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BSgeLn PblPIPF B _,--r Ilp I-s 1119111 · 18 1111 11 Co nmittee sends fres women booek I By Annabelle Boyd original idea, as it was done for The Women's Residence/Orien- the incoming freshwomen in the tation Committee will be provid- late 1970s, Armstrong said. How- ing each incoming freshwoman ever, this practice was discontin- with a copy of The New Our ued in the~early 1980s, primarily Bodies, Ourselves compiled by due to lack of funding. Accord- the Boston Women's Health ing to Armstrong, many people Book Collective. The freshwo- - both students and staff - felt men will receive this book when that giving the book to freshwo- they first check into the R/C men was "important," and a center on Thursday, Aug. 31. "good idea," so mounting the funding campaign to reinstate the The New Our Bodies, Our- book as a part of the R/O experi- selves is the updated version of ence was not too difficult. Our Bodies, Ourselves, which Working through the Women's first appeared in 1969, and gener- R/O Committee with Christina ated much discussion on such Boyle '91 and Kelly McDonald women's issues as nutrition, '91, Armstrong raised the funds abortion, violence against wom- necessary to purchase 380 copies en, birth control and sexuality. of the book, one for each in- In addition to the distribution coming freshwoman. If potential of the book, a "book party" will donors were reluctant at first, Ken Church/The Tech be held during orientation week, once they were made aware of the With the completion of the west side of the new Harvard Bridge, demolition began on issues addressed in the book, the east side. The construction should be finished next summer. at which representatives-from the Boston Women's Health Book they became, in most cases, gen- Collective will discuss the book erous and supportive, Armstrong with the in-coming freshwomen. said. Harbisopn vnsl~MacArthur fellowship According to R/O Coordinator According to Debra Armstrong By Irene C. Kuo Harbison hopes to reduce his tistic director of Collage, a new Elizabeth Ling '89, "Even groups - Professor of Music John H. teaching load someday in order '91, a member of the Women's with tight budgets have been music ensemble in Boston. R/O Committee, the committee Harbison, winner of the 1987 Pu- I. to pursue these interests. He giving money, support and litzer Prize for musical calf--:ddicd not do so this fall, when he Harbison plans to conduct hopes that this book will serve encouragement ." not only as a valuable resource tion, received a $305,000t. -;ail tea'h Schubert, to, Mahler cantatas at Emmanuel Church In addition to the book, each for the in-coming freshwomen, ship from the . John D .ant8' 27) and Music Composition until January 1990 and to per- freshwoman will receive, a pam- but also that it will show them Catherine T. MacArthur Founda- 121.6813, because of special ar- form a concert with Collage next phlet reporting the organizations MIT possesses the resources tion on July 17. rangements Boston University February. He said lie hopes to that which donated the money to buy necessary to deal with the special Harbison, who joined the fac- students had made to come to work more closely with people in the books,. and explaining which the MIT performance series when interests and concerns shared by resources each group has to offer- ulty in 1969, is the eighth person MId women. He said he would like to keep they perform the Bach Cantatas to women at MIT. The following afflHiated with.MIT to have won Providing the freshwomen with a fellowshaip.~n~.ehe-ine~-$~ea-nnth his "conrection'" with the Insti- next spring than he has in the groups have contributed to the ,a sopy-of. this-- book is not an program has-existe'd' - tute. f enjoy teaching at MIrT or pastL . project thus far:- the Women's Often called .gefflus grants," I would not be here." -He added -IIIIR~ssllLIIL ~ -- I----~ -rl=- " Studies Program, Lynn Roberson the fellowships were -cr'eated to that, from encounters with recent (Cherney Fund), the Medical D9e- "allow extraordinarily, talented Students, he approved of Admis- Higgins might have headed N ROTC partment, the Literature Section, individuals from all walks.o6f iffe SionS Director Michael C. -Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins, the American hostage be- Gays at MIT, the Ad Hoc Com- to work at their highest.