served notice of his suit a scant two weeks frustrating situation to be in. before the one-year limit was up. "People should realise, not only does The implications can be staggering. this go on for a long time," says Smyth, With similar laws, nobody writing in the "but it also becomes more expensive as it public forum of letters to the editor or goes on-besides the psychological drain. commentaries coin be sure a contentious "Nobody who gets involved in a libel letter won't cost them thousands in suit comes off cheaply. It just is a very lawyers' fees. To an individual, the costs of expensive procedure." successfully defending a libel suit can be Anybody wondering how all these Jibe,\ more financially deadly than losing a cases can get to court and why people are $100,000 settlement is to a newspaper. A worried if they are right, can take cold guilty verdict would almost ensure comfort in the following fact. The truth, or bankruptcy. "fair comment", isn't always an effective This leaves the floodgates open for the defence in Canada, as Max Allen found out use of libel as ~. •nge. When a plaintiff in 1977 when an expose he produced on the financially outweighs the defendant and Canada Metal Company cost the CBC can afford to dump money into a trial they thousands despite the accuracy of its know is likely to fail , the resulting claims. Under Canadian laws, it seems it's harassment can be very cost-effective. But not enough to be accurate; the truth of an this isn't exactly news to professional article's statements has to be either well no LOnGER journalists. known to the public or explicitly proven FOR ALMOST TWO YEARS, DONNA SMYTH WAS SILENCED, "Libel proceedings are a form of within the article to prevent a suit sticking. but now she has a story to tell. intimidation," said Max Allen, CBS Ideas Many times, what's "proven" or not is an producer, in a magazine article. When area grey enough to land a writer in court. working on As It Happens, Allen fell Her story is about many things. It is about a citizen speaking out for a victim to a controversial lawsuit. "They're The Setting not out to collect a lot of money, and smart cause and facing bankrupcy as a result. It is about two professors, The road both to and from this trial nearly as opposite as it is possible to be in their lives and beliefs. It is journalists view them as such." This reality has raised many social stops at the small village of Ellershouse, about the Canadian nuclear industry and Canadian libel laws. And it activists' fears about the dangers of daring Hams County, Nova Scotia. Near the even has a happy ending ... so far. to speak out against individuals or University town of Wolfville where Smyth companies with vast legal resources to bear teaches English, Ellershouse is on the edge against them. "There's been a general of the Annapolis Valley and some of the worry about what yqu can say,'' says Susan richest farmland in Canada. Around the village, the land becomes too hilly for large Holtz, an employee at Halifax's Ecology Action Centre. "We've been trying to win a scale farming, but the moist, fertile nature place at the tab e of expertise, and when of the land sb.a.w.s through the lushly green smudges of terrain seen from the train ride n January 18, four men and you see the gains you've made be being The Legalities m. three women walked into a right, eroded by fear of speaking out, it's Halifax courtroom after five What sets this case apart from any other really disappointing." The view passing from Halifax to hours of deliberation and read squabble between two Canadians The fear also has tremendous potential Ellershouse has a lot to say, more than most train trips. As the two-car VIA their verdict. With broad grins conducted through the legal system? Just to affect news coverage-and news express clacks through the surrounding on some of their faces, they this; instead of charging both Smyth and blackouts. "Obviously media people can't marched through the varieties of libel in the newspaper, which distributed over afford to cover issues they'll have to worry area, hill and dale are plainly visible, but Canada, through every possible way dam 100,000 copies of what he called a about law suits with," says Holtz. She saw so are the objects which connect them like ages could have been awarded, and one by "diatribe" and a "smear", Yaffe singled the beginnings of this when she became a nervous system-the lakes, marshes and one found Acadia University professor out Smyth in his suit, cuuing her off from involved with the Nuclear Critics' Defence rivers running through the land. As the Donna Smyth not guilty. As her friends sharing a defence and legal costs with the Fund, a group raising money for Smyth onrushing window exposes lakes rimmed with marshes and streams winding down and supporters released their pent-upemo much greater resources of the newspaper. and monitoring other potential cases. the middle of valleys they carved out over tions into the thickly