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Attempting to set a legal precedent, Sociology countered a great deal of additional expenses graduate student Mario Brajuha is fighting sever- Some aid came from the Graduate Student Or al legal attempts to seize his -esearch notes com- ganization this summer, more may come in th< piled over the last year and a half. The universi- fall, and a fund raising group has formed, but ii ty should provide all possible assistance, because will be very difficult to mc unt an appeal, if the this case brings into question the basic rights of decision, which is expected within a week oi researchers in the social sciences. two, goes against him. Under the direction of his dissertation advisor, Sociology Chairman Norman Goodman has in- Dr. Michael Schwartz, Brajuha was working in troduced a resolution to the University Senate Le Restaurant in Glen Cove as part of his re- that urges that scholars be protected from re- search. The restaurant burned down and fire vealing their notes in the same way that journal- marshall's and the Nassau District Attorney sub- ists currently are. According to Goodman, "I poened Brajuha's notes. can't believe that there will be any serious op- Since then, Brajuha has appeared before a position." The resolution urges the University grand jury three times, and he and his lawyer, to "seek legislative support for this position." Simon Wynn have moved that the subpoeas be But the University may have to do more. If quashed. He has given some oral testimony, but Brujuha loses this case, the University should no one has seen his full notes. consider funding his appeal through the Stony Accorking to Brajuha, "The judge has been Brook Foundation or some other organization I made aware of the consequences that the giving The importance of academic freedom is too im- of the notes would have on me. The breach of portant to be left to chance. my promise of confidentiality would almost cer- tainly prevent me from obtaining another job and would therefore seriously impair my means of livelihood as well as prevent me from comple- ting my research; my reputation as a scholar would also be damaged." This is the final Stony Brook Press of the sum- Brajuha goes on to say, "As far as I'm con- mer session. We would like to thank everyone cerned, I've won the case already, I've gone 4 for their support and we will see you all again months without having to reveal my notes, the first day of school, August 29, 1983. which nobody thought was possible when we started," His lawyer has been working on the

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I· page 2 The Stony Brook Press -Interview, Ron Kovic New writer in residence defines his rolle

ihe have the opportunity to be in film, I'm going to The only Vet speaker who managed to make began to tell us about his upcoming movie debut: do it. himself plainly understood above the chopper I wrote my first theatrical play this spring, noise was an ex-Marine Sergeant from San Diego KOVIC: In October, I'm going to be in a major called "Hurricane Street," which is pretty much named Ron Kovic, who spoke from a wheelchair motion picture. It's being made by the German about a real life event I participated in. In 1974 because his legs are permanently paralyzed. director Vim Wenders, who directed Francis a 17-day hunger strike in Senator Alan directing I would like to have a transcript,or at least a Coppola's "Dashell Hammett". He's Cranston's office, which I was the leader of, be- by tape of what Kovic said that day, because his "Paris, Texas". The screenplay was written came a national story of disabled Vietnam vet- look forward words lashed the crowd like a wire whip. If Sam Shepard and Wenders, and I erans who took over a senator.s office in Cali- Kovic had been allowed to speak from the con- to it. fornia to protest the disgiacaful conditions in vnetion hall podium, in front of network TV PRESS: What's the story about? America's Veteran's Administration hospitals, about a man and his cameras, Nixon wouldn't have had the balls to KOVIC: All I can say is it's and the poor conditions that ve;aans were be- trying to find his wife in show up and accept the nomination. little boy, and they go ing subjected to on their return home from the the desert, and they pick me up. I first heard of Ron Kovic in this passage war. My first scene is where I'm picked up on a from Hunter Thompson's "Fear and Loathing This was when there was a tremendous highway out in the middle of nowhere. Fredrick on the Campaign Trail 1972," as Thompson de- amount of resistance to Vietnam veterans, to Forrest is going to play the father, and he picks scribed the anti-war protests outside the Repub- talking about the Vietnam war. It's become al- me