~;a~i~j.nBehnke's skill at "breaking the lieved executed by his pro-Iranian captors in Lebanon, had mittee on Lesbian and Gay Stud- Without interference andes -- 1^ . hoped to come to MIT when his assignment in Lebanon ended. ies, Andrew M. Eisenmann 575 financial constraints," saxd-,Adeil - composer, performe, con- Higgins wanted to head the Naval Reserve Officer Training (the Deann's Office), the Women's Simmnons, foundation presidient. ductor, writer, organizer, and Corps program based at the Institute. Independent Living Group and This year's 29 winners may use promoter of contemporary mu- "I have decided to ask the Marine Corps that I be stationed Associate Provost S. Jay Keyser. their five-year stipends - which sc, " in the words of the awards as the commanding officer to the NROTC at Harvard-MIT in In providing The New Our range between $13Q,000 and announcement, Harbison re- Cambridge," Higgins wrote Suzanne Berger, head of the De- Bodies, Ourselves to this year's-- $350,00 - however they wish. ceived a Guggenheim Fellowship partment of Political Science, in January 1988. The letter was incominrg freshwomen, the Wom- Harbistn said he plans to `use in 1977; has been a resident com- written one month before Higgins was abducted while serving as en's R/O Committee hopes to be- his awarda to write pieces for- poser for the American Academy part of a United Nations peacekeeping force. gin a tradition of purchasing the which he does not have commis- in Rome the Santa Fe Chamber Berger and Higgins met when he was a fellow in 1986-87 at book for the women of each in- sions. "There are works 'that I Festival, the Pittsburgh Sympho- an MIT program in Washington that gives senior military and coming class, Armstrong said. want to do, but no one w ants-me ny Orchestra, and the Los Ange- civilian officials insight into foreign cultures. According to Ling, the distri- to do. The [fellowship] is a real les Philharmonic; performs as a bution of this' book "distin- luxury." jazz pianist; and has been co-ar- guishes the Women's R/O Com- -~~~I ^ e:Sp~Ap~apal a mittee from other groups, and uts~lty resinJents wvarned about roof sets an important example for other groups to follow." By Andrew L. Fish nity and towards its Imembers." trespassing on the roof was in- and Annabelle EBoyd The letter, signed by Senior Staff creased seemingly to add teeth to The 'Qffice of the Dean for Associate for, Residence and the rule. The fine for trespassing Project #Athena -1 Student Affairs increased the -fine ICampus Activities Andrew M. on the Green Building also was for trespassing on the EBexley Eisenmann '75 and Assistant raised to $500 last January be- Hall roof from $50 to $500. The Dean for Student Affairs Steph- cause of persistent trespassing increase, which was revealed yes- anie Harriston-Diggs, concluded problems. grad students terday, was prompted by a June 3 that "Lriven the nature of thi.rin- LI" rVVILLW IeLU4 I 1I, I- hrlyatr h haig nB Annabelle Bsycd incident, in which two.Molotov sident, that responsibility has not Shortly after the hearing or cocktails were thrown from, the beern accepted by the housed" the incident, the Housing Office Graduate students will have Bexley' Hall roof into the alley William Orme-Joby son, Bex- constructed partitions on three of full access to Project Athena in behind the building. ley's housemaster, said a number the four accesses to the Bexley Septenber, according to Project of students were on the roof roof, and put a lockable grating Athena Director Earll M. A letter from the Residence when the incendiaries were on the fourth entry, so workmen Murman. Currently, one-third of and Campus Activities Section of thrown. "It became apparent could still get to the roof, Orme- MIT graduate students have the ODSA said that while sanc- during the heairing that MIT held ~Johnson said. Residents of the Athena accounts. tions bad been imposed on the on the incident that these people house. have since destroyed. the By the end of summer break, student who threw the cocktails, were members of Bexley," he partitions, Johnson said. Project-Athena personnel will "the community of a house bears said. "Bexley will be holding a meet- have deployed approximately 250 Photo courtesy ,MITI News Office some responsibility in establish- Harriston-Diggs said the pitch- ing on Thursday to discuss the new workstations in departmen- Prodessor 'John W. Harbison ing behavior within that commu- ing of the Molotov cocktails off roof and it is very likely that the tal clusters to facilitate the new the roof represented "inappropri- house will be charged a goodly graduate student accounts. As ate and