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THE CE\TRE FOLD Photo: by Rog FILIVI e Ariareview e Swimming to • COP OUT Cambodia by Rog without making the premises of one suspect was asked to lie two men being bundled off by police. Det. lnsp. John repons the bank. The pace began to down, within a cordon of police An attempted robbery of the that they are " under arrest in step up as their car sped guns. The robbers were then Royal Bank of Scotland at KB handcuffed and taken in to cus· conn.ection with an attempted on Monday was foiled after a towards the exit gate. tody. robbery, and a report will be Bodie and Doyle style opera­ .• Merchant of Venice The · plain·clothes police With this new·found pace of forwarded to the procurator fis· tion involving some 50 officers. emerged from behind bushes life, students arrived to see the cal. ~ e Seraglio After staging a stake·out and started up a nearby car. e Scottish Printmakers around the Union buildings, They yelled into their two·way Workshop · police headed off their escape radios, "They're on the move, by' ramming the get·away car they're on the move." No off the road. sooner said, than they too were " on the move", after the sus.: During the arrest, one sus· pect's car. As the get·away car FEATURES pect was spread-eagled on the was heading for the exit, it was ground whilst police guns were broadsided by an unmarked e David Blunkett trained on the assailants. Two police ca r from in front of the interview men are now in police custody chemistry building. The force awaiting charges. of this collision drove both cars e Travel Bug Early on the M onday morn· onto the grass in front of the ing, a number of officers from Geo logy Department. Those Police HO and the' Mayfield and ca rs were quickly joined by two SPORT Causewayside stations, con· other vehicles - the one that verged on the KB Campus. This was originally in pursuit and e Soccer was to spell a rapid change in another that had been lying in • Shinty the pace of life at KB. wait under cover of the Geol· Robbers: e Hare and Hounds ogy building. This second car After seeking various van· drove across the grass and into Initial Police tage points, they lay in wait for one of the small trees. the suspects to make their BACK PAGE move. As usual, the bank staff The large police presence Second sllge arrived by taxi at 10.20 am and was the made evident as two Police: e Surprises in Store shortly after, the two men were vans, a marked police car and seen heading in the direction of the bank. They were then seen some 50 officers appeared. PUBLISHED BY EUSPB making a dash for their car According to an eye·witness, NEVVS THURS 5 NOY 1987 Primitive~~~?~!:~~~,~~~~~;: .. ~~~ • Big Band flop to lose hundreds Last Wednesday, th• . fin honorary lawyer to the Conser­ as any anti·NUS campaigner not be decided on till next year. ' with an attendance of only 200. campus may have been mis- vative Party in Scotland. He told only had ten days notice to plan Heriot-Watt President Ross When asked why more widely sed". Student that the cost of the their protest while the sabbati­ Martin blames the added delay known bands were not booked, Asked why he continued with action taken would normally be cals had much longer to prepare on the fact that the University Mike Lyttle, Deputy President the policy in view of co~sistent "a low three-figure sum". leaflets. posters etc. Court was " very busy". How ­ and Big Band organiser, pointed losses over the years, Mike lyt- The referendum was being The court decided it was up to ever, Mark Johnson cla i m ~, to the expense and difficulty of tie replied: " I feel .an obligation · brought under new regulations the University Court to decide that the sabbaticals did not pr' - obtaining suitable venues. to put on bands if I can make introduced by Heriot-Watt sab-· whether the new bye-laws were sent the regulations to Council He disclosed that Edinburgh money or realistically provide a baticals over the summer. This fair. However, Sheriff Poole held and that copies of them are few were offered Hue and Cry and service for students." ·meant a motion signed by 75 that the referendum could not and far between. Edinburgh faces GETTO THE POINT rough cuts by Jane Kelly Dennis Brown, who is involved in the Resources Committee IN 2eoo WORDS Edinburgh University may dealing w ith the savings targets, have to impose harsh, wide· admitted that " no additional pay spread cuts of around £2.7 mill­ awards w ill be given for the rest FOn BRITAIN'S ion within the next two years in of the planning decade" unless an attempt to reach a savings approved specifically by the target of £3.4 million. UGC . Meetings will take place this However, 70 per cent of SHARPEST READERS term between the Principal, Sir Mawaits out winnr r. F!ying Science Faculty. SupcrClubcl.s1on BtitishAirwa)'l lO Bridge has also been submitted. Thus the biggest headache C..iro1nJre1u mingon 1heairlinc'1 lt is hoped the £1.7m to be ~egrineWorJthorne£di1or,Thmajor cuts We will Ix c:a1endina • hdp11!f1 ! /.. 1'-'- Ch ..b "'- Ednor,Tl.cSt>ttto1or long run as against the paying of h1nd1nto1heworldofjournali1mfor ~ throughout their departments. increasing rents now. the fuw ninncn up, too. If you come: PS Do noc delay! To be con.,Jercd. EUSA Treasurer Cheow-l ay second, Sbttnu and Hughes - 1hc you must submit your article bdon: However, the main problem Wee commented on the savings lc.d11!f1bo.Jbhopchain in •he UK - jJuj onuary 1988. may be in the distribution of cuts targ ets: "I hope non-academic is offcn111000 .cnh and 000 crcdi· ~------~ to be imposed which will be services w ill be protected as fa r tcd 101 book •«oum with 1hem. £200 seven parts academic and two cash and£200 in booksforthc third as possible and that on the priuwinncr (alsoa,..ardcJ ..,pa,...tc ly parts non-academic. academic side l hope it won't be to the best emry for anyone Hill a1 Speaking to Student, Mr an Aberdeen solution." school on the d0$ing dale of the compc1i tion) wil.h £100 o f each as fuurt h ~ WM1we1re~ngfor isana n ick ESCApe from Dundee t ha1 gcurigh1101hc poim inlcssthan 2,000wordsofyourfinestwri1i..,.. by Joanne Moody years. For an idea of1hc quali1y that 11 &Oil!fl 10 1mpuu uo and our combined Rag mag selling in Dundee Catrina Jack, the organiser, had IW'tlmilhonplusradcnhip- wc otJVn&ly ended in a short visit to a local assumed that permits woUld be 'police station for a handfu .. of organised and that at no point Edinburgh University students had she been told only to sell on SPEC'iro'OR lastw9ek. private property. She observed The problem lay in the fact that: "There seemed to be a lack WlllltWRITERAWAllDS that the students did not have a of organisation and communi­ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH permit to sell in the street, a cation within the system." dilemma that has been encoun­ No charges were acttially tered by rag sellers in previous pressed NEVVS THURS 5 NOV 1987 The big shrink Aberdeen solution • · 30 London colleges planned to become 5 245 redundancies by Jeff Sinton The suggestion that the plan A Meeting of Aberdeen Uni­ was an academic plan was, Mr versity Senate last week voted Chevis said, "a complete fallacy; to back plans, dr·awn up by the it was merely a plan to balance university's Planning Commit­ the books". He pointed out that tee, to close six departments Music and Classics have been and lose 245 jobs, in order to taught at the university since meet the latest funding cuts 1945 and enjoy a good reputa­ imposed by the University tion. The Government wanted Grants Committee. the university to concentrate on Students at an earlier meeting Applied Sciences at a time when called by the Aberdeen Univer­ Pure Sciences and the Arts were sity SRC (Students' Representa­ being smashed to pieces. The tive Council) overwhelmingly university was giving up its ,rejected the Planning Commit­ monopoly subjects such as tee's proposals by 435 votes to Music, north of the Clyde, and one. the implementation of the prop­ Senate members arriving for osals would mean that in Scot­ their meeting had to walk past a land, Music and Russian would student demonstration, which only be taught at Glasgow and included a brass quartet and a Edinburgh Universities. choir of about 50 people - the A senior Scottish Conserva­ Music Department being one of tive back-bencher, Mr Alick the six departments due for clo­ Buchanan-Smith, a former sure. The five other departments Energy Minister. who is stand­ due to be closed are History and ing as a candidate in the univer­ Westfield students sing the blues. the Philosophy of Science, Clas­ sity's rectorship election later sics, linguistics, Social Work this month, has criticsied the by Paula Collins leges in larger units, "but to say will disappear." and Russian. UGC for "seeking to apply objec­ that big is beautiful in an Arts Mr Parker also believes that Mr Andrew Chevis, President tive standards, and not taking Students at Westfield College, college is ridiculous, especially the speed with which the plans of Aberdeen University SAC, account of regional factors. The London have reacted·angrily to w hen our results are good. Arts have gone through is under­ said that students were opposed Government must," said Mr the announcement that they students benefit from small hand, especially since student to these proposals, since "they Buchanan-Smith, "be made are to merge with Queen classes arid small tutorials," t­ protests have been hindered by felt that it was not necessary to fully aware of the consequences Margaret's Colleges to become said. lack of funds; their cash has have the level of cutback that of meeting the UGC criteria ... one of "Five Colleges of Excel­ The merger will be com­ been drained by the cost of 'NaS proposed". lence" which will eventually pleted in 1992 so nope of the maintaining an empty science Mr Chevis described the plan make up the University of Lon­ students presently at Westfield building. of the University Senate as one don. This move is described by will be attected, although their Although staff have been "of capitulation to the govern­ reaction continued Mike given " no-detriment" assur­ ment, and a - do-it-yourself • ~~no~~ci=I PYa~v:c;:i~~ti~~~~::: Parker, has not been "selfish or ances, the Student Union presi­ suicide". Staff-student ratios in tion". shortsighted." "They realize dent thinks that the one hour Arts subjects, he said, are Mike Parker, Student Presi­ that during the transition trip across London to the new already high in the Modern Lan­ dent at Westfield recognizes period over the next five years site will mean job losses, par­ 'guage Department of 1:16, and that London University is people will be shunted bet­ ticularly among the ancillary if the proposals were brought changing shape and that ther ween to campuses so appli­ staff. " It is a sly way to shed into effect, then the quality of are benefits to be gleaned from cations are bound to fall, and staff members." In the mean­ teaching at the university would concentrating the scientific col- our college as a separate entity time their prote~t~ r-nntinue. go downhill. CAMPUS '"l'() CAMPUS No to the Licence Liberal Spycatcher in Squat-in for big-eye Dodgers Caught Bombshell Strathclyde Rooms

SOUTH AFRICA: The five HULL: Two hundred students BIRMINGHAM: Students were STRATHCL VOE : The CAMBRIDGE: Students from English·speaking universities are to be taken to court after subjected to another bomb 'Strathclyde Telegraph' this the College of.Art and Technol­ may be set on a dangerouscolli· being caught without television scare this week when the Police week ran some controversial ogy are about to Squat in one o1 sion course with the Govern- licences here this week. and Fire Brigade were called direct extracts from the buildings owned by their • ment after a defeat refusal to The culprits included Union into inspect a suspicious look­ 'Spycatcher'. As yet they have college. implement a new law designed President Jo Baker; "in my pos· ing parcel. had no repercussions from the Recent surveys show that to stifle political dissent on cam· ition as Union president I do not Bomb experts tentatively Government but the Students' students at the college are pus. :ondemn people for not having unwrapped the offending Association has promised its amongst the poorest in the ln a day of protest, dons, stu· television licences," she said, object to reveal a yellow si lk backing in the event of any pro­ country and many simply can't dents and university staff alike "the vans obviously weren't handkerchief and a letter from secution. find accommodation. demonstrated against the mea- NOrking properly anyway." Mr David Steel, leader of the Their position is not helped liberal Party. No money by the policy of their college ~~;~s .:!'~~':n'.~·~.~~·~;;:h'::,";~:~ Convicts coffers The handkerchief was one of and the Cambridge University the gifts from famous people for politics Colleges who own many pro­ ~~~=~:;~n~~ganisationsforthe or charity that were to be sold at a charity perties that are just used for storage. Professor Phillip Tobias, the OXFORD: Student journalists auction, but it had been so LEICESTER : The students The Squat-in is intended to head of Witwatersrand Senate, are busy trying to discover tightly wrapped up that a sec­ Union ran into trouble with the go on for several days in pro­ told 5,000 cheering onlookers whether the money from a nev.. urity man mistook them for Attorney-General this week. A fuse leads. test to this policy and the predi­ that "the Government has book about Olivia Channon is tQ member of the University Con­ servative Association allegedly cament in which it leaves the instructed the university to bet- gotocharityorintothepocketo1 Sticky situation :jtudents. ray traditional educational val- 1he recently-released-from­ leaked the information that the ues, to enforce on our campus prison Rosie Johnson. for Honeyford Union were subsidising stu­ the ideology of a white ruling Next week the once infamous dents to go to the Anti·Apar­ party, to become a Star ex-Minister John Profumo will LIVERPOOL: Ray Honeyford theid Demonstration in Lon· £400 Lunch Chamber smelling out the pEast End of London. being invited to speak in the: ble status, the Attorney-Gen­ to talk about a trip to London that on and off campus". Union by the Liverpool UniverJ ·,?ra l was none too pleased that he made with a colleague in 15 funds were being used to sub­ order to hold a press conference m~~~~~ w1t~t~;ar:::s, :~~~ ~i::di~t~~~~rr,~i~asA~~:a~~~h : ;idise a political cause. and publicise the university's charges and an overhead f.IV/; heckling d~ring his speech, yet achievements in the field of sci­ ~~C:fster complete with video ~~~~a~u~:~:x~::f~~ :fc~~~n~~j ence. Apparently only one journalist l1kew1se, m Capetown, speak bombarded by various misstes. Falling Star turned up to the conference only ers warned demonstrators to tJ A_. To end of a 'good' day he to point out that he would have disperse JUSt moments before ~ ;vi.- ~ received a death threat in lime Banned been quite happy to have com­ theyweresentscurry1ngbytear· Street Station, was barricaded municated over the telephone. gas and baton charges ,. ~ l I into the waiting room and had HULL: The plummeting edito­ In the process of doing alt this, rial standards of the Daily Star somehow he managed to run up an1:~~~::;~~!a~~~s::e~~~!~~ ~ ~~ S- :~m~~~~r~~7t~eh~~~:!':v~~ have led the Students Union, a £400 bill. sities could face bankruptcy if ~' live Asociation acting as 'body- they say, to take a principled stand and ban the sate of the Compiled by Tom Bradby the government carry ou~ ~heir , 1 ~ guards'. As a result of the days threat to cut off state subs1d1es. Wit ievents one arrest was made. newspaper in Union shops. and ~raham Wilson ; ~E NEVVS FOCUS THURS 5 NOV 1987 R•J~1h'1 _13~il Robbing Hoods Ian Robertson comments on the implications of the Poll Tax... ~ -·

