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5 dollars beyond 75 miles from New York City, Copyright © 1985 The New York Times VOL.CXXXV .... No. 46,566 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1985 except on Long Island. 5 DOLLARS Heysel Tragedy: Stadium Wars “Go ahead, An unexplained stampede left 40 dead and 600 wounded in Europe make my day!” Rorschach’s political position is as elusive as his ever-changing mask

by MARK FRINTZ Drawing analogies to the next Dirty Harry film, our journalist and film critic Mark Frintz reflects upon the contemporary representations of violence in the United States. Summary The exhibition Immaterial Things curated by French philosopher Since 1971’s Dirty Harry, the Jean-François Lyotard and Thierry Chaput at the MoMA Inspector Callahan series has contin- ued, at an average rate of one film ev- ery three years. While dirty Harry has been criticized for his latent fascism, the third installment, The Enforcer (1976) featured a group patterned af- A Sunburn in November: ter the Symbionese Liberation Army, advocating revolution through armed struggle. These films reflect a fas- Immaterial Things Exhibition cination with violence arising from isolated transgressors, as much as from extreme left political organiza- By Boris Neufang tions. Sudden Impact (1983), famous for the line “Go ahead, make my day,” “This is an exhibition about the concept of humanity at risk. Although was directed by Eastwood himself. It world—the real world—which you we have learned to live with the vision is considered the best, and the darkest, pass through in a fog, and where peo- of a disassembled rifle floating in the of the series, and continues its pessi- ple are mere shadows,” commented an air, it may be time to examine possible mistic tradition. enthusiastic audience member on last repercussions for a society dominated Today, American artists of every night’s “People In The Know,” on ABC. by a super-powerful being that can stripe have a grim view of American The show’s special guest was Jean- pass through material things, reorder society, with its corrupt government, François Lyotard. Asked to answer live reality by manipulating its basic struc- incapable of providing protection or questions from the public, the French tures, or rearrange the structure of ob- ensuring justice. Violence has also philosopher spoke at length about jects just by looking at them. become a recurring theme in the col- his exhibition, entitled Immaterial At the entry to the exhibition, an umns of this newspaper. Yet, from 1980 Things, which opened Tuesday night ancient Egyptian bas-relief shows a to 1985, the crime rate has steadily at the MoMA: “Nowadays we drive goddess giving the sign of life to King declined. electric cars and travel comfortably in Nectanebo II. Next, visitors follow a The existence of an art gallery non-polluting aircraft. This exhibition corridor where five dioramas by Jean- called “Nature Morte” and a nightclub aims to examine the technology that Claude Fall depict the disappearance called “Pyramid” attest to the nostalgia Dr. Manhattan made possible and to of the body in Samuel Beckett’s plays. and disenchantment that inform New analyze how it changed our ways of In an excerpt from Joseph Losey’s York’s current underground scene. thinking, dressing, eating and travel- film Monsieur Klein (1976), a doctor In another realm—that of comic ing.” The exhibition is nothing like a examines a woman’s face: rounded art—Frank Miller released the first traditional museum event. Visitors are gums, arched nose, fleshy lower lip, installment of Daredevil in June. challenged to distinguish between pig- narrow forehead. His diagnosis indi- Entitled “Badlands,” the episode is a skin and collagen, a natural smell and cates that this animal is a Jew. The be- thinly veiled reference to the film by an artificial one, or to grasp the uni- ginning of the exhibit is rather dry. “I Terrence Malick, which recounts the versal language of macromolecules. did not want it to start on a light note. life of notorious 1950s serial killer They make their way through a gigan- The world is poised on a precipice, Charles Starkweather. Miller, whose tic labyrinth divided into five spaces overlooking Hell. And everyone— Ronin series (no. 1, July 1983) featured inspired by words beginning with M: from the liberals and intellectuals to a lone vigilante, stated that his objec- material, matrix, matter, motherhood. those who corrupt the public—is en- tive was to create a sort of naturalist, In light of the scandals caused by tirely speechless; no one has a single dark, Batman-type character. Criminal the exhibition’s first run, from March thing to say. I wanted porous, opaque, or vigilante, the American hero is de- 28 to July 15 at the National Museum conflicting images verging on the in- cidedly lonely. Is America’s imagina- of Modern Art in Paris, the organizers visible. I am not fooling around.” It is tion captured by the theme of broken had to appear before the Un-American difficult to imagine, in this opening social ties? Activities Committee in order to obtain section dotted with samples of skin, Will Clint Eastwood play Harry permission to bring it to New York. work clothes and texts by Antonin Callahan again? Will he continue to Without calling Dr. Manhattan’s ab- Artaud, that Lyotard had initially en- be as solitary as ever? And what solute power into question, the exhi- visioned visitors moving from room to threats will he now face? bition grapples with the technological room on roller skates. excesses of a world in which total con- Read article on page A6 trol of matter may be putting the very Continued on page A11

Dr Manhattan, a Family Affair

Dr. Manhattan has Horrific scenes prior to the European Cup Final disappeared from Earth. Where has he gone? By GERALD M. BOYD having been (intentionally?) made to more deliberately planned than televi- BRUSSELS, Belgium, Oct. 11—One wait an inordinately long time, and sion images have been able to show. As year after the incredible pitched battle subjected to strange conditions in the the outline that follows makes clear, By Kathrin Slater in Rome’s Stadio Olimpico, which saw hours before kick-off, fans turned the quasi-military tactics were employed. Pr. of Semiotics, McGill University, Montreal hordes of AS Roma soccer fans rush stadium into a war zone. The exact Within a few seconds, a whole swathe MONTREAL, Oct. 11 — The Blue their Liverpool counterparts, new- number of victims among the more of fans rushed a section hemmed in by Man’s farewell letter, which has just fangled “Stadium Wars,” as certain than 60,000 fans split evenly between fences and security officers. This am- been released to the public, summariz- specialists have dubbed them, have what could only be called “civilian mili- bush had irreversible consequences for es the last three decades of mankind’s apparently been declared in several tias”—Juventus Turin and Liverpool— a large number of trapped fans, who history. Perhaps it also contains clues European countries. In the most recent remains unknown. It would appear either suffocated or were trampled to to our future. instance of this phenomenon, large- that Liverpool fans, who already had death. A dishonored superhero scale clashes erupted last May dur- an active hand in the riot in Rome last ing the European Cup soccer Final in year, surrounded their Italian counter- Dr. Manhattan has disappeared the Heysel Stadium in Brussels. After parts, forming a stranglehold that was Continued on page A2 from Earth, in the wake of revela- tions from our colleagues at the Nova Express. Where has he gone? On Friday night, during a live interview before the public on ABC television, the go- ing got rough. Only a few minutes into Fighting the Enemy of the Future the broadcast, he was asked to respond to charges by journalist Doug Roth that cases of cancer have been reported Jonathan Osterman, aka Dr. Manhattan By Bernard weinraub among his close associates. More than 25 years ago, Dr. Manhattan, then Jon NEW YORK, Oct. 11—The Air not even declared war on us. It is the Osterman, survived exposure to nu- Force’s Operation Paradise, which enemy of the future. clear radiation that took place during powerful of all superheroes. He is now We have reproduced these messages in ended