unacceptable behavior" amount of money by the Dean's with undergraduate accounts, "Stud~ents at Bexlc knew the Office," Orme-Johnson said. graduate accounts must, be re- roof wastoff-limits, and someone Some residents were upset that newed every September. Each should have intervened before the roof was blocked off without graduate account will be provid- things went so far." consulting them, Orme-Johnson ed 1.2 megabytes of backedt-up MIT has- longstanding rules added. disk space for personal -files as banning students from the roofs In addition to the $500 fine, well as use of non-backed-up of Institute buildings. But the re- . any student caught on the Bexley space. In addition, a graduate strictions have been loosely en- roof will have "to explain why student may request limited forced, and residents of Bexley- the -privilege of living in MIT amounts cf extra backed up and several other dormitories fre- housing should not be revoked," space. .I-.. quently use their roofs for barbe according to the letter from the Graduate student accounts will cues -.and. -parties.--Tle- fine- ,g)ffi- . . r d (Plea ---. CeeseturnIAn topage 2) 11
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QI=: :~I8~~ ~US, Mexico discuss US, USSR to negotiate grain deal- druas and econ-omics US and Soviet officials will begin negotiations toward a L The drug war and economic issues are among the items new, long-term grain agreement in December. Agriculture- Higgins dead, FBI concludes on the agenda of talks between top US officials, including Secretary Clayton Yeutter explained "it makes sense to ne- The Federal Bureau of Investigation has reportedly con- Secretary of State James A. Baker, and Mexican leaders. gotiate an agreement with the Soviets because they are in cluded. that Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins is dead. A US Officials are giving high marks to President Carlos Sa- need of a stable supply of grain and we have grain to ex- -Pehtagon' official said analysts now believe the body linas de Gortari's new administration for -increased efforts port." He added that a new long-term grain agreement shown hanging from a rope in a videotape released by at fighting drug trafficking. would help stabilize the trading relationship between the Lebanese extremists is. that of Higgins. According to two countries, and "hopefully serve as a mechanism for additional sales." Negotiators failed to reach such an sources, pathologists who examined the tape could not At a Mexico City news conference, Treasury Secretary agreement during efforts last year and instead extended determine how'or when Higgins died. Nicholas Brady also had praise for Salinas' efforts to re- Higgins was abducted in South- Lebanon in 1987 where, organize his country's debts. the 1983 version, which now will run until the end of next he' was in command of :a United Nations peacekeeping: year. force. A week ago the group holding Higgins claimed to have hanged him after Israel .refused to release an abducted Moslem cleric. President Bush remembered Higgins during ceremonies yesterday marking the 200th anniversary of the old War _lI $~thser~ ~ iShuttle launched deemsed liskely Ieatherwise, chances for launching the space shuttleI Department. Bush, his voice choked by emotion, said on time are improving. Forecasters say there is now only a Higgins is a "symbol of courage" for all American slight chance bad weather will delay this morning's launch servicemen. Phone strike affects 15 states of the Columbia and its secret payload. It is thought to be Callers in 15 states seeking operator or directory assis- Britons try out for a spy satellite the five-man crew will launch into orbit. tance are likely to wait longer than usual for service. One- Columbia - NASA's oldest shuttle - is making its first Soviet space program hundred-fifty-seven thousand workers are on strike flight in more than three years. About 150 candidates are still in the running to become against three regional phone companies. The stoppage has Britain's first astronaut. They have started medical testing apparently affected some repairs and installations, as to determine physical and psychological stamina. Finalists well. Heavy business phone use on this first full day of start training this fall at the Soviet Space Training Center the strike has reportedly caused the delays. Informal talks in preparation for a joint mission to the Soviet space are expected soon but no new negotiations have been set ere station Mir. between strikers and management.