TiiE TIME: Two years before the ing a system which is even more have to vote Conservative. If 1987 General Election. unfair to even more people. this means reduced services for The introducers of the Poll the needy and lower quality THE PLACE: The centre for right Rou11d up Tax say that by paying a share of schools etc. for the less well off, radical ideas. local council bills voters will be that's just the free market at TiiE PROBLEM: Not enough "encouraged to be more work. the ha\;'1ve.s new Conservativ_e policies to fill responsible". Unfortunately, even Sun editorials. The Poll Tax will involve Pot-syH"e / certain people vote against the everyone registering. As with Tories for better housing, regu­ THE SOLUTION: The Prole-Tax. other taxes many people will be lar bus services, local Social Ser· THE QUIBBLE: "Er ... Margaret unwilling to pay. To avoid pay­ ... maybe we'd better call it the vices capable of caring, well­ ing it will be necessary to keep· Poll Tax. Or how about the Com­ equipped schools and in general your name off the electoral munity Charger suffictent resources to register and thus become genuinely help those in need unable to vote. Many people The case for the Government and create a fairer society. will thus be driven by poverty ~' was that as everyone gets the into losing their democratic same local services they should This, according to the Govern­ rights. However, this does not pay the same. Everyone will ment, is clearly irresponsible as seem to wonythe Government. become involved in local politics these people should buy their This could just have something as everyone will pay a share, own cars, join BUPA and send to do with the fact that the aver­ even those in a council house their kids to a private school. age Poll Tax dodger will no.t and surviving on supplemen­ Ideas such as the above would exactly be a natural Conserv8- tary benefit. The problem of the cause higher rates for home­ tivb voter. A Sun editorial was solved: owners who are already labour­ So what the Poll Tax in fact British Parliament and is plan­ from them to give to those who ing under an oppr,,ssive 27 per ned to be introduced on the 1st are doing quite nicely thank you. The Sun says: Why should a cent tax rate (soon to be 25 per adds up to is one massive pre­ lovable, Jaw-abiding, salt-of­ sent for Conservative voters. April 1989. It looks almost as though the cent rt forecasts are correct). However, this is a very the-earth granny pay through Not only does it give them cuts Conservatives are actually Com­ Obviously social justice requires dangerous game to play. After the nose for her retirement in their rates bills, it also aims to munists in disguise, doing that the Poll Tax be introduced explaining to one woman in Pil­ everything they can to spark off home when lesbians and to enable these poor high-ear· ensure that no nasty little trots, feminists (same thing really, socialists, or even liberals, will ton the effects of the Poll Tax, a a revolution or at least a major ners to expand their compact campaigner was told: " E'm no readers) at GrtHtnham Common get anywhere near local govern­ riot. disc collection and get a second payin. ff the register comes and dole scroungers get off scot ment. The Poll Tax is thus in many ..... holiday this year. roond here e'll slam the door in ways a Prole Tax. It attacks Not surprisingly the Govern- Now, of course, not everyone his face. An if he gets his foot in those who are most disadvan­ This is not a real Sun editorial ment see "'encouraging people is happy with this. Polls in Scot­ e'll get Sig Jim doon to sort him taged in our society to only a as there is a glimmer ot truth in to be more responsible'" as very land consistently show large oot."' minimal benefit for the rest. it; some okf age pensioners are similar to "encouraging people majorities against the Poll Tax, This would be breaking the There are defects in the present undoubtedly affected by the to vote Conservative·. This is indeed it is reckoned to be one law, but it is hard to see what system but that is nowhere near present rates system. However, what the Poll Tax bribes voters ·of the main reasons that the hold the legal system has over the answer for this handful of to do. If the Tories spend less Conservatives now have a mere people who get very little from ~~ ~~~~5!::~~hn~s~nP=f:~- people is to give them allo· they will charge less in Poll Tax ,. seventh of the Scottish MPs. society if it then denies them the and Edinburgh University wances in case of need. Instead, so if the low-paid want more Despite this, the Poll Tax was chance to vote their conditions should unite to ensure the Poll _ the Conservatives are propos· money in their hands they will steamrollered through the better and even takes money Tax never comes into effect. COMMENT Taking the tabloids

I'm walking back from a lecture, newsagent I buy stuff and walk some pair of tits on page three tality come from ? Do we gov­ and gradually the "cheeky fun " it's a shining late autumn after­ out. As I leave I Qlance down at or five or whatever, he's on the ern the development of the moves closer and closer to noon, clear blue skies, rustling some tabloid h-eadline about point of salivating and the soft-porn rag or vice·versa? offensive obscenity. trees. The traffic hums then Charlie and Di ignoring each ·thought sneaks back " Is it really Again the question "Is it really I do not need to name indi­ grunts, perhaps splutters, that importantr This guy is that important?" but this time vidual publications as they are people plod in respite from ~~~n~:'t~e~;~~7fc~is"~~e~~f~~~·~~ ordinary, he's anyone, he it's not the crap these people all the same, they all occupy the rush. I find myself relaxed. important.:• I walk out. The doesn't care what the hell he print that I'm worried aboUt it's same sewer they all wallow in I decide to buy myself a bar of thoughts subside. reads as long as it's tits and the whether I or anyone shbuld be the same degrading slime. chocolate and a magazine, just I continue my homeward good old British Bulldog. This bothered by the crap in the first something to complement a trek, I pass a bus stop, there's a time the thought doesn't sub· place. Is it really the "harmless cup of tea, something to help guy with the tabloid, except he side, this time it grows. fun" Norman Tebbit would like an~r~~i'tha~~r:m ~;~~:t t~;~ sE!"e vomitted from the presses me wind-down. So, I find a isn't glancing, he's glaring at Where does the tabloid men- us to believe? and many people would call for There's no harm in showing the censorship or banning of tits, there's no harm in a bit of the Fleet Streetsoft-porn by Tom Bradby fla~ waving, there's no harm in barons, but we like to pride aur­ and Graham Wilson a few fun stories about your selves on our broad-minded­ fave celebs. There's no harm in ness and our.undying commit­ Safety overcomes dissatisfac- having been '"friendly· with a a few cheeky stories to cheer ment to freedom of speech so tion, according to a new survey whole rugby team. you up on a dull Sunday morn- we don't ban them and we by Student, when it comes to Likewise one George Square ing. Thus we have the standard don't censor the filth. But we using condoms. girl proclaimed that she was line of argument resident in the tell ourselves we care, we tell Of 100 people questioned, more likely to sleep with a brains of most tabloid editors. ourselves that this is 'sick' it is both at George Square and the stranger. Another 25 said their Shouldn't he really be saying 'sad' it is 'seedy', we know we King's Buildings, twice as many attitude to sex-with-strangers there's no harm in degrading hate it, we question our morals people found sex with a con· had not changed - the remain­ photographs, there's no harm when publications print por· dom less satisfying, and yet 85 der said they were less likely to in a bit of racism and bigotry, · nographic obscenities and dare people said they were more indulge. there's no harm in concocting to call it "family fun " . likely to use a condom as a- Overall KB students seemed lies to sell a few extra copies, Remember it's freely available result of the AIDS crisis. more reticient about answering there's no harm in printing to children. Would you like a Most people thought the the more personal questions, obscenities in a national news- Soho prostitute and a rabid Government's AIDS campaign although 12 boys were " less paper. · bulldog babysitting at your had had an effect but that it had likely" to sleep with a prostitute There comes a time when the house? done more to frighten than to (rather than " never likely"). Ten walltowall,fullpageexclusive, What would ·you do if y'ou teach. at George Square were also everyone a winner, trivia just were to see a rabid dog outside But protection is more popu- "'less likely", though one let slip isn't funny anymore. Any issue your house? You would call the far than abstinence, for only 11 that he could change his nfind which concerns the degrading police and they would shoot it of those questioned said they "rt she had·big paps"'. of human intellect is really that through the head. It would die had fewer sexual partners since Of those who answered the important. instantly. We can't shoot the crisis than they probably very personal qUestions, ien How dangerous is the tabloid Michael Gabbert, Rupert Mur­ would have done. said they' were less likely to press? Not at all says the editor doc~ etc. through the heaa rm Promiscuity is not favoured, practice oral sex. Two George it's "family fun". As dangerous _afraid. We cannot ban them with only frve boys and two girls Square girls felt that they would as any propaganda says this from the streets; No, ~he be~t admitting to having had more· be more likely to practice oral writer, as dangerous as the way to. deal w.1t~ this rabid than four sexual partners in the sex and three more likely to sturdy British Bulldog w hen it's bulldog is to put 1t m a cage and last year. Breaking the mould practice mutual masturbation turned rabid. You can't ignore starve the bastard. was one girt at the Ki_ng's Build- - rather than conventional sex it. One by one values are dis ~ ings who proudly ocnfessed to - as a result of the crisis. carded, minorities are ridiculed LETTERS THURS 5 NOV 1987 - Opinions SEXISlVI? Dear Editor. and PWEI songs like Beaver Pat­ Dear Editor, Following the positive signs rol, with its obvious connota­ Student has been accused of during Freshers' Week l looked tions and innuendos, cannot many things in the past, but "ex­ foiward to seeing a series of really be seen in any other light STUDENT tremely disturbing" is certainly a good bands in the Potterrow Of course we'll have the usual - new one. I refer to Alison Davie's Union, but I was totally dis­ flood of apologists for sexism ESTABLISHED IN 1887 letter in last week's edition in gusted to discover the the com­ claiming "it's all good fun" ar:id which she objects to the mittee has booked Pop Will Eat Mthere's no real harm" but as Fresher's Week Opinion pub­ Itself to play there this Satuday, attacks against women become lished in week two's Student. 9th November. Surely I'm not increasingly frequent those THE ANNUAL EVENT Firstly, Opinion is the only part the only one who can see the argum ents don't really wash of the newspaper in which any­ gross hypocrisy involved in .any more. lt's about time that body can air their views. As such promoting such a sexist and students, and those who would In the face of yet more losses, why is it EUSA it is an important part of the offensive band, while at the claim to act in their interests, got sabbaticals insist on continuing a Big Band policy? paper: Student is produced for same time having leaflets distri­ their priorities in order and A policy which over the last few years has been students to inform them, to a buted on how women should decided just where they stand large extent, about what is going consistent only in producing failure after failure. defend themselves if they are on issues as topical and as relev­ on around them, and since Edin­ attacked. Pornography offends ant as sexism and the general Lack of publicity is annually drummed up as the burgh University is still run, I everyone, male and female, in degradation of women. stock defence argument. Potentially Big Bands think, on a democratic system, .the way it promotes the humilia­ Yours etc., may seem to provide the solution to an Alternative they are entitled to comment. It tion and degradation of women, Dessie Fahy. is important that the University Presidents' Ball for the m ajority of students, with has a vehicle to carry this com­ the assumption that out of a population of around ment. ten thousand students surely the Teviot Debating Publicity Appre~iative Hall could be filled to capacity? However, until ELISA can get its act together on this particular Deu Sl udenl. audtence issue and until students realise the benefrts which The Government's new poll tax will mean that everyone over could be gained from supporting their unions, this the age of 18 will have to pay a policy is going to be as much good as a chocolate fixed amount regardless of fireguard. income. lt is clear that this will cost students, and the other already financially inadequate members of society, a substan­ Secondly, no newspaper can tial amount per annum, so we all hope to please all of the people have an interest in fighting such all of the time. It would not be a ZOMBIFIED? an unjust tax. newspaper if it did. In the past, The poll tax is already on the Opinion has covered topics as statute book - fighting it will diverse as gay bashing and nuc­ necessitate the breaking of the Bye-elections? Has anybody actually heard of lear warfare. There is always law, but we cannot expect indi· them? Does anybody know they exist? Did someone who will object, and vidual students to do this and often quite rightly. That is how anybody even (hesitate to ask) vote? Freshers, at a face the consequences alone. discussion is promoted. That is push, can be excused on the grounds of general EUSA therefore must commit what makes a good newspaper. itself to fully supporting any stu­ bewilderment. However, with only two seats However, Ms Davie seems to Dear Music Ed, dent victimised for non-pay­ actually having been contested, student apathy have very little cause to object. Just a short note to voice my ment of the tax. The Opinion in question was appreciation of your article - seems to have hit an all-time low serious If you ag ree this tax is funda­ primarily a lighthearted look at "Strangeways: an appreciation questions have to be asked whether anybody out mentally unfair, please come Freshers' Week. Jt included four­ of the Smiths#. The feature does along to the General Meeting on there is still alive. The problem intensifies when and-a-half lines about depres­ full justice to this band's worthy November 5th and vote for the one realises this seems to be a state of affairs sion, and from this I hardly think contribution to today's contem­ motion proposing the above peculiar only to this country. While other student that you can deduce that the wri­ porary music scene. You made a ter Mlacks concern for his/her fel­ action. s.mall person very happy today. nations are risking their university careers to gain Murray Meikle, low human beings#, or that the Yours in gratitude, Andrew Gray, these rights, Edinburgh students have them article was Mextremely disturb­ Smrthy. EU RCS handed in their laps. ing". Obviously welfare issues are to be taken seriously. If the purpose of Opinion had been to GLASGOW HERALD WINNER 1985, 1986 take a jokey look at Pollock suicides, fair. enough. But this MANAGER Andrew Marshall was not the case. David Huey Lastly, two points. The writer STAFF LIST GRAPHICS Grant was Tim Daniels. It is my fault that his name was not printed, Julian Thomas (.EDITOR Loma Henderson and for that I apologise. Sec­ Tom Barker ASSISTANT ED Sandracatto ondly, Opinion in no way reflects AlisonMcCann the opinion of Student or its Miranda Chitty NEWS .PHOTOGRAPHY Patrict leaslr staff. I think that is fairly obvious, Emma Simpson but from now on a disclaimer Tony Roberts will be printed with all such arti­ 70LD FISHMARKETCLOSE JaneKil~ Tf.L: 031-22j5428 Forbes McKay Hugh~nney cles. EDINBURGH RobertLlmbrlen Lucy Hooker PaulaColli ns TiddyMaitland-Tmerton r.=<=n-=d~~~~""n;r.;;;a,..,.;;;;;;;o~;;;a;;;rnd";o;i;-;;jp;:tir.iii--r-~-I TomB radby EDITORIAL MEETINGS Ian Robertson FRIDAYS 1.10 PM IN STUDENT Neil Rafferty OFFICES. MUS~ Caroline Ednie INDIVIDUAL SECTION Jane Bowie MEETINGS : Blaise Drummond News: Thurs 1.15 pm Student Craig Mclean Offices. Tl!ECENT11EFOLD Linda Kerr Arts: Thurs 1.15 pm Jane Moir Bannerman's pub. Lucy Barty Features: Wed 1.10 pm ALM KamalMurari Ba nnerman's. BrionySefgeant Music: Wed 1.10 pm Student ARTS Scott Styles Offices. Rosie Cowan Alison Brown Sung STUDENT, FEAl\JllES PrueJelfrays Emma Simpson 48 PLEASANCE, Gillian Drummond SPORT Carl Marston EDINBURGH EH8 9T J. BACK PAGE lorettJBre!cilni Tel 5581117/8 or Lorna Henderson !osiefW' 667 12 Jl ext 4496 IVIUs1e THURS 5 NOV 1987