wooden chamber, the It was possibly the first time in Canada a "When we had a press conference on the the centuries, it's clear how interconnected little publicized case of Yaffe vs Smyth writer had been sued without also naming formation of the fund, it was reported to the area really is. It's something the people came to a close. the publication which printed the me that the CBC had their short piece on it Sitting in her small home in allegedly libellous article, paragraph, or checked over by media lawyers," she says. who live there can't forget. So when they caught wind that several companies were Ellershouse, Nova Scotia, Donna Smyth word. One specific example of a blackout exploring the area with an eye toward acts most unlike a llictor in a nasty legal The reasons a libel suit usually includes occurred when Southam news columnist battle. The jubilation in her voice is both author and publisher haven't Allan Fotheringham was sued by the then setting up a uranium mining operation, the locals, including Donna Smyth, were measured, the release tempered by hard changed much over the years. While the powerful liberal advisor Jim Coutts. lessons learned during her judicial ordeal. writer creates the supposedly libellous Under his lawyers' advice, the name of concerned ... to put it lightly. While the very mention of the words "For once," she says with a wan smile, "I wording, the nature of libel is that it is Coutts did not appear in a Fotheringham guess we can say thank heaven for small damaging words distributed to and read by column until Coutts ran in a Toronto by URANIUM and RADIATION is enough to make most people nervous, there are victories." If the victory is small, it is others. Without the publishing and election. because the case is far from closed for her. distribution, no real harm can be said to He printed nothing for the same reason reasons aplenty for such fears. Despite her legal innocence and the have occurred. Also, in most cases, Donna Smyth was unable to publicly One person who knows this well is jury's instruction of McGill Chemistry publicatons have a greater ability to comment on her suit for two full years Gordon Edwards, President of the professor Leo Yaffe to pay her court costs, actually pay damages than an individual. before it came to court-under Canadian Canadian Coalition for Nuclear she still awaits a legal bill of As a result, grouping the two together libel law, comments made after a legal writ Responsibility and professor of approximately $20,000 above what court always made sense. is issued can be used against the defendant Mathematics and Science at Montreal's costs will cover. She spent two years with The dangers arise when Canadian laws to increase a settlement or as proof of guilt. Vanier College. Edwards has spent a good the loss of all she owns hanging on the protect the media companies better than This informal, inescapable gag rule deal of his life researching the nuclear cycle jury's verdict. And all for writing a the individuals who write in them. The frustrated Smyth when interviewed before and serving as a paid consultant on commentary in the Feb. 15, 1982 Halifax Nova Scotia Defamation Act is such an the trial. government commissions. And when he Chronicle-Herald criticizing a pro-nuclear elf8mple, placing a three-month statute of "I really am deeply angry," she said, examines uranium mining, he sees a energy speech given by Yaffe in Wolfville, limitations on serving notice to tapping her foot as if impatient. "I can't nightmare of environmental dangers N.S. weeks earlier. publishers, while allowing a year for the directly express my feelings about what is almost everywhere he looks. "The main impact is the large amount The offending sentence: "He is only one litigation-minded to sue authors not happening to me because it could lead to of many 'experts' the nuclear industry will employed by the publisher. Yaffe's lawyers aggravation of damages. It's a very of nuclear waste," says Edwards. As mines parade in front of us in their desperate cntd. on page 6 attempt to sell 'nuclear' to Nova Scotia." WHAT YOUR BEST FRIEND CAN'T TELL YOU...... what it's like, personally and professionally, to be a medical social worker, an occupational therapist, a television reporter, an Nova Scotian economist, an architect, a chemist, a librarian, etc., etc., etc. Come and ask about our MENTORS AND MODELS program and find out how you may be able to talk with someone about the samplers are a realities of their career. record for all time Counselling and Psychological Services 4th Floor By MARGO GEE Anges Catherine Borcham chose :.·===-w;;:w""" ~*»!>: - w. • ~ -... =«::..