Arms talks proceed slowly Congressman's plane missing Round one of the latest round of superpower arms talks Rose asks for court delay A spokeswoman for Democratic Rep. Mickey Leland Attorneys for Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose have in Geneva has ended with both sides expressing disap- (TX) said last night that it is "very premature" at this pointment over lack of agreement. The talks on cutting asked a federal judge to delay a scheduled August 17 point to be worried about his plane missing in Ethiopia. meeting between Rose and baseball commissioner Bart long-range nuclear forces were the first since President The plane carrying Leland and his party failed to arrive at Bush took office. Both sidesagrg. t fulll agreement on Giamatti. Rose's attorney also requested a stay in all fur- a refugee camp near the Sudanese border, and the State ther proceedings in the case pending final word on which a strategic arms reduction tre'aZ fs"I o6n theim'mediate -Department said it is concerned. But the Leland spokes- horizon. court system will oversee the Rose lawsuit against woman said he may have opted to go to a different camp. Giamatti. Rubes' By Leigh Rubin .w . W ~__ Service academies sign .,. Divorcing couple fight ,;: -.-:, :. pact with Liberty Bowl f over fettilized eggs The three military academies yesterday signed a five- The legal battle over the fate of seven fertilized human year contract with the Liberty Bowl that will send one of eggs is under way in a Maryville, TN, courtroom. Mary the schools to the Memphis, TN, game each year. The Sue Davis and husband Junior Lewis Davis are divorcing winner of the Commander in Chief's Trophy - which is after ten years of marriage. The couple took part in an in- awarded annually to Army, Navy, or Air Force - will vitro fertilization program six years ago and Junior is try- earn a spot in the Liberty Bowl. There is a provision ing to keep Mary Sue- from using any of the fertilized eggs which allows the bowl to choose a non-academy team in to become pregnant. the event of poor records for the academies.
Utah to fund cold fusion Red Sox sign right-hander Cold fusion is not getting the cold shoulder in Utah. A Journeyman right-hander 33-year-old Greg Harris was state panel has voted to release $4.5 million to the Univer- signed by the Boston Red Sox yesterday to bolster an in- sity of Utah -for research into the phenomenon. Two jury-riddled pitching staff. Harris, released recently by the chemists at-the school claim they have sustained a fusion Philadelphia Phillies, reported to the Red Sox in time for reaction at room temperature. But the scientific the opener of a three-game series with the Royals in Kan- community has been generally skeptical. sas City last night. Since 1981, Harris has pitched -for the New York Mets, Cincinnrmati, Montreal, San Diego, Texas and Philadelphia. He spent three full seasons with Texas NYC recognizes unmarried couples before dividing the 1988 season between Philadelphia and- the minor leagues. Unmarried -couples, now have official status in New To make room on the 24-player roster for Harris, the York City.- Mayor Edward Koch has declared that city Red Sox originally announced workers who'have lived together at least a year with an- that sore-armed rookie Eric other unmarried adult will be recognized as "domestic Hetzel would go to Pawtucket in the International League. An hour later, though, the Red Sox changed their partners."' That' entitles them to the same bereavement minds and said that Hetzel had been placed on the 21-day leave that married people get. The order includes disabled list, effective August '3. homosexual, heterosexual and non-sexual relationships. Bridge,- on the River Kwai. -- _i- -- ~~~~~~~~-- II . . - --. - --- ." . ..-- ·. . - Translations into your native language Your are needed for industrial literature. You a_ will be well paid to prepare these translations on an occasional basis. (617) 497-5450 foreign TECH Assignments are made according to language your area of technical knowledge. , S?,-RVI.FS, IN(.. We are currently seeking translatorsfor: . 7H"S C'ardlinal Medeiros Avenue C.anbtridge, MA 02141 - IJ ability · Arabic .