first policy; or of a work force I ask members of the graduating accomplished, what they contrib- see all around us. And they are public rate, to maintain such high credi- that cannot understand the na- class to stand, face the guest sec- ute to the welfare of this country, also the key to your ability to in- bility, creativity, and luminous ex- tools, the processes tions, and join the faculty and and the variety of ways they have fluence and improve this world. ture of their cellence that they enlarge the na- they control, or the products they trustees in applauding some of enriched the quality of American Whatever paths you choose, you tional vision and enhance the produce. the most remarkable people in life." will find challenges to the once national confidence." higher education today - your If he were here today - in this traditional order of things. The The plain fact is that scientific As you embark on your own parents and families. court that bears his name - I be- details of the knowledge you have illiteracy undermines a democrat- "other beginnings," let his words lieve Jim Killian would say that acquired here will become old can a demo- ic civilization. How likewise be your challenge. Recall your alma mater expects no less long before you do. But the basic cratically based society such as from you. scientific premises and approach always that your alma mater ex- My charge to you, as you leave ours prosper when significant to learning will sustain you as pects of you contagious excel- these halls, concerns what this You, above most others in this numbers of our citizens don't lence and high moral purpose in leaders in an age shaped increas- have even a rude understanding university expects of you during society, possess the gift of re- world. science and its techno- the service of a better the decades to come - and that markable intellect, enriched and ingly by of some of the major forces that logical fruits. Good huck and Godspeed. is the obligation of public enabled by superb education. shape and direct our society? ~p~iea~r~s~~B8~g~l~l~MM~e~l~~~MS L~~L-~~- TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1988 The Tech PAGE 3

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Namphy says he's in charge of Haiti Haitian Lieutenant General Henri Namphy says he's in control now. He's declared himself president following his military coup two days ago. The coup ousted civilian president Leslie Manigat. Namphy also says he has Supreme Court upholds law barring Summit officials issue statement formed a military government. Namphy acted after Mani- discriminatioon in social clubs Officials at the seven-nation economic summit in Cana- gat ch-zrge hi. with. inrsbordizLti&Vr and declaed .h.ll, The leader of a women's group in New Hampshire da issued a joint political statement yesterday evening. retired. It's not known what happened to Manigat. wants the state to enact anti-discrimination legislation The statement calls on the Eastern bloc nations to end A state department spokeswoman expressed concern similar to that upheld yesterday by the US Supreme their economic isolation and endorses efforts to reduce about the coup and urged Americans to avoid Haiti. US Court. stockpiles of nuclear weapons. It includes a British pro- officials have not said much about the coup. They are ap- Pat Murphy of Dover, New Hampshire - state presi- posal to curb the laundering of drug profits and strongly parently trying to decide whether it's a change for the bet- dent of the National Organization for Women - said the condemns terrorism in all forms, including the taking of ter. There were charges of widespread fraud in the elec- state needs a law barring large private clubs from dis- hostages. It supports the principle that hijacked aircraft tion that brought Manigat to power four months ago. criminating against women. should not be allowed to refuel and take off once they And Manigat's chief military ally faces drug-trafficking Yesterday's ruling upheld a New York City ordinance have landed. The US joined Britain yesterday in pushing charges in the US. The US plans to continue diplomatic which bars discrimination by non-religious clubs with for the anti-hijacking provision in the communique. relations with the new Haitian government. more than 400 members if they have regular meal service, Officials say the summit leaders spent much of Sunday Japan to buy more beef and oranges and their dues are often paid by member's employees discussing East-West relations. A French official says the Japan will buy more beef and oranges from the United rather than by the members themselves. The law says that communique will endorse greater East-West trade, now States. US trade representative Clayton Yeutter predicts such clubs are not really private organizations which can that relations with the Soviets have improved. A US offi- the agreement will at least double Japanese imports of US legally discriminate. cial says a call for further talks to cut non-nuclear arms in beef by 1991. The Japanese also will expand their market Murphy said the ruling is important because men often Europe - as well as one to endorse US-Soviet nuclear access for fresh oranges from the US. Yeutter calls it "a transact business at social clubs. She says women are hin- arms control talks - are certain to be included. major step forward for both countries." dered from advancing professionally when they are barred from joining such clubs. Icahn drops bid tso buy Texaco Carl Icahn has throw in the towel - conceding defeat in his bid for control of Texaco. Icahn's decision came after the investment firm of Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts Cleanup crews finish mopping up Strange wins US Open Championship and Company announced that it voted with Texaco man- Curtis Strange has reached the pinnacle in his golfing agement in last week's proxy fight. That dealt a fatal blow chlorine factory damaged in fire career by defeating Britain's Nick Faldo in an 18-hole to Icahn's attempt to win five seats on the board. Cleanup crews mopping up after the chlorine factory playoff for the US Open Championship. The actual outcome of the balloting is not expected to fire in Springfield today began moving out some of the Strange finished the afternoon at the Country Club in be known for a few weeks. It will take that long to sort 8,000 pounds of chemicals left after four days of fire. All Brookline with an even-par 71, four strokes in front of out and count the votes representing 243 million shares. but the families living next to the plant and workers in Faldo. It's Strange's first major title after a dozen years KKR also confirmed today that it had sold its nearly neighboring businesses were allowed back in their homes on the pro tour. five-percent stake in Texaco before the vote. However, it and offices. The chlorine is destined for the city sewage Both men completed the regulation 72 holes at &under was able to cast the votes representing 12 million shares treatment plant for use there. Meanwhile, three people, 278, forcing yesterday's round. because it owned them on the date of record for the including a firefighter, remain hospitalized in good condi- The playoff, staged on a warm, hazy day in suburban shareholder vote. tion with respiratory problem suffered as a result of toxic Boston, turned on the 13th hole when Strange drained a Icahn, Texaco's largest shareholder, had sought the fumes. 29-footer for birdie, while Faldo took a bogey. That two- seats as a way to pressure Texaco's management into let- shot swing put Strange up by three strokes with five to ting shareholders vote on his proposal to buy the compa- play, and when Faldo bogeyed numbers 15 and 17, the ny. He had offered to buy out other shareholders for $60 Single sex sclubs may lose licenses open was all but decided. a share. - Boston licensing chief Andrea Gargiulo says the city's Texaco stock closed yesterday at $467/%a share - drop- two men-only clubs and its lone women-only club will ping 13s in yesterday's trading. have about one month to decide whether to admit their Grassley claims justice department opposite numbers. If they don't, they may lose their li- sir r quor licenses. The ultimatum came after today's US Su- ignored past evidence of corruption the justice department preme Court ruling that finds New York City was right to Senator Charles Grassley charges was - in his words - "asleep at the switch" three years bar clubs excluding women and minorities. IiB ago when a Pentagon investigator turned up evidence of corruption in military purchasing. The Iowa Republican Crow Dog make rain in Midwest says a top justice department official grabbed the micro- Drivers in head-on collision Sioux Indian Chief Leonard Crow Dog says his rain- phone from the investigator during a 1985 hearing Grass- face drunken driving charges making ceremony hasn't failed in 126 tries - and it looks ley was chairing - just as the investigator was about to Police say both drivers involved in a head-on collision like it's worked again. He performed the ceremony in testify about his findings. Grassley says the department Sunday that killed a passenger are facing arraignment on Clyde, Ohio, on Sunday and Monday morning it came was only investigating one defense contractor at the time drunken driving and other charges. The cars crashed at a down in buckets - complete with thunder and lightning. and was ignoring reports of widespread abase in Penta- Boston intersection, killing 29-year-old Gregory A. Ciar- There was one snag, though. It didn't rain in Clyde. It gon purchasing. The department finally launched a mas- dello of Brookline. Ciardello was riding with 36-year-old rained in the Northwestern corner of Ohio - about 50 sive investigation two years ago and a source says it could Scott Chamberlain of Oakton, Virginia. Chamberlain's miles west of Clyde. Crow Dog was brought in from lead to as many as 200 indictments against contractors, car collided with a car driven by 32-year-old Kevin Ryan South Dakota and paid $2000 to make rain. A drought in consultants and government officials. of Boston. the midwest has endangered crops. Compiled by Mark Kantrowitz 634 women graduate at Wellesley cerenmony IWMT Student Groups I (Continued from page 1) Keohane charged the graduates o "The family is the micro- to keep in mind writer Virginia MIT Departments cosm of the state.... Without Woolf's admonitions for "pover- some guarantees of rights and ty, chastity, derision, and free- safety in the household, for dom from unreal loyalties." Keo- Local Advertisers women, men, and children, we hane explained that while it will never have the example and would be difficult to adhere ex- training for equal rights in the actly to Woolf's standard, the larger world.... president viewed the admonitions As in previous years, the Tuesday, July 12, issue of The Tech will * "That violence is never an as ones not to pursue money as be mailed to all incoming freshmen in addition to regular acceptable way of solving con- an end, not to sell your mind to flict. And indeed, the most vio- someone, not to have excessive distribution on campus. lent societies are the most sex- pride, and not to lose the ability role polarized .... Males [should to see humanity. not be] told they must be aggres- Susie Shulman, a graduate of The deadline for advertisements for the issue will be Sunday, July sive, violent, or victorious to the Continuing Education pro- 10, at 5:00 p.m. The rates are the same as during the term. In earn masculinity and females gram for older students, spoke [must not be] told they must en- on behalf of the Class of 1988, addition, spot color (red and/or blue) will be available for a 20°7o dure or support aggression in or- quoting Polonius in Hamlet: surcharge. der to be feminine." "Those friends thou hast, and Steinem made numerous refer- their adoption tried, Grapple ences to events at Wellesley dur- them unto thy soul with hoops of Regular Tuesday/Friday publication will resume at the beginning ing the graduates'- time there, in- steel." cluding protests against South Each year since 1895 the sen- of Residence/Orientation week, Friday, September 2. Africa's racial policies and the iors have held a hoop-rolling con- College's investments. The gradu- test. Tradition used to hold that ates cheered when Steinem asked the winner would be the first in If you have any questions about advertising in The Tech, call The the trustees to divest from com- the class to marry, but now holds Tech at 253-1541 and leave a message for Mark. panies doing business there. that the winner will be the first I! College' President Nannerl O. corporate chief executive officer. "'·wlP ·IPIB·PCI Bss . 38asl ;·;asP- - .I------LU---- A _ PAGE 4 The Tech TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1988 i__ I TV - OplnlOIIopinion . I~~~~0