THE MEN THEY extraordinary strengths of PEANUTS HUCKO COULDN'T HANG TMTCH as popular folk heroes. The band who 1aSt yea r set ALL-STARS Venue Teviot Row alight both lierally Queen's Hall and metaphorically delighted Everybody , if they will the sell out crowd with another Pretty It's a rare sensation of ple­ asu re, w h en someone =~= :; n~~s ! ~i~~:::~ =~~~;pl!~~=~lon:s~rf~~~~~i~~ g o es int o a concert s h rug­ th~ pow er t? recall t o th e . ~~~ ~r:O~i~c~~:~a';1e~:s~h~~r! gin g like a cynic, and mmd special moments all evident as the audience comes out converted. from one's idyllic. One of were reduced to a mass of Well, the faith hit me on Vacant mine is lronmasters by The perspiring mutants. It is frivol­ Friday night, and The Men They Couldn't Hang. ous to select high points as the other harld a band with more live The Primitives are not set was crammed full of clas­ Peanuts Hucko A ll-Stars a 'Big Band' - everything commitment could have w e re the unlikely worked against this and The mere sound of its quiet folk sics but perhaps the finest about them is painfully tale -ike beginning, before it moments were The Bells and p reachers. triumphed. The Primitives They played mainstream jazz ordinary. Obviously the seem stuck with that indie­ breaks loose from its fetters old faves The Ghosts of Cable records are very well pro­ and bursts into a symphony of ~tre~t and .the miners' stri~e with something like a reveren­ mentality problem of thinking tial respect. That much l duced because last Thurs­ that no stage presence equates clashing guitars and chant-a· in~p1red Shirt of Blue. The gig long verses, conjures up end· finished _(after. numerous expected - 'trad' jazz has day they sounded flat and with alternative. Sadly they are always, for me, embodied the boring. wrong and all this will do is lessimagesofChambersStreet enc~ r es) with a fine up-tempo on a Saturday night, where this version of I fought the law. . record Was once something of _Overthel~stfewy~arsmus1c a fave; leather jackets, mini with a social conscience has skirts, lukewarm ber and puke been somewhat displaced by in the sink were an symbols of the happy go lucky packaged those halycon days before our pop produ~ts which now domi­ beloved Union became a rest- nate the airwaves but the next ir ;i place for Napier College time you bop your balls off to drop outs. The Isla Bonita why not pause, and reflect for a moment, Mag· Tonight's rabble rousing ver· gie's farm is not a nice play to sion of the song again bore live-isn't it good to know that powerful testimony to the somebody still cares? • Jack Mathieson loving restoration of a music Opening the night with two keep them the fanzine faves. which is (again, for me) inhe­ rently dead. But Peanuts Hucko of their best moments on They did briefly start to had so many good points: record, Really Stupid and Buzz flicker with the arrival of ~top Buzz Buzz, should have left me Kilfing Me. For a couple of dynamics. harmonic complex- desparate for more. Instead I minutes monotony was aban· ity, virtuosity, and various was left wih the feeling of hav­ doned and some urgency material. The latter they ing seen it all before. The Primi­ emerged from the gloom. All achieved by a series of solo fea· tives add nothing to the familiar too soon thoughit was back to tures: Peter Appleyard's break­ sweet female voice and rushing more of the same. neck Fascinatin' Rhythm on guitar Set-up. The fact that Perhaps the excitement vi~es, Ray Williams typically Tracy seems determined to be hinted at on the last three si ng­ lyrical treatment of Georgia on()} this year's Clare Grogan, les will come to something and trombone, and bassist David despite lacking the charisma we will see The Primitives in the Tort (looking and sounding for and paedophile fantasy factor, charts as a real alternative but all the world like Niels Peder­ doesn't help either. on the evidence of this appear· sen) produced two majestic Admittedly the absence of ance it seems unlikely. blues ballads. Willow Weep audience involvement didn't and Summertime. add to the enjoyment. On the James Haliburton The only mitigators of the evening were Butch Miles' over-busy drumming, and the McCARTHY Thankfully McCarthy proved dreaded incursion of showbiz The Blues Basement ~orthy of the previ?US suff~r­ in the form of a fat and faded ing and coped adm1rably with Lonesome singer. Small doubts on a good . the adverse conditions. They night. Taking money off people worked their way through a set comin g into t he T he Blues of pacey. memorable, guitar­ Gordon Drummond Basem en t is l ike d emand· based songs, continuing to BILI~~ ing r ent for B ro admoor. It ~layevenafterbeingtolditwas HUE AND CRY h as all t he cha rm of a cas- t~~a~h~a~~~6u~~~~Ye ~~~~ Th e Queen's Halt FREDDIE MACGREGOR tie dungeon , ~u t then of how to put excitement back cou rse, t here i s t h e free into songs. The highlight was The swift rise to fame over Assembly Rooms s~i~~~~P~~~!'~J:~g~~tion ~eeau~;,c:l~~~tg ~~fch ~==P~~~ !~~~=~t t~h< s::~~th:s ";~:· The popular appeal of reggae music is a fickle ~~:ta~~s; ~~gdsl 1~~en~~i~Yd~~~~; of ~~C~~~~ e ~~:t i~~~s. of a result of a lot of publicity, beast. Today it seems harm than good to the groups number of quality bands who cheap singles, free casset­ more destined to the outer who perform. " Only thirty need to break out of the 'indie tes, etc. But watching people in so far," moans the ghetto'. They received a good them live however pro· fringes of the business guy at the door, but I get the response tonight, but they videsalittlejustificationof than e v er before. Four impression that he wouldn't deserve much more than this. t h eir success. years ago the Union even held a Tuesday n i ght ~~~w~c;fat':'dt~~~=~~~~ulled a Alun Graves w~~~~}:ed ~~ ~ ~~~e t~i~~~~ reggae disco and there appalling mix of the unrespon· songwriter Pat Kane certainly were the calibre of A swad. · THE PASTELS sive crowd, affected them. didn't get where he is now on M isty in Roots and Steel -V-en-u-.------They took the stage looking grounds of his looks alone. As Pulse pulling thousand like, well, like The Pastels. one of the new breed of intel­ ------Stephen's unruly 'haircut that lectual pop stars, he works hatd plus audiences. But prog· at communica tion through hts reggae credentials as long as It' s Halloween and the a ll- launched a thousand bands', ression and innovation performance. There was no his raffs. From teaboy to Bob conquering gods of 'lndie Aggi still looking four or five unfortunately appear doubt that the large audience Marl ey to international Pop' are back in t own with yea r ~ old and the others all rarely these days in superstar. 10 who came to see Hue and Cry Reggae. People can only Both he and his Studio One ~ot an anorak i n sight, but ~~~gc~~~~: ~~~Roon~~~~\heir were satisfied. stomach so much drug band play pleasant undemand· first we have to endure set showed just how much Hue and Cry are in fact a very professional band. Profes· induced religious drivel i'l9 music, not too heavy and Regular support The Vas- depth and va riety they can pro­ sional, that is, without becom· and 'This one's for all the sometimes too light. Some­ elines. duce, from the opening It's only when you hear The psychadelia of Baby Honey ing stale. The set was diverse ladies out there' Lovers thing along the lines of Gregory Issacs but inferior. Vaselines for the third or fourth through the brisk, poppy Up with some surprises, not least Rock. Whe re's the their cover of Prince's Kiss. The It's an attempt at a serious time that you realise just how For A Bit (their philosophy in humour? crossover into the Top 40 disgustingly bad they are. They life apparently), and the overall sound was very good, If ever you needed proof that again, and good on him. Unfor­ have currently doubled their cacophony of Truck, Train, Nigel Clarke's guitaring being having a number one single tunately past form runs against 1ine up and are now twice as Tractor last year's hit single. especially enjoyable. It's nice to see a band who actually appear was no instant ticket to mass it tt:ld sliding down the well· bad - A mish-mash of syn- fans and band have lessons to enjoy dancing live - I hope fame and adulation here it was. oiled siope of obscurity, ·well drums, overdriven semi- to learn from a gig like this - they continue in the same Terrible pun, but I'm afraid you trod by similar reggae one-hit . accoustics and mumbled voc- that The Pastels are only form. were very lonely last Wednes­ wonders may be Freddie's als. They try to be 'sixties' but human and that simply calling day Freddie. This was not a destiny. Still he deserved better lack the charm or even the abil· a heckler a wanker won't shut Hue and Cry still have a bit of maturing to do, but it's hard to night out for tinseltown glit· ity of groups like The Thanes. him up. support, so go and see Dennis see them going far wrong. And terati. M ore's the pity, for Fred· Brown. The Pastels, it has to be said, Overall, a worthwhile experi- they really can whip up a storm. die M acgregor has a list of were not on top form tonight. ence. Something .. whether it was the . .. .M ~ch ,a~,I ~~~.k~~ •• J ~ ~ JA i ~ !' Gr aves IVlus c: THURS 5 NOV 1987 On Saturday ev ening a controversial " Independent.. pop group called Pop Will Eat Itself will perform in Pot· BMXBANDITS BRYAN ADAMS terrow, supported by The Membranes. Tickets cost ED WYN SECC £2.50 and are available from Union Shops, but before Venue you go, James Annesley has a word of warning to offer COLLINS about their questionable stance on matters moral . . . . What is there left to say The last time I saw T'Pau about a band like this 7 they were excellent ... this time they weren't . Now Duglas and friends are pos· that they've achieved COMPETITION sibly the last rock band alive and possibly the some degree of fame they OK, you can't say that we' sexiest too. seem to have lost the not good to you here on th hunger that got them up 'Music Pages. For the secon Indigestion Wffk in a row we •re proud t the ladder in the first place. From the moment he takes to Still, with songs such Mon· ,announce yet another very exc the stage all eyes are fixed on ,lusive competition - this tim W ith a number five lndie hit and an acclaimed debut LP, Pop Will this West Coast Adonis. each key House, TakingTime Eat Itself look like a band at last worthy of the unions' beleaguered to win a pair of tickets to se reprimanding wag, of the most Out and (of course) Heart Edwyn Collins at the Queen' booking policy. Thei r growing following and their fresh, instant phallic index finger in popular and Soul, they should have sound, almost guarantee success for this Saturday's Potterrow ·Hall on'the 19th November. music, is t ruly a sight to behold. a big future. All you haVe to do is answe gig, and now it appears that EUSA can breat he deep after the mis­ The audience surge to the stage calculation of The Primitiv es, and feel that t hey have fulfilled their these ridiculously simple ques as one mass to be as close to It's a bit different with Bryan tions and bring your answ responsibilities to students, by present ing a band people act ually this sex god as possible. Dugs' want to go and see. However, whilst succeeding in one respect, it Adams. Catapulted to fame via down to the Student offic voice trembles with pagan the Reckless al bum, he seems not later than Monday 9t is clear that they are failing their duties in another, much more brutality as he launches into important way - they are undermining their stance against November. another song of teenage forni­ :~le~~~~ ih~e;up~~bk ln1~s¥~: 1. Which jingly jangly foe sexism and conservatism. cation. Fireearlier thisyear. Hence he's group did " Eddie" on Ever since Mom threw away the Beastie Boy's Best Porno Mag, The audience are capitvated regained the hu nger which belong to7 there has been a rapid upsurge for a new wave of bands, all m ale by the raw energy of pu lsating, T'Pau seemed to lack, and it groups of lads, singing songs about pulling the "birds": among 2. Which reconl label i throbbing music and lose showed. Edwyn now on, end what i the worst of them stands Pop Will Eat Itself. themselves in reckless aban­ Kicki ng off with Only The the name of his /ates " My favourite way of getting kicks don. The music gets wilder and Strong Survive it was action single? I go down town and hustle chicks wilder until by the time Purple stations all t he way I got a Ross-Royce, a Umo-Zine Haze shudders to a quivering Working t heir The girls all groove on my machine" stop all the audience can do is way through t he hau nting lick t he sweat from each other's Native Son and stand out track This excerpt from PWEl's Beaver Patrol ilustrates the new role of faces. "Kiss the sky" indeed. Victim of Love t he set clim axed women in this style of music, they have gone back to being "gir- The respite was only brief with the single of '85 Run To lies", impressed by the drooling men and thei r "big bad ca r". Of and they were back scaling new You and the stomp-along course it's easy to dismiss these words as lighthearted, even heights of fulfillment with a Somebody. Encoring with comic. However such cheap laughs can have little lasting appeal, raunchy version of Fight For Summer of '69 it was obviously and as the comic overtones fade it will be t he blatant sexism that Your Right but after this they that everybody was having one remains, as a worrying t rend in t hese apparently enlightened were gone forever and we were hell of a good t ime, both on and times, a trend that can be seen as a threat to the efforts made to left looki ng for some reason to off stage. ,.:•:::x.::_pl::od:::•:.:•:.::h•:.:m:.::'::'•:;..m~ac::h::o-:.::m_::•:.:n:.::m::_Y.::_•h::_. ------i ~~c~~ afterthis ultimate experi- Finally, after the encores, the man himself returend for a sole '--._~/ As the boys say themselves guitar-and-voice spot, obvi­ - "BMX is pure sex". Or some- ously unrehearsed - a nice touch to tnd a great gig. ' thing. James Hal;burton Ted Linehan

.r'_, ,,,,,,.;! Instant Success ' { ~ It can't be allowed to go on owned the album, though I was student favourite The Rocky J unnoticed and uncom· once given by way of a bribe, a Horror Soundtrack? Very con­ ·' mented on for any longer. light blue and pink filofax bear­ spicuous by its total absence. We ignore it at our peril. ing the al bums legend. All this We should be told - Janet. to keep me from splitting that Dope! looking down the list ., 1 Not the Gallup, " get my benefactor had in his pos­ of dinosaurs we have a fab four down" heap nor the brutal session fifty of the edition of entries by Pink Floyd and three Billboard Hot 100 but the three h undred first ever CD a piece to Genesis and Dire 'Nescaf& Student all time single. It just so happens to be Straits, Marlllion 2 - Queen 2. Top Fifty'. The chart that taken from the sam e chart top­ the list d oes on and on, more should be giving these ping album. This person still and more wicked, bad meaning · pages the lead, the chart has a good many of these bad. 1 money spinning securities left l rea lly liked all the joke "-'' ·1. ~ that counts. Compiled as it so J'd get busy if you've got a entries though, no. 43 " never .... ';v } was from 24,000 students CD player and think Mark Knop­ mind the Sex Pi stols, they are - ;' coast·to·coast. pier is a musical genius. Bollocks " - an old joke worth Further down the chart and re-airing and at40 The Cu It with ~ , The result is no great sur­ holding onto the number of the 'love' - rock and roll I " ~ prise, just take a look at the best beast h im self is Meatloaf w ith Next week Student reviews ' sellers in the overpriced lun­ the terribly 70's Bat out of Tangerine DrHm, F•irport ~------~--~ c ht i m e poster sa les. Pole posi- Helf.Where though in the fun Convention and Blue Oyster When questioned about the decision to book Pop will Eat Itself tion goes to Dire Straits for fifty is t he fat bastards other Cu~ . Mike Lyttle didn't consider that the song was overtly sexist (has he Brothers in Arms. I've never baby and true all t im e populuar l.L.Leglble even heard it7l and when forced to concede t hat "a song about 'beaver' might be viewed as a little suggestive and perhaps even G IG G uI DE GI G G U IDE GI G as offensive," he sided with the laughers, inferring that it was all • • • · . _ just good clean fun. 1_:~:_:::_-=:_::::_:..::::_:=-_:_:__::_=:_:_:=_:::::..='-'-;:;=-=--=---'--'--='-'-=- lt is of course impossible to say whether this style of music has It's yet another busy week on port. Venue. any serious effects on the way men view women, and perhaps it the music front taking off Saturday night also sees Also on Monday are Uoyd Cole is a good thing that PWEI are playing at Potterrow, in order that • tonight with the 16Dilllonswho Suzanne Vega atthe Usher Hal/ &. the Commotions who are at students can go along and decide for themselves. However it is a are playing the Cavern. I don't and she is now playing an extra the Plavhouse promot ing their sad fact that such a band could have risen to this level, where t hey know much about them but show due to popu lar demand. new LP. At the Venue on Tues­ receive any kind of attention at all. It isn't by censorship that this they describe themselves as a Her second set is due to begin day are Raman Ha w ho l have movement can be stopped, it must come from an individual " British psychedelic i:i r o u p~I at arou nd 10 pm on Saturday been informed were formerly resolve against such childish and backward ideas. Just as the Sun Support band is The Pterydac- night and tickets for this are the Plague of Fools. mentality can't be stemmed by out lawing Page Three, the only tyls now available from the Usher Anyway, that about wraps it feasible method of opposing these bands is to reject their music; Tomorrow night sees the hall, Virgin and Ripping up for t his week and it only long as people continue to buy their records, groups like PWEI will New York Pig funkers at the Records. remains for me to announce continue to exploit both the woman and the market. Venue-this is theirfirst gig for - t he winner of our amazingly dif· As more and more people are becoming alarmed at the rise of a while and is well worth check- ficult Ben Elton competition Right Wing political forces in both Britain and America, they are ing out. Roderick Mcl ean is now the beginning to identify it with features of popular culture - the On Saturday, Stage Two of p roud owner of two Ben Elton Rambo school of Film-makers, and the reaction of these young the Uni's Big Band policy i:iets tickets for next Saturday's men to the progressive forces, like feminism. All these trends sup- underway with Pop Will Eat show at the Playhouse. He can port the growth of conservatism, strengthening the position of the ltsetf 'gracing' the Teviot stage pick up h is p rize at the student ~~~l;~~~~a~dt~~sr~t~fr ~~~=~:::~~~~cnhc~ru::if~~~ct~r~a~~~:~~~.a l ~~~s ~~e~~ rd~~~~~e~p~~~e~~=~ The New .forte Pig ~unkers ~~c~~.48 P1easance or Friday Thus it appears strange that on t he one side students should be tu re for more info on t hem. Sunday has Little Steven at The correct answ ers to t he supporting the struggle against restriction of financial and sub- Alternatively on Saturday you the Playhouse w h ile M onday competition were: sequently individual freedom that Conservative cuts are bringing, ca n catch very pleasant indie sees Edinburgh's finest We 1. M•nchester University whilst at the same t ime supporting the much m o re acceptable band 1000 Violins at the Venue frff Kings bringing t heir par- 2. Saturd•y live face of the new Right- the beer boys on t hei r " Beaver Patrol". . .with The. F.iuboQ'\bs. • as .SUR- ticular b rand of folk/rock to the 3. The Young Ones s~ MU&le THURS 5NOV1987