®W-=-=···:ww.;w: to stitch this poem, probably her Student Union Building "A RECORD FOR TIME", own creation: currently on view at the Art Sweet it is to see a child Gallery of Nova Scotia, is a bright Tender merciful and new addition to Nova Scotia folk mild art, genealogy, history and Every ready to perform culture. Acts of kindness to a The exhibition features worm embroidered samplers, memo The samplers in the exhibition rials, and decorated family were obtained by contacting records created by early Nova museums and galleries , Scotia settlers between 1775 and advertising in local magazines THE GOOD LIFE: 1900. Through motifs, verse, and and newspapers, and from word family trees, they contribute to of mouth. Many arrived in a state our understanding of life in the of disrepair. Through the expert LIVING IS MORE THAN MAKING ONE province during that time. treatment of conservator, Laurie The exhibition was conceived Hamilton, they were restored and and curated by Deborah Young, all were given a dose of travelling exhibitions curator at "preventive conservation" to with Dr. Stephen Olford the gallery. ensure they will continue to "The idea was sparked by the provide a record for future acquisition of the Frances Adelia generations. Green Room, Tuesday, March 26, 12:30 Purdy memorial in 1982," she Along with Hamilton, Young said. Young, also a professional credits two others for . their Sponsored by Dal Christian Fellowship calligrapher, was intrigued by the devotion of time and energy to the beautiful hand-drawn letters and exhibition. Dianne O'Neill thought the memorials would be provided invaluable assistance in an important contribution to the research. As a needlework expert, folk art of the province. she identified the various stitches As it turned out, many more used. She and volunteer research embroidered samplers turned up assistant Susan Foshay also spent "'MASK' IS GENUINELY MOVING:' than hand-drawn records. Young hours uncovering genealogies to - David Ansen. NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE had hoped to find a distinctive accompany each item in the Nova Scotia style but, after many show. months of gathering samplers An extensive tour is planned and researching their origins, this for "A Record For Time". It will did not happen. travel to other galleries in the "There is a definite blend of province, and then across Canada styles from Europe and the to St. John's, Fort Smith, United States", says Young and, N.W.T., Red Deer, Edmonton, "since they were in a new land, _ and Kitchener/ Waterloo. there seemed to be more freedom A catalogue of the exhibition to embellish, or alter standard will be available shortly and designs and motifs. These designs promises to be an important go beyond a mere recording of contribution to the Nova Scotia stitches." heritage. Financial support has Many of the designs are been provided by the Museum beautiful and highly coloured. Assistance Programme of the Intricate stitching techniques National Museums of Canada. were used to create motifs such as "A Record For Time" will be crowns, anchors, parrots, dogs, on display at the Art Gallery of deer, vines and flowers. Some Nova Scotia, 6152 Coburg Road, girls stitched their homes, until April 28. For those complete with smokey chimneys, interested in learning more about trees and shrubbery. the show, Deborah Young will be Often, they listed a family giving a talk and s l ide record on the samplers or a presentation March 21 at 8:00pm simple verse. In 1825, at age nine, _in the main gallery.
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Brandishing a bevy of dire television, The Demonstration of Power. weapons they pursue her, she is captured. "Television tells us who are the aggressors , Ever wily, she coaxes and cajoles. Her pur and who are the victims," he says. "It dem suers, however, are wary-it could be a onstrates who has the power and who must trick. Better not risk it. The battle con aquiese to that power. Both roles are there tinues. She scores a few hits against her to be learned by young viewers. In generat white-clad opponents, but inevitably ing among the many a fear of the power of righteousness prevails. The last one to hit the few, television violence may achieve its the dust, she confirms her own flaw of M ROE. :.. : •',• greatest effect." character and cause. Brutalized and h umil iated she lies inert. Justice has been done. But in spite of such overwhelming Though the scene is worthy of a gladi IN THE LIVING ROOM results, the networks have instituted few torial match in the reign of Nero, the set or no program changes. ting is far from Roman. This savagery has It would appear that we are drowning our youngsters While much of the research on the topic taken place in my living room. It is 10:00 of television violence has been American in on Saturday morning and it's the Kid in television violence. The grandchildren of the kids origin, this is not a problem that Canadi Video Show. ans can ignore. It is a Canadian television My expressions of shock and outrage at who used to weep because the little matchgirl froze to network, CTV-a private, commercial this display, however, have not been shared death, now feel cheated if she isn't drugged, raped, enterprise scrambling to meet the desires of by my 10-year-old viewing