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I----mr - --LE ly _----- L_ ·1 Pi Lamnunjustly punished Columns and editorial cartoons are written by indi- (Editor's note: The Tec I could present (for rules tell you when it's okay to ch re- 'comparisorns opinion of ceived a copy of the fol!lowing example, the comment about break the law! viduals and represent the the author, not letter addressed to Asscociate Bexley Hall being "just a stoned I know Pi Lamnbdaa Phi has a necessarily that of the newspaper. of troublle with your Dean for Student Affairs James throw away" in its page in the long history Letters to the Editor are welcome. They must be R. Tewhey.) Residence Book) is likely to be office, and I find it hard to be- Dear Mr. Trewhey, out-dated, so I'll refrain. More lieve that the latestt problems typed double spaced and addressed to The Tech, PO I'm writing about the stuspen- importantly, such a list risks the weren't just a convennient excuse Box 29, MIT Branch, Cambridge MA 02139, or by in- sion of Rush privileges fFor Pi danger of losing the larger issue to wipe out a long-stamding thorn terdepartmental mail to Room W20-483. Lambda Phi, ["ODSA revokes in the series of petty legalities. in your side. Throug;hout it all, fall, rush rights of Pi Laimbda I remember when the Com- however, the fraternit ty has acted Letters and cartoons must bear the authors' signa- Phi," May 27]. morwealth raised the drinking consistently and ac cording to tures, addresses, and phone numbers. Unsigned letters In a word, your hypocrrisy is age from 18 to 20. There were what they believed we.re the rules will not be accepted. No letter or cartoon will be print- astounding. many meetings and discussions of the game. If they, failed, it's ed anonymously without express prior approval of The he fault of According to the article, the fi- among the administration, the not their fault; It's t Tech. The Teh reserves the right to edit or condense and the erntire admin- nal three straws were: A cas;h bar, Dean's Office, the InterFraternity your office letters. Shorter letters will be given higher priority. We excessive alcohol consumiption, Conference, and the Dormitory istration. and apparent house sanctiioning Council. The message parrotted What are you goting to do regret we cannot publish all of the letters we receive. of drug use. by all was, "We expect our mem- about it? ------ - -- - ICI - I___ - _ ,_ ____ II As for the happy hours, I re- bers to comply with the laws of Richard E. Salz '82 call several times when me]mbers the Commonwealth; it is not our A T of the ODSA attended the regu- intention to function as a police A A cisions lacking intelligence lar Friday evening social izing. force." This was said with a smile To the Editor; have three finals already, and this means it should be there, but that Have all of those people left the and a wink, and the subtext was Why can't MIT be run with in- would add a fourth. When we decision should be left to the pro- office, or did they just forgiet? obvious: "Do what you want but telligence? It seems to me that have the shortest finals week in fessor. The next two items go ha}nd-in- don't get caught." the administration shiould be on the world already, why should we If MIT wants to improve the hand. Reading between the lines, From what I saw of R/O this par with the studentt body, but have to pull four all-nighters in a humanities department, they the Dean's Office believes thhat Pi year, the same mixed signals are that is not to be. No) one seems row when we can get away with should hire better teachers, in- Lambda Phi encourages and con- still beinggiven - to the point of to have any foresigh ht at all - pulling only three? I think pro- stead of adding new rules. MIT dones drug and alcohol abuuse. I rules saying when alcohol could policies form for tlhe sake of fessors should decide whether can't do that; they shafted the claim they do it no more thain the be served at all, as I recall. That's changeonly, regard ss of wheth- they want a final in their classes. film teacher [Professor William rest of the campus. Any litaeny of a nice twist, don't you think, the ,r the nnliev i¢s saoun J. Paul] by denying him tenure U1 L1tC VVII%,.V 1o _. d. .Take -for Since I can't take any HASS example these three different classes because of this policy, and created even bigger problems Crime in grad dorms cases: MIT is stunting my intellectual for people who want to learn hu- growth by taking most of the in- manities from a great teacher. e MIT has made a final man- teresting humanities classes away Good humanities professors was ignored by Tech datory in every HASS-D class. In from me. If a final in a human- around here are hard to find, and To the Editor: 1200 graduate students living on planning for next year's classes, I ities is warranted, then by all classes which are good sometimes We hope that only a typogra- campus in Ashdown HIouse, kick people out to limit class size. pher's error caused the statistics Eastgate, Green Hall, Tang Hall, With about a hundred people on thefts from graduate resi- and Westgate are concerned Students should have getting slammed from Creative dences to be left out of the article about campus crime, are readers Seeing each term, you would in The Tech ["Thefts from dorms of The Tech, and dislike being done Lobby 7 design think they would get a few other decrease in 1987," Apr. 291. We ignored. teachers to keep up with de- also look forward to seeing these Alan S. Feitelberg G To the Editor: are still ridiculous. mands, if MIT was interested at Stephen R. Smoot '90 statistics printed in a future issue. President, Tang Hall Why does Siah Armajani want all in the humanities department. Although these points were Scott B. Smith G picnic tables in Lobby 7? ["Lob- ® I am a bit peeved at every- conspicuously absent from the President, Ashdown House bies 7 and 13 to be renovated," one implying that engineers have story, let us assure the editors Johanne Dyieiski G May 3]. To the Editor: no soul and are not well- and readers of The Tech that: President While Lobby 7 is a place that I bet that for much less than rounded. I think humanities- Westgate Community Association "people come together," it is not $40,000 a Department of Archi- minded students who cannot ® Thefts do occur from grad- a city square. Couldn't MIT have tecture graduate student could re- comprehend Newton's Laws and uate residences. (Editor's note: There were four spent $5000 on a contest for best design Lobby 7 in a style which do not back their essays with ® Security improvements have thefts from Ashdown and six undergraduate design of Lobby 7 would be simple but elegant, facts are as shallow as a person thefts from Tang Hall totalling been made and are being made to and gotten much more appropri- changeable and maneuverable, solely interested in only technical $420 and $1394, respectively, graduate residences. ate plans? I first thought Arma- and still would not look like a things. of the more than during 1987.) ® Many jani's plans were a silly hack; shopping mall foyer. What really gets me is the hy- upon further investigation, they Melissa Lucarelli '90 pocrisy of it all. The Office ot Admissions says they are trying MVIT classes missing interaction to reduce the number of Course VI people here, which makes no I To the Editor, There are certainly exceptions sense at all. Did you know what I Over the years there have been to this kind of class at MIT, but were going to commit Volume 108, Number 27 Tuesday, June 21, 1988 many letters bemoaning a lack of it was particularly striking to me major you ? your life to before you got here? student involvement in a variety because I was trained in a much Chairman ...... Peter E. Dunn G of activities ranging from clubs different environment where ac- In effect, some people who are too interested in science are not Editor in Chief ...... Andrew L. Fish '89 to the recent review of under- tive participation in interactive Business Ma nage ...... r Mark Kantrowitz '89 graduate education. discussions was stressed. Before accepted to MIT What does the Managing Editor ...... Ezra Peisach '89 Other than the obvious pres- transferring here as an under- "T" stand for in MIT anyway? Executive Editor ...... Thomas T. Huang G sures of heavy work loads, there graduate, I took several classes in On the other hand, people in- terested in liberal arts, but not in News Editors ...... Darrel Tarasewicz '89 is another less obvious reason for the social sciences at Brandeis, science seem to be allowed (con- ze Niraj S. Desai '90 this lack of involvement. An MIT where we were required to pre- education is in many ways a very sent verbally in class our anal- sider that 17 percent of freshmen Michael Gojer '90 received a grade below a C in L Night Editor ...... Marie E. V. Coppola '90 passive experience. Many classes yses, as well as evaluating those Opinion Editor ...... Michael J. Garrison '88 are large lectures in which you sit ideas presented by others. 8.01). Why can't you just accept Arts Editors ...... Jonathan Richmond G and copy notes as fast as you can Part of this difference is attrib- both the techies and the fuzzies Christopher J. Andrews '88 while the professor zips through utable to differences in the his- (liberal arts people) since both Photography Editors ...... Kyle G. Peltonen '89 a lot of material. Then you go torical development of scientific will go to separate departments Mark D. Virtue '90 read the book and do the prob- disciplines versus the humanities and not bother each other? Be- Contributing Editors ...... V. Michael Bove G lem sets. (Please turn to page 5) sides, the interest in Course VI Akbar A. Merchant '89 would have died out naturally Senior Editors ...... Mathews M. Cherian '88 and Course VI is now geared to Ben Z. Stanger '88 handle masses of people anyway. David M. Watson '88 * Most importantly of all; the revolving door planned for Lob- BUSINESS STAFF by 7 is pure folly. We have thou- Advertising Accounts Manager: Genevieve C. Sparagna '90; De- sands of people going through linquent Accounts Manager: Michael Ho '89; Staff: Shari Jack- that lobby each day, and if they I' son '88, Humphrey D. Chen '90, Susan Seung-eun Lee '91, can only go in one at a time, then Shazia Makhdumi '91. you might as well cancel class. Who cares about the sounds and PRODUCTION STAFF FOR THIS ISSUE smells from the street? I've never Night Editors: ...... Ezra Peisach '89 noticed them. The picnic tables Mark D. Virtue '90 planned for Lobby 7 I can toler- Staff: Peter E. Dunn G, Chris Andrews '88, Mark Kantrowitz ate, but not a revolving door. '89, Carmen-Anita Christiane Signes '90, TEN Too '98. 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FL -- opinion I~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ F Aplnon I LUU1:0R Unfair punishment of Pi Lam denies tradition of freedom (Editor's note:.- The Tech re- cohol, or nitrous oxide, a deci- quence, the CPs have gained my though the students here are wor- your office is going to tell iton calved a copy of the following sion which I find wholly improp- continuing respect; I regret that thy of attending a world-class exactly how to behive.-.What letter addressed to Associate er and outside your jurisdiction. the ODSA has not. educational institution, they are right do you have to govern the Dean forDeanforStuent Student Affairs ffars James ames Why not, then,then, also punish During my staystay at MIF,MIT, thetheMI neither intelligent nor mature private actions of individual MIT R. Tewhey.) them for the illegal sex that oc- ODSA has been sending out a enough to be responsible for students? Dear Mr. Tewhey, curs between unmarried couples? single abhorrent message: al- their own actions. Consequently, John S. Pezaris G I was appalled ton rPad ef y,.- Why not publish them for lewd _ office's decision to suspend the behavior at parties? Why not enguneers neea interarction sklls frahman ritch :,rht.r n' ; T __U n}unish them for illegal camhlinar . . _._ ... FV'l'lta &1aa&&avI 11,ur4&a [gullV %116 t11-ualeli Urau1111g11t5 oI lI Lamo- (Continued from page 4) are stuaents, even graauate stu- roles in the educational process. da Phi for the coming fall during late-night poker games? and social sciences. dents, asked to evaluate the However, it has the potential for ["ODSA revokes fall rush rights Why not punish them for illegal- Scientists generally spend most strengths and weaknesses of sci- developing far stronger personal of Pi Lambda Phi," May ly transporting minors across 271. of their time looking for the right entific paradigms. skills and much superior leader- Such a state borders? Indeed, why not punishment is levied answer. Those who study human These exercises are largely not ship qualities among future gen- not only upon the current mem- punish them for not doing their quantitative and often lack cor- erations of engineers and sci- homework? behavior know that there are bers for the duration of their res- right answers only at a trivial lev- rect answers. These kinds of entists. idence, but also upon the future Certainly, if you are going to el; there are enormous numbers questions are only educationally We live in a world where hu- three classes of Pi Lambda Phi punish fraternities, then should of facts in the study of history, approachable in an interactive man technical abilities-are often freshmen. not dormitories come under the but it is the ability to discern discussion with positive and neg- far more influential than such I am sure you need little re- same judgment? Surely you are trends, elaborate theories of cau- ative feedback - unlike your av- natural phenomenon as disease, minder that not so naive as to believe that the fraternities barely get sality, and so on that is the key. erage problem set which is mostly the weather, daytime and night- by each year, even with the help fraternity students, a minority an opportunity to talk to yourself time, or long distances, all of I find the most interesting and of their alumni governing bodies. among MIT undergraduates, are about how to obtain the right which profoundly influenced ev- critical parts of science are the MIT already demands a mind- exclusive in their alleged illegal answer. eryday life throughout much of theories and concepts that are boggling amount of money and use of drugs? Clearly, an enormous amount history. under study. Designing hypothe- effort from its students; to pun- When I arrived at MIT in of this kind of conceptual discus- We need leaders who are ses and ways to test them is a dif- ish current as well as future 1980, it was my initial impression sion occurs at MIT. It is funda- versed in technology. If technolo- ficult problem. Yet very rarely members of the house with sub- that the ODSA was not the ad- is mental to truly innovative scien- gists do not include in their train- this issue dealt with at any level stantially higher dues is surely a ministration-sanctioned police tific research, of which so much ing at least rudimentary skills in other than the trivial more heinous crime than the ini- force. I was under the impression "experimen- is occurring here. But such dis- interpersonal and organizational tal techniques" level. tial allegations themselves. that the Campus Police were. The cussion is far more difficult to management, then those who The punishment of the house CPs do not actively seek out and Very rarely are students pre- teach than quantitative problem train as MBAs, JDs, and so on as a whole for the alleged actions punish students for the alleged il- sented with research from several solving skills. To my mind it rep- will learn rudimentary techno- of a few individual members, act- legal use of drugs. Quite to the different investigators and asked resents the greatest challenge that logical skills and continue as the ing apparently voluntarily and of contrary, I was told many times to describe the conceptual differ- MIT faces in improving the qual- influential leaders of modern so- their own accord, is absurd. You by many students that the CPs ences in their approaches and ity of undergraduate and gradu- ciety under whom work the tech- are unethically attempting to co- were good people who defended how these are affecting their ex- ate education. nically trained. It is in this arena erce the house into punishing its the students and took care of perimental designs and interpre- It will require teachers and stu- that MIT must decide its Toe.- own members for alleged crimes them in emergencies. As a conse- tations of the data. Very rarely dents learning much more active Hugh A. Barton G