yesterday on a resounding suc- Daniel Dreiberg’s plan completely a laboratory experiment. Since then, suspected, in addition to desertion, of their entirety on the front page of our cess, offered a glimpse of how wars revises the geopolitical chessboard. he has remained radioactive. (This ex- spreading radioactivity. A few weeks newspaper; after several days of confu- will be waged in the future. Though This is not a nuclear war, but an “eco- plains his remarkable sky blue color.) before the broadcast, his erstwhile sion and silence, the Government final- it is still too early to carry out an ex- nomic war,” whose effects will not be- He claims to have completely mastered girlfriend Janey Slater, probably mo- ly agreed to make them public. While haustive analysis, what follows is an come evident for twenty years. That his unique condition, and has chosen tivated by a sense of revenge, or per- the authorities hope to thereby contact attempt to provide all the information is why it is important to be the first to use it to serve the Western powers, haps by greed, asserted that the former witnesses and gather additional clues that is currently available. player to move his pawns, to anticipate supporting democratic governments Dr. Osterman had cheated on her. But about the intentions of the Blue Man, Daniel Dreiberg is the man be- events, to attack evil at its roots. We and preventing the spread of the com- now, it seems that our hero has chosen we have published these exceptional hind Operation Paradise. This re- must crush our adversary while it is munist scourge throughout the world. to simply abandon the entire planet … documents with the aim of informing vised long-term military strategy has still defenseless. But first, let us exam- But in the space of a few minutes, these Since his departure, he has re- the public. Let us try to understand Dr. different objectives and targets new ine the data at hand. This is the only ghastly accusations that Manhattan in- mained entirely out of contact. The Manhattan’s feelings as he fled our enemies. Nobody knows exactly how approach that will help us unravel the voluntarily contaminated some of his only exceptions are a letter, followed planet, to learn more about this char- Mr. Dreiberg (Nite Owl II) got the gov- secrets of this new scenario, which will associates have seriously tarnished by a short message specifically ad- ismatic and mysterious hero who aided ernment’s attention. It will soon be ten drive the next few decades of political the image of the man who was viewed, dressed to his recent girlfriend Laurie our nation for so many years. Tiffany Weiner years since he and his costumed as- and military strategies. The ultimate since his first appearance in March, Juspeczyk—none other than the sociates were driven from the streets war has just begun. 1960, as the most admirable and most daughter of ex-superhero Sally Jupiter. Continued on page A4 What Lies Behind and forced to return to civilian life. The facts are easy to grasp: in the Many people have criticized the sud- last few hours, the Air Force has wiped the Masks? den departure of Dr. Manhattan, which out six small areas of Planet Earth. no one could have predicted, even a Some of them were not even countries. few months ago. Superman exists, Massive but highly targeted bombing Entertainment Events By HUNTER S. THOMPSON and what’s more, he is American, has was used. It was a preventive, surgical moved to Mars and doesn’t answer the war against tomorrow’s enemies. Let us RUN-DMC, Apollo Theater, 253 West 125th Street Theater NATIONAL CHORAL SOLOISTS, Merkin Concert Dance NEW YORK, Oct. 11—As part of phone. Nixon has no more aces up his examine what happened, step by step. THE ICE CAPADES, Madison Square Garden, Hall, 129 West 67th Street, 8. NEW YORK CITY BALLET, «Allegro Brillante,» «In our series of interviews examining sleeve, and the Cold War has heated 7 : 30. JAMES BROWN, soul, Radio City Music Hall, Memory of …,» «Grounod Symphony,» Virtus unita fortior the possibility of nuclear war, our cor- up. The President has realized that Rockefeller Center, 8. New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, 8. Film GROUP FOR CONTEMPORARY MUSIC, Carnegie LUCINDA CHILDS, Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth respondent Hunter S. Thompson trav- without Dr. Manhattan’s protection, TV screens flickered with images A.K., a Japanese documentary by Chris Marker ; Recital Hall, 8. Avenue, at 19th Street, 8. eled to Sing Sing Correctional Facility he needs to find a different way out of sealed envelopes, the commotion of ULYSSE, a French film by Agnès Varda, at Film «ISLANDS,» music by Steven Antonelli and THEATER MASK ENSEMBLE, Theater of the to interview Dr. Malcolm Long, a psy- of the conflict with the Soviet Union. battle, war planes, hundreds of bomb- Forum 1,57th Watts Street. Perkin Barnes, La Mama E.T.C., 74A East Riverside Church, 490 Riverside Dreive, at chiatrist, expert in criminology and But why did our commander-in-chief ers taking off from the military base FOREVER YOUNG, directed by David Drury, at Fourth Street, 9. 120th Street, 8. Embassy 72d Street, at Broadway. CAECILIAN CHAMBER ENSEMBLE, Gerardo Levy, author of numerous books on masked decide to try the Nite Owl’s plan? To closest to each objective, and then blood conductor, Turtle Bay Music School, 244 Cabaret vigilantes. continue the battle against our tradi- and fire, like we saw a few decades ago. Music East 52d Street, 8 :30. CHICAGO CITY LIMITS, 351 East 74th Street. tional adversary? No! To get a jump on METROPOLITAN OPERA, Mozart’s « Idomeneo, » SHELLY HIRSCH and TAZARTES GHEDAHLIA, avant- «Current Jam,» comedy improvisation, 8. 8. garde, the Kitchen, 512 Wst 19th Street, 8. FOLK CITY, 130 West Third Street, The Turbines, a forthcoming one: an invisible, ruth- RUDOLF SERKIN, piano Carregie Hall, 8. CHUCK FOLDS and AL HALL, jazz pianist and Smithereens, new wave music, 9. Continued on page A5 less and powerful opponent, which has Continued on page A2 FOCUS!, festival of 20th-century music Juilliard bassist, St. Peter’s Church, Living Room Lex CAFE CARLYTE, Madison Avenue at 77th Street. A2 THE NEW YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1985

Heysel Tragedy: Stadium Wars Left 40 Dead and 400 Wounded in Europe

been acting alongside the instigators What certain authorities are blaming Continued from Page A1 of these sudden stampedes, which are on “hooliganism” might simply be the now being dubbed “mini-holocausts.” result of experiments on how to pro- voke large human groups to kill each What role might eugenics have European media ensured that this other, and in the present case, to turn in this phenomenon? event should not be publicized, in order civilians into armed militias. The most to maintain discretion during the ensu- During talks President Nixon has alarmist of observers—and how could ing investigation, a colossal achieve- recently held with his European coun- one not be alarmed when faced with ment for the forces of censorship and terparts concerning these secret asso- the images of the savage stampede the willful suppression of information. ciations, the name of wealthy, retired and the catastrophe it caused?