companion. ordinary people-that has been cited by "This is stupid," she says, "on He Man and and disembowelled. UNESCO as being the most violent of 30 the Masters of the Universe they would TV networks around the word. have used their lazer swords and destroyed BY ERIN S T EU TER Indeed most networks have denied that a her-that would have been awesome." valid cause-effect relationship has been It would appear that we are drowning 'Entertainment' of this type is standard reluctantly brought home his poor report established between televised violence and our youngsters in television violence. The not only in cartoon programming. Rather card and then proposed one way of getting aggression. And to support their position grandchildren of the kids who used to it is graphically paralled during evening at the heart of the matter; they could give they've called upon a school of theory that weep because the little match girl froze to prime-time shows such as Matt Houston, the teacher a box of poisoned chocolates challenges all findings to the contrary. death, now feel cheated if she isn't The Fall Guy and· the ever popular A for Christmas. "It's easy, Dad, they did it This school tends to argue that televi drugged, raped, and disembowelled. Team. on television last night. A man wanted to sion is a neutral force, that children who Recent surveys estimate that a child born The impact that such programs have on kill his wife, so he gave her candy with are more irresponsibly inclined, who have today will by the age of 18, have spent more a child's social development has be~n the poison in it and she didn't know." a need to express violence, will use the time watching TV than in any other single subject of considerable research by the soci Notes psychologist Albert Bandura in a television to discharge their aggressive activity but sleep. By that age the average ological and psychological community. 1981 interview with Centre Magazine, "I feelings. child will have witnessed 13,400 televised "When our kids see that the battered don't think anyone will deny that people "I think more children have had night killings. What are and what will be the hero triumphs over evil by subduing the who observe forty different ways of killing mares from fairy tales read to them than effects of this continuous exposure? bad guy in the end, they learn that to be people have learned forty different ways of from television shows they've watched," The question is not a new one. It has able to hit hard and to strike terror into the killing someone. Television is an elec notes Ronald Milavsky, who reports that been posed repeatedly since the advent of hearts of one's opponents is a virtue," tronic Pied Piper leading our children into his study found no evidence that television TV sets as a common fixture in the home. writes psychologist George Gerbner in his a sea of undesirable and harmful influen violence was causally linked to the later Indeed the best documented facta bout tele book, Growing Up With Television. ces. The effects are evident in both children development of aggressive behaviour vision is that it is violent. "Killing is depicted as the ultimate mea and adults." patterns. Violence occurs in 84.7 per cent of all sure of man," he says, "and loss of life or Another focus of the research appears to He adds, "Kids have a whole series of television shows. With eight out of every limb is the price of weakness or sin in the prove that children who are heavy TV defenses to protect themselves from various ten programs and six out of every ten major symbolic shorthand of ritual drama." watchers can become 'habituated' or things. For example, a child watches a hor characters involved in violence, there are Gerbner is one of many social scientists 'desensitized' to violence in the real world. ror show and is going to be scared. But still approximately 7'1 episodes of violence who believe that television teaches aggres Writes psychiatrist Frederic S. Wenham he differentiates these TV characters from broadcast into our livingrooms every hour. sive behaviour; that it is a school for in his book, School for Violence, "Our real-life people. He already knows that tel The prime time for killing is the Child violence. children are becoming passively jaded. As evision has a long history of lying to him ren's Hour-10:30 to 12:30 on Saturday It is a philosophy which purports that a a kind of self protection they develop thick and is not presenting him with accurate mornings. In that period there is a killing constant diet of violence on television skins to avoid being upset by the gougings, facts." every 11 minutes and an act of violence encourages violent forms of behaviour, smashings and stompings they see on TV. But last month the American Psycholog every three. that it has an adverse effect on human char They keep 'cool', distantly unaffected. ical Association urged parents that if they The bulk of violence is committed by acter and attitudes, and fosters moral and