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LLOYD COLE AND THE THE SMITHS THIS POISON! COMMOTIONS \:r,l('C I STARTED SOMETHING POISED OVER THE <'llllj('nt rROUB[E MAINSTREAM I COULDN'T FINISH PAUSE BUTTON O\'l' Polydor LP Rough Trade 7" Reception 7H The difficult second single. and This Poison ride it out in style Well, Rough Trade seem deter­ with lashings of guitars, ba-ba­ mined to make every last penny ba-da-da's and an underlying out of The Smiths with the social comment. The apocalyp­ release of this "posthumous" tic rashness of the first single si ngle (the first of many?) that has been dumped in favour of every self-respecting Smiths' audible vocals and crisper pro­ fan will have on the LP anyway, duction. But goddarn it, those along with two "previously geetars shore are mean. The unreleased" t racks which are Beverly Hillbillies on vinyl! TROUBLE FUNK really just different versions of TROUBLE old songs. I Started Some­ Craig Mclean thing ... is by no means a classic AZTEC CAMERA Island 12" Sn.iths' single and isn't really representative of the rest of the LOVE Originally released in August, LP but it still eats all of this WEA LP Trouble is the result of the week's other releases for break­ Bootsy Collins (of P-Funk fame) fast. Buy it to hear Morrissey's Aztec Camera is Roddy collaboration. In the bid for sexy growling ..! Frame, the boy who melted mainstream acceptance they've a It's been a long wait for this, mitlion hearts with his fringed obviously gone for a blander the third Lloyd Cole and The suede jacket and songs like Walk sound on Trouble which is nice Commotions LP. Has our Out To Winter a few years back enough though not outstanding. fragile pop poet run dry, I won· and went on to do a brilliantly Included on the low price EP are der7 But I think not. laconic version of Van Halen's the classic tracks Drop the Jump. However, the charm and Bomb, Still Smokin' arid Let's the humour have vanished and Get Small. Well worth the invest­ Rather than a lack of ideas. I the blandness of this atbum is ment if you don't possess them suspect Lloyd Cole takes a cer­ appalling. already. tain pride in recording only what is really worth recording. AGE OF CHANGE Mainstream is a rather carefully THE CLOSE LOBSTERS ONE THOUSAND YEARS compiled album, produced by OF TROUBLE th!~h~~~e;~~e~s R~~: F~4) FOXHEADS STALK THIS the capable hands of Tears For is in love and he's happy. WEA LAND Fea rs man Ian Stanley. As the have surrounded him with title suggests, there is not hing appropriately happy backing Are LP obscu re or underground about singers and happy drum prog­ AOC are the bastard children of this record, but then Lloyd rammers and the result is nine The only disappointing aspect BAD and Sigue Sigue Sputnik. wants to be heard by a lot of songs to fall asleep to, sentimen· of an otherwise excellent Their's is a fusion of sloganeer­ people. And he's going the tal stuff, vaguely funky, nothing Freshers' Week gig in Potterrow ing personal politics with was that the Close Lobsters only right way about it. unexpected. The voice is still RAYMONDE guitar-based noise around a good, and the current single got playing for 20 minutes, due heavy drumbeat framework. This is in fact one of the finest Deep and Wide and Tall is prob­ to the upstart antics of another SOLID STA TE SOUL All the elements of hip hop and ably the best thing here, but support band. This wonderfully collections of good pop songs house music are there but the Blue Guitar 7 " really, these features are no named debut LP, however, con­ that has been on offer for quite cut-ups and sampling are an recompense for what is other­ firms the promise they showed sometime. Songs like Jennifer integral part of the music, not She Said and Sean Penn Blues wise middle-of-the-road twad­ then. Gone are the fey tam­ part of some formula. should ensure Lloyd 's eleva­ It's probably very approp­ dle. For heaven's sake, Killer­ bourine solos of early songs like The trademarks that made riate to review the Raymonde mont Street sounds like a coun­ Firestations Towers to be tion in pop star status. And the "Crush Colision" mini-LP try 'n' western classier replaced by hard-edged guitar Mainstream proves that Lloyd single after The Smiths so impressive are prominent riffs which are evident on songs Cole is one of the most enter· because they have had to throughout the first side with such as Just Too Bloody Stupid taining lyricists around. endure endless comparisons " Ready Or Not . .. " and "Hold Just because these songs and Mother of God. Nor is the Another delicious moment with our Mancunian heroes. On" competing with the previ­ mean nothing to me in my life value of decent tune forgotten comes with Big Snake, featur­ The singing apart, these aren't ous singles as 'sonic disco' ing the trumpet of Jon Hassel rea lly justified simply because (take note Pastels et al .. .) and I classics. ~~~difn~~:ar:u~f~i~~;~cii~~J) Take Bribes and In Spite Of and the voice of Tracy Thorn. Raymonde are a very ordinary On the whole, though way beautiful. It's not. because These Times are evidence of Mainstream is an essential band trying to be special. A flawed, "One Thousand of heavy-handed and charmless this. Along w ith McCarthy, can­ record, one ofthe best this year. record that conspicuously fails Years .. "almost lives up to its production. I'm glad the guy is didates for the best debut of the The Commotions really know to live up to its title .. . maybe sleevenotes. What more can happy, but we can do without year? Buy, buy, buy. how to play a good tune. next time. you ask for? this. Dessie Fahy AlunGraves Dessie Fahy James Haliburton Suzanne Doran

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, L\'f W,_E THURSSNOV Committee Meeting Nicolson Sq Methodist Church ~THECEN1CHAPLAINCY CENTRE 630pm SeMce-"P,aye,.the 1 01 pm FRl6NOV Practice. Gi.ving". 8 pm: "Prayer T HE wEE KLY GUI I KB Lunchtime Talk - 6th level - the L1fehne to God". Common Room. "The Anatomy EU CHRISTIAN UNION of Science": Or David Edge, Sci-. Dave Harrison on HThe Bible - ence Studies Unit. Fact or Fiction~. At least a rip­ MON9NOV EU HISTORICAL SOCIETY ping good y. - especially the Kirkpatrick Library bits about David -what he got NORTH AMERICAN STUDIES 6.30pm up to would make Ben Elton PROGRAMME Regius Prof. Sir G. R. Elton (no blush. Room 139, WRB; 4 pm I relation) on "The English Par­ Seminar - "The Colletons 1640- 1790: From Myth and Mayhem Jiamentary System - an unex­ CATHOLIC STUDENTS' UNION through Biography to Monog­ I pected problem". No. 23 George Square EU FRIENDS OF THE EARTH 12.30-2.00 pm raph~. Led by Ian Buchanan {Dept of History). CANNON DOMINION Cheviot Room, Pleasance Feet guilty about the night 4472660 Vegetarian Evening - free to before? Absolve yourself in a LOTHlAN ROAD 2293030• NEWBATnE TEA members. 50p to others. Come bread and cheese lunch in Stu­ EUCA BEVERLY HILLS COP II BEVERLY HILLS COP II Teviot M iddle Reading Room along for hin~s a~d samples. dent Common Room. vis, 5.45, 8.45 2.15, 5.15,8.15 EU LABOUR CLUB 1 pm HIGH FINANCE SOCIETY Fans of Eddie Murphy, full of If the Cannon is too full of hot, Teviot Debating Hall; 1 pm Conservative lunch. euphoria after the BHC I epic, sticky, hysterically giggling pun­ Lecture Hall A, MRally for Scottish Democracy". David Hume Tower, 6.30 pm will be running off in hoards to ters, get down to the Dom and With main speaker John Smith, EU MODERN DANCE SOCIETY the Cannon, £2.50 in their hot, save your braincells by going to Finance Committee. Anyone can MP (Shadow Cabinet). Chambers St Ballroom come and join in preparing sweaty little hands. Many, how­ see either. SOCIETIES Modern/Jazz- 6-7 pm ever, will have read the reviews · reports on the Edinburgh build­ THE UNTOUCHABLES. Will all societies which have not Bc.. :let-7-Bpm and not bother. ing industry and what caused Performance Workshop - 8-10 From Mon re-registered please do so as THE UNTUUCHABU:::i the crash. Don't all rush at once. soon as possible. pm. £1 per class, £1.50 member· 2.15,5.15,8.15 Lecture Hall A, DHT 2, 5, 8 Excellent cinematography and ship. No experience necessary. Yes folks, it's 'choose your 7.30pm stlisation make what could venue' time. The Cannon or the Angus Grossart will talk about SAT7NOV have been a run of the mill hero Dominion? (A helpful hint: the how he built Noble Grossart and SPORT!!!! story a movie epic. TUES 10NOV one beginning with D is £1 Co., the Edinburgh Merchant Men's Hockey v. Whitecraigs at cheaper). HOPE AND GLORY Bank. Kit packs available at the Peffermill. Netball v. Aberdeen SCHUMACHER SOCIETY 2.30, 5.30, 8.30 FULL METAL JACKET end of the meeting. at the Sports Centre. Edinburgh, Middle Reading Room, Teviot Depicts a family's struggle to NEW SCOTLAND COUNTRY Edinburgh, rah! rah! rah! 7.30 pm 2. 10, 5.20, 8. 10 Sometimes I wonder when all make do during the hard days DANCE SOCIETY John Logan will be speaking on of the war. Chaplaincy Centre/McEwan Hall POP WILL EAT ITSELF and THE "Small is Beautiful". Free the Falklands films will start 6.30 pm: Lessons starting - MEMBRANES cheese and wine. Hope the springing up. Though nothing Beginners Highland in Chap­ Potterrow theory doesn't extend to the extraordinary, this is still a CAMEO laincy Centre; 7.30 pm: Begin­ Uve music returns to Potterro'w vino. good war film. 38 HOME STREET 2284141 ners Scottish Country in McE­ with punk band the Mem­ wan Hall; 8.30 pm: Social danc­ branes supporting the prophe­ EU FRIENDS OF PALESTINE ODE ON THE WITCHES OF EASTWlf"' tic independent band Pop Will Sun 8, Fri 6, 4.25, 6.40, 9; 'I.IF ' ing in McEwan Hall - if you The Exec Room, Pleasance 7 CLERK STREET 667 7331 haven't got a clue or haven't Eat Itself. Tickets £12.50 fro.m 6.30pm Sat 7, 2.45, 6.40, 9; been to any lessons, go along Union Shops. Dr Duffield speaks on "The Bal­ NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET Mon 9-Thur 12, 4.25, 6.40, 9 and be guided through the four Declaration: 60 Years PART 3: DREAM WARRIORS Jack Nicolson plays a homely lit­ beautiful intricacies of our native SUNS NOV After". 1.55, 4, 6.10, 8.35 tle devil who, when summoned dance. Pizza-face Fingers Freddie up (no pun) by three bored· EU ARCHAEOLOGY SOCIETY REMEMBRANCE DAY SERVICE EU MODERN DANCE SOCIETY returns to haunt the children of housewives, gives them more 16-20 George Sq, Ground Floor Upper Library, Old College, Chambers St Union Ballroom the adults who killed him. Less than they bargained for. 7.15pm South Bridge; 10.20 am Contemporary- 6-7 pm tension, more gOre than the CAPTIVE and " The North-South Divide: The service will be conducted by Modern/Jazz - 7 .30-8.30 pm others. Freddie's coming to get ORDER OF DEATH Agricultural Risk and Social the Chaplains to the University £1 per class, £1.50 membership. you Fri6; 11.15pm Complexity in Greek Prehistory" and Heriot-Watt University. Staff No experience necessary. TIN MEN Double bill - a Jean Cocteau­ with Paul Halstead, University of and students of the universities , .45, 5.40, 8.20 like fantasy of a kidnapped girl Sheffield. are invited WED11 NOV Richard Dreyfuss and Danny de being held by three terrorists. CATHOLIC STUDENTS' UNION Those attending are requested Vito as aluminium sidinU sales­ With o ld Ollie Reed. Johnny Rot­ No. 24 George Square to be seated in the Upper Library CHAPLAINCY CENTRE men in an entertaining comedy. ten is the victimiser in a Food, fireworks, bonfire and not later than 10.10 am. 1.10pm ANGELHEART psychological thriller-Orderof music - bring your own spark­ At the conclusion of the service Midweek Service - Air. Rev. 2. 15, 5.30, 8.15 Death. ler - all for £1.75. All welcome in the Upper Library, the Ser­ Alan Moses, Old St Paul's Mickey Rourke arrives just sec· TALES OF ORDINARY and bring a bottle. Catholics vices contingent will form up in Church. ands too late at the scene of var­ MADNESS have more fun. the Old College Quadrangle for ied inveritive murders whilst 6 2 EU FOOTBALL CLUB the Silence at the laying of EU LESBIAN AND GAY trailing pre-war crooner Johnny ~~s~d ·~~ P:;1 book called !~c- DISCO!!! in OUTER LIMITS. wreaths. SOCIETY Favorite. Rober De Niro filed his tions, Ejaculations, Exhibitions 9.30-2.00 am - take your studs A collection will be taken at Cheviot Room, Pleasance, 8 pm nails especially for the film, set in and Tales of Ordinary Madness. off and dance around the ball. In the service in aid of the Earl Haig Speaker: Bob Orr, West and voodoovilte, New Orleans. Say no more. aid of club tour. Fund. Wilde Bookshop.