* Chin0es Danish Dutch Farsi Ffrench * Gernan · Greek HIGH SPEED PHOTOGRAPHY is Italian · Japanese · Korean VIDEO/FILM SERVICE · iNrwegian · Polish · PortJbguese Larry's Chinese Restaurant valuable! · Romaniian Spanish · Swedish and others. 302 Mass. Ave., Cambridge Into-English translations from German and French. Many other languages also LI (next to Father'sFore) available. Luncheon Specials Orders. to go or dining in Foreign language typists also needed. Served daily 11:30 am-5:00 pm Delivery Service AN Ots work can be doneIn your Lunch special prices start-$2.95 Minimum Order $10.00 hone! Linguistic Systems, Inc. is New rInstanlt Data Anralysis for Solz,ikg 1 .1/oDff Dinner England's largest translation agency, High Speed.-Motion Problems : on every- Siturday located a block north of the Central Sq. subway station. • 16mm Film & Processiring .Dining in only • 16mm H.S. Movie Cameras I .:' : ($10/rn1inimum) For application and#test · Rentals - Call, 49263179 or'492-3170 translation call Ms ' . CallGene O'Connellfor nore inifornation· Ltng|ulstic© Systems, !Inc. DePhillips. ; . Mornaday Thursday 11.30 am to-:9:30 pm 1i 6 Bishop Allen Drive ...~~~~~~~~~~~. ~ . - -:Saturday. rday 11:30 am to6 70:00 pm I Cambridge, MA 02139 864-390'b~SI .. :0" 'Cloed.o n Sundae9 4 .__,A_~~~ I I,i I-, _ - -I---- --,_,___ _ -- I----. I -- - -- I ii i m _b ~PAGE 4 The Tech TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1989 --- - -L I - - - I ------optnt~~~~00. on I_ --- 1 ------ A Psl mm-e i 4111 I laaa -, I- ,,,,,,,, i = 1 I
INCOMo &5 Institute should improve access for the'handicapped grating as I carried across the implied that there- were many note: The Tech re- (Editor's cart. trouble. spots to deal with and in- 00 I ceived a copy of this letter to When I returned to work, con- sufficient resources. In the end, President Paul E. Gray '54.) cerned about this problem (and she appreciated. my'concern but Dear President Gray: did not promise-any action. I am a student worker in the the problem of the Sloan en- in the same ga- MIT Libraries Acquisitions De- trance, located I do reaize that the Physical NoX. the ovrnino partmnent. On Thursday, July 20, rage in an area marked "Deliver- Planning Group is willing'to re- I had to deliver a bundle of com- ies here"), I called the search routes for MIT's handi- class oF rants se Office to relate my puter printouts on a handtruck to Information capped students and I am certain vast uealw ensured Dewey Library. I planned on us- frustration. I was transferred to that MIT has a guide to handicap their Mperu statLus ing the handicapped access ramp the Planning Office, where I re- accesses for its students. Howev- -to enter the building, assuming peated my story and was again er, I am concerned that a visitor that it could be easily located. transferred, this-time to the Physical Planning Group. The to our campus* would not. know - - I When I reached the building, where to get that kind of help. however, not only was I unable to woman who took my call was po- Posting signs with arrows and find the ramp, but no one I lite, saying that she was aware of placing a .pathway over gratings asked seemed'to know how to en- the problem. Her office had once researched the access method for would be an inexpensive and ter either. Finally, someone sug- quick way to show guests that I gested my using the ground en- a handicapped student who had to use the library. When I asked MIT believes in equal access to trance on the east side of the all. i ~~~~~CY~ ~~4RP through her why there had not been any building. Upon going Paula Cuccurullo '91 the door, I discovered that I sort of signs posted to help she would have to go down a flight of stairs to reach the elevator. I was forced to leave the cart be- hind and carry the printouts the -- I r, -- C ------. p_ _ ·I I I -- i _ I-----a-----u - -- ra , - rest of the way. Although I was not terribly inconvenienced, I re- alized the difficulty this would pose to a handicapped student. After I left the building (again with the cart) and walked through the parking garage under Sloan and Dewey, I saw what must be the handicapped en- Volume 109, Number 30 Tuesday, August 8, 1989 trance- a set of double doors and ramps hidden behind a tall I Chairman ...... Marie E. V. Coppola '90 concrete slab. Even if I had Editor in Chief ...... Niraj