up. I play a Vietnam veteran, in the middle lican Convention. most folklore now, popularized with the of nowhere, not knowing where his life is going, Two weeks ago, Kovic arrived at Stony "Coming Home" movies and the television hitching out on the highway. They take me into Brook to take up the post of Stony Brook's first shows. You know, Tom Selleck has something town. writer-in-residence. about Vietnam every other week on his series, Later I meet them at a barwhere I'm shooting "Born on the Fourth of so it's a different time now. His autobiography, a game of pool, and Fredrick Forrest asks me if permantly para- I'd like to direct that play. July" describes how Kovic was I can help him to get his wife out of some dance d uring fighting in PRESS: Let's go to how you came to be at lyzed from the chestdown joint she's working in, and he asks me if I can Vietnam, and his subsequent championing of Stony Brook. help save her from the bandits that have taken KOVIC: Well, I actually began a vacation, I anti-war, veteran, and handicapped causes. her. At Stony Brook, Kovic will be writing spent this last winter in Santa Cruz, editing my So I go over there and save his wife, and in my three books, the trilogy I've been working on for and lecturing, preparing his three volume last scene I'm popping a wheelie down a hill in "American Elegy" about the Vietnam war the last seven years. It's called "After the War: my wheelchair, with the bouncers of the bar An American Eulogy". I had been living in a ho- and its aftereffects, and completing his next chasing after me. book. tal in Los Angeles for about none months, after That's going to be my first movie. I hope to I'd come back from three months in Europe. As Dave Morrison, John Tymczyszyn, and get into some more acting after that. I've met I sat down with Kovic and his friend Ginny, When I came back, I felt a tremendous amount alot of people in the film industry, and since I of energy, and I felt strong and confident Staying Alive New Dance Movie Stumbles

by Ralph Sevush -Staying Alive is a glossy, superficial j things moving. see Travolta's new body up on the I knew I was going to hate Stay- fantasy that transforms Travolta's Staying Alive, while high on ener- screen. I had hoped that I had be- ing Alive. This may seem like an inarticulate, sensitive Manero into gy, is low on talent. Stallone uses come cynical enough to accept this unprofessional attitude for a film an articulate, insensitive heel claw- fast editing, slow motion and cine- and take it in stride but for some critic to have, but actually it's only ing his way to the top. matic razzle-dazzle to cover up the reason I just can't. unprofessional to admit it. At any Tony has moved from Brooklyn unimaginativeý choreography and After all, this movie is pornogra- rate, as Dr. Hunter S. Thompson to Manhattan, and works as a wait- mediocre dancing skills of his cast. phic. As defined by the supreme observed, "Objective journalism er at night, as a dance instructor by We never actually see anyone court, pornography has no socially is a pompous contradiction in day and hustles for his big chance dance. We see them leap in slow redeeming value, it offends com- terms." on Broadway. motion, then a quick spin, cut to a munity standards and it is obscene. My natural aversion to this film He is involved with a rather sweet move here, a move there. The cam- Like most porno films, Staying Al- was based largely on the fact that it girl, a chorus dancer in a Broadway era never simply allows the dancers ive offers totally uninteresting and was produced, written and directed show. Naturally, he treats her bad- to dance because it knows what it unlikable characters, little in the by Sylvester Stallone- a man whose ly and she takes his abuse until he will see. way of plot, and action that initial- ego is far greater than his talent; falls for the lead dancer of the In All That Jazz, Bob Fosse used ly excites but eventually numbs and I have to admit, though , that I show. She is conceited, arrogant the technique of dance montage bores its audience. was wrong. I didn't hate Staying and rude which indicates that she but he also fused it with his bril- Alive. Hate is much too weak a and Tony would be perfect for each liant, unique choreagraphy and the 1. a -.. word for what I was feeling after other, dancing of such luminaries as Ann enduring the longest 1i hours o.