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Laura Palladino (as Kregge Auditorium, June >pe~15. AuditriurDes Teufels Lustschloss is full of charm- place of the original dialogue. Later, Os- the Inn Mistress), showed a flexible, flow- By JONATHANRICHMONDing music that tells the unlikely story of wald gets shut up in a cage and risks death ing voice, and considerable abilities at col- iBy JONdATHMANT RICHMOND the goings-on in a make-believe "Devil's for refusing the charms of the Amazon. oration. w OLAND VASQUEZ has, on many Pleasure Palace," where the young lover For resisting Kathleen Allen, who deliv- The men in the chorus produced a rich occasions, shown a genius for Oswald (played by Walter Davis) must ered the evening's strongest singing as a and earthy sound, but the women were doing the impossible on a shoe- avoid falling for the temptations of an am- delightfully viperous Amazon, he well de- weak in comparison. string,, for bringing opera to orous Amazon in order to pass a test of served that, and more. Alien's singing was The orchestra played brisky and tightly, MIT where otherwise there would be his faithfulness to his beloved Luitgarde. packed with punch. Her precise voice con- with great vibrancy, but also warmth. Vaz- trol and pure tone endowed her character quez clearly has a great feeling for the with an aura of power and menace - this text, and understanding of the potential of Up and-comingfilmmakers ought Amazon was not someone to trifle with. the music to be both dramatic and delight- As in her performance of the The Queen ful. The musical portrayal of tongue-in- to learn from Jaglom 's example of the Night in Vazquez' Magic Flute pro- cheek horror in the castle was very wittily _J0 , . .. -. / . duction, Allen would not settle for a done. On the other hand, Vazquez knew monochromatic portrayal of her role: be- how to direct his strings to allow Oswald a yond the bile, her singing also evoked beautiful, soft aria opening. In a very some sympathy for the Amazon. short time he drew a great deal out of Dixon's singing was lyrical and nicely Schubert's forgotten music, producing a articulated, and dreamy at times. Brian result many a regional opera company I Davis made a real character out of Robert would be proud of. A mixed performance from Cortez PRO ARTE CHAMBER ty. Cortez' singing took on a sense ot ur- ORCHESTRA OF BOSTON gency and wonder: here at last was a Miguel Cortez, tenor. master at work. It's a shame he hadn't Conducted by Gunther Schuller warmed up earlier. Sanders Theatre, May 28. The Orchestra, under the direction of Gunther Schuller, played competently and, By JONATHAN RICHMOND at times, compellingly. There were a few HE PRO ARTE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA orchestral items on the program, as well. brought their season to an end Excerpts from de Falla's The Three Cor- with a program of arias sung by nered Hat had some spice to them, but tenor Miguel Cortez. His perfor- were not quite as sharply performed as Orson Welles and Henry Jaglom mance was mixed: he had a powerful pres- might have been desired. ence, but his voice was sometimes a trifle SOMEONE TO LOVE selves talking about themselves and their harsh. His opening number, Una furtiva Written and directed by Henrry Jaglom. loneliness into the handheld Arriflex cam- lagrima from Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore Starring Henry Jaglom, Andrea eras run by the film crew Danny has suffered from a lack of subtlety or legato Macovicci, Michael Emil, Sally Kellerman, brought along. One soon realizes that all delivery. and Oja Kodar. the actors in the film are playing thinly An alive, alert Quest o quella from Ver- Special appearance by Orson Welles. disguised versions of themselves. Danny di's Rigoletto fared much better, but an At the Nickelodeon Theater. the filmmaker is really Jaglorn the film- aria by Ponchielli was on the coarse side. maker, and Welles (listed as "IDanny's La fleur que tu m'avais jetee from Bizet's By :MANAVENDRA K. THAKUR Friend" in the credits) is, of course, Carmen was just plain vulgar. It was pas- himself. sionate in a crude sense, perhaps, but ENRY JAGLbM HAS REMAINED This sort of "interview" filmmaking can without any meaning. outside the Hollywood main- be traced to the Brechtian and Godardian A piece by Serrano was done better, and stream for more than a decade technique of having actors interrupt the the final two arias on the program - by and a half, and he's quite narrative flow to comment on their per- Jesus Guridi and Frederico Moreno Tor- proud of that fact. The close friend of Or- ceptions of what their character is doing roba - were done with depth. The Guridi son Welles has written and directed seven and why. And indeed, Jaglom cites as his Romanza from El Caserio came off partic- films since 1970, each costing less than $1 primary influences the great filmmakers of ularly well - you could hear the sound of million. Jaglom has insisted on total artis- the 1960s - Bergman, Fellini, Godard, longing in Cortez' voice. tic control over them all. Truffaut. He says he has not been influ- Cortez turned out to be strongest in his Jaglom looks inward for the source ma- enced by the cinema verite documentary encores, however, especially in his repeat terial for his films. For example, his 1985 movement, as epitomized by Frederick of E lucevan le steli from Puccini's Tosca. film Always examined his divorce from ac- Wiseman. He likes the label that some The first run-through had been strong, but tress Patrice Townsend and was shot en- critics have given his works, "emotional the reprise was phenomenal, of tragico- tirely in the house they had shared. "To (Please turn to page 10) heroic dimensions and full-blooded beau- get something of universal value," Jaglomrn !, said in a telephone conversation, "you have to focus on one specific issue" rather Real-ife, cartoon characters mix infun whodunit spoof than appealing to the lowest common de- I It is at the end of the opening short up the film's world as a magical one in nominator. Of course, the issue Jaglom is WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT where the fun and marvel really begins. which cartoon characters exist alongside Directed by Robert Zemeckis. most familiar with is himself. We hear a loud "cut" and the human di- humans and each acknowledge the other's Animation directed by Richard Williams. He has creatively used his independence rector runs up to Roger, complaining that presence as real. Starring Bob Hoskins and once again in Someone To Love. He raises This coexistence is carried much farther ChristopherLloyd. he wanted the Rabbit to see stars, not the question of why people are lonely, es- birds. Baby Hernan turns out to have the than any of the film's predecessors, such Opens at area theaters. pecially on that most romantic of holi- gruff voice of an older man who later as Anchors Aweigh, which featured Gene days, Valentine's Day. He doesn't have any complains that when it comes to women, Kelley and his cartoon friends dancing to- real answers to this profoundly human By CORINNE WAYSHAK he has the mind of a 30-year-old but "the gether. In comparison, Roger Rabbit's ani- question; given that reality, Jaglom, said DDIE VALIANT IS A HARD-BOILED dinky of a three-year-old." mated characters and humans interact that "I knew I would paint myself into a detective who turned to the bot- much more closely and physically. Many corner." Therefore, Jaglom asked Orson tle after his brother was violently scenes mix live and cartoon action effec- Welles to put things in "historical perspec- killed by a cartoon character. (A tively - in one, the nightclub-entertainer tive" and to impart his considerable wis- piano fell on him.) Afterwards, he swore Jessica Rabbit sensously slinks up to the dom and experience not only in filmic he would never have anything to do with a human male customers, fondly caresses matters but in'the tricky ground of love "Toon" again . . . but every man has his them, and pulls them closer and closer. and interpersonal relationships. price. When the head of a prestigious film The homage to the '40s suspense films is The film begins, appropriately enough, studio offers to pay Eddie generously to apparent - many of the shots are similar with a few choice words from Welles. tail the famed cartoon star Roger Rabbit's to the classic Maltese Falcon. The door of Then it quickly shifts to Danny (Jaglom) beautiful wife Jessica, whom Roger sus- Eddie's law office is filmed from the in- and Helen (Andrea Marcovicci, with pects {e ellrr-Pntiti'ly playing .old',-tokia side, and the slinky ad bhsmedshadow whom Jaglorn has spent most of the past with his human producer, Eddie gives in. of the leading lady, Jessica Rabbit, appears five years in real life) getting ready to go Who could have thought what the conse- in the window of the law office just before to sleep. Helen, who has just gotten used quences would be? Not Eddie, certainly. she comes for help. to sleeping alone after the breakup of her This innovative spoof of 1940s-style The film also reflects upon the industry previous relationship, tells Danny that she mysteries combines live action with anima- with such statements as Bette Boop's cry, won't be able to sleep if he's in the house. tion; the delightful whodunit easily match- "business has been slow since cartoons This arouses Danny's curiosity, and he es the intensity of the originals. Unlike the went to color." There is also a scene fea- sends out telegrams to his show business classic '40s murder stories, one of the turing Daffy and Donald Duck as enter- friends to gather at a beautiful old theater main characters is a cartoon actor by the tainers at a club; Daffy turns to the club- in Santa Monica that is about to be re- name of Roger Rabbit. goers, and in effect to the movie audience, placed by a shopping mall. Danny, a film- At the onset, the film appears to be just and asks, "does anyone understand what maker, figures that he might get some in- like any other cartoon short; hero Roger this duck is saying?" By reflecting on the teresting footage, and at the very least he Rabbit's patience is sorely tested while he Jessica, Robert, & Bob Hoskins history of both cartoons and film, Who will be able to introduce his brother Mick- babysits co-star Baby Herman. The classic Framed Roger Rabbit entertains the audi- ey (Michael Emil, Jaglom's real-life broth- series of expected mishaps include an un- In the background lie such relics as a ence in fresh and new ways. er) to some romantic companions. fortunate incident with a "suc-o-lux" vac- mechanical set of legs resembling those At the end of the film, the tables are When the day arrives, Danny's friends- uum and an onslaught of knives pinning seen in the opening short as the only fea- turned; Eddie must enter Toonland, the 1 arrive expecting a party but find them- Roger to the wall. ture of Baby Herman's mother. This sets (Please turn to page 11) -- BRltPpLIWPPP[·eaeLIPqBIIPRDBWP TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1988 The Tech PAGE 9 ·P·---Yk-srPk- --ulslaas - I - I - 1 rYp~SF -·~-- -- I~~·- -L- ~~~L--~---y-D - -Q~p ~ICBI · s~P~lbr··Lb I~·- P~ ~BB I p I~~LW -- = ------·- _ ___ -- - i -= ------I··NDI(··-L- -- ______A_ R TS ______ __l--IYlllllr·lllII·-·- _ i n -rsPpaWe rC---rmrcdL-- em J-P·C·-L-·LPI Electronic noodling Psychodramaenthralls with story of witch-craze hysteria VINEGARI TOM warped logic used to find explanations for an's chores is reflected in Margery's calm, aroundin Media Lab Byi Caryl Churchill. the inexplicable, to find blame, and to rhythmic invocation to the butter she is music With an epilogue by Bettina McGimsey. symbolically banish bad luck with the churning to "come butter, come," her sub- doesn't make DirectedI by Sue Downinag. hangman's noose. servient role in Jack's treatment of her, Alley Theatre, Cambridge. Downing escalates tensions as the play and their joint development of suspicious HYPERINSTRUIMENTS ContinuesI through July 2. moves forward, pointing ever towards the hysteria when Joan's cursing is followed The Cube, Wiesner Building. inevitable conclusion, the hangings, a ca- by the death of livestock. June 11. By JONATHAN RICHMOND tharsis for those who will continue living. Joan - accused by Margery and Jack of bringing ill-luck on them - is given a By JONATHAN RICHMOND GROUP OF MIT ALUMNI AND 0lo- crusty performance by Page Rozelle. Alice cal actors decided to take over is also shown as a victim (called a whore ru- [HE NOXIOUS DISPLAY of self-in- the Alley Theatre for the sum- 3 daleence which accosrted the Me- A by the man brutally played by Bill Bryant in this hole-in-the-wall dia Lab audience on June I · ,lmer; who, of course, may blamelessly himself already be- should not be confused with the near Inman Square they have sleep with whom he wants) by Tara Dolan. works of other composers of computer gun to develop a reputation for striking Mary-Beth Hagarty (splendidly cos- music, some of whose output displays real drama. tumed by Lee Higgins) drew a vivid pic- Caryl Churchill is an absorb- talent. The charade on the Ilth was Playwright ture of the innocent child-like Betty, whose Vinegar Tom she takes marked by an infatuation with technology ing story-teller; in crime is to refuse to take the husband cho- into the psyche of a so- and an absence of art. her audience deep sen for her: for this, she must submit to real and suspi- On display were "hyperinstruments," ciety where witchcraft was the doctor's attempted "cure." Ultimately, described in the program as "a new gener- cion was rife. she must consent to marry, or also risk go- asset of Sue Downing '86s ation of musically intelligent, interactive The greatest ing the way of the "witches." flow of performance and creativity systems." The production is its credibility. The Susan (Lee Higgins) is less lucky. She and becomes a idea was that computers could augment action grabs the attention sins by rejecting the role of woman as reality. music played on conventional instruments, part of the theatregoer's baby-bearer and has to be hanged for it. ages have found vacuums which is then sent to loudspeakers or to Societies of all Higgins does a good job of building up hard to deal with, especially vacuums in other musical instruments (a Bdsendorfer Susan's belief in her own culpability. understanding: we fear what we do not grand, for example.) comprehend. Today we may have science At the end, Bettina McGimsey helps Kevin Cunningham is deliciously sadistic But as one Boston-based composer for is for to provide answers, but in centuries past pop the bubble of witchcraft from a femi- as