S. Desai '90 known the entrance was located Business Manager ...... Genevieve C. Sparagna '90 in the garage, I would have had a Managing Editor ...... Peter E. Dunn G hard time finding it, never mind I Executive Editor ...... Andrew L. Fish '89 mm reaching it. People in wheelchairs I News Editors ...... Annabelle Boyd '90 cannot carry their chairs across- P9Clll I--·I - p__-_- - l · IIPR-II C. Linda D'Angelo '90 II Irene C. Kuo '90 i ,I : I. . ... Prabhat Mehta '91 WE AT THE NATIONAL -r II Night Editor ...... Josh Hartmann '92 ENDOWMENT THE ARTS Opinion Editor ...... M...... MichaelGojer '90 iI Sports Editors ...... Michael J. Garrison G ARE INCERSTED INGM!G i Harold A.Stern '87 YOUCA Gi .Q... THISWO Arts Editors ...... Christopher J. Andrews '88 15BOT1 COILORFUL · ' Debby Levinson '91 AD PERCEMVEI - Photography Editors ...... Lisette W. M. Lambregts '90 Kristine AuYeung '91 Contributing Editors ...... Mark Kantrowitz '89 Ezra Peisach '89 Mark D. Virtue '90 Advertising Manager ...... Lois Eaton '92 Senior Editor ...... Jonathan Richmond G
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Directed by Yahoo, Serious. Unquestionably, the'Ifilri's' plot (or- rath-. Written by Yahoo Seriou's and .-er, the. lack thereof) istadrawback.- The David Roach. blatant disregard for all historical facts and Starring Yahoo Serious,' Odile le Clezio, common' sense strips all seriousness and John -Howard. (no pun intended) from thie movie. On-the N~ow playing at the Copley Place Cinema.; other hand, certain themes 'dreamed up' by Serious (such as Einstein's romances with - Madam' Curie or'the descriptio ns of vari- .B RO MARTELHELISOVRDTEte ous scientific theories).are car'efully'devel- oped in 'the- manner of' a drama. But the Iory of relativity. In 1906 he pace of the film varies-wildly and the lack discovered rock- and roll." of continuity from 'scene to s'cen'e-'is' Yes, that's how W~arner Broth- unsettling.-'~ ers is selling this Australian comedy. The. Any advance description of the storyline film does take a few liberties in describing would detract from the comedic -shock val- the life and adventures of Albert Einstein. ue of the film. Even-an exact historical But what do youl expect from a producer, knowledge of the details of Einstein's life director, writer, and star by the naiine of will give no indication of the countless Yahoo Serious? plot twists. Similarly, the only purpose of Young Einstein was released last Dec~em- the acting is to create unbelievable. charac-, ber in Australia, where it rivaled Crocodile ters personifying the extremes of-human Dundee and Star Wars in box office-popu- behavior. Stereotypes and anachronisms larity. This isn't surprising, considering abound. ' how thoroughly Australianized the film is. If the viewer is able to throw all depen-^ (For starters, Einstein is born in the back- dence on reality to the winds before enter- woods of Australia.) ing the theater, then Young Einstein might At a press luncheon last April, though, be very enjoyable. The camerawork is su- Serious acknowledged that he wanted to perb, and the rugged-Australian outback is relate to all possible audiences. Conse- appealingly photographed. The sound- quently, he employs flashy special effects, track, which went platinum in Australia, is dazzling scenery, cartoonish sound effects, first' rate, except where it is eclipsed by wild stunts, and a fantastic soundtrack. inane sou nd effects. The stunts are all per- (ranging from Icehouse to classical music). formed by Serious himself,, and- the- action Unfortunately, this strategy makes the film sequences are amusing in their impossibil- only marginally satisfying for any particu-; ities. But although the jokes and plot can lar audience type. There are many scenes be very fun ny -at times, the audience that are overly drawn The ever-inventive out or simplistic, spends more time laughing 'at the film Albert Einstein (Yahoo Serious) fiddles and bathes anld others have a complexity that seems than with it. :- simultaneously in Young Einstein. F~im explores tertninu HERSENSCHIMMEN illness--vwit inerl ,iintelligence ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~whos mother in relff ufesfoyh debut. She- plays Phil:Taylor, a -live-in anmylshvew tdtoosuue [MIND SHADOWS] disease, gives