- This love triangle between people Rein King and Ben Vereen. The my life. Words like loathe, detest, we couldn't care less about is sup- breathtaking, surreal images he These and despise come to mind yet fail nosed to provide the background to created cannot be reproduced by a to communicate the entire message. Tony Manero's climb to the top of wily hack like Stallone. While I didn't exactly love the the Dancing World. The movie's "Thrilling Climax" Times original movie, Saturday Night Fe - The dancing is this movie's bit-is the opening night of "Satan's Alley," the Broadway Show in ver, I respected the integrity of the terest disappointment. An inane film. John Travolta gave a super- plot with dull characters and banal which Tony has danced his way to Demand star perfomance as Tony Manero, dialogue can be forgiven in a mus- the lead role. The music, pounding an inarticulate but sensitive kid tVy- ical, if the music and dancing can and repetitous, cumoines perfectly ing to escape the drowning futility make you forget everything else. with the dancing, costumes, and set The of his existance. That movie was a After all, the old MGM musicals design to create the most absurd vi- were gritty, realistic portrayal of a cul- hardly Tenessee Williams, and sion of a Broadway show that could Press ture in a given time and place. the recent film Flashdance is, on be imagined. most counts, a really awful piece Sly Stallone, in an attempt to of It is depressing to think about trash. Yet its dancing is cash in on Fever's success, has man- original, how well this movie's doing. It energetic, and exciting and the mu- seems that the pubescent mall rats ufactured a sequal that scrupulous- sic, while top 40, is fun and keeps are coming out in large numbers to ly avoids the virtues of the original.

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sions on my first tour. A to start being sensitive to people. You PRESS: Are you prepared to do that? enough to put one final push into the trilogy, lems so far. PRESS: So was it just getting hit, or was it sity, and the intensity of people who've gone know, for every one person like myself, who sur- KOVIC: Absolutely. Ask me any question right which had been a difficult project for me, very PRESS: How do you feel? a number of things that changed you? through similar experiences. vives a disability, there are 15 to 20 other people now. What would you ask? painful, mostly dealing with the war, the psy- KOVIC: I've been in a wheelchair 15 years, and KOVIC: There were a number of "pops." A I think the country has to move in a new di- who didn.t survive, who were broken by it. PRESS: About how you lived your personal life, chological impact on myself and my friends, all I've never felt better in my life, with my disabil- series of pops that led to a change. The first rection, away from selfishness and greed and This government is leading us into another getting around, your love life for example. my friends who didn't survive, the yearms after ity, than I do now. I've never felt stronger, I've pop happened before I was even shot, and the away from military adventures in Central Amer- war. KOVIC: It's a very real question. You feel very the war, my parents, the town I came from... never felt more abled and less disabled in my the Captain burned a village with a Zippo one Sica, move away from another war like Vietnam. PRESS: Do you really feel that? vulnerable because you're paralyzed from the PRESS: Haw are the books divided up? life. day, and I wondered what I was doing over We have to learn the lessons of the past, we have I don't feel disabled. KOVIC: Absolutely. chest down. You can't have sex normally, the KOVIC: One of the books is called "Massape- For Christ sake, my there. That was on the first tour. to move toward a more humanistic society, a PRESS: Do you expect a war during this Admin- way that you used to have it, you know. What qua", and it's about the town that I grew up in mind is jumping out of my head, it's leaping of Then when I killed a man that night, when more caring society. istration? are they going to think? Are they going to re- as a boy, it's aboot the neighbors I grew up with, this wheelchair, nothing is going to keep me we shot up the kids, when I got paralyzed, and We want people to know that they really be- KOVIC: Yes. ject me? Is the woman going to want more? Is and a number of them already plan to sue down, it's not going to stop me. when I was in the intensive care wards, and I long, that they count in this society, that they're PRESS: In Central America? she going to go to another man if I can't satisfy (laughter). Alot os people say, just treat the disabled per- saw people who wouldn't ever have their minds not just a bunch of isolated people trying to KOVIC: Yes. her enough? And on and on. Sure, we'll talk I would say it would be comparable to other son just like anybody else, but we're not like again. struggle it out each day and survive. PRESS: How come? about that extensively. I would completely American works, like Edgar Lee Master's anybody else. We have a disability, we've been So then I came home and