—see superhero Adrian Veidt has come up tomorrow’s stadiums turning into ad A remote-control massacre? time and again. According to investi- hoc, almost “intentional” concentra- According to our correspondents gators, a man known as Ozymandias, tion camps, as hidden as the players in Europe, this type of incident has the most intelligent human being in currently planning the killings to become ever more frequent in this the world, never quite retired and in come. According to other previously part of the world where political fact may have for many years been mentioned theories, deliberate politi- stakes are high and power struggles maneuvering behind the scenes with cal destabilization is being bankrolled play out in endless, insidious games the goal of restoring world order. He with the goal of igniting a European of hide-and-seek with ill-defined pa- is suspected of fomenting a third world rameters. It would ap- war of a type heretofore never seen, pear that infiltration of and wanting to avoid the ultimate New the masses has become nuclear conflict by “weeding out” a The number of Analysis more and more frequent. portion of humanity he deems incom- Fringe groups and orga- patible with a new non-threatening victims among the nized killers such as the world order. Grassroots movements MIGS of Luton, the Bushwackers of which are thought to be operating more than 60,000 Millwall, the ICFs of West Ham and above and beyond the political affilia- the Gremlins of Newcastle—to name tions of this part of the world, divided fans split evenly only the English groups—are said to between American and Soviet powers, have been either infiltrated or even are said to be active and linked to a between what could created by certain political players mysterious base on neutral ground in only be called bent on waging a generalized war Antarctica, where collective massa- which would turn stadiums into kill- cres predicated on psychology of the “civilian militias.” ing fields, using weapons such as masses are being prepared. Professor collective hysteria not to mention un- Modigli di Ponte, a specialist in new identifiable and quasi-extraterrestrial post-Hiroshima conflicts, confirmed in forces. If the burden of responsibility a recent Italian newspaper interview war through nationalistic clashes in lies in countries with no particular po- that his ex-colleague Adrian Veidt various stadiums. Italy, with its histori- litical allegiance to America or Russia, was indeed interested in research of cal attachment to communism, does it might be time to ask some serious this sort, and was quite open about it. not really belong to the same Europe questions about the existence of and This research could also be the basis as capitalistic England, which has the role played by certain secret orga- of other exterminations of historical privileged ties to the US. This state of nizations. Our sources have reportedly proportions and at other venues such affairs changes these countries’ rela- discovered a number of ex-Nazi lead- as political rallies, places of worship tionships by destabilizing a part of the ers who have joined forces with sci- or large-scale festivals. FBI investiga- world that, because of WWII and its entists running experiments in mass tors are particularly interested in mas- consequences, is directly responsible extermination. This theory calls to sacres that occurred during episodes for current tensions. mind the mysterious and practically of mass hysteria in Vietnam, as well Be that as it may, political stakes simultaneous disappearance of futur- as the Luzhniki Stadium in the USSR have thus far prevented a coordinated ist architect Norman Leith and science in October of 1982, which was similar investigation into the matter, and the fiction writer James Trafford March. to the case under current discussion, problem continues to grow unabated. Similar cases have been reported and the toll of which is still unknown. Will the countries involved be able to worldwide. Questions are also being The Russians are also known for jeal- identify the threat? To what extent are asked about why police maintained the ously guarding their information, they themselves implicated in it? These fans in the fenced-off area, making it but according to certain sources, as questions remain unanswered. impossible for victims to extricate many as 300 deaths are thought to Upcoming mass events will be themselves from the trap they were have occurred. Though drug and closely scrutinized. However, who in. This technique, often put to use in alcohol use have been mentioned among civilians, police, superheroes concentration camps, has given rise to here and there as possible causes of or States, is truly in charge of setting in a number of conspiracy theories, ac- the disaster, this theory appears to motion a potentially destructive wave

cording to which security forces have ©D.R. be nothing more than a red herring. of violence?

Operation Paradise: Fighting the Enemy of the Future

and Ireland. The British crown has lost hero. It is common knowledge that his not a war against people but against Man, the Cook Islands, the Cayman According to government sources, Continued from Page A1 its favorite dependency, located in the father, Mr. Dreiberg, worked for an in- countries, and specifically against Islands and even Monte-Carlo, had these six attacks are only the begin- middle of the Irish Sea. 572 square ki- vestment bank, and was familiar with their financial misdeeds.” The six at- ample time to pack their belongings ning. The second phase of Operation lometers of flaming devastation. The the world of finance, tax subterfuges tacks were apparently planned over a and move, comfortably and without Paradise will take place within two Yet the objective was not the same goes for the Cook Islands, in the and other secrets of “creative finance.” month ago. And about twenty days ago, expense, to a neighboring country. months, targeting current and future Soviets. And it was not a nuclear war. South Pacific between Hawaii and New This enabled him to become a multi- the governments of Andorra, Monte- They kept their property and did not tax havens. A third and last phase will Virtus unita Fortior … the motto Zealand. Fifteen islands, 240 square millionaire in a few short years. And Carlo, Liechtenstein, the Isle of Man, sustain any injuries. It was necessary follow. Their governments have already of Andorra, means “Virtue unity, kilometers, transformed into a sort it helped his son Daniel to afford the the Cook Islands and Cayman Islands to annihilate these countries to avoid been warned: their economies, at fault strength”. of apocalypse that will not show new technological toys that he still hides in were warned: “For strategic reasons, their potential collaboration early in for a lack of transparency, will soon be Perhaps this time, fate is neither fa- signs of financial life for many decades his basement, with which he patrolled your country will be reconfigured to the next century. Several of them had eliminated. Their residents will have cetious nor misleading; perhaps it has to come. New York’s skies in the 1970s (for conform to a new world order. Alert already done precisely that during the even more time than those targeted in not acted with irony. Today, Andorra no And finally, Grand Cayman, Little example, Archimedes, a rocket plane your citizens: they have two weeks to Third Reich—the biggest killing ma- phase 1 to begin a new life. The locales longer exists, and we must admit that Cayman, and Cayman Brac all felt the with the eyes of an owl, or his sophis- take their things and leave. Each of chine ever created—although, in this are the Marshall Islands, Vanuatu, Saint its disappearance has strictly followed might of Air Force bombs. No matter ticated night vision goggles). “Nuclear your citizens will receive a U.S. pass- case, the evil mechanism, that of the Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the its motto: united it fell. how hard you look, you will no longer war is the onus of Dr. Manhattan,” he port and a loan of two million dollars tax haven, is quite different. Thus, it Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Gibraltar, the Three days and four nights find these scenic reefs, famous for scu- pointed out yesterday during a press to start his life anew.” The intention was done. The first phase of Operation British Virgin Islands, San Marino and New of nonstop bombing, with ba diving. There is nothing left of the conference. “The world’s salvation is was to avoid any casualties. Residents Paradise officially ended yesterday at Tonga. We will certainly keep you in- Analysis thousands of tons of explo- Cayman Islands, Seven Mile Beach, no longer dependent on any human of Andorra, Liechtenstein, the Isle of 8 PM. formed as this situation develops. sives, did the job. Today, St. James Castle in Bodden Town or beings. So, logically, we are consid- only smoking cinders re- Stingray City. Just south of Cuba, 260 ering the most optimistic hypothesis, main on the site of this small privileged square kilometers of islands no longer since the pessimistic hypothesis would territory on the mountainous border exist. Another empty spot on the world mean the end of life as we know it. If between Spain and France. 