EXHIBITIONS C:.A.NN<>N Until 8 Jan With matric card students get in for £1.30 on Mondays only. All other FRUITMARKET CITY ART CENTRE SCOTLAND AND RUSSIA performances are £2.50 29MARKETST 2252383 2MARKETST 225 2424 Examination of historic links bet· ween the two countries. l>OIVllNl<>N Until 18 Nov Until 5 Dec Until8Jan Students pay £1.50 for every performance in Cinemas 1 and 2. The HOMAGE TO BEUYS THE CITY'S CLOCKS Work by such artists as Warhol, BURNS IN EDINBURGH only exception is the late evening shows Monday to Friday in Until 5 Dec (Ach, no, Hamish, ye must be Cinema 3 and the two evening shows on Saturday. The Dominion is Twombly, Richter, Clemente, CRITICAL REALISM-ASPECTS seein' things.) Celebration of t he closed on Sundays. Paladino and Schnabel combine OF BRITISH LIFE TODAY publication of Burns' Poems to form a memorial show to this A look at our consumer society Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. influential figure. and the negative effects it has on <>DEON Performances up toBpm cost £1.50 and aft~r6pm cost £2with card. many of us. Does not aoo1v Fri and Sat. Seats bookable in advance. GALLERY OF Until 5 Dec NATIONAL GALLERY JOSEPH McKENZIE THE MOUND 5568921 MODERN ART Dundee photographer whose Fl LIVI HOUSE Until 27 Dec Student prices are 75p for matinees, early evening shows £1.50 work records the fast-disappear­ BELFORD ROAD . 5568921 DRAWINGS BY ARTISTS IN (except Sat) and £2.30 for main evening shows which are bookable ing lifestyles in Scotland, Eng· in advance. Until 6 Dec land and Ireland. (It's certainly a 17TH CENTURY ROME PAUL NASH - LANDSCAPE Seemingly a very fertile period. week for poking holes in the al' OF THE VERNAL EQUINOX FJLIVIS<>C: fabric of society.) A small explanatory exhib about ROUND THE NATIONAL Membership, costing £10 to students, gives free entrance to all Nash's " Equinox". GALLERIESS performances. Non-members may purchase guest tickets in THE TERRIBLE YEAR-1937 NATIONAL LIBRARY Seriesoftours-all free. advance from any Union Shop or atthe Postgrad Students' Union at Commemoration of one of Adolf GEORGE IV BRIDGE 226 4531 Ernst Barlach and Oskar the weekend. "Seig Heil ~ Hitler's attacks on Until 14Nov Kokoschka {Wed 11 Nov, 2.30 modern art, the "Degenerate EUROPEAN COMMUNITY pm) is the first. Sounds like a rea1 Artn exhib of 1937. ARCHIVES comedy double act.

TEN fRE FOLD11mmmom11THE AMBASSADORS SUNS NOV THURSSNOV Music Box, Victoria St 220 1708; 9.30 pm; Free AVAIL and LOTHIAN ANTHRAX £1 after9 pm Soundcheck Rock Club, DE TO WHAT'S ON Playhouse, Greenside Pl Reggae The Venue, Calton Road 557 2590; 7 .30 pm; £6, £5 THE NEW YORK 557 3073; 7.30 pm; £1.50 Bring shoulder pads, face­ PlGFUNKERS Chew on some heavy rock. guards and earplugs if you're The Venue, Calton Ad TAM WHITE AND not used to awfully loud thrash­ 557 3073; 7.30 pm THE DEXTEAS ing metal. Jazz funk. Give them some cre­ Preservation Hall , Victoria St dit for the name. 226 3816; Evening £1 Rhythm and blues. FUTURE WORLD MOVES BARBARA DICKSON MEADOWS CHAMBER Preservation Hall, Victoria St Playhouse, Greenside Pl HIGHLANDER and MAD MAX ti THE HORSE THIEF 226 3816; 9.30 pm; Free ·557 3590; 8 pm; £8, £7, £6 ORCHESTRA Queen's Hall, Clerk St 668 2019 Sat7;1 1.15pm Sun 8, 8.30 pm; Calling all wallflowers. 7.45 pm; £2 concession Two violently lighthearted hunk­ Mon, Tues, Wed, 6.15, 8.30 TEMPLEHALL STOMPERS £3, SCOTIISH NATIONAL Mozart's " Magic Flute" Overture strewn movies. Christopher (Mat Wed 2.30) Temple Hotel, Esplanade, Joppa ORCHESTRA included. Lambert and Sean Connery star Chinese film of a man who flouts 669 4264; Evening Usher Hall 228 1155 UTILE STEVEN in an (unintentionally) hilarious religious and social conventions Resident jazz-blues band. 7.30 pm; £2.50-£9.90 Playhouse, Greenside Pl adventure. Met Gibson struts his to feed his family and is ulti­ Edward Downes conducts a OELAMITRI 557 2590; 7.30 pm; £6, £5 stuff later on. mately rejected by his tribe. romantic-orientated prog­ The Venue, Calton Road Formerly with Bruce Springs­ STALKER BICYCLE THIEVES ramme including Brahms' 3rd 557 3073; 7 .30 pm teen's E-Street Band. Pure rock Sun 8; 1.15 pm Tues 10, 6.45, 8.45 Symphony and Schumann's Hailing from Glasgow, reports 'n' roll. Russian sci-fi film about a Room Italian film about the importance Cello Concerto. where visitors have revealed to of small things on the lives of the so far have been complimen­ them the path to their innermost pOO<. tary. desires. LA GRAN FIESTA SAT7NOV LLOYD AND THE COMMOTIONS Thurs 5, 6.15, 8.30 SUZANNE VEGA Playhouse, Greenside Pl CASTAWAY Puerto Rican film. Maps the FRl6NOV Usher Hall, Lothian Rd 557 2590; 7.30 pm; Ll, £6 Mon9-Wed 11; 2.15pm struggle of Puerto Rico as a 2281155 Tour to promote their new LP, Lots of nudity on a desert island pawn in the hands of USA and THE SCOTIISH MASOUING Excellent Joni Mitchell-style - "Mainstream" - quite descrip­ paradise, but since it's Ollie her rich landowners. COMPANY repertoire. Well worth seeing. Reed (again) it's not so appetis­ THE KILLING FIELDS St Cecilia's Hall, Cowgate tive of the lads in action. THE ROOTSIE TOOTSIE BLUES STRATEGY 7.30 pm ing. From Lucy Irving's book Mon 9, Tues 10, 2.30 7.45pm about how to have experiences £."3.50, £2.50 concessions BAND PreserVation Hall, Victoria St Oscar-winning film about the Preservation Hall, Victoria St in order to write a book, to make Tickets from Edinburgh Univer­ 226 3816; 9.30 pm; Free atrocities ofthe Pol Pot regime in 226 3816; £1 after 9.30 pm a film. sity Faculty of Music, Nicolson Middle of the road rock. Cambodia, and the involvement "Fred~ for short of American journalists as well Square, or at the door on night. WE FREE KINGS A double bi ll of 18th-century 1000VIOLINS The Venue, Calton Rd 557 3073 FILM HOUSE as effects of the A'merican The Venue, Calton Rd South-East Asian policy. comedy including music by 88 LOTHIAN ROAD 228 2688 Thomas Arne. Conducted by 557 3073; 7.30 pm TUES 10NOV tndie band. A Christopher Bell. Extra perfor­ ROMAN HA FILM SOC mance at 7. 45 on Saturday 7th. sco rs 5, Fri 6, 2.30 pm; Queen's Hall, Clerk St; 668 2019 The Venue, Calton Road Sat7, 11 pm 60 PLEASANCE 557 0436 557 3073; 7.30 pm THE BLOCK BROTHERS 7.45 pm; £3-£8 Ten separate directors were BLACK GOO-WHITE DEVIL Mozart. Previously Plague of Fools. Preservation hall, Victoria St PERISTALSIS BROTHERS invited to make films of ten sepa­ Fri 6, 6.45; Pleasance 2263816 AFTER EIGHT MINCE . WITH BRASS rate arias from operas. Directors Brazilian film about violence in £1 after 9.30 pm Music Box, Victoria St Negociants, Bristo Sq 225 6313 include Jean-Luc Godard, Ken the country's past. 220 1708; £1 after 9 pm Russell and Robert Altman, Evening Jazz/funk. composers Verdi, Wagner and HIDDEN FORTRESS JIMMY WITHERSPOON WITH Fri 6, 8.45; P1easance POP WILL EAT ITSELF and THE Puccini. GORDON CRU IKSHANK WED 11 NOV Japanese adventure film about QUINTET MEMBRANES STILL OF LIFE SWIMMING TO CAMBODIA a samurai saving a young Queen's Hall, Clerk St Potterrow Music Box, Victoria St Fri 6, Sat 7, 4.45, 6.45, 8.45 heiress from a bandit. 668 2019 Live music retu rns to Potterrow Spalding Glay's monologue with punk band th e Mem­ 220 1708; 9.30 pm; Free MANHATIAN 9.30 pm; £4.50, £3.50 cone CHARLIE McNAIR'S BAND about hs experiences acting in Supposedly th is troupe are put­ branes supporting the prophe­ Sun 8, 6.45; George Sq Theatre Preservaton Hall, Victoria St The Killing Fields, encompas­ Woody Allen classic. ting jazz back on the map. tic independent band Pop Will sing poetry, wit, humour and US Eat Itself. Tickets £12.50 226 3816; Evening military aggression. COCOON Jazz/blues. Sun 8, 8.30 pm; George Sq Th THE FLY Geriatric sci-fi fantasy. Fri 6, 3pm; Sat7, 3,6.15, 8.30 Jeff Goldblum as a scientist COMPROMISING POSITIONS whose experiments with tele- Wed 11 ,6.45; George Sq Th Murder thriller as a journalist THEATRE ~~~~~ory~~~i~ly ~~~s~~tu~~~ investigates the death of her the weak stomached. dentist. z HANNAH ANO HER SISTERS BEDLAM LYCEUM NETHERBOW ARTS Sun 8, 5.45, 8. 15 Wed 11 , 8.45; George Sq Th 2 FORREST ROAD 225 9873 -"GR"'l'-'N"-DLA"-"Y-'ST"-----'229=~969=7 CENTRE THE MERCHANT OF VEN ICE BAILENGANGAIAE HtGHSTREET 5569579 Thurs 5th-Mon 9th Nov 7 .30 pm Oct 30-21Nov7.45 pm Set in Ireland this play relates Tickets from £2. 70 JUNGLE BOOK how the town earned the name Shakespeare's dark comedy set 4· 14 Nov 7.45 pm Tickets £2.25 of being without laughter told in Venice in which various cone. C:.A.IVI EC> through the mouthpiece of suitors try and solve the riddle Old'favourite by Rudyard Kipl­ Afternoon shows are £1.20, evenings £2 and last show £2.90. three women who each recount of the three caskets to win Por­ ing which the theatre maintains Students get into the matinees (Sat and Sun) for £1.20. their own personal tragedies. tia, a wealthy heiress, in mar­ will appeal as much to adults as riage. children although those under BEDL.A.IVI STAGS AND HENS seven may find parts rather Bedlam members may purchase tickets at discount rates. All 1.30 pm £1.50/£1 frightening. lunch time performances include free lunch of soup and bread. Written by Willy Russel , author TRAVERSE of 'Educating Rita'. Witty GRASSMARKET 2262633. THE MOTHER LVC:EUIVI scouse humour much evident 6and 7 Nov 10 pm Tickets from 4-6 Nov 1 pm Tickets £1 The Lyceum Card co~ts £1 and allows you to claim £1 off each ticket in this play set in the gents and £2 One-wopman monologue in purchased (maximum 2 per show) for the year of validity. ladies toilets of a seedy night­ CABARET which a mother laments her club. This week the supposedly 'Nice son joining the extremist Red SN<> People' present 'Gawd Me Nuts Brigades in Italy earlier th is Scottish National Orchestra concerts at the Usher Hall on Friday Vicar You've Split The Packet'. decade. BRUNTON THEATRE Sure to be riveting. TniiXvaEoRrSdE NTtl HIGH ST, MUSS 665 2240 HYPOCHONDRIA Student membership is £4 for four years, which enables members to 3-8 Nov7.30 pm Tickets from £2 CHAMBERS STREET 225 3744 buy tickets at £2 for all performances. A GALWAY GIRL Forkbeard Fantasy present a Wed 11 -Fri 131 pm bizarre and amusing play about . THE LAST BOAT TO BRAZIL ESC:A. An obviously mismatched a millionaire confined to his couple lead the audience and ETC 1"?"£1.50 non-members; Edinburgh Students Charities Appeal are at 17/1 9 Guthrie Street(225 bed who has an unhealthy Wed 4, Thurs 5; 7 _jb pm 4061). Anyone is welcome to pop down and meetings are from 1 till. through various milestones, in preoccupation with domestic - Play of murder, mystery and 2 on Tuesdays. their married life such as hon­ insects. Very visual and dis­ eymoon, birth of their four chil­ moronic fun plus sketches. turbing life size puppets You'll never stop laughing dreri, redundancy, emigration appearing throughout th e per­ (that's the blurbi and then ultimately death. formance. ELEVEN T~tho~ht lllto action

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NINE •'' FILIVI THURS 5NOV1987 HIP HOPPER Dennis Hopper, acclaimed but rebellious actor-director, has a reputation for talent but excess, and breakdown in the mid-seventies. Hopper's paranoia and drug here Student asks, can his lifestyle incorporate both 7 During the filming of Easy Rider addiction finally forced him to the first rear problems showed leave Hollywood in 1976 and live Dennis Hopper is a sick man. If Hopper seemed to have his Taylor, with Dean playing the themselves. Hopper's regular in Taos, New Mexico (where the the typecasting principle holds career mapped out. principal character. A close drug-taking and alcohol abuse, persecuted D. H. Lawrence true then Hopper is a psychotic, all part of the sixties mystique, spent his last years). drug-abusing drunkard in desp­ Hopper began acting at the friendship grew between the were beginning to have their erate need of medical help. Even though he has only just effect on his personality. His fre­ returned from this exile, Dennis Hopper, now 53, has played quent, uncontrollable rages got Hopper already has an Oscar similar characters in his last" so bad that his co-star Peter nomination to his credit. The three films. His mixture of cold Fonda took to hiring a body­ otherwise unremarkable basket­ cynicism and wild-eyed mania guard and carrying a gun. ball film Hoosiers, with Gene has earned him a wide reputa­ Hackman, was transformed by tion as an actor. In Hoosiers, Hopper's portrayal of the one­ Blue Velvet and now River's Ironically, Hopper's next role time player who has become the was playing a sixties burn-out in Edge he is the violent man, high town drunk. ln Blue Velvet he Francis Ford Coppola's master­ gives one of the best perfor­ on either alcohol or drugs. How­ piece Apocalypse Now. With a mances of his career as Frank, a ever, although Hopper seem s cast including Malron Brando monster too close to our own the epitome of Hollywood suc­ and Martin Sheen it was poten­ reality. cess, his acting is based largely tially a key role in the career of any actor. But almost all the In the current release. River's on personal experience. He has Edge (which opens at the Fil­ just returned from a ten-year major scenes with Hopper were cut in the editing room, some­ mhouse on Nov. 22nd), Hopper exile in New Mexico after plays an equally evil character. alcoholism, cocaine addiction thing he still remains bitter about. In one scene an effigy He is an ex-biker with one leg and a violence problem virtually who sells dope to children and ended his career. representing Hopper's character was covered in almost a has an inflatable doll as a hundred squibs and used in a girlfriend. In 1969 Dennis Hopper made mock execution. He claims that it his directorial debut with Easy cost more to set up than he was However, this semi-typecast­ Rider. Hopper and Peter Fonda being paid for the whole film. ing has not allowed Hopper to went 'looking for America' and The scene was never used. show his true talent as an actor. converted Jack Nicholson to Although his recent perfor­ their religion in the process. It mances are excellent he has not Dennis Hopper's· infam ous was an overnight success and age of 16with the Glove Theatre two actors and Dean had consid­ yet played anything outside his reputation had reached gigantic in San Diego. After being spot­ erable influence on the young own experience. If he is to gain proportions by the early seven­ he became one of Hollywood's ted playing Shakespeare he got Hopper. the critical acclaim he deserves ties. His second director's role up-and-coming proteges. his first role, alongside James Hopper needs to be given a role was in the notorious The Last Although originally intended as Dean in Rebel Without a Cause. Even so, Hopper's idolising of that tests his talents to the full. a low budget biker movie, it His next film was Giant, where James Dean was a sign of the Movie which is only comparable soon became a symbol of sixties he played the weak-willed son of insecurities developed in his with the film that bankrupted a rebellion and counter culture. Rock Hudson and Elizabeth childhood which led to his whole studio, Heaven's Gate. Adrian Searte