gradually realized As a survivor of the holocaust of Vietnam, I KOVIC: The provocative nature of our govern- open that up to whatever people wanted to "Spoon River Anthology", his series of stories hurt and I think that you should treat a disabled I was going to have to live with this the rest of feel a definite obligation to my own people to ment which is creating a very dangerous atmos- know. about people in the town of Spoon River. person with sensitivity. I'm not asking for sym- my life. speak honestly and to protect our young people phere in Central America. They're provoking, I'll talk about many things. What was it like The whole trilogy is about the baby-boom pathy, but what I want is for people to know, I Another change, another pop was Hofstra from being subjected to the hell that I went they're setting up similar circumstances to the being an anti-war activist, what was it like going generation, the expectancy our parents had af- want them to know what I've come through and University. I really shied away from the stu- through. Gulf of Tonkin incident. to jail for the first time? What was it like to ter they got out of the service, how people have to deal with for the rest of my life. I want dent protest movement, I thought they were SAll our government seems to be concerned PRESS: Would it be really possible for an Ad- meet Al Pacino for the first time? What was it moved out of the city to the Massapequa's and them to appreciate my struggle and to appreci- crazy. about is making money, but what about the ministration to take this country into another like to speak at the Democratic National Con- Levittowns. ate the struggle of other disabled people. I want The next pop was in California, 1972, when quality of our lives? We can still maintain the was now? vention? Whatever you want. After the sacrifices of World War II it was a them to respect the fact that life may not be two undercover policemen posing as Vietman system that we have but we've got to move away KOVIC: Will this country go to war? Sure. Teaching is just sharing experiences, and if I great ideal for our parents to go out and have easy but we're dealing with it and we're making veterans, who were pushing me in a demonstra- from the way that we're living now. Would the people stand for another? Abso- can do that openly and honestly, I can teach their own dream. something out of it. tion, and they decided to arrest me, they pushed Well I moved back awld forth, Los Angeles, lutely. They supported the hostage crisis, they alot. In no way am I the champ or anything And the dream is not I don't feel par-yzed any more, I'm proud of me out of the wheelchair onto the street, and I only set in the Levit- Santa Cruz, San Francisco, about eighty-seven thpP 1_7rtefi- h esert. Look how right now, in no way am I top of the heap and ' was taken off to jail. town's and Massapequa's, but VietnamAo the way that I d1 •.- -. disabiiity, and I everything is fine. It's still a goddamn fucking times. To make a long story short, I was visi- came up to me struggle for me. I still hurt very much, but it's Seven years later one of them ting people on Long Island and I was going to with tears in his eyes and apologized. By then go back to California, but I had missed my not as bad as before. I've had to deal with alot I was full-steam 5head against the war, and I flight. So I was staying in the Rockville Center because of the war. I killed people there, I was joined the Vietman Veterans against the war, Holiday Inn when I called my cousin Ginny and part of an ambush that shot up a bunch of Viet- marched on Miami. I was dragged out of the sbh invited me for dinner. namese children. I had to pick up a child's foot So I went out for din- Republican Convention by Secret Service men ner, I stayed the night, and then and bandage it back to his leg. I had to pick up I stayed the after disrupting President Nixon's acceptance next the pieces of a friend of mine who had been thirty nights. In that month, Newsday did speech with two other disabled veterans. blown in half by an artillery shell. I can still the article on me, and I got an apartment fifty We got within 100 feet of the President of smell the blood. feet from my cousin. the United States, and you could've heard a pin PRESS: Were you an activist before the war? The following day, Les Paldy saw the story in drop when Nixon started his speech, and we C KOVIC: Never. I war for Barry Goldwater. the paper and called me on the phone and pro- C" started yelling "Stop the bombing, stop the I memorized Douglass MacArthur' "Duty, posed the idea of being the first writer-in-resi- war." Honor, Country" speech with tears in my eyes. dence. We set up a date for lunch. I sat down Four years later, I was to go up on a podi- C