Boredom sets in, and the whole cycle starts indeed wanted a better way of life for their non-criminals-otherwise admirable citi social values about violence in daily life over again. Bring on another show with kids they should, 'monitor and control tel zens, who use violence to solve their prob which are unacceptable in a civilized even more bone-crushing and teeth evision viewing by children.' It asked the lems. Far from being depicted as wrong, society. smashing so the viewers will react." television industry to exercise social violence is seen as a great adventure and a It is a conclusion which arises from In addition to these findings there is the responsibility by reducing 'imitable vio sure solution. Where law, justice and arbi analysis of 50 studies covering the behav question of reality. The fact that there are lence in real-life fictional children's pro tration almost never succeed in the world iour of 10,000 children between the ages 3 more people murdered on U.S. televison in gramming.' of television, violence almost inevitably and 19. The research suggests that regard one day than in Canada in one year, reflects These senuments were echoed m a recent works. less of age, sex or social background, the the kind of distortion that is standard in Globe and Mail editorial which stated, Witness the latest episode of the more violence and aggression a youngster televisions portrayals. "Parents should, where possible, monitor Transformers-a Saturday morning car sees on television, the more agressive he is For example, in real life violence most their children's viewing and direct them toon program where cars, planes and guns likely to be in his attitudes and behaviour. often stems from close personal relation away from violent material; but we must transform into robots to do battle with the And it has revealed some disturbing ships, while television violence is usually acknowledge that this is no easy task, when evil Destructa-cons. results. done by strangers. Where the crimes shown such programming is scheduled at all In this episode the Destructa-cons are on television almost always involve vio hours of the day and television signals • the majority of young viewers who watch bent on expanding their territory and it is lence, real life crimes most often involve pour into the house like tapwater. The a lot of television agree that it is 'almost the robots' mission to stop them. Nary a money or property with no violence at all. buck passes back to those producers and always alright' to hit someone 'if you are Where approximately one-fifth of the programmers who prepare for children thought to negotiation, their robot leader mad at them for a good reason.' intones, "Men, they've got to be charcters in television drama are law offic material which is unsuitable for children extinguished-permanently." Amid the • observation of children who watched a ers who act violently in about two-thirds of and broadcast shows glorying in force and devastation and violence the rhetoric film of a bobo doll being attacked by a live their appearances, police in the every day brutality in the daylight hours. They are abounds. "O.K. men, the whole universe model or a cartoon character, revealed that world rarely, if ever, even draw their guns. the ones whose sense and ethical respon depends on us. When we're done with in the majority of instances when the But who really believes this? siblity is missing." them, they're going to wish they'd never ' children were given the opportunity LO Children do. With evidence that children as young as been born. Are you with me or do I take play with other toys or with a bobo doll, Not only do young children learn about six months old are already attentive to tele care of them myself?' Creating a virtual they preferred the latter and tended to the outside world primarily through tele vision, it appears that parents need to rec storm of mushroom-shaped douds the imitate the aggressive behaviour they had vision, but it would appear that children ognize TV as more than an extraneous and team enforces their territorial boundaries seen on television. accept as authentic the portrayals they see occasional intruder in their child's lives. using nuclear weapons, heat seeking mis While the research reveals that television on television. The solution does not appear compli siles and the latest lazer technology. Each encourages aggressive behaviour, reality In a survey study submitted to the Onta cated. An immediate and sharp decrease in one a graduate of the 'shoot first, ask ques suggests that it also teaches methods of rio Royal Commission on Violence in the the amount of violence in programs tions later' school of diplomacy, they settle crime and shows the best ways to get away Communications Industry, about half the directed primarily to children, and an the question-forcibly. Aided by their with it. grade ones interviewed said that the people equally enthusiastic effort to increase the young companion, a figure