SWIMMING TO ARIA successful. Most bring new Julien Temple was also on'e of than making what is already an meaning to the word " self­ the golden few picked to contri­ 91itist side of the arts more CAMBOOIA Directors: Various bute to this film, and his slot Was Almhouse indulgence". A classic example accessible to people through of this is segment five of the film, fairly enjoyable. Taking pieces Dir: .JoMth.n Demme film. Film house directed by Bruce Beresford (of from the well-known Rigoletto, King David and Crimes of the he wove the comic plot together Perhaps opera buffs will go to Out of JoNthen Demme'• see Aria out of curiosity, and Ken Russell, Derek Jarman, Heart fame). in a manner that was refresh­ m•ny works being presented M ingly tongue-in-cheek. others to see what any of the ten the Almhouse this month, this Jean-Luc Godard . His chosen aria was given directors have come up from Korngold's Die Tote Stadt Altogether, the vision 1s is his l8test •nd by far the most with, but Barry Norman pin­ unique. the list of directors lnvotved in and , according to the film ambitious, but the result - a pointed the film's downfall this film defies belief. Don Boyd bumph, " Beresford was con­ hotchpotchery of pretensions exactly when he said Aria was has brought together a collec­ vinced that the only cinematic that add up to nothing more " too flashy for the average tion of those famous in the film interpretation that would remain than a waste of time. This dam­ opera-goer and too operatic for wortd to create .. a multi-directo­ true to the piece was to have two nation of what cou ld have been the average film-goer". Never a rial, cinematic celebration of beautiful, young people singing a remarkable film comes from truer word spoken. opera music", and there are to each other". It's a pity that someone who does actually like Empty cinemas' predicted, extracts ranging from Rigoletto looking at two beautiful young opera. But there is no joy in folks. to Tristan und Isolde. people in a 16th-century man­ watching a string of 10-minute sion for ten minutes isn't more sequences, largely demonstrat­ Briony Sergeant Some of these extracts are fun. ing each director's ego, rather C>DEC>N CLERK STREET 031 -667 7331/2

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still holds on to 'Stand By Your ALMOST PERSUADED Man' can have no self-respect? Tr• verse 300ct.·1 Nov. Her declaration, however, that " I was almost persuaded- but I wasn't persuaded" amounts The New Work/No Definition to more than just an outburst of season of new theatre con­ devotion. It's a rejection of her tinues at the Traverse with society's sense of justice, cal­ Annie Griffin's festival-proven, ling for an eye for an eye. It's a one-woman show, Almost Per­ turning away from a woman's suaded. The play takes its name real lack of self-respect, offer­ from a Tammy Wynette song, ing to be whoever her man and the Country and Western wants her to be. It's a vindica­ tradition pervades the show in tion of morality. its music, lyrics, and presenta· ti on. Annie Griffin wants all this to be understood and, at the same Almost Persuaded is about time. demands great flexibility pick-ups, men, women, and a in her audience. sometimes culture's attitude towards mer· she asks you to participate in ality and faithfulness. " I want the show-to play the part of a C&W crowd, applauding a non­ you to understand me~ Annie Griffin scrawls in red lipstick at existent band. Time and again the very beginning of the per­ you're requested to create for formance which starts and yourself a scene that the ends with a pick-up. It's the actress constantly manipulates same encounter, failing both and changes. And throughout times, but for different reasons. the performance you're expected to withdraw from it, On the first occasion, the girl to consider the contents. Still, hasn't either the heart or the no-one said that new theatre confidence to go through with was easy. it. Second time around, after all If you're prepared to work at that's gone before, the audi· it, Annie Griffin's Almost Per· ence hopes for a different suaded is visually captivating, result. They won't believe that emotionally powerful, and after all the hurt her husband's always thought-provoking. caused she can still be devoted to him. Surely any woman who John Ormiston ---PPORlUNmES ~-- RESEARCH We are looking for Edinburgh graduates in the following areas: Scottish Ope~ : Kenneth Cox as Osmin in last Friday's Seraglio. 0 Physics 0 Mathematics 0 Metallurgy and Material Science 0 Chemistry 0 Life Sciences 0 Electrical and Electronic Engineering 0 Mechanical Engineering 0 Chemical Engineering TYPING For more informat ion come along to our Careers Presentation on Thursday 12th N ovember in SHORT BAND The Games Room, Hugh N isbet Building, Riccarton Campus at Heriot-Watt University commencing at 6. 30 pm. WORD PROCESSING

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~ EN ,ARTS THURS5NOV1987 VENETIAN CLASS THE MERCHANT OF VENICE Royal Lyceum Theatre until 21 November After the debacle of last year's Macbeth, it was with some trepida­ tion that I faced the Lyceum's present Shakespeare production. The Merchant of Venice, however, is very different from that infamous rendition of "The Scottish Play", being a very enjoyable, if not entirely innovative production. The Royal Lyceum Theatre Company is being sponsored for the first time by Scottish life, and this sponsorship also provides additional funding for teaching packs to be given to schools com­ ing to the play. Perhaps it is due to the Lyceum's having one on the schools' curriculum, and its policy of developing a young audi· ence, which explains the traditional nature of th.e- p.roduction, giving an excellent idea of the play as a text, but does not try to break any theatrical boundaries. As has come to be &xpected from the Lyceum, the set is excel­ lent and gives a real idea of Venice, representing dilapidated mar­ ble columns and stonework. Changes of scene from Venice to Bel­ mont are signified mainly and effectively by lighting. The caskets are also well designed, being the focal point of much of the action, in an otherwise sparse set. The acting is on the whole good, although variable in quality. The women are generally stronger. Portia particularly, played by Elizabeth Millbank, stands out, especially since Delaval Astley West's Launcelot Gobbo, and Andrew Cochrane's interpretation of the Prince of Morocco, Billy Riddoch, is perhaps an unusual choice to play the merchant, Antonio, himself, nevertheless con­ veys the ennui and despair of the thwarted homosexual in an understated but effective way, while Andrew Dallmeyer as Shylock portrays the stricken Jew particularly well when intent on gaining his revenge. 'Elizabeth Millbank as Portia. The wider themes of the play are treated very well. The anti· solo contrasted beautifully with Her weaknesses are probably semitic element especially is made strikingly obvious, ensuring shades of Wagner easily emphasised by the work of other that the audience's sympathy is largely with Shylock. when, rob- detected in the brass notes. Dur- artists on display elsewhere in bed by Christians, who openly despise him, of his dauqhter and his ing his youth, Wolf became the gallery. Not just by paint­ money, he is then balked in his understandable desire for SCO almost obsessed with Wagner ings, but prints, sculptures, revenge. This theme is expecially well emphasised by the con- =.::,-=~~---- and indeed in later life his men· ceramics and jewellery. These tempt directed toward Shylock by the other characters, Cond: Oliver Knussen tal instability led to him being other exhibits express a joy of exemplifi ed by their taunting him about the loss of his daughter. Soloist: Heinrich Schill placed in an asylum. creativity and the artists' excite­ • The production is worth seeing in that it is nice to look at- the Queen's Hall; 31 October The concert was, on the ment involved in its subject mat­ costumes and setting are attractive - and because it is on the The SCO chose a programme whole, not so long as to allow ter, whilst also finding, as easily, whole very ably acted by performers who appear to have thought of works which, although eclec- boredom to creep in, and the a place in the popular art market. about and to understand Shakespeare's language. The lyceum tic, could generally be said to fol- individual pieces were short and Alison Brown ~~~~~~e~:~~~~ti~~r~~~~:st,oa~3 1s:~s:u~~~~~~i~~ :ri:~he!~i:0t~~?~ low a modern theme. The pieces sweet enough to leave us want- fill the company's aims to develop a young audience for tne ;ae;: :~~~e~~~i~~~,~~;0~~~~ ing more.Anne Marie Middleton POLYGON future, 8nd to strengthen the theatre's links with schools and the and effect. community in Lothian Region. Perhaps it is best summed up by The first and last pieces were Forming part of the analogy of the caskets around which much of the play based originally on songs: Brit- Publications Board with Student and various other periodicals, ten's "Suite on English Folk ~~~i~l~!~~~~k~t ~~i~~~~ ~:~~~~I~~:~ ~~oa~~~~; ti~ev~~u:uoa7~~ ~~i GALLERY Polygon is the only student-run tering. ~~~~~"tr:~:~~n~~~:;~i~~~= SCOTTISH LANDSCAPE publishing house in Europe. Jennifer Trueland folk songs in a complexity of STUDIES Polygon has been important in notes which cast tone shadows KA TH LEEN RUSSELL promoting contemporary Scot­ of forbod~n~ over the i.nnocen~e Scottish Gallery; tish fiction - authors such as of the orrgmal melodies. As '" until 25 November Jim Kelman, Agnes Owens, and many Britten pieces. the percus­ Alex Cathcart have appeared on THE RUDIMENTS oF sion section was occasionally There is a substantial differ­ Polygon's list, as well as poets given a leading role in which the ence between painting for artis­ Brian McCabe, whose new book strings could truly be said to tic satisfaction and painting for From One Atom ToAnotherwas ART No.1 have taken second fiddle . painting's sake. Sadly this exhib­ published recently, and the • The song base was treated ition falls under the latter categ­ highly popular Liz lochhead, quite differently and {to my ory. Positively, Kathleen Russell, last year's writer-in-residence. mind) less successfully in the an ex-Edinburgh College of Art Polygon is also involved with modern opening piece, "Scenes student and lecturer, can handle women's writing, with two vol­ from Schumann" by Robin Hol­ oil or water-based painting umes of collected Scottish loway. The multi-layering mediums. She is an effective women's writings, Original seemed to lose not only the and slick artist, but one can't Prints. audience but most of the origi­ help noticing the "safe" element Student participation is vital to nal melody, which left some of inherworti:. , Polygon's operations. Everyone the old retainers in the audience The large oil paintings are is welcome at Wednesday four looking slightly perturbed. executed in a more Fauvist style, o'clock meetings, which are held particularly in Kinlochbervle. at 48 Pleasance. ~ Here there is a great use of vib- Loretta Bresciani rant colour - hot oranges and ---=-"~•r-...... ,. .... __ ~:s~~~l~I~:E~:"!~~~~ MiCiiilLjliilhll!!lllll!!!iiJ11!1M· orous;E~ening echoed - C!am again.o~d in. HSummer.ere the 13::.Lb . 1~' 1 T~eir sigh of relief was clear1Y ~:,C:1~~enf~~~~~c~r~~~d d i~~o~a~ audible afterth,e first few bars of by different natural levels-sky, ~ Joseph ~aydn s Cello ~oncerto trees, waterfall and river. Colour in D ma1or. The cello ~s rarely is muted, more subtle; but there ~ show-cased as a solo. instrum- is an overriding use of white . - ~1% nent and the compl.e?<•tv of the paint which detracts from the · · ~~!; - solo pa~ woul? mitially. seem richness of the other pigments. i··· .. a: ,. not to a1~ th~ .btd of the m.s.tru- Thiswhitenessisacommonfea- .;: r · - •. - ' ~een~~~~~~;;:~~~:~~:~f ~~~ks~=~tye~~~hh~n~~=ll~ ~/~ . . the soloist, Hennch Sch111, how- astel tones and simply / \ -~ ' : ."- ~ _ ~' '.':ui ever•. was perfectl~support~ by komes monotonous. a sohd string s~1on. The trrcky Her worit lacks the excitement CALEDONIAN HOTEL timing of the piece proved an that the landscape obviously FRIDAY 13th NOV. exciting challenge. conjured up to her. Instead she ickds from Sports Union Hugo Wolf's lively and lilting relies upon the inclusion of Dinner-Ceilidh-Disco " Italian Serenade~ was a joy to figures to add a narrati~e qual- L...=:""'=OO"'UB=LE=TI.::CKET="---' hear. The warmth of the viola itx• or a point of focal interest. FEA.TURES THURS 5 NOV 1987 The Defensive On 'well it was worth the experi­ consumers representatives, part from his experience in owning and controlling those ence, lets try something else' local government and its suc­ industries, is irresistably appe· " It's right for people to be cess in, what at times seemed a aling. worried and sceptical . there hopeless task of keeping the Occupying an important are some people who would rabid dog of central govern­ place in labour's Policy like to reshape the Labour Pa rty ment at bay. Whatever shade of the political people who feet like that, who Review, Blunkett is joint chair in a very different way to those "We're in the third term of spectrum you painrJtaint your­ one minute embrace you of the Consumer and Public of us who are democratic the Thatcher era, we (left-wing self with, you cannot help but because you happen to agree Services Committee. There is a socialists, they would like to labour Councils) have survived admire and respect David Blun­ with them and the next minute fear among many on the l eft of see the watering down of key eight years which was unthink­ kett. Elected to Sheffield City scream at you for being the Party t hat this Policy values and principles." able. When I became leader of Council in 1970, he became its traitors. There is room for Review will be hijacked by the His experience in local gov- Sheffield in 1980, I didn't think leader in 1980, and in the ensu­ people to come together on we's survive more than a ing seven years has been the policies and on a perspective of couple of years." spokesman for, and passionate the values that we hold. Where Given his passion for local defender of, local government. we can pull together we must." government how wguld he In June 1987 he was e1ected as There are currently two reply to the accusation that it Member of Parliament for Shef­ abstract groups in the Labour was the antics of Labour local field Brightside and became party, the first believes that government that heaped per­ Britain's first blind MP. l abour can only succeed by suade large chunks of the Through all his pa rliamen­ adopting a quasi-Social Demo­ elctroate not to vote Labour in tary activities, Blunkett has cratic approach and b ecome June? ""At its best it was eccen· overcome his disability and the 'Human Face of the Free tricity, at it worst crassness perhaps more significantly he Market Economy Party' and the within small parts of local gov­ has overcome the misconcep­ second which seems to believe ernment and was used by the tions and prejudices of a soci­ that the only way to get Labour media to discredit the wider ety which has a very blinkered into power is by shouting efforts of local government view of anyone with a physical, louder and more often at which involved so many inno­ social or mental disability or people who have consistently vations, changes and initiatives disadvantage. Indeed it is quite rejected discredited and on the economic and employ - easy to forget that he is blind, archaic policies. except for the presence of Ben, his larger than large guide dog "The Labour Party is now and possibi1y the token par­ " We're in a situation where indulging itself in a bout of liamentary representative of the A nimal Liberation Front in a politics is very much outside soul-searching and a good House of Commons dominated deal of scratching of heads." by chauvinistic human beings. the institutional area." Going by the current levels of ment front, on service delJVery apathy and indifference out and decentralization ... it is our there in student-land you prob­ Blunkett represents a new fault, collectively as a party th ably won't have known that trend, struggling for breath in there was a General Election in ~ we didn't get that message the suffocating atmosphere across loudly and clearly." And June of this year. Just to let you :g created by these two E the impact on the electorate? • know, it turned out to be a runa­ entrenched groups in the Party. way success for the Conserva­ ~ " It was more the impact on MPeople see us as the party of ai those that hadn't experienced tive Party, a qualified disaster the disadvantaged and dispos­ ~ labour local government. Gen­ for Labour and left an Alliance, sessed without any clear idea et: erally where Left Labour coun- divided and discredited as a of what we are going to do result. about it ... we should lift people ~ ~~~re~~~ ~~ltt~;8;ro';l~md!~ out of the need to be claiming a a.. London was where people "There are some people who whole plethora of benefits." weren't in power and believed Blunkett's views may repre­ would like to seethe watering sent a radical new departure David Blunket, the first blind MP, with guide-dog Ben. w~;:i~ey ~f:~k:n has spent from the pre-1 979 labour most of his political career on down of key values and ernment has convinced him Party. "We are not going to Right, resulting in many the defensive, defending local that the way ahead is in a grass­ defend the indefensible or socialist policies being Jet­ government, defending his principles." tisoned in a desperate attempt roots approach," A labour gov­ attend to the great national cor­ socialist values and defending ernment working in partner­ porations which were set up by to see the labour Party rise, h is idea of the community. He is ship with local communities. The Labour Party is now the right-wing of the l abour balloon-like, in the electoral now, however, clearing away . there is a lot to be done going indulging itself in a bout of Party. We need to ask ourse­ favour. T his Blunkett likes to the barricades and moving back to basics." soul-searching and a good deal lves, how do we own our indus­ describe as the, "Richard Bran­ onto the offensive. At his most "We're back to a point where of scratching of heads, but at try and services in a way that's son approach to socialism" evangelical he wants to sprea people were creating a Labour the same time a number of relevant to people that work in and. to carry the analogy the gospel in the best Party and movement in order to Lords are d rawing the daggers them and to those that receive further, one feels that such Methodist tradition; "to get approach would end disastr· obtain change ... we're in a from their sacrifical sheaths. them, so the consumer element stuck in . . we have values and ously and being d itched in situation where politics is very Blunkett dismisses the latter in its widest sense is very principles, we are fighting for some Political Irish sea with· much outside the institutional group. important." an ideology which has more certain people still dining on to arena." Labour is both weak in " I don't think there's a tot of The idea of Management cohesion and coherence than the wreckage timidly declarihg Parliament and where it con­ room in the Labour Pa rty for Boards made up of workers and that of Thatcher and the market trols local government. "We're economists."· in a position that the early If David Blunkett and others pioneers were in, they were in the Labour Party who believe campaigning, persuading and in getting back to basic values organising within the work­ through innovative and inven­ WALNUT GROVE place to win people over to tive new policies, can turn the socialism and their participa­ PERTH PH2 7 lP fo present trickle of ideas into a tion in that process." continuous and constant stream, the labour Party may " I see a population just have a choice of revviving sw,t< anaesthetised on booze and its electoral fortunes. However, £11.00 the obstacles in Blunkett's way, £9.00 the crass entertainments placed there by intransigent £r.50 left-wing groups and lack industry most notably TV and £r.oo lustre Rightist groups, are rr.oo video . many and at tihles must seem £'1.00 1nsurmoi.Jntao1e. £1.70 I wished I could share Blun· £ 3.50 kett's optimism for a grass £f.70 roots revival, but looking £3. .50 I see a population anaes­ Features is undoubtedly thetized on booze, the crass the best section to write entertainments industry most for. Come along to our notably TV and video, on wel­ fa re benefit and ost of all by t he weekly meetings on sheer lack of influence the indi­ Wednesdays at Banner­ vidual has over his/her own man's pub, 1.10 pm, and society. find out. EXPRESS SERVICES THROUG HOUT THE U.K. - STUDENT FARES ON ALL ROUTES Dav id's enthusiasm for the 'grass:roots' comes in a large FEA.TURES THURS 5 NOV 1987 Living it up in the USA Working in an American Theatre Festival all summer was and dressers for the stars. Did not just a chance t o mingle w ith showbiz stars, as M ary you know that Rob Lowe wears Poulson Ellis found out. thick horn-rimmed glasses, and Donald Duck boxers; or that How would you like to spend American TV stage 'stars'. Chris Reeve can swordfight as three months rubbing shoul­ well as fly? Being backstage I was accepted on to the d ers with the likes of Paul New­ .gave us a unique chance to talk theatre apprentice programme, man and Christopher Reeve? It to some very experienced and knew absolutely nothing is possible, as I found out this people, or to just stand in the about it until I arrived in Wil­ summer at the WIL­ shadow of some very famous liamstown on June 7th 1987. ones. Paul Newman was very LIAMSTOWN THEATRE FESTI­ They didnt keep me in the dark VAL (WFT) Massachusettes, retiring yet dressed immacu­ USA. for long. The eighty appren­ lately in white - and those tices were basically 'slave eyes really are piercing - and While other friends drifted Jabour' for the rest of the three Steven Spielberg, there to sup­ into European Au Pair work I hundred strong company of port his wife Amy Irving, was decided I was going to travel to actors, struggling actors, tech­ such a non-person he had to be America in my year off and nical wizards and interns. We pointed out at least five times to started searching for were the bottom ot the heap - people before they were con­ picking up cigarette butts was vinced of his t rue ident ity. no an unknown occupation among our group. The appren­ But meeting the stars is not tices lived in halls of resi­ rea lly w hat W.T.F. is all about. It dences, worked in the theatre is about working and studying belonging to the local Williams so hard that you either adore or College and partied at the aptly abhor the theatre after you titled theatre zoos. have left. The pace is frantic, the life chaotic: and classes - Our week was split between our godsend - dropped off acting classes and technical towards August leaving us work: the former included mechanically hammering, voice and dance, the latter shut­ painting or sewing to get t he tled us here there and shows up on time. We slept, ate everywhere within the theatri­ and worked theatre; yelled and t h ing suitable. BUNAC bec­ cal system. I was lucky and had koned, but looking after hordes screamed and all wanted to a got at practically everything leavd by the end of August. of baseball-mad twelve year from costumes and painting to olds was not my idea of fun. working at the box office. It was certainly the experi­ Instead I discovered the The main shows ran for two ence of a lifetime, but whether address of America's premier weeks and after their last per­ I'd do it again is another matter. summer stock theatre and a list formance apprentices were I still love theatre though: am I 1 moved in en masse to strike the mad? probably. If you are ·~;:r!~~~~a~hc~~:?nf:7~~~:s~. set. Basically this meant that interested, have enormous one was handed a chainsaw enthusiasm and the ability to Among others were Chris and told to get on with it. The work bloody hard then the Wil­ Walken, Rob Lowe, Mary Tyler feeling of power this gives is ltamstown Theatre Festival is M oore, Joanne Woodward and incredible. possibly the best and most Signourney Weaver, besides a Besides getting the shows on satisfying way to spend your w hole host of well known apprentices became stage crew summer holidays. Super Smoothie Paul Newman