I volunteered to go to Vietman twice. I with a bunch of professors and Dean Paldy and I um in Madison Square Garden at the Demo- came back whole from 13 months. I was a accepted. They gave me an office, a desk, and a cratic Convention and nominate a draft-dod- C- war hero. I did some of the most dangerous phone, and unlimited freedom to do what I ger for Vice President. I spoke in front of 40 work in the Vietman war. I did long-range want. So I decided on a structure of two lec- million Americans. It was the greatest moment 0 reconaissance patrols, behind enemy ter- tures a week. They said I could just come down in my life. The next greatest moment will be in N ritory, for four or five days at a time. I went and write if I wanted, but I love people, I love to about six weeks, when I begin teaching. talk, and I've been public speaking for 13 years. on twenty-two long range reconaissance mis- i spoke at the Democratic Convention in 1976. I was thrown out of the Republican Convention in 1972. I debated General Westmoreland on Ron Novic "Good Morning, America". I've been arrested chauvanistic they became during the hostage 15 times, I've had six trials. love the fact that I can drive now, that I can live crisis. They'll send their sons again, they'll let So I felt like I had alot to give, and I wanted by myself, that I can be teaching at a university, them be paralyzed, they'll let 56,000 more to give it. I love the university environment, and that I've been able to write books. American boys die in another war. They'll let it I felt that I could learn alot by being here. In fact, it's true that everybody is only tem- happen again, millions of people will let it hap- The Stony Broomk Press Is I've met a number of students already and porarily able. Everyone's going to grow old, pen again. they're all fascinating, all interesting. They're everybody's going to have a disability, and Why? Because they don't know what war is accepting trainees for staff very learned, they have a very interesting per- everybody's going to experience the ultimate. like, they just see the ads on television. The spective on life. disability of life, and that's death. Vietnam lesson wasn't driven home sure enough and editorial psitions in The last time I was in a university environment PRESS: As regard3 both disabled people and and true enough. for more than a day was when I went to Hofstra. veterans, how is this present government taking PRESS: So has the country learned anything? news, arts, photo and University in 1969-1970, and I missed that. care of them? learned-- and Les Paldy KOVIC: Sure, millions of people PRESS: What are you working on now? KOVIC: The Reagan Administration? Terribly. millions of people didn't learn. Millions of peo- productiom. because the dream wh. co go to Vietnam. That KOVIC: I have to be real careful with this. I The conditions are worse than ever before. ple are ready to allow it to happen again, while baby-boom generation was not just to live here, can't tell you everything but Sunday, I just fin- Handicapped people are under attack, veterans millions of people won't stand for it. You have but they were to go 13,000 miles away to an- ished a book. I sat down and wrote it in about are under attack. The V.A. Hospitals are still in a very polarized situation that's going to devel- other war, and that war was to change them for- three and a half weeks, a two hundred twenty poor condition. The government is shying away op--a Civil War type situation. That's what we're ever. page book. I worked myself until I was exhaus- from further investigations of Agent Orange, headed for. The books are also about courage, about how ted. I don't want to say what it's about, but it's, they don't care. PRESS: Is there any way to change that? even though people are wounded in life, they abtou people I've known and some adventures The Administration in power right now, more KOVIC: Sure. This interview might change it. can keep on living. It's about how my neigh- that I've had. than any other one, cares more about its profits, PRESS: Why don't you explain more about the bors, who never had to go to a war, were also PRESS: So when will the trilogy be published? money, and business interests than any other lecture you will be doing? handicapped by this political and economic sys- KOVIC: I'd like to get it out by July 4, 1984. that I can think of. They're very blatantly self- KOVIC: Well, I'd like to have a lecture about tem we live under, which in many ways worked Viking is interested in it. If not '84, then '85, ish and greedy. disability, what it means to be disabled. I'd like these people to death. but July 4, my birthday. PRESS: They claim that by improving the busi- you to be able to ask me any personal question PRESS: How do you make the system better? PRESS: How accessible have you found Stony ness climate, they can make things better for you might want about disability and I'd like to KOVIC: By writing, by talking, by participatory Brook to be to handicapped people? everybidy. be able to answer it. Any question you may democracy, by not shunning people like myself, KOVIC: Pretty good. I do notice that I've got KOVIC: Talk to the elderly, talk to the handi- have, I'd be willing to answer from my 15 years not pushing them aside because you're afraid of to make a few detours, but I'm really good with capped, talk to the disabled. ,What about things experience in a wheelchair. the truth, afraid of reality, afraid of my intea- a wheelchair. Yiu can get around, no big prob- like LILCO and their 56% cost increase? We've mm jrU|&MWL IA. ULI,9 A. IV<-OO ~~tJ ^illwii cm page 4 The Stony Brook Press, I I · - I Summer Session Activity Board Presents * MON. AUG 15 DRIVE-IN MOVIES Outside Benidict E-Wing. 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16 I page 6 The Stony Brook Presa -IIFilm "K rull" New Film is Less Than Magical

can't really tell what's hap- by Daniel Hank g, but by this point you Space...this is where the bucks care, you just want to are. If not for the fantasy aspect, really and go home. then for the lucratvie poster art. your Jujy Fruits Heroes and villains, action and ad- e detracting features of Krull venture, swords and sorcery, dam- lyriad and appalling. James, sels in distress; the Krull poster puts Tr's score was just like many all of this together quite well. Un- other movie scores, just ex- fortunately, director Peter Yates like them--I'm referring to. has not done quite as successful a n and Star Trek II. The job assembling these elements on possible reason for Homer's film. Yates, who was nominated >f originality was that he just for an Oscar for Breaking Away, want to waste good new has redically departed from quality ial on a schlocky film like filmmaking with Krull. This excuse I can respect. The story begins with the re- zen or so characters wander conciliation of two warring royal gh the movie adorned with jobs and mouth- families by means of an inter- ent makeup poor dialogue. factional marriage. This union oc- incredibly of these lost souls does any- curs so that the families can band together and fight against the evil to enhance the story or even Beast and his army of Slayers. to the fantasy atmosphere; This idea is quickly shot to hell in seem to serve no other pur- the first fifteen minutes as almost than to take up space in order all of the good guys are wiped out t this quantity of celluloid y as a feature film. by the Slavers during the scene- Kr1Iisdeintlya .h.d-eae setting wedding ceremony. This Krull is definitely a child-geared is a predictable result of the first out in a flowing white robe, but has the mountain takes an amazing a- film, but even taking this into aC- battle-and any other battle that no personality at all. The only rea- mount of time in relation to its count I doubt if anyone older than might possibly occur later in the son she drew any charisma points minimal importance. Weapon in a pre-schooler could find any enter- movie, because the good guys at all is that she slightly resembles hand, Colwyn bows to Sword and tainment value in this flick. The are equipped with swords and the one of my favorite poster, uh, Sorcery rote and charges off in only valid ideas displayed have al- bad guys have "blasters." calendar girls. She is merely an ob- search of the princess with a misfit ready been played out in all the The hero is a typically dashing ject for the hero to pursue and res- Sband of escaped convicts. previous Space/Fantasy/SciFi ex- warrior prince named Colwyn cue. The viewers' eyelids flicker lead- travaganzas. Interestingly enough, (Ken Marshall). After being res- Before Colwyn retrieves his enly as the band of rescuers goes the release date for Krull which is cued from the rubble of the des- cess, he has to follow this Obi-wan from one place to another, search- playing at the Loews Triplex in troyed nuptial castle by a reclusive Kenobi rip-off around, learn the ing for a way to pin down the loca- Stony Brook, kept being pushed wizard, Colwyn learns that his bride ways of the universe, and climb this tion of the Beast's castle, which back because the studio was afraid has been taken captive by the enormous mountain to get a magi- 'moves at each sunrise.... The cli- it couldn't compete with the The princess, played by Lysette An- cal weapon that resembles a throw- max has so many special effects other summer fantasies. They did thony, is quite attractive, all decked ing star. The act of trudging up spewing around the screen that n't push it far enough.