the witch-hunter, Packer. The job conventional instruments attending the us that there were only mystical explanations. In nist stance with an epilogue she's written money, but Cunningham shows concert said during an intermission inter- that he's on a these there was at least some comfort; to complement Churchill's play. It's nicely Packer is quite convinced view, we could not gauge the potential of devil. His sleazy ac- weak explanations were far less scary than done, showing that at the heart of the mission to banish the these new devices from what we heard be- witch persecution was an oppressive sys- complice, Goody, is wickedly brought to cause of a lack of attention to musical no explanations. of the characters in the play doubt tem of treating women. life by Veronica Lewis: what wonderful ex- preparation that made most of the perfor- None that witchcraft is real, including those ac- Acting was generally of a high caliber. pressions she has! mances sound like little more than lame to death for it. The audi- The relationship of Margery (played by Ja- The music that goes with the show really improvisation. "Just to noodle around, I cused and put ence is shown a society at work within the net Morris) and Jack (Steve Maler) was isn't up to par. But the show itself is over- don't call it advanced composition," he confines of this assumption and the nicely developed. The tedium of-a worn- whelming, and it is highly recommended. said, warning that if program participants --0 I i _ ~~~~~~~~\ continued to "take the easy way out" rath- er than addressing the difficult musical is- looked clever, but didn't make the sound Deutsches Requiem is patiently, sues, "hyperinstruments" would never be produced any the less mindless. more than mere technological toys. Some excerpts from Tod Machover's benignly, and m6iturely played To judge from what was heard, he was Valis made up the only musical contribu- My favorite section of this work is the right. The first piece, Aprds MIDI dEn- tion of the evening. Machover's scoring of EIN DEUTSCHES REQUIEM fourth, Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnun- fant by Gordon Gottlieb consisted of an the cello part (which he performed) By Johannes Brahms. gen. The Newtonians did not disappoint excruciatingly extended sequence of jun- showed a sensitivity and understanding of The Newton Choral Society. me. The quick tempo pointed up a eentral- gle-like sounds emanating from electronic the instrument and the sound it produced, Directed by David Carrier. ity and timelessness to the movement - of percussion. David Janello's so-called Dou- rather than merely a fascination with the At Jordan Hall. course, the middle movement has no sec- ble Concerto for two bass flutes and key- electronics used to modify it. Such under- Saturday, June 4, at 8pm. tional counterpart in this highly symmetri- boards was equally lackluster. Some in the standings are essential if accoustically-pro- cal seven-faceted piece. :.- -- ? audience noted the meditative nature of duced sound is to be artfully transformed By DAVID M. J. SASLAV Carrier's restrained style was suffictent the sound, others thought it was drugged, by computer. ROM THE OPENING STRAINS of reas- direction for the singers and instrumental- but all thought it monotonous. Examina- More audience abuse followed, however, surance to the closing Revelation, ists alike. A distinct rattling in the princi- tion of the score revealed only the most with George Lewis and Don Ritter's onan- it was a Brahms' Ein Deutsches pal flautist's instrument became noticeable basic markings; the piece was clearly not istic Nose Against Glass for trombone and Requeim of passion and patience, during this movement, and required a con- well thought out or of any musical in- computer animation. A quarter hour of interpreted maturely and benignly, caress- certed effort to ignore. Once achieved, the terest. strange, meaningless sounds triggered pro- ing us with the sounds of forgiveness and wonderful counterpart and harmonic pro- If Janello's output was bland, Richard jections on a large screen. At first a large understanding mixed with fervent hope gression (culnminating in a magical prepa- Rowe and Richard Teitelbaum's was tor- pink blotch appeared, expanding and con- and expectation. ratory passage featuring arpeggiated string turous. Their Concerto Grosso No. 2 for tracting like a giant amoeba chewing gum. The chorus sang well; their diction was pizzicato and a three-measure-long chord keyboards, flute, and trombone patched Next came a sequence which would be at flawless and their ensemble all that could in the chorus) could be fully appreciated. together a hodgepodge of disjoint sounds; home in the world of Monty Python - a be hoped for in a group of 125. The cho- Soprano Carole Haber then stood and its computer-concocted anomie never ap- human face with arms and hands coming risters seemed to outshadow the instumen- recited ihr habt nun Traurigkeit with as- proached a human sense of imagination or out of its orifices. Some people laughed, talists at times when the two groups must tonishing range and projection. One al- scale. During the piece, the B6sefidorfer others just recoiled in disgust at the taste- be given equal consideration. most wished that the great German master was running at high speed - it is lessness of the animation, the pretentious- might have written more for the soprano equipped to play up to 400 notes per sec- ness of the random sounds masquerading David Carrier deserves a great deal of in this work. St. Laurent gave a more sub- ond. There could be potential to use such as music, and the degree to which the con- praise here. This was clearly a focussed ef- stantial rendition of Denn wir haben hie a piano to produce music that goes beyond cert's promoters felt they could insult fort, and not quickly constructed. The keine bleibende Statt; the reprise of Tod, the limits of human performance capabili- those who had come to listen and to tempi were measured and deliberate. Selig wo ist dein Stachel? Hoelle, wo ist dein ties, but if attention is not given to the ar- observe. sind, die da Leid tragen and Selig sind die Sieg? ("O death, where is thy sting? O tistic content of the composition, nothing Technical prowess on either a violin or a Toten, die in dem Herren sterben, (the grave, where is thy victory?") culminated more will result than the noise produced computer console is no replacement for outer movements,) set the pace and then the energies expended to that point.- by Rowe and Teitelbaum. ability at composition or interpretation; consummated the effective musical state- This concert was dedicated to Lorna We were scheduled to hear Perspicuity there must always be musical content. The ment. Denn alles Fleisch es ist wie Gras Cooke deVaron, who founded the New Above Recall by Robert Dick next, but the time has come for the hyperinstrument de- featured extreme emotive contrasts in ad- England Conservatory Chorus in 1947, dition to the critical ones of dynamic. The and who retires at the end of this year. Ri work was not ready; instead, the audience velopers to work with musical goals in was forced to listen to a lengthy piece of mind first, and then build the technology Herr, lehre doch mich which followed fea- Her influence in the NEC and surrounding tedious and talentless improvisation by to serve them. If they lack the talent, tured baritone Mark St. Laurent, who musical communities has been significant, Rainer Boesch on piano and Dick on flute. imagination, or inclination to do so, there could have sung with more force, perhaps, and it is to be hoped that she will not dis- During the piece Boesch reached into the is no case for such work to be either fund- but certainly not with any more concen- appear altogether from the scene, but will piano to twang the strings; this may have ed or shown to the public. tration. continue to be visible in the area. Bellman & True makes solid contribution to gangster-capergenre cords of a major British bank. A gang of lance cameras, and high-security locks, the BELLMAN & TRUE_ crooks kidnaps his young stepson in order film remains a primarily human story. Directed by Richard Loncraine. Rem; ~to force Hiiler to help them break into the Hill's performance as Hiller is instrumen- Based on the novel by Desmond Lowden. _E*- IBi zbank's vault. tal in this regard; his concern for his step- Starring Bernard Hill, Richard Hope, Director Richard Loncraine and cinema- son is genuinely touching. Ken Bones, and Kieran O'Brien. tographer Ken Westbury use slightly The unresolved plot elements at the end At the Copley Place Cinema. skewed camera angles and selectively tilted of the film also help to heighten realism. objects to effectively create tension. These Far too many crime films end with a pat By MANAVENDRA K. THAKUR techniques could easily have degenerated restoration of the moral order, and this HE GANGSTER-CAPER DRAMA used into melodramatic cliches, but the film- film avoids that trap. have minor to be an uniquely American makers avoid over-manipulation. From the Of course, the film does password used to genre, but it now is increasingly opening slow motion shot of a railway sta- flaws. For example, the data is too eas- being redefined in British terms. tion to the final fadeout, the music score decrypt the bank computer importance of But there's no reason to circle up the wag- by Colin Towns is particularly effective at ily guessed, which belies the An explosion at ons. Given the mediocrity of recent Amer- charging the film with a restrained energy. the data being protected. is far too large for the ican underworld dramas, it is welcome The remarkable accuracy of the bur- the end of the film used. news that Bellman d& True joins Mona glary techniques used by the gangsters and amount of fuel and type of ignitor Lisa and other British films as a solid con- the human weaknesses epitomized by Hill- The search for the meticulously accurate is not yet tribution to the genre. er's classic fish-out-of-water role add to and human crime/caper drama I & The film centers around Hiller (Bernard the sense of realism. Despite the detailed over, but for the time being Bellman Hill), a computer programmer whose com- depiction of technological methods to cir- True holds its own quite:e!!. It deservcs Kieran O'Brien cumvet motion detectors, video surveil- an audience. pany has access to money shipment re- a cumvent mlotion detectors, video surveil- a uine b~~llaa~~~%se~~ssar~~~sas~~rII _BrR PAGE 10 The Tech TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1988 II ___---- I I--- I- '1- --- -r -- I I"------L -- - A R T S =-, -- --I ---- --- - I -· Ska, thrash shine brightest in night after night of battling Boston bands (Continuedfrom page 12) to induce some slam-dancing in earnest. piring amateurs. Bullet's snazzier, more had been a close call for the judges, but Rough-edged, fast, hard, faster, harder, polished stage show - replete with bounc- The Titanics still did not make it into the loud, inexperienced, raw, thrashing, and ing, romping, and posing - only helped semis as a wild-card. As with last year's smashing, these kids are built for speed to get the audience thrashing and slam- snubbing of heavy favorites Big Dipper, and make up for any deficiencies with ming, with a healthy dose of stage diving something again went terribly wrong in pure audacity. How did these cherub-faced added for good measure. Calculated may- this year's preliminaries of the Rumble. adolescents get in? If they weren't per- hem on stage ensured a shocking good The Semifinals forming on stage, they'd be booted out at time for all. the door for lack of a liquor ID. What do At the other end of the spectrum, Run- The two-day semifinals begin tonight in their mothers think? But who cares; they away Dan (pronouned "Dane') slowed the the brighter, more open venue of the Met- put the older rockers to shame. The brash tempo to near standstill with their sugar- ro (15 Lansdowne Street, across the street and cocky band (one member mockingly coated, formula Top 40 music. If Run- from Fenway Park ballpark, near Kenmore w,,rc ,,,\rep-s,,ool unlulr,, and tuhe allld awuay D0·_,, won the night it would have Square). Fortunately for most undergradu- arrogantly played "Plaster Caster," a only been on the virtues of lead vocalist ate students, the semis and the finals (also thrashing version of Suzanne Vega's Dana McCoy's traffic-stopping figure, held at the Metro) are 18+ shows. The "Luka") has an innate musical sense; de- barely covered by a tight minidress. doors open at 8 pm (first band not until spite their lack of technical prowess, Funny that the last band to play the about 9:30); the four bands play until Heretix strong clear vocals carried the songs. With Rumble would prove to be the most eager- about 1:30 in the morning, at one hour in- the stage lights set on permanent ly anticipated: with ex-Flies, ex-Turbines, tervals. tedious. They stood little chance against high- beam, their set showed ex-Peter Dayton Band, ex-Oysters, some- Tonight the other night's contenders. no fancy footwork the lineup begins with Bim - only full throttle rock here. Report time-Neats, and sometime-Scruffy mem- Skala Bim, followed Heretix closed the evening with their by The Incredible Ca- card: A +. bers making up the roster of The Titanics, suals, then Tribe, hard-strumming, melodic guitar lines and and finally Dogzilla. Class Action's funky, melodic tunes the amassed talent was well worth a week- Bim and Dogzilla will put the strong lead vocals of Ray Lemieux. Al- on the most en- closed Friday evening's show, but long wait. The Titanics' set proved to be ergetic sets of the evening, though they were not as introspective as the vo- with more laid- cals were buried too far below the the definitive guitar sound of the week. back sounds from some of the influences they named (among loud The Incredible Casuals guitar. The jazzy horn made for The combined influences of the members and Tribe. Dogzilla them The Cure and Echo and the Bunny- some nice and Tribe will likely harmonies, but any good music got clearly dominated the music: The Titanics duke it out in a competition men), the impact was nonetheless appar- mud- of pure, un- dled beneath a poor mix. Class had the bassy drive of The Turbines, the adulterated fun versus ent; the band proved at their best at a fast- Action's thoughtful, metered best quality proved harmonic/strumming/wailing lead guitar music, while er tempo. Heretix' guitar-dorninated to be their strong ener- Bim will have a strong say if gy on stage, but it was of Scruffy the Cat, and the growling/cry- the judges aren't sound won the night over strong competi- not enough to