468 square map of the future. the Earth survives this decade, our kilometers have been erased from the Virtue, unity, strength. Virtue is obligation is to continue working for map. This is precisely the concept be- white. a better future, and a secure world. hind Operation Paradise: a scorched- A total of about 1,700 square kilo­ Regarding the details of Operation earth policy. Fortunately, based on meters were eliminated. For now, we Paradise,” continued Dreiberg, “one available data, casualties were mini- mal. All Andorrans, as we will explain later, had adequate time and resources to escape unharmed. While the coun- try is gone, almost all of its former “The world’s salvation is no longer residents are still alive. Only memories remain of their currency, their flag and dependent on any human beings. their homes: their country has become a fabled land. So, logically, we are considering the Monte-Carlo cleverly avoided the horrors of World War II by playing the most optimistic hypothesis, since the role of friendly host. But not this time. There is a certain fellow in Monte- pessimistic hypothesis would mean Carlo with a talent for skiing. He prac- tices his sport diligently. He was the the end of life as we know it.” first one to leave his palace. The whole country covers barely two square ki- —Daniel Dreiberg lometers. It is now scorched ruins, razed by a few dozen bombers in just twenty-four hours. Nothing remains of what was once a large blemish on the south of France. Monte-Carlo is no have no data on how many tons of thing is certain: the Cold War that we more. Just like Andorra. And just like bombs were needed for this operation; have carried out against the Soviets Liechtenstein, another country that we will try to get that information for for so many years will be followed by did not have any major worries in the future editions. Six massive, simultane- another, subtler war, incredibly deadly, 1940s. Because Liechtenstein has also ous air attacks wiped out 1,700 square cruel and perverse: humanity has nev- been bombed. Neither Switzerland nor kilometers in a few days—not very er seen a horror similar to what ‘eco- Austria will have to worry about their much, in the end. 1,700 square kilome- nomic war’ will unleash. That’s why we pleasant but treacherous neighbor, ters is more or less the area of metro- decided on a preemptive attack. The wedged between the two countries, politan London. A figure that is entirely six tax havens we neutralized in the this cesspool of one hundred dollar acceptable, according to government last few hours constituted the nucleus bills that is now 160 square kilometers sources. Strategically, the operation of evil, veritable black holes, ready to of fire and ashes. was successful. swallow the dignity of our civilization, The Isle of Man got the same treat- to reduce it to its simplest form: piles Details of Operation Paradise ment. Imagine quietly watering the of one hundred dollar bills. Addressing plants in your garden, when suddenly What is Operation Paradise? How the press, his eyes narrowed to slits, the sky fills with combat aircraft. You did the Nite Owl II manage to draft and he concluded, “I know that this hear the first explosion, not knowing this new international scenario? What concept remains difficult to grasp, but if it is close or far; the second seems was the purpose of targeting these six the economic balance of our future is closer; the third, fourth, fifth, and then particular enclaves, spread around the at stake, and that means our children’s a thousand more follow; you feel a world? And most importantly, what lives are in the balance. Should they powerful impulse that lifts you into the was the cost in human lives of this si- end up as slaves?” air. You are burning, but that does not multaneous attack that destroyed six To complete the picture, the govern- seem to trouble you, you are floating, apparently unrelated regions in just ment has issued a statement that de- Audrey Wiseman everything goes white, you disappear. 96 hours? tails the protocols used by Operation That makes 572 fewer square kilome- To answer these questions, we must Paradise. The most important point, Final report from the Cayman Islands, one of the six tax havens ters of land between the Great Britain delve into the biography of our masked boldly underlined, states: “This is to be wiped out in the operation.

What he sees when he looks at national politics TOM WICKER and policies can open your eyes. Watch for his column, in The Nation, every Monday and Friday HAS A PRACTICED on the Op-Ed page. EYE THE NEW YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1985 A3

Dr. Mayak Versus Dr. Manhattan Late Breaking News Mikhail Gorbachev reconstitute his body one atom and one By JAMES BLAKE cell at a time. And Jon Osterman was NEW YORK, Oct. 11—In this exclu- patient, precise, thorough, almost ma- sive interview with The Nova Express, niacal, and it was that “frame of mind” Rumored To Be Dead recently exiled Russian physicist if you will that we had to find. That is Yevgeny Yurlov reveals surprising when we began searching for travelers information about Chelyabinsk 69, a who had those very characteristics. The National Security secret research center situated near Council assert that Lake Karachay, where top Soviet par- And what happened? ticle physicists have for the past two The results were immediately beyond Mr. Gorbachev died today decades attempted to create a super- our wildest expectations—in any case, hero capable of holding his own with from a scientific point of view. I am not from polonium poisoning Dr. Manhattan. sure one could say the same from the travelers’ perspectives. New York Times: To begin with, why By ROMAN PAYNES give this interview? Why not share this What do you mean? Special to The New York Times information directly with American Well … the first traveler, Ivan Ivanovski, MOSCOW, Oct. 6—For the past researchers or the State Department? reappeared two weeks after his dis- four days, this newspaper’s corre- Pr. Yevgeny Yurlov: As a precautionary integration in a rather disconcerting spondents behind the Iron Curtain measure. I am not very fond of jour- guise: a ball of nerves and veins, which have been detecting relentless rumors nalists and their unquenchable thirst bounced on the floor like an enormous to the effect that the General Secretary for sensationalism. However, once this Professor Yevgeny Yurlov tennis ball, leaving in its wake steam- of the Communist Party of the Soviet information becomes public, the worm ing pools of a muddy substance simi- Union, Mikhail Gorbachev—the man will be in the fruit. And simply rubbing lar to freshly poured asphalt. It quickly that Americans have learned to iden- me out wouldn’t suffice to squelch the What specific factor had allowed Jon disappeared. When it reappeared one tify by the winsome “port-wine stain” story. Osterman to reconstruct himself, and week later, it had doubled in size. The birthmark on his forehead—has how were we going to obtain it? What nerves and veins were wrapped around been removed from power by a clas- Don’t you think you’re exaggerating physiological or genetic parameter a bony chassis-like structure the end- sic Soviet-style palace coup (Editor’s a little bit? came into play to make this miracle ings of which were twitching in the Note: Mikhail Gorbachev was ap- I don’t think so. Really, I don’t, given happen? It was impossible to say. air like the tentacles of some deep-sea pointed General Secretary of the Party the scale of this … problem. creature washed up on the shore. It on March 11 this year, replacing Yuri So what did you do? didn’t undergo any other kind of trans- Andropov, who died on February 9, Alright then, let’s talk about it. You Well, all of the volunteers, or “travel- formation, and didn’t disappear again. 