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August 154 983 Paige7 -Music Yaz is still riding high on the new wave

by Kathy Esseks In the midst of love and a little * 1* «**- i. _ » -_ _1 .. . ._ 1•^ . _ ...- _1 • imabiity to nma oneseli amia de- While everyone else was out eat- pression and misery ("Anyone") ing pizza, dancing, or getting revol- the antiwar message of "Un- tingly drunk, I was holed up at marked" is a bit of a shock when home with my copy of Yaz' You you're expecting another gentle ex- and Me B3oth spinning epdlessly on pression of grief/loss, and instead the turntable to my complete de- Moyet's throaty yearning vocals light. Last year, after Upstairs at wrap around "There's nothing Eric's debuted Yaz on the Ameri- wrong in dying/ After all, it's just can music scene with Only You and a game...I'm glad 'cos all I wanted/ Situation played out on every rock Was to kill another man." A not- station, horrifying rumors of the so-subtly ironic little song that groups imminent breakup traversed makes you listen again and mark the music industry. Happily for- the thought. Once you catch the fans of white hot funk Alison "Alf" serious note here you can backtrack Moyet and Vince Clarke, a.k.a. and find little snippets of it Yaz, held together long enough to throughout the album--in "Mr. give us this eleven cut aural picnic. Blue": "Patriot emotion is the Clarke guides his synthesizers cause of the commotion...Soldiers through dark, orchestral arrange- taking orders 'cos we must defend ments that insinuate themselves Clarke and Moyet in which perhaps ships, and the moment of truth that' the borders." most pleasantly into your cranium. the best effects are the synth blips comes after you've both said good- One hates to gush emphatically, The melodies, somewhat remini- and Moyet's seductively labored bye are the narrow but universal to- one prefers to hedge with perhaps scent of what might happen if you breathing. "Don't it make you feel pics Moyet murmers about across and maybe and usually, but on sent a video game to school, bubble good? Uhn, uhn..." "Nobody's both sides of the disc. "Softly You and Me Both, Clarke's execu- along fraught with implications as Diary" is a straight forward pop Over" is a subdued lament with a tion on his machines is good driving Moyet's deep, hot-and-cold voice product with can't-you-just-relate- soft, heart beating in the silence funk all of the time and Moyet's all- adds the lyrical info. to-them lyrics--"For the times tune to buoy up the pain. The up- enveloping sound is the essence of The two hot tracks also available we've had I don't want to be a page tempo swing of "Sweet Thing" and soulful delivery. Other than play- on the 12-inch single are "State in your diary, babe... another page "Walk Away From Love" invite ing the entire album at least once a Farm" and "Nobody's Diary," in your history."-the sort of senti- chiming in--if you're alone in the day, all we can do is wait for a tour but unless you're only out for those ments that make breaking up less car, shower, or don't have judgmen- and rush out to get tickets. Al- 'two songs and nothing else in this painful, easier to bear; if she's ta- tal friends. Nice lines about the though I've heard lots of com- world or the next, the whole album: king it this well, stiff upper lip and gritty truth of a broken relation- plaints lately that new music has is worth the effort of scrounging up all that, why, then, so can you. ship: "And you and talk about the fallen into a mire of self imitation, the extra few dollars. "State At first listen, love, mostly lost good times/ I can just remember Yaz' latest offering gives the jaded Farm" is a dub-song cowritten by love, love forsaken, failed relation- bad times." listener a beacon of hope.

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