take too averse to their revved away the night from ing lead vocals of ex-Flies Nat Freedberg. up, jazzy ska. The tion from Bim, which managed to garner the pumped-up Le- Incredible Casuals will monheads. This clear, steady, driving music was the likely be a wild-card spot in the semis. out of the running. sound that is distinctly Bostonian. The Ti- The second night of the semis follows Friday - Rumble Day 5 tanics had plenty of fans pulling for them, immediately on Wednesday, and will prove including Scruffy member Stephen Fre- to be a thrash Dixie Cinema's hard pop sound and purist's dream, surely dette, who helped out brother/lead guitar- breaking the speed sassy lead guitar led off the fifth day of limits of the Rumble. ist David Fredette hauling equipment as Again, the the Rumble, but the good lead vocals evening begins with the funky, roadie. speedy ska couldn't carry the uninteresting pop tunes. sound of Plate O' Shrimp, ac- As the night ended, Bullet and Titanics celerates with The music never got off the ground de- Bullet La Volta, takes a lead singers Yukki Gipe and Nat Fredette breather spite some interesting song structure. with Heretix, then once again joshed around while waiting for the results goes into overdrive with the Lemonheads. of the judges: they knew they were Depending \\ ·~': the on the judges' tastes, Bullet La only real contenders of the evening. In the Volta and the Lemonheaeds will do well in closest call of the week, better showman- a confrontation of showmanship and ship won out over better musicianship: young, brash audacity; or PlateO' Shrimp Bullet beat out The Titanics to the cheers and Heretix will put in a strong showing at of half the audience and the groans of the slower speeds. On the other hand, there other half. However, someone must have might be a replay of the incident two years made an error in adding up the score- ago, when a judge was so put off by The Bullet La Volta cards: when announcing the night's win- Volcano Suns' cheekishness that he just up ner, Albert 0. admitted that the contest and left. Saturday- Rumble Day 6 Film explores The last day of the Rumble preliminar- romanticinvolvement (Continuped from nate 8) Welles') ideas on ies proved to have one of the most closely filmmaking than as illu- verite. - ., . .. Psy mination on romance, fought battles for a position into the semi- it is clear that Jag- Given Jaglom's commitment to his lomn is one of the endangered finals. Pat on the Back opened the night species of work, it comes as no surprise that Some- American with their sometimes funky synth-pop. cinema: a serious and dedicated Thie Lemonheads one To Love reflects his general filmmak- film artist who refuses to pander to the However, the band showed little energy on ing technique. Jaglom says he The slow, steady, deep sound of One scripts thor- box office. He has consistently refused of- stage, the vocals were redundant and ough guidelines for his actors but Life followed, backing the metered, lets the fers to direct big budget films in order to bland, and the drums and keyboard mixed actors fill in the dialogue. Jaglom says he drawn-out vocals of bassist/lead singer preserve his integrity. His simple cinematic too far forward. The audience was the like to "go with the emotion that's going Anthony Barile Jr. Unfortunately, the mu- style couldn't be more different from the smallest and most uninterested since Ci- on" during the shoot. When shooting sic depended heavily on Barile's vocals; his is highly technical art of Orson Welles or tizenz. complete, Jaglom retreats to the editing throaty, hoarse, off-key voice couldn't de- Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, Bullet La Volta took over, and suddenly room for several months where liver most of the time. One Life is interest- he "rein- but he has adopted their visionary outlook the Paradise was filled to capacity. Aggres- vents" the film, melding ing in concept but needs the disparate ele- on filmic art and turned it inward to make better vocals to sive, abrasive, snarling lyrics over intense, ments round out their sound. into an evolving whole. highly personal and intimately human intricate, choppy guitarwork proved that, Although Someone To Love is ultimate- Finally, the Lemonheads took the stage unlike films. Up-and-coming filmmakers would the Lemonheads, these were no as- ly more interesting for Jaglom's (and Y- do well I- '- - -P - - _ to learn from Jaglom's example. I~~~~~~~~~~~~ .~~~- - I _ _ - _Y r * * * CRITIC'S CHOICE * * ]I OFF CAMPUS FILM & VIDEO Vinegar Tom, Caryl Churchill's play Salvator Rosa: Prints and Drawings and set In a small village during the height Cubist Prints continue through July 31 * * CRITIC'S CHOICE * * ( R cl of the witchhunts of late 17th century at the Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Hun- POPULAR MUSIC, ETC. The Somerville Theatre presents a England, continues through July 2 as tington Avenue, Boston. Museum hours Woody Allen double bill with Man- Compiled a presentation of Ulysses are Tues-Sun Heart and Michael Bolton perform at by Peter Dunn Productions 10-5 and Wed 10-10. Ad- Great hattan at 6:00 & 9:30 and the Oscar '25255ssba_ at the Alley Theatre, 1253 Cambridge mission: Woods, Routes 140 and 495, winning Annie tO5_2 $5 general, $4 seniors, free to Mansfield. Tickets: Hall at 7:45. Located Street, Cambridge. Performances MIT students with ID. Tel: $14.50 to $19.50. at 55 Davis are 267-9300. Telephone: 339-2333. Square, Somerville, just * * * CRITIC'S CHOICE . * Thur-Sun at 8 pm. Tickets: $10 gener- :t . . . by the Davis Square T-stop on the red Les Miserables, the Tony-award win- al, $8 seniors and students. Tele- Hollywood and Histor: Costume Design hlne. Tickets: $4.50 in (good for the dou- ning musical adaptation of Victor phone: 491-8166. Film, original garments, fashion * * * CRITIC'S CHOICE * * ble bill). Telephone: 625-1081. plates, Animal Crackers, Hugo's classic, continues through and paintings juxtaposed with The Semifinals of the WBCN Rock the hilarious 1920s movie Broadway June 25 at the Shubert Theatre, 265 stills, designer sketches, and cos- and Roll Rumble begin tonight at musical comedy originally fea- tumes created turing the Marx Brothers, Tremont Street, Boston. Perfor- for the screen, continues 8 pm with performances by Bim The Brattle Theatre continues its continues through August 14 at the through July 2 as a presentation of mances are Mon-Sat at 8 pm, Wed & Museum of Skala Bmn, The Incredible Casuals, Wednesday series Mfovies and Music with the Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Hail Huntinton Theatre Company at Sat matinees at 2 pm. Tickets: $27.50 Avenue, Bos- Tribe, and Dogzilla at the Metro, 15 Hail Rock and Roll (1987), with 264 ton. Museum hours are Tues-Sun Chuck Huntington Avenue, Boston. to S45, $16 special student tickets for 10-5 Lansdowne Street, just across from Berry and Keith Richards, at 3:30 Perfor- and Wed 10-10. Admission: & mances are Tues-Sat at 8 pm, matinedes some performances. Tel: 426-4520. ON CAMPUS $5 general, the entrance to the bleachers at Fen- 7:50 and Sign O' the Times (1987), $4 seniors, free to MIT students with ID. starring Prince, at 5:40 &10:00. Wed, Sat, &Sun at 2 pm. Tickets: $12 to . an . $ * * * CRITIC'S way Park [see article this issue]. Tele- Located CHOICE * Telephone: 267-9300. at 40 Brattle Street in Harvard Square. $27 Telephone: 266-3913. Arnold Newman: phone: 262-2424. Nunsense, depicting the talent show Fire Decades, pho- Tickets: $4.75 general, $3 seniors and tography by the renowned American staged by the Little Sisters of Hoboken * * * CRITIC'S CHOICE * children (good for double bill). Tele- Contemporary Insanitu. a collection of in portraitist, continues through June 27 * * THEATER order to raise money to bury four of Ramesses the Great continues through phone: 876-6837. satirical songs and sketches portraying a their number a: the MIT Museum, N52-2nd floor, Can Can, the Cole Porter musical with sophisticated and offbeat currently in the convent August 30 at the Boston Museum of Chlta look at modern freezer, continues Indefinitely 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cam- Rivera, opens today at the Wang life, continues indefinitely at the Boston at the Science, Science Park, near the Muse- Center, 270 Charles Playhouse, 74 Warrenton bridge. Gallery hours are Tues-Fri 9-5 Tremont Street, Boston. Baked Theatre, 255 Elm Street, Street, um T-stop on the green line. Tickets: Continues through Davis Boston. Performances are and Sat-Sun 12-4. Admission: $2 do- June 26 with perfor- Square in Somerville. Performances Tues-Fri at $8 general, $6 seniors, $5 children. mances Tues-Fri are 8 pm, Sat at 6 pm & 9 pm, nation requested. Tel: 253-4444. at 8 pm, Sat at 2pm & Thur-Fri at 8:15, and Sat at matinees Telephone: 723-2500. 8 pm, and Sun 7:30 &9:45. Thurs at 2 pm and Sun at 3 pm. Tickets: at 2 pm &7 pm. Tickets: Tickets: $8 to $11 ($1.50 $17.50 to $32.50. CLASSICAL MUSIC discount to se- $15.50 to $26.50.Telephone: 426-6912. Telephone: 787-8000. ioors and students). Tel: 628-9575. Three on Technology. new photography Piano soloist Dinah Sah performs works by noted American photographers FILM t&VIDEO by Mozart, Chopin, and Debussy at Shear Madness, the long-running comic Robert Cumming, Lee Friedlander, and 12:30 in the Federal Reserve The Fall of the Houtse of Usher, the murder mystery, continues The Somerville Theatre presents at Marx Bank of world premiere indefinitely at Jan Groover, Kristin Jones and Andrew The BosEon Pops continue performing Boston's auditorium, 600 Atlantic of the Philip Glass/ the Charles Playhouse, 74 Warrenton Brothers triple bill with Duck Soup at Ave- Arthur Yorinks opera based on Ginzel: In Residence, development of a through the end of June in Symphony 5:15 & 10:00, nue, across from South Station in down- Edgar Street, Boston. Performances are Tues- A Day at the Races at Allan Poe's classic American diorama which diagrams the interaction Hall, corner of Huntington and Massa- 6:30, and A Night town Boston. No admission charge. Tele- Gothic tale, Fr: at 8 pm, Sat at 6:30 and 9:30 pro, at the Opera at 8:30. continues through July 10 at the of major weather systems, and Tishan chusetts Avenues, Boston. Conductor Located at 55 Davis Square, phone: 973-3454 or 973-3368. Ameri- Sun at 3 and 7:30 prm. Tickets: $16 and Somerville, can Repertory Theatre, Loeb Drama Hsu, large colorful paintings by the highlights include John Covelli on just by the Davis Square T-stop on the $19. Telephone: 426-6912. June 21, 22, ana Center, 64 Brattle Street. Cambridge. # * * a, Boston-born New York artist, all contin- 23, and Harry Rabino- red line. Tickets: S4.50 (good for triple DANCE Performances are Tues-Sat at 8 pm, Sun r -. -. - . 6 ue through June 26 at the MIT List Visu- witz on June 24, 25 and 26. Perfor- bill). Telephone: 625-1081., Silent Snow Secret Snow, Conrad at 7 pm,_and matinees Sat-Sun at 2 pm. * * * CRITIC'S CHOICE r . al Arts Center, Wiesner Building E15, 20 mances are Tues-Sat at 8:00, Sun at 7:30. Aiken's famous short story about a boy's Tickets: S13 to'$26. Tel: 547-8300. 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, John Ford's Ames Street. Gallerv hours are Mon-Fri Tickets: $9 to $26. Telephone: 266-1492. struggle with schizophrenia, opens today exquisitely grisly, depraved version of 12-6, Sat-Sun 1-5. No admission charge. -1 as a presentation of What Cheer Theatre Forbidden Broadway 1988, the latest up- Romeo and Juhet where the two lov- Telephone: 253-4400 or 253-4680. * * * CRITIC'S CHOICE * * * at the Performance Place, 277 Broadway, dated version of Gerard A!essandrini's ers are brother and sister, continues Concerts at the Hatch Shell continue POPULAR MUSIC Somerville. Continues through July 3 Earth, Sea and Sky, etchings musical comedy revue. continues indefi- through July 17 at the American Rep- and draw- through the summer on the Charles The Pogues, with with performances Thur-Sat at 8 pm. ertory lngs of Charles H. Woodbury, guest Luka Bloom, nitely at the Terrace Room, Boston Park Theatre, Loeb Drama Center, MIT Class River Esplanade, Boston. Jazz perform at the Orpheum Tickets: $6. Telephone: 623-5510. 64 Brattle of 1886, continues through Theatre, Ham- Plaza Hotal. Performances are Tues-Fri Street, Cambridge. Perfor- October 2 at Brunch on Sundays, International ilton Place, Boston. Tickets: mances the MIT Museum, N52-2nd $16 and FILM & VIDEO at 8 pm, Sat at 7 pm & 10 pm, and Sun are Tues-Sat at 8 pm, Sun at floot, 265 Dance and Music on Mondays, Coun- $17. Telephone: 492-1900 or 787-8000. 7 pm, and matines Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge. Gal- at 3 pm &6 pm. Tickets: $16 to $22 50. Sat-Sun at 2 pm. try Music on Tuesdays, Oldies on . _ * * * CRITIC'S CHOICE*** Tickets: $13 to $26. Tei: 547-8300. lery hours are Tues-Fri 9-5 and Sat-Sun Telephone: 357-8384. Wednesdays, Swing on Thursdays, The Brattle Theatre continues its 12-4. Telephone: 253-4444. Friday Flicks on Fridays, Classical * '* CRITIC'S CHOICE * * * The Semifinals of the WBCN Rock Thursday series of World Cinema Steaming, Nell Dunn's Music on Saturdays. Upcoming events with a witty and reveal- Virginia, Edna O'Brien's piay about Vlr- Microscopes, 50 and Roll Rumble ends tonight at Luis Bunuel double bill, Los ng story of a fight to color photographs made include Memphis Rockabilly and The Olvidados save an old bath- ginia Woolf continues through June 25 with macro and micro 8 pm with perfoimances by Plate O' 01950, Mexico) at 5:15 & house from lenses through H:gh Tops on Tuesday, June 21 at 8:00 and LAge d'Or (1930, demolition, continues as a presentation of the Nora Theatre electronic microscropes, Shrimp, Bullet La Volta, Heretix, and France) at through June 26 at the New Ehrlich The- continues 8:00. Against All Odds on Wednes- 4:00. 6:45, & 9:35. Company at the Lyric Stage, 54 Charles through September at the Compton The Lemonheads at the Metro, 15 Located at 40 atre, 539 Tremont Street, Boston. Per- Gal- day, June 22 at 8:00, and "Raiders of Brattle Street in Harvard Square. Street, Boston Performances are Thur- lery, between lobbies 10 and 13, t Lansdowne Street, just across from formances are Thur-Fri at 8.00, lust off the Lost Ark" on Friday, June 24 a Tickets: $4.75 general, $3 seniors and Sat at Sat at 8 pm. Tickets. $10 to $13. Tele- the infinite corridor. Gallery hours the entrance to the bleachers at Fen- 5.00 & 8:30, and Sun at 2:00. Tickets: are 8:30. No admission charge. Tele- children (good for double bill). Tele- phone: 742-8703 weekdays 9-5. Telephone: 253-4444. phone: 727-52'5. way Park [see article this issue]. Tele- S10 to $!5 Telephone: a-82-63!6. phone: 262-2424. a- . .. - ph?'e: 876-6837.