every viewer • A young Oakville youth was arrested on television were like everyday people. number of programs designed to teach pos yearns to identify with, the enemy legions after he mailed letters threatening to kill Some older children also believed that tele itive lessons should do the trick. are vanquished. Held up as the hero of the the wife of a bank president unless he was vision characters and real people were "After all," writes psychologist Robert day, he's given the order's highest praise- paid $5000. At the time of his arrest, he alike most of the time. Even children in Liebert in his study; The Early Wzndow, .. on, you've shown us how tough you are, stated he got his idea from television grades 4 and 5 were uncertain about the "we don't want to take the babysitter away, now we're proud to have you as our shows. reality of what they see on entertainment we just want to stop her from committing friend." e In a Boston suburb, a nine-year-old boy television. murder in the livin oom." E B EAK AST CL B Knights of steel interesting things with their music and saymg important things with their lyrics. Every pure mediocrity once in a while, however, one may get the urge to travel back ~ N~~,,~~w~£kri.~%W®.we> the music of the seventies - the days of Kiss, Tom Petty, and the WELCOME TO RIPPED Osmonds. We no longer have to vinyl on vinyl. Five knights of dig out those dusty old Lp's from steel with scabrous appeal calling our closets. Utopia's new release, themselves Keel sing songs about POV, has all the elements of the copping a feel on their debut LP seventies music. And don't worry The Right to Rock. Pure droning - they haven't added anything hard rock with little instrumental new. talent, ragged vocals and no orig While listening to this album, inality. The songs were mostly one may get the impression that written by the band themselves Utopia does not know exactly and their producer Gene Sim what it wishes to do musically. mons. The lyrics are indistingui The use of synthesizers seems to shable but with song titles like indicate that the group is aware Spe-eed Demon and You're the that it is 1985; the heavy Victtm, I'm the Crime, wanting percussive element in most of the to hear them is debatable. With material gives a hint that the powerful hardcore and metal band would like to rock like some bands like Discharge and Iron of the better metal bands around; Eyelash around, don't bother the extensive use of vocal with this mediocrity. harmonies shows the pop side of the foursome; and the lyrics bounce back and forth from being corn ball to meaningful within the same song. While variety, when intention al, is an admirable quality, when An interview this quality is present with no apparent purpose, it sounds more with a critic like confusion. Perhaps the band cannot decide whether to leave behind the security of the seventies musical formula for the *:ui*l#w}jJ+stE~T possible perils which may await course between AI, a typical them if they attempt a noticeable young university student who change. Whatever the problem, loves music, food, and movies, the middle-of-the-styles style they and his pal, The Music Critic, have chosen does not work. which I recorded live on location There are both good and bad at a local cinema. notables on this album. The two AI: Let's sit here, Critic, old worst songs, Stand for pal. Something and Mystified are Critic: Very well. supreme examples of the AI: Did you bring my popcorn? confusion the band seems to be Critic: I did. Here you are. experiencing. The former track AI: Gee, thanks. The movie's seems to want to say something starting ... Hey, I know that song. but finally reduces itself to the Critic: And you should, dear lines We are fighting and friend. That is the latest single dancing in the street. The latter from Simple Minds, entitled, song opens with Todd Rungren Don't you (Forget About Me), singing in a quasi-B.B. King currently receiving heavy airplay manner that unintentionally on FM and AM radio stations begins the tune with a good across the country. laugh. AI: Uh, yeah. It's a good song. soundtrack was composed and The production skills of Critic: I shall concur with you produced by act pop-producer Rungren and Willie Wilcox are on that statement, mon ami. This Keith Forsey, whose credits apparent in Secret Society song may lack the booming per include production work of Billy which, although shaky lyrically, cussion and dense production of Idol, Nina Hagen, Donna indeed be fine singers, but with AI: Yeah, I guess you're right. is clean and polished musically. previous efforts from the band, Summer and the Psychedelic music that sounds like Twenty The music does kind of stink. The best cut on the album is but it is extremely melodic and Furs. With this solo effort, one Minute Workout rejects, their tal Critic: Well, thank you for your More Light which is, works quite well when consider receives the impression that For ents are laid to waste. It simply opinion, wrong though it