1984). Some of these rumors, from are a particle physicist specialized in ers” as we decided to call them early on, Its reconstruction was complete. sources close to the National Security the intrinsic field. Could you give us a were made to sign an airtight release Council (chaired by former US brief rundown of what you do? that was drawn up by a host of law- That’s horrible! Secretary of State Henry Kissinger), I can try … Atoms exist in several en- yers. And the disintegrations began, Tell me about it. Researchers attempted assert that Mr. Gorbachev died today ergy fields: the gravitational field, the one after the other. We threw atoms to unsuccessfully to communicate with from polonium poisoning after being electromagnetic field, and the intrin- the winds if you will, without the slight- it. Currently, we still don’t know what Dave Ridley taken two days ago to a presidential da- sic field. You could describe it as a sort est cellular reconstruction, that is until this … this … traveler feels, or what he cha on the banks of the Caspian Sea by of membrane containing a vibrating traveler 77, on September 11, 1981. is capable of. Irina Petry, Travelers n°7, Terminal Man project, a special KGB unit nominally respon- energy. An intrinsic field experiment Chelyabinsk 69, USSR sible for his protection. The rumors, re- gave birth to your Dr. Manhattan. Since Did he come back? Presumably, after this event, the pro- markable for their persistence, do not every experiment can be reproduced, You could say that. ject was discontinued? indicate whether he was taken there by so can the accidental one that Jon Absolutely not. Another traveler, force or by deception. Although, given Osterman was involved in … What do you mean? Vladimir Petrov, was disintegrated If everything you have told us thus far never wanted to become a superhero. the opaque and totalitarian nature of Three days later, around a dozen soon after. is true, and I’m sure you’ll understand It happened by accident. Jon Osterman the communist regime, it is currently And yet, the transformation of Dr. brownish steaks—forgive the expres- my being skeptical about this, I take was a normal man—or at least within difficult to confirm or repudiate this in- Manhattan is widely believed have sion but I don’t know how else to de- And … it that you decided to give up on this the norm. He did not have a single ma- formation, it does seem rather likely been random … scribe them—appeared in one of the The results were fantastic. experiment and to defect from the So- jor defect, and most of all his ego was that Gorbachev has been sidelined, As random as divine intervention. In halls of the lab. These different frag- viet Union … not out of control. Here, we are call- or even eliminated, in an operation any case, that is what we thought in ments then stuck together to form a For whom? No, not at all. You obviously have not ing upon people who are willing to die orchestrated by hard-line elements of 1972, after the American victory in meat face straight out of Francis Bacon. I see you are beginning to catch on. In grasped what I am telling you. A scien- because of their desire to become Dr. the Communist Party, nostalgic for the Vietnam, when we launched a project Then the whole thing exploded. a month’s time, Vladimir Petrov had tist cannot allow himself to be domi- Mayak, Dr. Manhattan’s Soviet coun- era of Leonid Brezhnev and primar- called “Terminal Man.” Our goal was reconstituted nervous and respiratory nated by base feelings such as disgust, terpart. That is the entire problem. ily concerned with the Soviet Union’s to create the Soviet equivalent of Dr. That’s horrible! systems that were in working order. revulsion, or even compassion. It takes They will never equal Dr. Manhattan. prestige and military supremacy. This Manhattan. The experimental condi- Quite. However, we had just witnessed more than a few chunks of meat to get And the reason why is because they inconspicuous yet extremely powerful tions put into place by Professor Glass for the first time an attempted recon- Which is to say? to me. dreamed of and desired power—ab- hard-line fringe, whose ranks include at the tail end of the fifties were not that struction. And traveler 77 had one Almost complete. solute power—and when they get it, prominent members of the Politburo difficult to replicate, but … characteristic that had nothing to do Well then, why … when they will be able to create havoc and the Supreme Soviet, generals and with his genetic code or his hormonal But … At Chelyabinsk 69 the experiments in and mayhem by simply snapping their senior officers of the KGB, are opposed You had to find volunteers, is that it? makeup. He was a chess master. There was a catch. Vladimir Petrov disintegration are still being carried fingers, what will happen then? to the policies of “glasnost” (Editor’s Or did you simply select guinea pigs didn’t go any further in his transforma- out, and I couldn’t care less how many (Long silence) Note: transparency), “perestroika” from prisons or psychiatric hospitals? I’m afraid I don’t follow you … tion. No skeleton to hold everything to- men are going to be turned into ham- (Editor’s Note: restructuring) and uni- That is ridiculous. If one of these “tests” It’s quite simple … Up until then we had gether and no skin to contain the whole. burger. But the project will soon bear What you are saying is truly frighte- lateral disarmament instigated by “the had succeeded, what would we have thought that the specific characteristic Which of course was more than a little fruit. The ideal profile will end up being ning, but … have you thought of the man with the birthmark” only a few ended up with? A psychotic super- that had allowed Dr. Manhattan to re- problematic. We did however manage found. This is inevitable … And that is color? weeks after he took office. hero, or in the best-case scenario, one construct his atoms was either genetic to establish telepathic contact. But what is truly catastrophic. I’m not sure I follow you … For the time being, the Nixon ad- who was opposed to the regime. This or physiological. But this last test led Vladimir Petrov simply repeated one ministration officially refuses to give was unthinkable! Not to mention use- us on another path: Jon Osterman had sentence over and over again. And yet, that is what you were after Well, if Dr. Mayak could emit a red too much credence to these rumors. less. Many people were ready to risk in fact managed to conserve a certain from the beginning! color, that would be perfect, don’t you White House Press Secretary Jerry their lives in the hope of becoming a awareness of the intrinsic field at the What sentence was that? Yes, but during all those years we think? Bruckheimer emphasized that “the superhero. We were turning people moment of disintegration, a form of “Disintegrate me, I beg of you!” hadn’t understood the most important нет комментариев. United States cannot in any case in- away. And that was the problem … consciousness that allowed him to (Long silence) aspect of all: Jonathan Osterman had (No comment). terfere with the internal affairs of the USSR by commenting on unconfirmed information.” Behind the scenes, and unofficially, this information is taken very seriously, because a much-feared takeover by hard-line conservatives in the USSR would drastically dis- rupt current East-West relations and force the US to rethink its foreign and military policy. A special ad- viser to the White House confided to our Washington correspondent that President Nixon and his team of strat- egy experts are apparently already working on post-Gorbachev scenarios THEY’RE that are “very worrisome for the secu- rity of the free world.” No matter who is chosen as the next General Secretary of the USSR, it is quite likely that he will be no more than “the official spokesmen for an oligarchic regime that isolates itself from the world, FIGHTING A haunted by the economic and, above all, military collapse of the Soviet Union.” Moreover, Nixon’s adviser con- tinued, “if this news is confirmed, we must expect an escalation of the arms race and immediate increases in both NUCLEAR WAR countries’ military budgets.” While none of these things has yet to take place, this relatively confidential infor- mation is already making the rounds of radical student groups in various East and West Coast universities, ON such as UC Berkeley, where students interviewed by our San Francisco cor- respondent were quick to associate this probable change of regime in the USSR with “an operation that serves the interests of President Nixon’s fascist administration,” or even with LONG “involvement by the CIA, which does not want an open-minded leader at the head of a new Russia.” The United States could do without this kind of leftist, anti-American paranoia as we approach an historic crossroads that ISLAND. appears both decisive and dangerous for the future of our nation.