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Although the book cannot avoid not sure I could explain exactly what Pro- there is no concise "handle" on the experi- SEARCH FOR THE ONCOGENE choppiness as chapters cut back and forth fessor Robert A. Weinberg '64 discovered; ment, as there is in Invisible Frontiers By Natalie Angler. between coasts, author Hall evokes memo- there is no concise "handle" on the experi- when a Genentech scientist says, "We had Foreword by Lewis Thomas. rable characters, like David Goeddel, who ment, as there is in Invisible Frontiers added to the genetic load using off-the- Houghton Mifflin, 394pp. $19.95. joined Genentech at 26 and climbed when a Genentech scientist says, "We had shelf components." This is not the book to mountains as obsessively as he cloned added to the genetic load using off-the- read if you know nothing about the field, QUARANTINE genes. shelf components." This is not the book to but it does have something to offer to the By Josh Webster. There are moments of triumph, pres- read if you know nothing about the field, interested reader who is willing to spend Worldwide, 384pp. $3.95. sure, and tragedy, as when the Harvard but it does have something to offer to the some time mulling over how postdoes and group is forced to go to England for a lab- interested reader who is willing to spend students and professors think and feel By KATIE SCHWARZ oratory which permits its experiments, some time mulling over how postdoes and about science and each other day to day. HE LAST TWO DECADES, develop- then finds its samples are accidentally con- students and professors think and feel ment of tools to cut, paste, and taminated. The researchers keep their about science and each other day to day. F YOU FACE A BORING PLANE TRIP, you edit sequences of DNA creates ir- sense of humor (sometimes black) with a Even though the journalists don't seem can check out the penetration of ge- resistible opportunities to learn clandestinely xeroxed sheet of lab gossip to have a gut feeling for what drives scien- netic engineering into popular cul- - and raises questions of public safety and satire called the 'Midnight Hustler." tists - the absorption in puzzles and the ture with Quarantine, a paperback Natural Obsessions doesn't 'tell such a that the public is ill prepared to address. craving for answers - they are good at horror novel suitable for reading in air- Fortunately for the layman, the "new jour- tight, fast-moving story, since it covers sev- portraying the political and economic ports and throwing away after the trip. nalism" of science and technology has now eral different breakthroughs concerning backdrop to scientific advances. Hall The plot could not be more hackneyed, reached biology. A writer of this genre fol- human oncogenes and how they act. The clearly explains that the cloning of insulin but the scientific scenario is well done, lows a research team through a project, writing draws attention to itself and to the was not driven by medical need, but by with plenty of buzzwords like P3 protocols "almost like an anthropologist attached to author, even recounting her frustration scientific curiosity and the profit motive of and immunofluorescent assays. The CIA when she couldn't understand what a re- a remote tribe" (in the words of Lewis pharmaceutical companies. He also gives a may really be interested in souped-up vi- Thomas), and emerges with a narrative of searcher was talking about. Angier clearly balanced account of a scandal at UCSF, ruses like the ones in this book; anything a human endeavors similar to The Soul of a wrote it this way on purpose - the style is when researchers covered up their use of a novelist can think of, military strategists New Machine. consistent - but I don't think it was the technique that had not yet been formally can. That's why the public needs to be in- Invisble Fronti&rs, the tale of the first right choice. Near the beginning there is approved by the National Institutes of formed about this technology that is mak- artificial expression of a human gene - an over-elaborate, unconvincing descrip- Health, and concludes that scientists' re- ing the biology you learned in high school the insulin gene - is an exciting story tion of how beautiful DNA is as it aggluti- luctance to follow rules in good faith and obsolete. about science, scientists and the political and economic contexts of research. Natu- Cartoon characters are surprisingly adult when off the screen ral Obsessions, about the discovery in an MIT lab of malfunctioning genes in hu- (Continued from page 8) department, but much of the credit goes to are cameo appearances by several famous man cancers, is not as much fun to read, world of the Toons, where everything is actor Bob Hoskins as Eddie Valiant for Disney characters - Jiminy Cricket is of- with a less clearly defined scientific prob- animated. One classic mishap Eddie liter- turning the technology into fantasy. Hos- ten seen strolling by in the background. lem and a slower pace. Instead of the race ally falls into is running out of a door, kins was filmed interacting with dead air Director Robert Zemeckis and Touchstone for a particular prize, it seeks to record only to discover that there is no floor. Pictures were able to use the wealth of the interpersonal chemistry that drives a that later would be filled by artists' hands Looking down the many stories to the with cartoon co-stars. Hie gives a magical characters created in the parent company lab group. ground, he is suspended for a moment, Walt Disney Studios. As the studio head Making a coherent narrative out of real performance that makes the audience be- falls many feet, and finally manages to lieve in the world of the film. put it at the beginning of the movie, "I science is difficult because of the shifting ,managed to get the cast of Dumbo and cast of characters as postdoes and students catch himself on a flagpole. His wild, Every aspect of Who Framed Roger flailing limbs are a convincing imitation of Rabbit is well done and entertaining. The half the cast of Fantasia for a month." Ev- come and go, and because orftie... touous, the much-seen cartoon original. score, written by Alan Silvestri (who also ery contribution to ...e ii..... su.cc. :1- trial-and-error nature of biology. Invisible The special effects were adeptly handled making it an entertaining tale of comedy, Frontiers uses the rivalry between Harvard wrote the score to Back to the Future) in- by Lucasfilm's Industrial Light and Magic cludes several great jazz segments. There mystery, and murder, POPULAR MUSIC, ETC. JAZZ MUSIC At the Brattie Theatre: Nashville (Robert ., , - 'i Jethro Tull performs at Great Woods, Altman, 1975) on Wednesday, June 29 at . .. CRITIC'S CHOICE .. * 4:00 & 7:00; Jean Cocteau's Beauty and ...CRITIC'S CHOICE,0 . [ Routes 140 and 495, Mansfield. Tickets: On Thursday, June 30 The Herb $14.50 to $19.50. Telephone: 339-2333. the Beast (France, 1946) on Thursday, On Friday, July 80Oroette Coleman[ POPULAR MUSIC, ETC. FILM & VIDEO Pomeroy Band performs as part of June 30 at 4:15 & 7:55; Jean Cocteau's and Prime Time perform at 7:30 at[ The Mighty Lemon Drops perform at the the "Concerts in the Courtyard" se- Orpheus (France, 1949} on Thursday, the Barklee Performance Center, 136[ , .* CRITIC'S CHOICE , , ,] . . .kCRITIC'S CHOICE .. ries at 7:30 at the Museum of Fine June 30 at 6:05 & 9:45. Located at 40 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston. 'rick- Paradise, 967 Commonwealth Avenue, The Harvard Film Archive begins its Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Bos- ets: $15 and $17.50. Tel: 266-7455. Boston. Telephone: 254-2052. The Who's bassist, John Entwistle, Brattle Street in Harvard Square. Tick- performs at the Channel, 25 Neeco Monday/Wednesday series Classics of ton. Tickets: $8 general, $6.50 MFA ets: $4.75 general, $3 seniors and chil- Street, near South Station in down- World Cinema with D. W. Griffith's members, seniors, and students. Tele- dren (good for double bills). Telephone: Treat Her Right performs at Johnny D's, PERFORMANCE ART town Boston. Tickets: $8.50 advance/ Intolerance (1916), starring Miriam phone: 267-9300 ext. 306. 876-6837. 17 Holland Street, Davis Square, just by $9.50 at the doer. Tel: 451-1905. Cooper, Mae Marsh, and Lillian . . . Friday, July 8 to Sunday, July 10 Sub- the Davis Square T-stop on the red line Gish, at 7:30. Located at the Carpen- merge. an installation, sound and move- in Somerville. Telephone: 776-9667. ter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 * * * CRITIC'S CHOICE * * * ment piece by Mary Fleming about the ocean and our relationship to this envi- JAZZ MUSIC Quincy Street, in Harvard Square. On Friday, July I Dizzy Gillespie, Butthole Surfers perform in an 18 + age. Admission: $3 general, $2 seniors and J]ames Moody, Paquito d'Rivera, ronment, is presented at 8 pm at Mobi- show at the Channel, 25 Neeco Street, . . . CRITIC'S CHOICE * * POPULAR MUSIC, ETC. us, 354 Congress Street. near South Sta- The third annual Great Woods Jazz children. Telephone: 495-4700. Slide Hampton, Sam Rivers, Jon Fad- near South Station in downtown Boston. dis, Monty Alexander, and others At Great Woods: Earth, Wind &Fire on tion in downtown Boston. Admission: Tickets: $7.50 advance/J8.50 at the and Blues Festival continues today at Thursday, July 7; Manhattan Transfer $5. Telephone: 542-7416. 4pm with Carlos Santana, Wayne perform at 8 pm at Symphony Hall, door. Telephone: 451-1905. The Brattie Theatre continues its Mon- corner of Huntington and Massachu- on Friday, July 8; Alabama on Monday, Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Michael day series of Film Noir with a James July !I1. Located at Routes 140 and 495, FILM St VIDEO Peter Ostroushko (of Prairie Home Brecker, Chick Corea, and others. setts Avenues, Boston. Tickets: $13.50 tagnay double bill, While Heat (Raoul to $22.50. Telephone: 876-7777. Mansfield. Tickets: $14.50 to $26. Tele- From the MIT Lectures Series Commit- Companion fame) and The Mando Boys Located at Great Woods, Mansfield, Walsh, 1949) at 3:45 & 7:50 and Kiss To- phone: 339-2333. tee: a Clint Eastwood double bill with perform as part of the "Concerts in the MA. Tickets: $15, $20, and $22.50. morrow Goodbye (Gordon Douglas, Tightrope at 7:00 &The Eiger Sanction Courtyard' series at 6 pm at the Muse- Telephone: 339-2333. 1950) at 5:50 & 10:00. Located at 40 CLASSICAL MUSIC At 'he Paradise: Camper van Beethoven at 9:15 on Friday, July 8 in 10-250; The um of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave- Brattle Street in Harvard Square. Tick- At Tanglewood: Beaux Arts Trio on on Thursday, July 7; The Mekons on Fri- Man in the While Suit, starring Sir Alec nue, Boston. Tickets: $8 general, $6.50 CLASSICAL MUSIC ets: $4.75 general, $3 seniors and chil- Thursday, June 30 at 8:30; Celebration day, July 8. Located at 967 Common- Guiness, at 8:00 on Saturday, July 9 in MFA members, seniors, and students, $2 The Boston Symphony Chamber Players dren (good for double bill). Telephone: of the 50th Anniversary of the Music wealth Avenue, Boston. Teh 254-2052. 