was. hopefully, an example of what ing it within a pop framework. sey should stay behind the board. sounds all to familiar. AI: No problem. the next Utopia album will be The song is performed in an AI: I think you should have AI: Look, bud, I've been listen Critic: Well, that solves that. like. In this song, the vocal exuberant, sincere fashion, and is stayed home. ing to your pseudo-intellectual "I harmonies are used sparingly and definitely one of the better songs Critic: The sou,ndtrack album know music inside and out" rap are therefore more powerful; the on radio these days. It also speaks includes performances of Forsey's for over twenty minutes now, and END OF TAPE beat of the song changes; the use well for Simple Minds, who, with songs by Wang Chung, Karla I'm getting good and sore! First of of a synthesizer adds to the strong this effort, have proven their ver DeVito, Elizabeth Daily, Jesse all, this music is not supposed to percussive unit and the lyrics are satility as a pop band and have Johnson, Joyce Kennedy, and, of be an awesome collection of art strong. disproved the accusation that course, Simple Minds. However, it's a movie soundtrack! More Light is the last song they are merely a producer's with the exception of the Simple Critic: True, but I've heard on the album. It tells of facing band. Ah, but this is not a Simple Minds track, the songs are some extraordinary soundtracks obsolescence. Perhaps this is Minds Review. techno-pop formula trash. For in my day, such as Cat People, Utopia's worry- they have been AI: Review? What review? And sey's songs are to blame for the Apocalypse Now, and, most around for a time. If they can why are you talking into that tape most part-despite Daily's ener recently, Pat Metheney's beauti progress further with the change recorder? getic vocal on Wailing the song ful soundtrack for The Falcon Utopia not that is present in More Light Angry Movie Buff: Will you still contains nothing that will and the Snowman. Just because however, perhaps they will grow guys shut up? I can't hear the stick with the average consumer. the music is played in a movie, it utopian vision into the eighties while still movie. Melodically, the tunes are does not mean that people aren't retaining that which has made Critic: As I have previously extremely weak. Instrumentally, listening. And when this music is them unique and musically stated, Don't you (Forget About most of the songs plod along like released on an album, then it By JANICE WALSH relevant through the years. As j~)';l!iii!'d'~''':-:~·'''•··;;;,,,,,,,,,, •. :iiil''·:~····,,:;:'''··~ ...... m/!1 Me) is exuberant, vibrant, and a tired burros, perhaps due to the must be judged as such; a collec their last song positively states, sparkling pop effort. However, presence of over a dozen uninspir tion of songs, not a musical back The 1980's have, thus far, been And if it takes forever we will when it comes to the rest of the ing session players (who are, drop for visual images. When exciting years for most music find our way back to the fire. music from The Breakfast Club incidentally, the whores of the judged on this level, which is the listeners. Bands such as The Judging from the band's past (Original Motion Picture Sound recording industry). Karla only level upon which to judge it, Parrachute Club, Simple Minds, musical successes, it certainly track), the spark is dead. 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Calendar:~·,x,· ...... The arts in Halifax ABORTION TODAY:
Visual Arts William Shakespeare and friends will be presented in Studio 1 of THE ISSUE IS CHOICE You are invited to make contact the Dal Arts Centre from March with art and technology through 27-30 starting at 8:00p.m. Mati a "hands on" approach at the nees are being held on March 28 Arts and Technology Festival at 1:00 p.m. and March 31 at 2:00 being held March 24-30 at the p.m. Tickets are available from School of Architecture, Techni the Dal Arts Centre Box office. with cal University of Nova Scotia. For more info, call 424-2298. The festival will feature the Inter The New Scotian Playwright's national Mail/Copier Art Exhi Workshop, a series of workshops bition and will encourage the sponsored by the Dramatists' Co public to actively be involved in op from a grant awarded through Dr. Henry the making of video, computer Canada Council Explorations, graphics, electronic music, and will begin the week of March 18. copy art. There will be an open The first play to be workshopped ing party on March 24 from 2:00- is Andrew by Sean Corbett. The Morgentaler 5:30. Performances will begin at second play, One In A Million by 8:00 p.m. and there will be daily T.H. Hatte, will be workshopped workshops. the week of the 25th. Knock, The Centre for Art Tapes is Knock, Who's The~. by Kim 8:00pm presenting the 1985 Art by Gay berly Challis, will begin its week Men Show now until March 29 . of workshop on April I. Robert The long-term goals of the show Mariner's The Ground He