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Continued from Page A1 analysis shows that the superhero’s in- on my side; everything is still possible) tellectual influence has been predomi- Our Russian enemy seeks to kill our nant in Western media. We encourage brothers. He wants to slaughter the This long series of rather disjointed everyone to do their own research by good men of the West, though he shares statements is the last trace left behind consulting newspaper and magazine the same blood, the same cells, and by Dr. Manhattan. They are all the archives. We also urge our fellow jour- moreover, the same desires and hopes more valuable since he has always nalists to join us in this investigation. as the American people (I do not wish been uncommunicative, both orally to slaughter your brothers and their When benevolence becomes and in writing. This gives the text a families / every human is composed of tragic irony strong potential for analysis. the same blood and atoms). At a time when the past seems to This interconnectedness continues Again, the similarities found in have caught up with this elusive per- up to the present time. It is even more these passages confirm the hypothesis sonality, he expresses a profound in- disturbing because it has no rational that a form of imitation has developed sensitivity for the human race and the explanation. Of course, times have over the years; plagiarism seems un- future of the world. His repudiation of changed: our fellow citizens have re- likely, since Dr. Manhattan’s letter is any positive feelings of empathy is in acted violently to the disappearance as yet unpublished. Even if its contents strong contradiction with how normal of Dr. Manhattan and protest march- have been filtered, we wonder why people function, with our subtle blend es are growing more numerous in all someone would want to plagiarize it. of reason and emotion concerning democratic countries. This has spelled On the contrary, the governor would events that affect us. Only the final the end of indifference, as well as have risked the wrath of superheroes paragraphs, addressed to his girlfriend Laurie, for whom he had left Janey Slater, hint at a latent passion. But even Janey might wonder about these rather nervous and brief declarations. Today, Americans care only about their The Doctor admits it himself: he did not hesitate to leave Earth (I have not professional life: entrepreneurship spent much time contemplating / My head is full of contradictions and I have runs rampant, and the will to trouble deliberating, / But suddenly, I saw illusion disappear.) succeed has become a primary guide, His defection, while we are on the brink of a world war, reveals an indif- rule and purpose.—Dr. Manhattan ference to humankind. Clearly, the Blue Man is bereft of compassion and conscience. But this is not the only conclusion we can draw from the let- ter. Incredibly, our investigation led us false anxiety and resignation. In this by doing this. Again, the presence of to conclude that it frequently echoes new context, official silence speaks similarities from one text to another other documents. The destinies of their volumes to governmental fear at the can only be explained by supernatural diverse authors have apparently been highest levels to take any diplomatic activity, an unconscious sharing of vi- transformed, directly or indirectly, risk, thus eliminating any hope of see- sions and ways of thinking. by the intervention of Dr. Manhattan. ing this key figure again. Our leaders Now what? Moreover, these texts tend to use the have surely been cautious in order to same expressions. How are such coin- avoid worsening the situation. Only We have only chosen two exam- cidences possible? Is the Doctor mock- the Governor of Illinois, Barry Lexton, ples to bear out our theory. They were ing us by concocting his letter from bits risked a confrontation with the Doctor, published in different places and at of other peoples’ writings? In view of sending him a message last Tuesday different times, providing excellent the multiple links between last Friday’s via the media. To salute the courage proof of the extent of the manipula- letter and older texts, we must suspect of the Governor, among other reasons, tive force that has acted on what 16th- that, at one time or another, this su- we have chosen to reprint his letter, but century French philosopher Michel de per-powerful being has deceived us. we still suggest that you read the full Montaigne called our “human condi- Perhaps this has been going on since text and compare it with ones written tion.” Since he appeared on earth, the his initial appearance. by the Blue Man. Following are some Blue Man has contaminated not only Such a serious accusation requires similar passages. his close associates, but also, all the evidence. Which we will now provide. Yes, somewhere between the nobil- other minds he possibly could. We Fred R. Conrad ity of a well-run investigation and the were entrapped by his reassuring fa- Barry Lexton, Governor of Illinois Persuasion or Manipulation? indignity of slander, there is one thing çade. He was thereby able to control Let us go back a few years. Here that we cannot accept without com- and permanently alter the widest pos- is a short article from the October ment. (My rightful place, / between sible range of human thought. How far 1979 issue of the USA Investigator, nobility and waste, and I tell you, there has his poison reached? This would rebuilt our fellow citizens’ desire to under his protection, frightened by the expresses his disgust with our species, several months after then-president is plenty of it) Even though you do ev- require a critical reading of texts, work hard and undertake new proj- sudden and inevitable escalation of doomed to repeat the same mistakes. It Jimmy Carter’s famous “Happiness erything to maintain the confidence speeches and even literary works dat- ects, without rejecting competitive- tensions between Eastern and Western is now our turn to prove to ourselves, Speech,” in which he congratulated of our good citizens, looking as good ing from the last quarter century … a ness and individualism, the lifeblood powers. How could the Blue Man have and to a skeptical universe, that we are the American people for the positive as possible, even changing your color mammoth undertaking, if ever there of early 80’s liberalism. abandoned us like this? So many texts, able to reckon with the disasters we are direction that our American way of to be more appealing on television … was one. But each of us can become On the other hand, should we be speeches, articles and stories bear wit- facing. Dr. Manhattan, in a last burst life was taking, to the point of becom- (But when I am among you / I hold my aware of this characteristic “blue” so- proud of reducing an entire people to ness to our long alliance! The Governor of generosity, has asked us to take on ing the “ultimate model for all free tongue / to avoid frightening those who nority in texts that he has influenced, fear and superstition? Have we finally is right: Dr. Manhattan is a member of this responsibility. And, we should say, countries or for countries that aspire love me / I make my color more appeal- in order to eventually help all citizens grown out of our domestic and foreign our family. But today, we are tempted it’s about time. His words are full of to become free.” For our proud nation, ing for the good citizens) perceive what is going on. policy choices? It appears difficult to to say that he played with us like toys. meaning, and surprisingly, they si- this article in the USA Investigator However, without any intention of For once we admit the extraordi- say. And now that the Blue Man has If he can predict the future, why has multaneously warn and reassure us. was quite controversial. It was a blow provoking you, we quickly see the illu- nary influence of Dr. Manhattan on disappeared over the horizon, what to the nation’s optimistic mood, which sion you have created. (So I have not the way we think and talk about the path shall we choose? We consider it finally proved to be fragile. In the face spent much time contemplating / My modern world, can we really take of- reasonable to build on our knowledge of conventional wisdom, which was head is full of contradictions and I have fense? Consider, for