10-250. Admission: $1.50. Telephone: children 12 and under. Tel: 267-9300 876-6837. Shed at Tanglewood on Friday, July i at 225-9179. . . . . ext. 306. perform an All-Shubert Program at 8:30 in the Tanglewood Theatre, West Street, 9:00; Boston Symphony Orchestra con- On Thursday, July 7 The Swans with At the Somerville Theatre: Blade Runner Lenox, MA. Also presented Sunday, certs Saturday, July 2 at 8:30, Sunday, Think Tree perform at Axis, 13 Lans- on Thursday, July 7 at 5:30 &9:45; Blue * . CRITIC'S CHOICE a* * June26. Tickets: $12, $15, and $17. July 3 at 2:30, and Monday, July 4 at downe Street, just across from the en- Velvet on Friday, July 8 at 7:45; The Big Shadowfax, with guest Dan Siegel, Telephone: 413-637-1940. 8:30. Located at Tanglewood, West trance to the bleachers at Fenway Park. Easy on Friday, July 8 at 5:30 & 10:00; performs at 7:30 at the Barklee Per- Street, Lenox, MA. Tickets: $8 to $52. 'Telephone: 262-2437. Beetlejuice on Saturday, July 9 at 1:45, FILM & VIDEO Telephone: 413-637-1940. formance Center, 136 Massachusetts FILM & VIDEO 4:45, & 8:15; On The Waterfront on Avenue, Boston. Telephone: 491-1900 The Brattie Theatre continues its Tues- FILM & VIDEO On Thursday, July 7 Sammy Price and Sunday, July t0 and Monday, July II1 at or 497-1118. The MIT Lecture Series Committee pre- day series of The Films of Ingmar Berg- Friends perform as part of the 'Concerts 7:30; The Wild One on Sunday, July 10 At the Somerville Theatre: Good Morn- sents Alfred Hitchcock's Saboteur at man with Autumn Sonata (1978) at 3:30 in the Courtyard' series at 7:30 at the and Monday, July I I at 5:50 &9:30. Lo- 8 pm in 10-250. Admission: $1.50. Tele- & 7:55 and The Magc Flute (1974) at ing Vietnam on Friday, July I at 3:40 & Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington cated at 55 Davis Square. Somerville, phone: 225-9179. 5:20 & 9:50. Located at 40 Braitle Street 8:00; Diner on Friday, July I at 5:40 & Avenue, Boston. Tickets: $8 general, just by the Davis Square T-stop on the in Harvard Square. Tickets: $4.75 gener- 10:15; Jean de Floretie on Saturday, $6.50 MFA members, seniors, and stu- red line. Tickets: $4.50(good for double The Brattie Theatre continues its Friday/ al, $3seniors and children (good for July 2 at 3:30 &8:00; The Philadelphia dents. Telephone: 267-9300 ext. 306. bills). Telephone: 625-1081. Saturday film series Hollywood BC (be- double bill). Telephone: 876-6837. Story on Sunday, July 3 and Monday, POPULAR MUSIC, ETC. fore the code) with Ernst Lubitsch's July 4 at 3:45 &7:45; The Awful Truth On Friday, July 8 The Meat Puppets per- At the Harvard Film Archive: Fritz The Beach Boys, perennial summer fa- Trouble in Paradise (1932) at 4:00 &7:45 on Sunday, July 3 and Monday, July 4 at form at the Channel, 25 Neeco Street. Lang's Metropolis (Germany, 1926) on vorites, perform at 7 pm at Tanglewood, and Murder at the Vanities (Mitchell Lei- 1:45, 5:40, &9:30; The WannSee Confer- near South Station in downtown Boston. Wednesday, July 6 at 8:30; Theme (Gleb West Street, Lenox, MA. Tickets: $16.50 sen, 1934) at 2:10, 5:45, &9:30. Located ence on Tuesday, July 5 and Wednesday. Telephone: 451-1905. Panfilov, USSR, 1979) on Thursday, and $20. Telephone: 413-637-1600. at 40 Brattle Street in Harvard Square. July 6 at 5:45, 7:30, & 9:15. Located at July 7 at 8:30 and on Tuesday, July 12 at Tickets: $4.75 general, $3 seniors and 55 Davis Square, Somerville, just by the CLASSICAL MUSIC 8:30; A Funny Thing Happened on the JAZZ MUSIC children (good for double bill). Tele- POPULAR MUSIC, ETC. Davis Square T-stop on the red line. At Tanglewood: Vetrmeer String Quartet Way to the Forum (Richard Lester, 1966) The third annual Great Woods Jazz and phone: 876-6837. On Wednesday, June 29 The Fools per- Tickets: $4.50 (good for double bills). on Thursday, July 7 at 8:30; Bost-on on Friday, July 8 at 8:30; Sergei Eisen- Blues Festival begins today with perfor- form at Johnny D's, 17 Holland Street, Telephone: 625-1081. Symphony Orchestra concerts, Friday, Leto's Strike (USSR, 1924) on Monday, mances by Ronnie Earl & Jerry Portnoy Davis Square, just by the Davis Square July 8 at 9:00 (Seiji Ozawa) and Satur- July l I at 8:30. Located at the Carpenter and the Broadcasters, Papa John T-stop on the red line in Somerville. e .*CRITIC'SCHOICE*** day, July 9 at 8:30 (Yuri Ternirkanov); Center for the Visuai Arts, 24 Quincy Creach, Roy Buchanan, Buckwheat Telephone: 776-9667. At the Harvard Film Archive: The liSO and Tanglewood Festival Chorus on Street, in Harvard Square. Admission: Zydeco, and Fats Domino at 4 pm at Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Sunday, July t0 at 2:30. Located at $3 general, $2 seniors and children. Tele- Great Woods, Mansfield, MA. Tickets: On Thursday, June 30 Underworld per- Wiene, Germany, 1919) on Wednes- Tanglewood, West Street, Lenox, MA. phone: 495--4700. $15, $20, and $22.50. Tel: 339-2333. POPULAR MUSIC, ETC. forms at Axis, 13 Lansdowne Street, day, June 29 at 8:30; Charlie Chap- Tickets: $6.50 to $44. Tel: 413-637-194.. Graham Parker performs at the Para- across from the entrance to the bleachers lin's The Cure (1916) and Buster Kea- On Friday, July 8 the French Library in FILM & VIDEO dise, 967 Commonwealth Avenue, Bos- at Fenway Park. Telephone: 262-2437. ton's Sherlock Jr. (1924) on Friday, THEATER Boston continues i's weekly film series The MIT Lecture Series Committee pre- ton. Telephone: 254-2.52. July I at 8:30; The Burglar (Valeri Jean Renoir in the Thirties with La r~gle On Friday, July I !ebbie Gibson per- Ogorodnikov, USSR, 1987) on Thurs- * *- CRITIC'S CHOICE * . . sents Body Double at 7:00 & Dressed to JAZZ MUSIC On Thursday, July 7 Much Ado du jeu (Rules of the Game, 1939) at forms at the Worcester Centrum. Tick- day, June 30 at 7:00 and on Tuesday, 8 pro. Also presented Saturday, July 9 Kill at 9:15 in 10-250. Admission: $1.50 About Nothing, one of William ets: $17.50. Telephone: 787~8888. July 5 at 8:30. Located at the Carpen- ard Sunday, July 10. Located at 53 Marl- (good for the double bill). Telephone: , , ~ CRITIC'S CHOICE r r * Shake eare's most popular comedies, 225-9179. The third annual Great Woods Jazz ter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 borough Street, near the Arlington On Saturday, July 2 Jimre} Cliff per- Quincy Street, in Harvard Square. opens as a presentation of Ulysses and Blues Festival concludes tonight Productions at the Alley Theatre, T-stop on the green line. Tickets: $3.50 The Brattie Theatre continues its Friday/ at 7 pm with performances by AI Jar- forms at 6 pm on the Boston Common, Admission: $3 general, $2 seniors and general, $2.50 Library members. Tele- Saturday film series Hollywoodl BC (be- children. Telephone: 495-4700. 1253 (ambridge Street, Cambridge. phone: 266-435 I. reau and Harry Connick, Jr. Located Tremont Street, Boston. Tickets: $14 to Continues through August 6 with per- fore the code) with Ernst Lubitsch's at Great Woods, Mansfield, MA. $21. Telephone: 426-6666 or 787%8000. Trouble in Paradise (1932) at 4:30 &7:45 formates Thur-Sat at 8 pm. Tickets: Tickets: $14.50, $16.50, and $18.50. On Friday, Jul; I 'the*French Library in $10 general, $8 seniors and students. and Employees Entrance (Roy Del Ruth, On Monday, July 4 The Mr. T Experi- Telephone: 339-2333. Boston continues its weekly film series Telephone: 491-8166. 1933) at 6:15 &9:30. Located at 40 Brat- ence, with Jon von Zelowitz '83. per- Jean Renoir in the Thirties with ILabite fie Street in Harvard Square. Tickets: FILM Sit VIDEO forms at Senior House. Tel: 253-3191. humnine (The Human Beast, 1938), star- George Thorogood at Great Woods on $4.75 general, $3 seniors and children ring Jean Gabin and Simone Simon, at DANCE July 15. Timbuk 3 at the Paradise on (good for double bill). Tel: 876-6837. . . . CRITIC'S CHOICE · . . At Great Woods: Satm Kinison on Thurs- 8 pro. Also presented Saturday, July 2 July 15. Nina Hagen at the Channel on day, June 30; Jimmy Buffett and Little * * * CRIT'C'S CHOICE * * * The Brattie Theatre continues its Sun- and Sunday, July 3. Located aE53 Marl- Wednesday, July 6 to Wednesday, July 16. James Taylor at Great Woods on .* * CRITIC'S CHOICE.. ** day film series Hollywwod through Feat on Friday, July 1; Bob Dylan and borough Street, near the Arlington July 18 and 19. [ggy Pop at the Channel The Alarm on Saturday, July 2. Located July 13 The Boston Ballet performs The French Library in Boston contin- the 60's with an Audrey Hepburn T-stop on the green line. Tickets: $3.50 on the Boston Common, Tremont on July 19. 10,000 Maniacs at Great ues its weekly film series Jean Renoir double bill, Charade (Stanley Donen. at Routes 140 and 495, Mansfield. Tick- general, $2.50 Library members. Tele- Woods on July 23. Squeeze at Great ets: $14.50 to $26. Telephone: 339-2333. Street, Boston. Tickets: $20. Tele- in the Thirties with La grande illusion 1963), also starring Cary Grant, at phone: 266-4351. phone: 787-8000. Woods on July 26. O Positive at the Par- (1937), starring Jean Gabin and Erich 3:30 & 7:55 and Love in the After- adise on July 28. Crosby, Stills & Nash von Stroheim, at 8 pm. Also present- noon (Billy Wilder, 1957), also star- At the Paradise: Unnatural Ax, Digney Saturday, July 2 to ~on~ay, July 4 The at Great Woods on August I and 2. Hot ed Sunday, June 26. Located at 53 ring Gary Cooper, at 5:35 &9:55. Lo- Fignus, and Gear on Wednesday, Computer Animation Show is presented Thursday, July 7 to Saturday, July 9 Tuns at the Channel on August 6. INXS Marlborough Street, near the Arling- cated at 40 Brattle Street in Harvard June 29; Wire and Band of Susans on continuously 11 am-5 pin at the Com- Donald Byrd/The Group perform at at Great Woods on August 9 and 10. puter Museum, Museum Wart, 300 Con- ton T-stop on the green line. Tickets: Square. Tickets: $4.75 general, $3 se- Thursday, June 30, Located at 967 Corn- 8 pm at the Agassiz Theater, Radcliffe Emanuel Ax and To-To Ma at Tangle- gress Street, Boston. Admission: $4.50 $3.50 general, $2.50 Library mem- niors and children (good for double monwealth Avenue, Boston. Telephone: Yard, Cambridge. Tickets: $8 and $10. wood on August 17. Sting at Great general. $3.50 seniors and students. Tele- [bars. Telephone: 2,6-4351. Iult[.). a,.l,,,.-i. r, .. 