a performance that is the nurse hired -byVera to tak caeo Maar- bedrock *thesecondary characters into the, ba'k 'anchor of the. film's success. He ten during the day. The role of Taylor, brings as grudi-odrt trnte h ims Directed by Heddy Honigmann. home the full impact of Alzheimer's provided by the screenplay, is-too -limited disease on to allow Doane austere presenaino-hcldndar- Screenplay by Hedfdy Honigmann an aging brain,,drawing--the to -exercise -anyacting tall-- Caainwne e t. Finalyi-, viewer into Maarten's world~with ent and Otakar Votocek. all -its she may possess. The- same. goes for;.hr i lo h-'cf~enemn mental non sequiturs and other characters, Based on the novel'by J.Bernlef. discotnies most of whom arecon- bers who -have- faced -Alzheimer's Starring He also convincingly portrays a spectrum stantly overwhelmed- in real Joop Admiraql, Marja Kok, by Maarten's persona -lWifewill need only a minimal of symptoms that range from and story. presentation- and Melanie Doane. Maarten's of Vera's plight to identify Plays incipient absentmindedness to with- her- char- tomorrow at 6 anid 8 pm at the his para- That is why director noid tendencies when he finds himself Heddy Honig- acterd All,of these issuesundeleHn Museum of Fine-Arts. in a mann'sfocus strng o Maarten i such a - mann's nursing home at the end of the film. approach, butHo1nig'mann is -nly mixed blessing:The other characters notvery aire, hert uccssfu in maknreut'. mos-.of The performances of the other actors, satisfyingbecuse they' are nothe d the- By MANAVimEND(mindTHAKU however, : s.arulm t-o h- range from the' merely -adequate fully articulated characters-e'in -their,own- -scnt-rcesrmi to downright au n * ~~~ows')does not provide its au- problematic. On the one right. They exist primarily as- foils hand,- Marj4, -form urkyel s , H n'g a ns.d r cio ~~~diencewith- any easy escape. Kok's -portrayalof, Vera-. -Maarten 'ad. is mental deteriorattion-5 ,.i .aartens 'and- Neethlso IImn diectionis ~~~~The whole film is dedicated~to wife) is good.-enough to hint at- even then- HonigmAhnn s direction only, al- the -s'ad-and difficult good ' diseaghtobrn the isutenofan-sh has portraying the twilight.years of Maarten direction- her lifehas lows hint':-and. whispers to, come'truh -hemrsdeaetthsrnadsehs taken. O:n'the Thesgcharctersshoild and Vera Kleinl,- an elderly Dutch- cou pie other haind, Rick' Collins'- not berelegated done. so with'sensitivity, intelligence, 'and- role- as the owner - living in a small Nova Scotia community;- ofai bookstore- calls for' to' the background so mee because -Alzar--. 'himto be onls heimer'can~-diseae npriua;sle.a op Maarten~develops Alzbeimer-'s disease- a creenf or-only a few" mo-' everelypunish elax -Admir al's. startling' performance -withthe mfenlts- 'butthose:-moments mental affliction'that cause's.premature- se-, are awkward. ' tives of~those' afflicted Aiy-the' disease, ileetpwro nility -, Perhap's these lapses caAbe acribed making- h imssbetmt and his wife Vera (Marja., Kok) to el- their whole' lives revolve-aoundte osdrn hthipojt has to take ements of- regional filmmaking the 'painful 'and a care of him and learn to cope. that -pop: steady', deterioration--of, -markedlyd er' t Ifromany htHn with the- strain and their loired- ~- olie. : -mAnn difficulties that enter- uFor thirloe o-. - tackled 'befre lierbackground, is in -their life. Despite themespato timeugh, the othrla-. short, experimental films), her some problems in the - Maarten's.-clo's direction of' film's construction, the torsdntshie mostcart the-scripth relative-is, of course, this filmiseog -seog-est o raise hopes sheer power of this simply a Vera,, his-wif'.HonigniAnn for her- material forces its viewers does dn't slohiem toedoseo. Mhelanietsml may "have-de- future effofts .Onecan only -,idmirethe into stark con-. cided to devote relatively in-- frontation with human dosn'tfo eamllo temis. dbb so.,Melaonie Ridte-time: to-Vera- tegrity ofa - -filmmaker'who -wilingly mortality. ad other -characters to avoid. take- Joop Admiraal, who plays Maarten' Cndoane -foressamplaking hereautiure fouim 'detracting-son a topic'with aislititle'popular appeal as- and tfrom -thefilm's focus on Maarten.' Canadia acrs aighe fauel Honlig- Alzheimer's -disease.