example, that in to better control our destiny. We have celebrating the success of capitalism, trouble deliberating, / But suddenly, I 1937, when Raoul Dufy painted his not dissected and analyzed this mes- In a century punctuated by tragedies, the article stated that civilization was saw illusion disappear.) masterpiece, La Fée électricité, he was sage from every angle just to come to taking a disastrous turn. However, no I am also here to remind you that, simply interpreting the fascination the the sad conclusion that we are helpless Dr. Manhattan fed on our tears and one perceived the extent to which the here on Earth, you have the right to use public had for a then-recent discovery. playthings for an amoral demigod. On Blue Man influenced and incited these various mechanisms to obtain justice, More anecdotally, some contemporary the contrary, we believe that a better our blood, like an indifferent, lonely changes and the public’s awareness of including pressing charges (I call out expressions, such as “being wired” or understanding of what makes modern them. As evidence, we will examine for justice / by pressing charges). “blowing a fuse”, show how technologi- men tick will enable us to better design vampire certain passages of the November 1979 Your name itself is proof: you are cal progress constantly influences our our future. We are up against the wall; article, accompanied by parts of the a man, although you are blue (Am I a subjective interpretation of the world. we respond appropriately to the threat Doctor’s letter, shown in parentheses. man, though I am blue?) But upon reflection, is Dr. Manhattan of a new armed conflict. The human We have selected key passages, but the Also, it is a shame how your person- anything more than a product of that race may be living its last hours. We entire article is reprinted elsewhere in al atomic drama was used on Friday same technological progress? can certainly still avoid this disaster, he never done anything to prevent Reading this melancholy, poetic and vi- this issue. for crass political purposes (I see how Therein lies the rub: when we evoke and the fact that the poison seems to this misfortune from occurring? He sionary farewell message, a summary What madness has affected modern my energy / from my atomic drama / a historical event or study a sociologi- have penetrated our spirits might be- watches us tear each other apart, yet of these eventful decades where man man? (What madness has affected me / was diverted for shameful purposes). cal phenomenon, moral assessment come the antidote. he only intervenes when we ask him turned against nature and toward the in the time of a breath, a flash in the his- Dr. Manhattan, you’re not alone (my becomes difficult or inappropriate. Because, naturally, Dr. Manhattan’s to, never using his real, hidden power: atom, we are able to learn a lot about tory of the universe?) The same strange fate, condemning me / to be alone). Thus, it would be in bad faith to deny farewell letter once again holds the the ability to prevent conflicts. This ourselves. attitude is everywhere, and it is getting Man is a prideful being. In some cir- the immediate positive impact that Dr. answers to all our questions. aloofness allowed him to consolidate In many respects, by his extreme worse. (Since I became Dr. Manhattan, cumstances, he easily becomes unjust- Manhattan’s presence has had for our his authority and manipulate us, while impassivity, amorality and strength, Reasons for hope / My entire being feels / this hunger for ly suspicious, vain and arrogant (vain, nation, leaving our former enemies probably making fun of our stupidity. the Blue Man has contributed to this justice / growing ever stronger) ungrateful and arrogant structures / in Vietnam in awe and with a genu- It was not surprising for us to feel In a century punctuated by tragedies, decline. However, we have learned the While attempting to comprehend perverse like our instinct). ine sense of humility. He also helped betrayed when we heard about the de- Dr. Manhattan fed on our tears and hard way that we would be lost with- the public’s state of mind in these trou- Yes, Dr. Osterman, if we remain put our economy back on track. In the parture of our last remaining superhe- our blood, like an indifferent, lonely out him and his judicious guidance. We bled times, we ran across the same partners, anything is possible. (Time is wake of the war and its traumas, he ro, who left us on our own after years vampire. His last message clearly must now pay attention to his message. obstinate silence everywhere (the only rule is that of obstinate silence). The figures bear it out: (Yes, to- night, everything is clear) men and women continue to put on a brave face. people I met at Bohemian Grove in San However, the demand for iodine, sugar, A Year of Music, a Year of Anger Francisco are the biggest fags I’ve ever water and flour in stores has increased seen,” and its follow-up, “I never shake Foreign by almost 75% in a few months. And hands with anybody who lives in San unfortunately, while people continue Francisco,” were quickly and round- to talk and laugh they appear to have ly criticized in their song “Careless Affairs become inveterate liars. (People speak, Whisper,” in which the combative laugh and teach the art of lying / to anarcho-gay techno-pop duo vividly their offspring) expressed the gay community’s stig- Today, Americans care only about matization (“I feel so unsure as I take The dateline their professional life: (Getting back in your hand”) and guilt from non-heter- touch with Humanity has become my onormative subjectivities (“guilty feet may be Paris / sole priority) entrepreneurship runs have got no rhythm”) that force many rampant, and the will to succeed has be- people, including public figures, to live or London, come a primary guide, rule and purpose. a double life, simulating a phony sexual Belfast or There is certainly no threat of eco- identity (“though it’s easy to pretend”). nomic collapse, but perhaps the real The song also manifests the strategy of Beirut. danger lies where we don’t expect it. “forced outing,” as practiced by Wham! (There is no real nuclear threat. Real Other songs by the group have exposed danger is always where you do not ex- members of the Republican Party who The issue is sure pect it.) had remained “in the closet.” Digging Our tenets are sharing and mutual a little deeper, the words of this popu- to be respect. Also, we want to emphasize lar anti-hit also expose the conflict of that no one is forced to be alone, (be- masculinities related to the Watchmen fascinating. fore that loss / that was my fate, con- phenomenon. It exacerbates homopho- demning me / to be alone.) regardless bic attitudes, since homosexuality is of the seriousness of the situation. often viewed as a moral shortcoming, Flora Lewis When comparing the two texts, as was shown in the still-unresolved keeps on the despite their very different styles, one Moloch affair. is immediately struck by their repeti- Ultra-punk trends in today’s main- move to help tive nature, both in content and form. stream society have focused the pub- It is as if Dr. Manhattan used the ar- lic’s attention on radical leftwing rock you keep up ticle as a model for his farewell letter. groups. A prominent example is the However, accusations of plagiarism Bad Brains, who made it to the top of with the ideas are not credible, considering the condi- the charts with their anti-Christmas that make tions under which the Blue Man wrote Tina Turner’s Protest Song Against Richard Nixon tirade, “Why the Fuck Should They his letter, and the low likelihood that Care It’s Christmas.” The lyrics are a what’s happen- he had seen the article. Finally, it is biting and effective parody of a song hard to imagine why he would have By Roberto suro the song, the more violently they pogo. the militarization of public life, while by a little-known local Christian rock ing over used “cut and paste” techniques to cre- PASADENA, Calif., Oct. 11 — Music One of the first to have drawn atten- paying tribute to the participants in the group called Band Aid. Their song ate his message. lovers and clubgoers will undoubtedly tion to this new phenomenon is Tina Los Angeles Anti-Watchmen Revolt, is a sort of apology for the corporate there important Perhaps another explanation is that remember 