254-2052. Telephone: 495-5535. Woods on August 17 and 18. phone: 423-6758. _B~~ PAGE 12 The Tech TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1988 praaPPlarsars a IC - -·-sarr- rrsr---_---------l - -------r ------ --Lslre I------aes - -- a---drr------I I -- I - -- - I ------Y ------;-- -- ;------A R T S - ---- I- -- _ __ __ , -- - IPl -iC· ; --- I-·- -Y I -- , ----C-·b-l--=·- -·I -PI -_ --· C -·-- I ---c----Aa _) Lk d·LF) __ C4C a -·IP-- --LC - s Hard-edged bands are favorites WB VCN R-umble WBCN ROCK AND ROLL RUMBLE Rumble (best exemplified by 1987 semi- ishing a close seco nd to eventtual winners The Incredible Casuals followed with Preliminaries, at the Paradise. finalists Treat Her Right), the reggae/ska Dogzilla. their more poppish music. With smooth guitar lines and sweet vocals, they proved Monday, June 13 to Saturday, June 18. scene - almost non-existant last year - Tuesday - -Rumble D:ay 2 had a strong showing with Plate O' to be exactly as their name suggests: laid By PETER DUNN Shrimp and Bim Skala Bim. Punk and back without too much of a hard edge. thrash also had a strong late-week showing The set picked up toward the end, showing UNKETTES in stark black garb and with NVeutrall Nation, Lemonheads, and X strong songwriting, and the Casuals' shock white frocks; yuppies in Bullet La Volta. As expected, the Boston OS - proved not too pop to turn off the judges pleated pants and ironed dress favoritism toward grungy garage rock, and the Boston audience. shirts; metal groupies in fishnet dark/brooding music, and hard-edged/ The straight-forward synth-pop of Great stockings, tight minidresses, and even frenetic slashing, and dislike of posturing, e Divide followed in the same vein, but tighter tanktops; college students in jeans repetitive loudness and sugar-coated pop, numbing the audience with much less cre- and T-shirts; skinheads in torn clothing; played heavily on the judging. Speed, fun, f" ativeness. Weak guitar lines tried to back ...... aus rtr' Jtwlik.o i1 t a i'lL ies. _ I Ii~~uuurrl 1 I., VO II 3UIL and musical innovation won out on most _Pt the lead vocalist, whose voice did not soar This is the Rumble, where fashion and nights, even over the more polished acts. _ enough to support the songs. Consistent, musical styles run the full spectrum. _w:: annoying feedback problems didn't help In Boston, the beginning of the summer Monday - Rumble Day 1 much either. is not heralded by either the NBA finals or With the mercury pushing into the up- Neutral Nation finished the night, the Stanley Cup. At least, not on the mu- per '90s and the Paradise climate control shocking the audience out of its compla- sic scene. In Boston, the early weeks of on the fritz, Dogzilla, clearly the band cency with their driving hardcore. Loud, June find fans of local music flocking to a that everyone had come to see, gave the Tribe wall-of-sound guitars, machine gun fire competition of a totally different nature: fans no relief as they ramrodded through a The high energy Plate O' Shrimp started drums, and a cocky lead singer with the WBCN Rock and Roll Rumble. With scorching set. The controlled mayhem led off the second night of the Rumble with bleached hair combined for the appropri- the radio station celebrating its 20th anni- by charismatic lead vocalist Sean Brann their very danceable reggae and ska mix. ately electrifying effect. Unfortunately, ap- versary as one of the most progressive disk ranged from hard-edged funk to thrash With the Paradise air conditioning finally athy had already set in, the crowd only spinners in the country, this 10th version and was simply too much fun to not want operational, the jam-packed crowd had no slam danced sporadically when they could of the Rumble continues to reaffirm to dance to. Dogzilla was a hard act to qualms in bopping and swaying to the mu- garner the energy, and Neutral Nation 'BCN's commitment to new, cutting edge, follow. sic. Bouncing all over the stage, and only came off as a mediocre hardcore music. backed by a sexy and staccato sax, Plate band. The Incredible Casuals took the eve- This year's preliminaries of the Rumble easily had the audience in their groove ning with a sound more appropriate to the once again changed location: originally at with a straight-ahead sound. "lay back and lie in the heat" weather. the Rat in Kenmore Square, and later The Matweeds followed with driving, moved to Spit, all the noise finally settled borderline hardcore. The vocal harmonies this year into the Paradise. The Paradise were off, and the guitar lines often repeti- does offer a clear sound, a better view tive, but this party band's set built from a (barring the famous pole obstructing stage slow tempo to a fuller, faster sound. Still, center), and a wide viewing space. But the they did not draw the crowd into their mu- nightclub's atmosphere - with its neon sic as had Plate. palm-poles, mirrored wall, and tropical In yet another musical style, Tribe took bars - does little to convey the dark, the stage with their slow, steady, moody, basement ambience of the Rat and Spit more introspective music. Vocalist Janet that is almost synonymous with Boston La Valley, in black garb and closely rock. cropped, raven hair, mesmerized the audi- Moreover, the Paradise sports a relative- ence with her quirky, coquettish manners. ly cold and uncaring management. Its lo- Dogzilla Backed by deep, dirgelike drums, Tribe's cation at the far western end of Boston Raindogs followed with a less sharp but stark music built to a wonderful crescen- University on Commonwealth Avenue deeper, fuller sound - more straight- do, easily drawing the audience into the makes it a particularly inconvenient for ahead rock with a southern twang. Johnny mood. The Incredible Casuals MIT and other local college students (as Cunningham's violin nicely filled out the This night of wildly varying musical weii as other fans of local music) who are higher end of the Raindogs' music, and styles ended on the quirkiest yet: Think Thursday - Rumble Day 4 more accustomed to the plethora of clubs the set built to a faster, harder climax. But Tree's electronic mayhem puzzled and un- easily accessible in nearby Kenmore while the Raindogs showed strong musi- doubtedly disturbed a lot of the audience. The Rumble's fourth night again showed Square. The decision to move the prelimi- cianship, they lacked Dogzifla's exuberant With a wall off electronic equipment some of the variety of the first two nights; naries out of the Kenmore Square area was energy on stage. crowding the stage, Think Tree's biggest Bim Skala Bim was the second reggae/ska not a wise one. When Citizenz, the only true metal band problem was the heat: despite several fans band of the contest. Sporting a jazzier, The inconvenience of traveling to and of the Rumble, took the stage, everybody to aid cooling, the electronic drums only nore pumped-up, brassier sound than from the Paradise was more than made up went outside to get a breather from the operated sporadically, forcing drummer Plate O' Shrimp, Bim again had hips by the quality of bands at this year's Rum- heat. Citizenz' heavy-handed, bassy, hol- Jeff Biegert to "sing" the drums. Despite swaying and swirling early on in the eve- ble: Steve Strick, Albert O., and the rest low sound and repetitive power chords the electronic wizardry and rebellious ning. Give-and-go vocals between vocalists of the rock fanatics at 'BCN have done a didn't seem to interest anyone but the stance, Think Tree's air seemed more Dan Vitale and diminutive Jackie Starr in- great job of culling the best of the local press and judges who were obliged to lis- childishly aggressive than ingenious, giving terplayed nicely with the choppy rhythms. scene. The contest's format remains un- ten to it. the night's laurels to the more intelligent The Slaves followed as a loud, fast pow- changed from past years: 24 bands (four Unfortunately, most of the crowd that music of Tribe and opening up a wild-card er trio with a sound a la early Led Zep. bands per night for six nights) vie for eight stepped outside for Citizenz decided not to position to Plate O' Shrimp. Though this music doesn't usually fare positions in the semifinals (one winner come back in for the last set, and, in the well on the Boston scene, the underlying Wednesday - Rumble Day 3 from each night and two wild-cards). Four wee hours of Tuesday morning, they rhythms hooked the audience and bands perform on each of the two nights missed the revved-up, folk slant of the The third day of the Rumble proved the wouldn't let go. Underneath the barrage of of the semifinals with the two winners Dharma Bums. The pared-down trio got most conventional and had the least inven- loudness lay enough intelligent music to moving on to the finals. the remaining crowd grooving to their tiveness of any of the first three nights. garner plenty of brownie points. Last week's blistering heat spilled onto mellower tunes, taking their numerous Forever 19 began with their direct guitar 1*4.5's plain, unadulterated garage the stage with searing sets every night of technical difficulties in humorous stride. rock. Though they showed hard-edged rock, filled with plenty of posing and re- the week. While this year's lineup saw less Despite the small crowd, the Dharma drive, they also showed too little variety petitive guitarwork, made their set mostly of the bluesy/rootsy sound of last year's Bums gained many new followers in fin- and too little energy on stage. (Please turn to page 10) Travelling North rises above the tide of typical summer features TRAVELLING NORTH ger generation as portrayed here, making Written by David Williamson. their scenes a purposeless waste of screen Directed by Carl Schultz. time. . ..z. I) Starring Leo McKern, Julia Blake, I0." I* True to the title of the film, Frances and Graham Kennedy, and Henri Szeps. Frank eventually travel to northern Aus- At the Nickelodeon Cinema. tralia to retire in a scenic paradise. Their hopes for a secluded life are shattered By ROB MARTELLO t'w·F when they meet Freddie (Graham Kenne- dy), a comical epitome of the "nosy neigh- ISING ABOVE THE TIDE of typical bor" (but who has a likeable sensitive side summer features with their often -·.·-as well). In a similar vein, the town doctor predictable plots is Travelling I Saul (Henri Szeps) is unprofessional and North, an Australian comedy- stubborn, but cares sincerely for his pa- drama written by David Williamson (Gal- :·c· tients. Freddie and Saul's complex charac- lipoli and The Year of Living Dangerous- ters contribute much to the story and de- ly). Carl Schultz, whose work was also "·; velop fully by the end of the film. seen in Careful He Might Hear You and Even though Travelling North started The Seventh Sign, cleverly directs the trials out as a play, it has been adapted to the and rewards of a retired engineer passing large screen perfectly. The Australian scen- through the "autumn of his life." The in- ery is a definite asset to the film and is teresting plot is strengthened by strong used to highlight the difference between acting and brilliant camerawork, with a and wildly unstable behavior ranging from obvious that she is the perfect counterpart the suburbs and the country. The camera few exceptions. sentimentality to vengefulness, it is hard to Frank. She is friendly, gentle, and sup- movement is so graceful and the settings Aging engineer Frank is played by Leo not to identify with his plight - that of a portive, even when he is blunt, uncaring, are so carefully arranged that it is nearly McKern (A Man For All Seasons, Lady- person who is desparately clutching at a and scared. Frances' role is not solely a impossible to remember that you are hawke, and The Omen). McKern domi- chance for lasting happiness. Frank's cyni- supporting one - she has needs of her watching a film. nates the action from the very first scene cal and insightful sense of humor is often own and must cope with her family's dis- Although the realism is occasionally car- with his flawless performance. His por- used to mask his inner feelings; about his approval of the relationship. ried too far (long sequences of fishing trayal of the whole spectrum of human hearing aid, he complains "It amplifies, The high quality of acting takes a dive shots have miraculously survived the cut emotions is so realistic as to be almost but it has no clarity." when Frances' daughters and their hus- of the editors,) patient tolerance of these frightening. The object of Frank's affections is bands are introduced - it is fortunate for drawn out scenes will be rewarded in the Even though Frank has an unconven- Frances, a younger woman played by Julia the film that they don't have major roles. long run. The rest of the film is very en- tional background,. inflexible opinions, Blake. As the plot develops, it becomes It is impossible to identify with the youn- joyable.