Opinion in no way reflects the Money for Nothing-? views of Student or its staff. then they'll sell to just about anyone". The possibility ofter­ The to and fro of nuclear debate such as our own are either knowledge in his country, the are engaged in a nuclear arms rorist groups, whet her political is well-worn territory-the ulti­ ignoring this entirely or simply dea lings taking place at the race of their own, each trying to or simply after money, holding mate deterrent, better red than do not want to admit that they Khartoum Hilton Hotel. The pic­ be the first to build a device, t he world to ransom e w ith their dead, mutually assured can do nothing about the inter­ ture becomes bizarre as Eric having obtained the raw mate· own private nuclear d evice is • destruction and all the rest of it. national black market in nuc­ talks of clients queuing up as a rials from who knows, by-pro­ now a probability. The issue of superpower talks lear arms. which has existed consignment of material ducts of Sellafield? Does your ever since the 196o·s. local bookmaker have a listing and of our own measly pile of arrives at Khartoum airport. Several years ago a ra nsome Eric had some enlightening for the odds o f an Arab nuclear hardware is seen by Channel 4 has gathered evi· demand with a threat to poison things to say about his former holocaust within the next most people as "very impor­ dence of at least five consign­ Manhattan's water supply was career. Asked where the mate· ments of material passing decade? Argentina has a cru de t ant", "crucial issue" etc etc. In dismissed as a hoax bu"t later nuclear device and Libya is very the long run however it's not rial weapons-grade through in t he past few years. traces of plutoniu m were found going to matter whether Britin plutonium and enriched They have gone to Israel, a reg­ likely to have one. It's clear in the city's reservoir. A n iso­ we're in for a Jot of nuclear fun. or even the US or USSR has or uranium, the waste products of ular customer since the 1960's, lated device set off by a group nuclear power stations, along Iran and Iraq. Iran and Iraq? As if the danger was not great of maniacs could trigger a major strike by either of the superpowers. Thanks to people like Eric, now retired and abteto devote his t ime to his keen interest in yachting, p rolifera­ tion now means that not just any country but also any indi­ vidual with the money can have the bomb. Like I said, some people will do anything for Recently Channel 4 showed money. an mterv1ew with a e·elg1an gentleman called Enc Eric 1s To repeat, whether we have balding, about 55 years old and our own "deterrentn or not just a keen yachtsman. He is also a does not matter. The world retired arms dealer. A nuclear balance of nuclear power is arms dealer. We don't hear now far too out of joint, com­ much about them. Amid plex, some would say out of "deeply expressed concern" cont rol to make any of t hese old etc about the nuclear arms race arguments w h ich we used to the fact is that a far greater chew over, relevent any more. threat to world security is pre­ The usual scene at a nuclear site. Let's opt out of something sented by the activities of w hich we cannot control, people like Eric and ultimately At this moment it is fairly enough Eric talked of a glut in there's not hing we can do their customers. Governments likely that these two countries the plutonium market - "and about it now. Angus Brown