Tuesday, March 26 are to foster a community of dia Walked On will be the last play logue of Atlantic gay male artists and will be workshopped the and to establish a cultural voice week of April 22. The public is Mcinnes Room for the broader gay male com in vi ted to attend these workshops munity in the region. The show and the staged reading of each Dal SUB will feature the photography, play on the Saturday afternoon at audio, video, found objects and the end of each week of work texts, sculpture and painting of shop. More Info: Paul MacLeod, six gay male artists from the 423-8116. Atlantic region. For more infor mation, call 429-7299. PERFORMANCE Two exhibitions, A Record For Time and Folk Art are running The Black Cultural Centre wi11 Students $4.00 General Public $8.00 now until April 28 at the Art be presenting a workshop and fes Gallery of Nova Scotia. A Record tival entitled Youth in Arts and For Time, which is showing in Culture from April ll to 13. the Main Gallery and the Mezza Activities during the festival will nine gallery, is an exhibition of be based on drama, music, dance, also ... family records and decorated and some fashion. A guest samplers crafted in Nova Scotia speaker from South Africa will prior to 1900. In the Second Floor talk about the African tradition of Gallery, Folk Art will present the percussion. For more informa "memory pictures" of eight Nova tion, please call 434-6223. Holly Dale Scotians and four artists from New Three magical nights of enter Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario. tainment will take place at the Marine, landscape and genre sub Rebecca Cohn Auditorium on award winning maker of jects will be featured. For more April 18, 19, and 20 during the information, call 424-7542. Let's Carpet the Cohn series. The Nova Scotia Photo Denis Ryan will act as host each "Hookers on Davie" grapher's Co-operative is having night. The first night will feature a group photo show entitled Andre Gagnon, dancers from Les will be at Dal Nightworks now until Thursday, Grand Ballets Canadiens and the April 4. Nigh/works consists of National Ballet, Symphony Nova over 100 black and white and Scotia, and the Dalhousie Wednesday, March 27 colour photographs centered Chamber Choir. The next night, around a theme of 'night photo the Friday night Contemporary graphy'. The show is on display concert will feature Dan Hill, Mcinnes Room at Wormwood's Cinema, the 2nd Murray McLaughlan and Odetta. floor of the Bean Sprout Build Ceilidh Night, on Saturday will ing, and Cafe Prague in the Brew bring together Rita MacNeil, Dal SUB, 7:30 pm ery Complex. Additional info: John Allen Cameron, the fabu Mark Simkins 423"-5847 or 429- lous Doorknobs, segments from The Dalhousie Student Union and the Dalhousie Science Society will present HollY' Dale, Award winning film 8348. the Rise and Follies of Cape maker of "Hookers on Davie", Wednesday, March 27th, at 7:30 p.m., in the Mcinnes Room of the Dalhousie Have you ever wanted to see Breton and the Cape Breton Student Union Building. Admission: $2.00 for students, and $4.00 for general public. What the Butler Saw? Here's your Fiddlers. All proceeds will go Explore the true world of Canadian prostitution with co-director Holly Dale of the film "Hookers On Davie." chance. The Dalhousie Drama towards giving the Cohn a new Vancouver's Davie Street has been called the Prostitution capital of Canada. The film and lecture centre around the Society will be presenting Joe carpet. Tickets are now being Association for the Safety of Prostitutes (and the unionization of prostitution). Her presentation will include the film, Orton's What the Butler Saw · sold for $20 a night. For more question period, and an update on Canadian Prostitution. from March 29-31 in the Mcinnes info: contact Carolyn Dockrill at Room, Dalhousie S.U.B. The 424-3828. For further information, call Ian Smith at 424-3774. two-act comedy will be directed Free Admission and great by Ron Wheatley. Performances entertainment. The Dalhousie will begin at 8:00 pm and those Student Union will present a Students $2.00 General Public $4.00 attending on Friday and Saturday Symphony Nova Scotia "Open nights are in\'ited to come early House" with Shari Lewis and for refreshments. Tickets will be Lampchop Friday, March 22, DaiJazzBand available at the door. 11:30-1:00 p.m. at the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium. Garden Cafeteria, Friday March 29, 12:30 THEATRE CKDU will be presenting the Lone Stars, Ridge of Tears, Dalhousie Theatre Produc Sebastopol, and The Vulgarians tions will be presenting their on Saturday, March 30 in the Fun Fridays with Lambert & James final production of the '84-'85 Garden, Dalhousie S. U.B. season, This Can't Be Love (for Tickets are $4 each and are being no cover merly titled An Elizabethan sold at Backstreet Amusements, Grawood Lounge, Friday March 22, 3 pm Romp). This musical revue by Track Records, and CKDU. 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