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I., 1980 1 < =: -|-; , 'Ir lCPTUESDPAY,-UGUST8, R AS ,-It - ... ~ 5----"-_-L~______---.--- -· CK unitu Tiheater carrieson GilbertUSullivan craze RUDDIGORE rightful baronet of Ruddigore, he has to mope By Gilbert iA Sullivan put on the sinister black cloak and Presented by the MIaT Community around the stage while his best friend is Players. dancing with his girl. The flamboyant billing itself Directed by Ronni, Marshak. cloak almost deserves star Musical direction b'y David Goldhirsch. Another great comic touch comes from Kresge Little Theated, August 4-6, 10-13 David Harrison -as-the menacing ghost of a mushy and and .17-19!; - former Ruddigore who turns -cooing at the sight of his old (still living) -..-By AIE SCHWARZ girlfriend.- That comes in the second act, where poor.Ruthven moves into his castle -AND SUL- i'-'"EXUBERANT GILBERT to' confront his picture gallery of '.L.::;.LIVtN extavaganza would be a ancestors, whose ghosts jump. the Ruddigore -6.refeshing -distraction from out of their picture frames to-torment him FL .doggdays of August. Unfortu- (a special effect that.drew ooh's from the nately Kresge. Little. Theater just-can't ac- audience). commodkatd._the huge, entire-cast-prancing- The Community Players have lured around-the-stage numbers I expect from many Gilbert and Sullivan fanatics to the Gilbert and Sullivan. What this Communi- cast from outside MIT. All of the leads are ty Players production}has to offer instead good singers. The choreography was too is funny individual performances and a often on the stately side, perhaps to avoid - string of small funny moments coming people bumping into each.other in the from good attention to detail. confined space. Fortunately only a few ac- Whoever becomes baronet of Ruddigore tors are needed to sing "This- particularly inherits a curse-with the title: he has to rapid unintelligible patter is almost cer- commit-a crime every day or die in agony, tainly not heard and if -it is it doesn't mat- and therefore has a lot of trouble getting ter," and for many other jokes in the girls. If you're not already rooting for var- show. ious couples in the play to overcome this problem, there's a corps of professional bridesmaids on stage most of the time en- couraging people to get married. The bridesmaids, being rather single-minded, are starting to become dull when the more interesting characters show up, rotundly evil Despard Murgatroyd and Mad Marga- ret with rourMd, rolling eyes and jumping- bean animation. Henry'- ettell as the lead, Ruthven Murgatroyd, has his acting skills tuned just right for a light operetta, casting about lovelorn pulppydog looks. He's hi-,, when, reyea*l. as thy . j.p I lariously pitiful
I -sr(uBamret--·--·-{ - Despard (Erik Dickinson) cutting a "respectable I MaroaretRn Qu~lie Friedli),: artd;·e- a Ruddigore's castle. images are d &isappoining Kawaguchis"s unmainative or new to offer. Aquatic themes predomi- -S - ~ lGUCHllMACHOVER nate in his work, but the marine life flows Images by Yoichiro Kawaguchi. across the screen with an artificially pro- Music by Tod Machover. grammed facility which suggests nothing- The Cube, August 2. of real life. It became clear before the first
- .~~~~~~ part of the show ended that Kawaguchi By JONATHAN R1CHMOND has few ideas, and that they are all tooted in displaying technical virtuosity rather F TOD NI~jAHOVER WISHES TO ADVANCE To than developing artistic content. his well-earned reputation as an· in- further, | novator in electronic music The major item on the program was the talent he will find people of greater world premiere of Flora, a collaboration to than Yoichiro Kawaiguchi with whom- between Machover and Kawaguchi. This collaborate in the future. piece is supposed to connect together the Last Wednesday's performance in the organic and the artificial, and a computer Cube, with images by Kawaguchi and mu- processed human voice plays a central sic by alachover, began with a piece called role. Machover used the voice in dramatic its sound Milky. Kawaguchi's images here were re- ways, transforming and shaping compelling axing· in a hallucinatory sort of livay, if to produce a variety of quite rather lacking-in imagination. B3ut.with :i~ffects. The'screen unfortunately offered, 'Morphogenesis, the show turned to the little more than a display of- more gro- and grotesque, with large ugly objects and tesquely undulating surfaces -swirling tentacles coming and going across Pythonesque writhing shapes, the product -the the screen as if we were witnessing early of a computer, hacker immersed- in to Monty Python graphics on a badd'ay. cleverness of 'his mnachinery and blind- the wonders of the real, world. -The inven- - Kawaguchi's images are sometimes brash tiveness of Machover's score deserved 6mndThe .Tect-t · arntd-.p*cheltdic -but--nem--to come out- d something mucs better. the l9* and have little that is either fresh Imamirge:` from .~~~, :~~~the ·· opening·':'a·giv of Floragiven: .iwOrld; premiere i The M4.I . . , t .W aO XfFlo 0 F 'Ah o pe g I I .PAGEI--r. - 8- The- -- Tech---- TUESDAY. AUGUST- 8. 1989 - . I I - I re E - -- · - corndcs ------s : E ------i s '%
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