SEVENTEEN ll1:t21-rx1a SPORT THURS 5NOV 1987 0 Not a Classic Sex Scandals Garth McAlpine set up for Chris EURFC 15; Le~ie 9 Kelty was the only real highlight. Edin. Univ. 4; Bute 0 No wind to speak of and On Saturday, the University's rugby team defeated Lenzie generally fine conditions meant One m ight have expected t hat t he day after the Shinty in an unattractive and scrappy match. Other than a spell of that the rugby could have been a Club's ceilidh, the team's performance on the pitch would 20 minutes at the start of the game, the University never great deal better, but a have been somewh at below par. Nevertheless, in combination of a committed realty dominated as they should have, and Lenzie's superb characteristic style, o ur boys produced a glorious victory Lenzie team and a somewhat place-kicking full back was allowed to keep his side in the below par Edinburgh side ov er Bute, t hough the value o f this cup g lory has been game long after they should have been swamped. combined to make it a i:iame one tarnished by t h e rumo urs of sex scandals affecting those In the first half, the University in the club who should hav e known better. did everythin.Q well except score Saturday started badly when however, rumours that it was his points. The scrummaging our normally responsible vice­ younger sister have yet to be against a small pack was captain, Davy "She's My denied. convincing, the line-out well Flatmate" Cameron was too controlled and fruitful, and the hungover to play, and so was Victory was secured by handling, running and kicking of forced to sit on the sidelines and another two goals from the backs should have produced try to remember something "Granny" Griffiths to add to last more than the one try scored by about the mysterious woman in week's three and some hard half-time, by Alan Watt. red he had been seen with the tackling at the back by Dougie "/ Lenzie's defence was night before. Never Get a Mention in Student" particularly good, and their Despite this setback, the team Ross. Nevertheless the sweet backs were possibly the best rallied, and were soon award ed smell of success has again been threequarter line the University a penalty after an Oscar·winning wasted by the sour spit of have played this year. However, dive by "Tampax Factory" Wan, scandal. If the reputation of the the University's encampment in which captain "Golly'" Grant, University shinty team is to their " 22" over the first half-hour emulating his performance of grow, then it will be judged not should have brought the the previous evening/night, fired only on our fitness and ability, Edinburgh side more reward. into the target with all the power but on our attitudes and Photo: Tony Roberts As the game progressed into Will It ever come down? he could muster. behaviour off the pitch also the second half, Edinburgh's Another goat was notched up {Cecil Parkinson and Gary Hart line-outs in particular were would not have been too upset take note). So let's pull our socks dominance of the first was messed up by "fringing" and the to miss. by "Campbeltown Loch" Wan, snaffed away at by a foraging, fit who was still dazed and up and concentrate fully on game didn't flow at all in this However, with still only one making it three wins in a row and committed Lenzie pack who period. defeat this season, Edinburgh confused from the quite unique caused many problems for Alan experience of awaking in a girl's next week against lochside are now only kept off the top Rovers, and that means no drink Watt at scrum-half and Knock-ons and forward spot in the league by points bed (with her tool) that morning. Her identity has to be protected or women on Friday night! Edinburgh possession in passes galore produced a stilted difference, and hopes remain .. Friar Tuck" Sherwood general. Despite a good referee, and stumbling game, and the try high for a successful season. (by the order of the judge), Kick That Viking! VICTORIOUS have been proud of. From a 25- Saturday, 31st October, w ill go down in the annals of history Dundee 1st XI 3; Edin. Univ. 1st XI 5 yard free kick, Watters produced as the Hare and Hounds Club resurrected itsetf from the a rasping, bending shot which smouldering ashes left by .. disappointing" results earlier For the first time in the author's memory, the 'Burgh swerved at the very last second this season. The reason quite simply was that Ian Harkness produced the famous .. whitewash " on a famous evening into the top corner to deceive a and his band of merry men (yes, even C. McClean smiled in Dundee. Goals by Milan Govan (twice), Adrian ~~~~sf~o~ut~~~st~;~a~:e,:~ once!) whip ped the skin off the other unis and successfuly Chambers and another snappy brace by Klaus St olz w er e pretty ordinary really. defended our Scottish uni road relay title, getting a mention enough to give the 1st XI a very impressive victory. Queensferry responded with in the Sunday Times in the process. The 2nd XI performance was Meanwhiule the 2nd XI two strikes early in the second The victorious team were led off by Mr Mcaean who looked marred by a pitch which shared a 2·2 draw with half but Johnny Brush slotted particularly unflustered this week (will we see him over 71f.!m of mud though?). His one trouble this week was that he stopped before the ;:e~~I~~. ~~i~n:~~~r~h~:~~; O=u:.:•.:.•n:.:•:.:'•.:.".:.Y·_Th"-._e_·_eu_c.:.gh_ 1o_o_k_ h_o_m_•_•_P_•_n•_ltv_l•_••_ o_n _'"_'_he finish line, but that's a minor detail. At this stagetheUniwereinsecond 2nds were unable to produce the behind Strathclyde and so we had to wait and see what "divine slick football to which we have Edin. Univ. 1st XI 3; Heriot-Watt 3 inspi r ation~ could do for Mr Nicholson and he performed well, keeping become accustomed. Goals by us in touch with our rivals. Paul Ferguson and Micke Von the lead in 25 minutes when game to give the Uni a well­ This then set up the druid (Ian Harkness) to run the fastest Uni leg of Hoy were enough to give the Uni Johnny Watters produced a bit deserved point. the day to hand over a 15-yard lead to the hero of previous weeks, Mr a hard-earned victory. of Hamish Balfour magic which Johnny Watters and Boyd who wrapped up the event in majestic style, i.e. by destroying our comic-strip character would Monty Jumper i n the Colts game, Dave Kiely Glasgow and Heriot-Watt Unis. marked an impressive debut Our other three teams performed well with special mentions to Johr. with a well-taken goal after a Hampshire for nearly setting a club record by taking 14 people on his marvellous through ball by stage (not as easy as it seems, I can tell you), William Pany who, On the Clyde despite seeing Martin Gitfoykt (one of the fattest people there) finish Vinnie Robinson. Despite a thought it was only proper protocol to wait around for a minute before brave eaualiser bv the Dundee The Boat Club's Head Race, sponsored by the Nationwide youn9sters, the Uni dom!nated· deciding to run, and a final mention for"Snowball .. Wright who, Buikling Society, was held on Saturday 31st October. The despite his problems, finished. the game throughout and two event, consisting of two races over a 4,000-metre course, second·half goals by .. Snigger" Remember, next week there is a chance for the men and women to was staged from Glasgow University's boathouse on the Rogerson put the game beyond run together at the Glasgow 5, which is cause for concern for some of us slower males. Dundee's reach. River Clyde. Noddy's Secret Admirer Then on Saturday the biggest Both races were well women's senior 'C' class was derby in Scottish football supported by Scotland's rowing won by Strathclyde University provided a feast of goals and clubs, attracting a total of 55 who finished 40 seconds ahead entertainment. Two first-half crews, with particularly strong of Edinburi::ih. In Brief penalties by Milan Govan were entries from Clydesdale and .loch Lomond. The Edinburgh The afternoon's race was Saturday's away match to Dundee saw EU Rifle Club record their enough to give the Uni a dominated again bya crew from worst score in at least five years. Despite good opening scores by schools, George Heriot's, comfortable lead at the interval. Clydesdale ARC; their illite John Oliphant (198) and lain Harrison (194) the rest of the t eam, However, the Tech responded in George Watson's and Stewart's Melville, were also well men's eight finished in 12 with the exception of seventh " man" Tricia Uttlechikt (195), failed the second half to level the score minutes 45. Edinburgh's men's to meet up to expectations for a team t otal of ex The represented. although the 1527 1600. at 2-2. 'C' fou r finished fourth in their oPPQSition failed to take advantage of this appalling score w ith fastest junior crew was a At this stage, with the 'Burgh class in 16:19 and the novice Dundee recording and Strathclyde The ladies triad - com posite from the Holyrood 1493 1499. in control, Klaus stamped men finished 19th overal l, with two of whom also shot for the eight- fared slightly with a Stolz and Clydesdale clubs who better, his authority on the game. Glasgow University taking the team of ex against Oundee's finished fourth overall. score sn 600 397. Several heavy challengers and top novice position. The senior For those interested In shooting, but not at this competitive level, cries of " Kick that Viking!" were Division One, held in the '8' women's four completed the lntraMural is now up and running on Sunday afternoons (2·5 pm). n9t enough to prevent Klaus morning, was won by course in 17 minutes 45 to finish Contact Mike Carson at the range during the w eek (6-9 pm) or just beating the Watt defence Qydesdale ARC's jlite men's 20th. come down to the Sports Centre on Sunday. singlehanded before putting the. four In a time of 13 minutes 16, Considering the short time for I ]llilllllli1!\i!ii!iiiiliiiiil---'------­ ball onto M ilan Govan's toe for with Edinburgh's .Wite men which crews have been rowing I the big striker to collect his hat­ finishing equal fourth in a time together, these results are very Once again Edinburgh managed to lose to Waverley. Glen trick and a cobalt bomb in the of 13:57. Edinburgh women's encouraging, and with the new "'Barrington.. and VIV a.2• Jenkins fought unsuccessfully at process. Heriot-Watt rallied, senior 'C' and novice fours came boathouse due to be completed positions 4 and 5, whilst Jim .. The Shark'" White and " Bookie.. Hart however, and collected a in 25th and 26th respectively, at the Union Canal by the end of both showed their unfortut\ate opponents their true style. These suspect equaliser just seconds with times of 18:15and 21:55; a November, the coming year four matches left the match at a nail-biting two-all draw with only from the end on a day when the pleasing result for the novice should prove to be a successful Paul " Little Man'" Jeffrey to play. Full of expectation the rest of the referee was, to say the least, a crew who won their class on one for the Boat Club. team watched the final match-however, the little man was to be no little bit dubious. their first outing together. The Charlotte Plant match for the experienced "old-timer". SPQQT THURS5N001987 It's Just Not Cricket The well-versed phrase " Come on, mate ... play fair ... be a sport" has lost much of its her rematch with ·Mary Decker may well count themselves sincerity in recent years. Now it seems that you can .. be a sport" however much of a Slaney, have been eclipsed of unlucky to become the subjects devious brain you possess. Our average sportsman or woman seems to command a late by innumerable cases of of police enquiries. fairly impressive array of uncouth, thoroughly abusive language. The wetl-mastered, drug abuse. We are informed by Yet such bad behaviour does cross-Atlantic disease, .. McEnroe-itis'", has infiltrated the blood of our own British heroic such figures as Cart Lewis that nothing to cleanse the image of figures. From issuing a verbal barrage of abuse in the direction of one's opponent, the the act of drug-taking has sport in Britain. We are already reached phenomenal inflicted with a worldwide trend now seems to hinge on physical, and thus, criminal activities, as was displayed in proportions within athletic reputation for soccer front of a capacity lbroxcrowd by Messrs Butcher, Woods, McAvennie•and co. recently. circles, leaving a heavy cloud hooliganism on the terraces, over this summer's World and now it seems that violence Championships. Furthermore, and criminal activity have So what has prompted this more down-to-money jockeys w ithin the last few years. we are led to believe that a spread onto the sports fields. All unholy invasion into Britain's considerations. Now the legendary Lester former British athlete, David the sporting achievements of most treasured and respected Piggott has been forced to Jenkins, has been influential in the 1980s {and there have been Certainly the figure of John desert his grand home near pastime? To a distant foreigner, promoting the availability of many) wilt sadly be shrouded in the term " British sport .. conjures "you are the pits" McEnroe up visions of a pure and enhanced the rapid decline of summery nature. Perhaps the good behaviour in sporting muffled "clunk" of leather on circles. So much so, that his willow amidst a serene, reputation rests arguably on the meadowy landscape; the frequency of his theatrical occasional stifled cry of "Ow's ravings, rather than the sheer that!" ringing in tune with the briHiance of his tennis. hypnotic clitter-datter of china Fortunately, British players have teacups at the boundary's edge; not emulated McEnroe's public perhaps the ostentatious parade performances, though this is of hats and bonnets at Ascot, or due more to the fact that they maybe even the sunlit never sample the limelight, for strawberries-and-cream to be a real " bad guy" in sport fortnight at Wimbledon 7 one ironically has to attain a certain amount of success. Head butting Yet examples of appalling behaviour in British sport are not too difficult to find : Alex Higgins has developed his head-butting skills in the serene world of snooker; the rugby match in the Wortd Cup between England and Wales earlier this year Newmarket to take up residence illegal drugs in America for the gloomy realisation that bad degenerated at one point into an in somewhat less appealing athletes and supplying drugs to behaviour, disrespect and deceit exchange of punches rather accommodation at Norwich British athletes. have spread their roots in almost lhan an exchange of tackles; the Prison. Having been convicted every direction. Somewhere game of cricket has long since of tax evasion running into And so from examples' of along the line we have lost the lost its clean-cut gentry image, m illions of pounds, it was the fraudulent and criminal spirit of competition and fair both in its South African story of Piggott's miserly play, and one wonders whether Alas, such visions have either behaviour in sport we return to controversies and drug personality rather than his the disgraceful scenes on the they will ever be recovered. become distorted or dismissed. proficient horsemanship which The 1980s have heralded the allegations, as pioneered by Mr field at lbrox during the Hopefully the decision of the Botham. was disclosed to the British Glaswegian derby match. arrival of a new form of sport in public. Sports Council to introduce which the key words are Instances of physical independent random drug tests "money" and "victory". Only last month the wortd of Such scandalous proceedings misdemeanours may not be as covering 30 different sports will " Etiquette" and "crowd horse racing was revealed in its are alive and flourishing in the serious as the aforementioned be a turning point, yet I fear that entertainment" have been most sordid light. Already cases world of athletics. Stories of cases of fraud, drug-dealing and it will merely check, rather than hurled unceremoniously out of of fraud and the "fixing" of races certain athletes receiving vast financial greed. Graham remove, such Nunsporting" yonder window to make way has been discovered in Hong sums ot money to compete in Roberts, Chris Woods, Terry activities. tor more down-to-earth and Kong affecting certain British races, headed bv Zola Budd in Butcher and Frank McAvennie Cart Marston ~ Superturf Snobs University Sport If you watch sport on the television why not watch it live instead. e ~~~~~-=-~~~~~~- the Marr goalie, believing it Most of the University sports clubs compete at a good standard EuwHc O; Kelburne2 -better to be deed than oot the and deserve your support. You will find University sport enter- fashion" stepped out of the way 6!~~~: :~: t~~c~~~~.:~1d~~~I ci~~~a~~~~ ~~c~:~e:,:,~l~~:es=:I~ The definition of a snob in the hockey world, it should be lent. 811dminton, Basketball, Indoor Hockey, Netball, Squash and noted, is a team which ca n only perform on superturf; ~~~:~wt~~!~o~~~~ ~~~~~sa~ must be rewarded and so at the Volleyball all take part regularly in the Sports Centre. And you can faced with a natural surface such as grass or blaes, a so­ called team shall play at a substandard level and may even start of the second half the ::!~t:o~~~al~0~;:~y •0 ~a~~~ss:iu:~:~!eana~ Sph~~~~,!:i~~ ~~= Positively disgrace itsetf. ~l~~:~~ity all moved off their clubhouse is even licensed all day Saturday I So have a look at the Excuses, I realise, for losing 2- fixtures in Student every week and support the University. Peffer- which she had the misfortune to For a moment it appeared that mill even has its own tele so if you want to watch Grandstand 0 to a team who only touched be given, or just pure brilliance McKamasuka might forget her watch it at Peffermill. the ball twice are futile - so, (the answer my friend is blowing manners and do something Paul Harper " Naf" said. However, on both in the wind) Zanussi made a bee­ socially unacceptable such as President. Sunday the 25th October and line for the right-hand corner put in a tackle. but when it came 1-:::::.::=:i::::======Sunday the 1st November at the and touched the ball back just in to the crunch she unobtrusively Peffer'3"1ill Stadium, just off time for Helen Law to find the stood aside and Marr had at In Brief· South Molton Street, a galaxy of gap. Then in the xth corner least one goal to their credit. Friday 30th October - the EU Dukes began their basketball sub-international celebrities Heather Ten-toes, by now in After this the whole pace slowed stroked six magnificent goals weekend with an important game against the Dalkeith Saints, the past two mere mortal sides. defending Lothian League champions, at Napier College last Friday. The Dukes were without the services of star forward Sco.tt Cohen There is no reason for EUWHC 3; Marr 1 for the contest because of a league technicality. Nevertheless, they dwelling on past glories, so challenged Dalkeith admirably. Richie McDowell of EU led all rather I shall elaborate on the automatic pilot, snut her eyes down and the players started to scorers for the second game in a row with 31 , and Cliff Spargo post-Halloween festivities on tightly and aimed for concentrate not on the game but poured in 18. The Dukes, behind at the hatf, made a late run at Sunday 1st November. Craigmillar; previous attempts on who it was Norman had Dalkeith but fell short, losing 90-77. Everyone realised, spectators to score by actually hitting the come down to watch! On Saturday EU travelled to Aberdeen to take on the University included, that the first ten ball towards the goal had Morag Carswell of Aberdeen Basketball Club. The Dukes were sluggish but used a minutes would predict the final proved mugatory and it was balanced attack led by Cliff Spargo (17 points) and Curt Armstrong result; if legs could resist LaW therefore a choice of this or a life (15 points) to overcome a feisty Aberdeen squad 60-57. Other ... the emergency department of Whats On in the chess club. scorers for EU were Paul Hutchinson (10), Scott Cohen (9), and Ug the Royal and Granny Sargent The third goal came minutes " Never Sports" Scottish (and her tan) could tast the Duncan (8). before half-time and to call it a universities dry-skiing intense pace, then the University 1 ne t1rst eleven mens hockey team went out of the .. Scotsman fluke would be to undermine Ms (dual slalom) had it in the bas:i. Cua" last Saturday Leisk's flairs-but it was a bitl In championships at Hillend Whether it was an attempt to sequence both teams lifted their on Saturday 7th escape the Kouros, nay sweat, sticks and watched the ball roll. November, 2-6 pm. Edin Uni 4 Dundee High FP 4 scent of Daisy Osbourne's shirt from one circle to the next... Then Suppert: very welcome. (Lost 4 v 2, Penalty Flicks) B.A.C:I< P.A.GE THURS 5 NOV 1987 Auntie D's Cookery Spot Star Profile This week readers, your caring auntie has decided to present to you lots of cheep 'n' nourishing recipies to help you through the winter. I urge you to try them out readers! The curried .,.....p This week: "Gorgeous" Morge Gichael soup, for example, only costs around 30p to make! ·.

Morge ts one ofBritain's most Which Tory MP w oukl you like Radio One playlist barriers" ta&ented and versatile top mate to be invo tved in a sex scandal taste in music. I'm also pretty pop stars. He's managed t o with? jealous of his classic dimples. make the successful transfor· Gosh, that's a tough one! It's a m ation from teenybob, toss-up between Edwina Currie Have you ever had one of those shuttlecock fondling tdol t o and Jeff Archer I think. Edwina's " long bubble perm at the back, mature sensitive megastar, strong, and I have a real need for short at the front" footballer's partty by getting rid of his one- strong wom en in my life. Jeff on haircuts? t ime " partner" end socially the other hand has those lova­ Oh yes, at various period s of my unacceptable drawback, Ran- ble, boyish good looks and vul· life I I find it to be such a practical, drew " What ever happened to nerable qualities which remind easy to care for yet stylish hair­ me?'" Midgley. Randrew has me so much of myself. A mix· cut. Unfortunately, I've had a lot gone on since the splrt of ture of t he two would probably of hassle with my hair recently. I "Splam'" to accomplish - well suit the best. had to reshoot my last video 20 - nothing really. Morge is tim es because my hairspray renowned for such storm· Have you any pets? didn't work properly and leh a thumping musical numbers es Randrew/ No, seriously, I need strand of hair dangling above "I Want Your Becks'" end " Jive (I to d evote all m y spare time tak· my left eyebrow. It cost me over it w asn't me) Talking" . pretend three million but that's not too CURRIED PARSNIP SOUP 2. Heat vegetable oil in a large Student decided to delve into ing good ca re of myself. much to ask to keep up one 's pan. Marge's complex psychologtcal Who's your favourite Radio One 1 lb parsnips appearance for my many fans. 3. Add water, curry powder state by asking him some prob- OJ? 1 onion Do you think that comparisons and stock cube. Bring to boil ing and poignant questions to I like Simon Bates because he 1 chicken stock cube of you and Donny Osmond are then simmer gently for 30-45 whtch he reptted with t hose looks as square, and sounds as 1 teaspoon curry powder fair? m inutes. breathless whtspering t ones pom pous as I do. I'm also a big 1 tablespoon vegetable oil No, not at all. We're nothing like 4. Blend soup by either pres­ which are known t o send chills fa n of Peter NPinky" Powell for 1-l1h pints water each other. Donny's much better sing vegetables through a sieve up the spine of at least haH t he his alternative ·breaking the seasoning looking! or pureeing in an electric popluation of Britain's chicken liquidiser. community. 1. Chop vegetables into large 5. Return soup to pan. Sea­ chunks. son to taste. Serves four.

What's your full name? Em . It's actually M orgus Spaghettius Nostralus Gichael, which is Greek for big-headed personage. Do you have any famous family m embers? Nana M askouri is my second cousin 10 times removed and four times distant.

What's yourfavourite childhood m emory? Admiring my soft, smooth, round face in the mirror for hours at a time before the onslaught of puberty. Those were my purest most blemish­ free years. STUDENT INFORMATIONSERVICE

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