1985 as the year dissident, Turner, long associated with the New with lines beginning “Out of the ru- Christianization of former African the two thought processes (i.e. the hu- antiestablishment sounds took over the York hardcore punk scene. Last spring, ins / Out of the wreckage.” In a twist colonies. Organized religion is truly to your life man and the “superhuman”) slowly pop charts, blasting from every radio in she brought a dissonant and caustic reminiscent of protest songs, she takes under attack on all fronts. Many people right here. converged over the years? Could our the country. A quick look at the top 100 note to the charts with her socially a stand against the upcoming Senate are comparing this situation with the Western society have been affected songs on North American radio clearly conscious hit, “We Don’t Need Another vote on Amendment 46, which aims to late 1940s, when, in the words of the in- by the Blue Man to the extent of as- indicates musicians’ contempt for the Hero,” a no-holds-barred criticism of restore immunity for secret operatives famous Senator McCarthy, Hollywood FOREIGN AFFAIRS BY similating his style and tone? Does Dr. Nixon administration. This recently Republican voters. The song confronts employed by the government: “Can’t was “in the hands of Communists and Manhattan absorb our thoughts? If so, led one of MTV’s top VJs to remark, the problem of the so-called heroism of make the same mistake this time.” anti-Americans.” The difference is does he do it consciously? Or—and this “it seems like the major commercial self-defense, typified by the exploits of While Turner has directed her anger that, today, there is a widening gap Flora Lewis idea is more unsettling still—were all radio networks have turned into col- masked vigilantes like Rorschach. In toward the most visible part of society, between the political establishment Tuesday and these words written in advance? lege radio stations.” If “Video Killed contrast to fawning articles in the of- condemnation of Nixon’s anti-minority and the cultural mainstream, dissi- Our inquiry is just beginning. It is the Radio Star” marked the end of the ficial press, providing limited informa- policies has become the theme for a dent artists are making it big and an- Friday on the shocking and scary to discover how last decade, 1985’s musical tastes are tion and scanty criticism, Turner took cult band well known in underground ger is becoming widespread. To quote many newspaper articles are influ- symbolized by the punks dancing at the side of alternative media like Nova circles for its activism: Wham! President another Top 10 hit, “You Can’t Fight Op-Ed page enced by the Blue Man’s thoughts. Our New York’s CBGB: the better they like Express magazine, forcefully attacking Nixon’s famous statement that “these This Feeling.” THE NEW YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1985 A5 Philip K. Dick Lives! No Woman’s Land

by Harry Hell of the radically different being in front what initially appears to be the op- By LAURA PIETZ a considerable organization hidden Goose, renamed “Dr. Harlem,” has a Special to the New York Times of you. In a society defined by the apa- posite of a human being: an alien, or NEW YORK, Oct. 11—Yesterday, within this forest of ink and paper. new look with her trendy cape and eb- NEW YORK, Oct. 11—In a video thy of television viewers, that kind of worse, a robot—the true antiheroes. the death of former whiz kid Orson Banners replaced American flags and ony mask. The statues in the park now recently released by the Congregation empathy seems increasingly difficult Our congregation has established a Welles was splashed across the front flapped in the wind in front of the New all bear the signature “W.Grl”. of Antiheroes, a group claiming to have to achieve. Because, when experienced unique ritual allowing us to experience pages of the world press. His radio York Stock Exchange, the American The message is clear: a system 5 million members, Philip K. Dick— from within, empathy has nothing to this truth. We have hooked computers adaptation of H.G. Wells’ War of the Museum of Natural History, the World of archaic values ​​(family, country, who is supposed to have died over 3 ½ do with handing out spare change to together, creating an “empathy box” Worlds, broadcast on October 30, Trade Center and the Metropolitan In God We Trust, etc.), which like so years ago—has predicted an imminent bums in the subway in order to have a as described by Dick in Do Androids 1938, which simulated live coverage Opera; king-size stickers and fluores- many cards in a deck should have apocalypse in New York. Is the science so-called “clear conscience.” An act of Dream of Electric Sheep?, the novel that of a landing of hostile aliens, seems cent tags covered the ground, park- been reshuffled by the blue hands of fiction writer still alive? Following is an kindness is the spontaneous, unpre- the film Blade Runner was based on. more relevant than ever. Welles’ hoax ing meters, street lamps, staircases, a certain blue monster of technology, interview with a representative of the dictable gesture of an unremarkable Each member of our group takes hold created chaos in New York, or in his railings and walls. A mosaic of paper is still in effect. While the presence of Congregation. person devoid of status or pretense. It’s of the two handles of the empathy box own words, an “extraordinary act of littered the footpaths of Central Park, Dr. Manhattan has engendered genetic Her name is Donna. She has black that moment when you feel you have to personally experience the ordeal of collective schizophrenia.” This episode covering sculptures and statues like a and scientific revolutions, he has not hair and an ice-cold stare. Wearing a a relationship with another person. Wilbur Mercer, a miserable, alcoholic seems prophetic nowadays, in view of second skin. Fountains full of runny shaken people’s faith in old-fashioned gray dress held together with patches, This truth is probably the only one reincarnation of another marginal the rise of Dr. Manhattan, who has ink spurted soggy messages. Even family and social concepts. These in- sporting a button marked “A Scanner that Philip K. Dick—who was nothing if wacko known as Christ; too bad that extended his influence to the sphere more surprising were the modifica- terventions by the WatchGirls are like Darkly,” she is the latest “Less than not critical of absolute certainty—ever he too didn’t remain a “nobody”. of international politics. Welles’s little tions made to famous statues, such as a million Post-It Notes, serving as re- Nothing” of the Congregation of pursued. He uses the words Caritas green men have now been replaced by Alice in Wonderland, Mother Goose, minders and calling for awareness. Antiheroes. Her title indicates that she or Agapé for this quality of empathy, What are you trying to say? a solitary blue man. Comparable ap- Hans Christian Anderson and the Ugly They are strongly inspired by the is the temporary spokesperson for this in reference to St. Paul and Leibniz. That resurrection is exactly the kind of peals to flee the Apocalypse have been Duckling, as well as the Sophie Irene artistic actions of the Guerrilla Girls rapidly growing and reportedly violent Naturally, he considers this empathy trick you would expect from a super- heard in recent weeks, but these are Loeb Fountain. Andersen has been and the event they initiated last April, group. She made a surprise appear- to be timeless, but he attributes it to hero—don’t you think? neither a hoax nor a daring radio play transformed into Dr. Manhattan, the which denounced contemporary art ance on America’s television screens with ghostly voices. The public’s ini- bronze hidden by a coating of electric galleries in which less than 10% of two days ago, when her gang of sec- tial admiration for Dr. Manhattan has blue. He wears black briefs, a hydrogen art on display is created by women, ond-class citizens managed to hack a given way to an outburst of hatred and atom is tattooed on his forehead and and sometimes none at all. Another satellite channel and broadcast their suspicion. He has been held respon- the pages of the book he holds in his inspiration is the activism of graphic strange message to everyone who was sible for what some journalists have metallic hands are covered with stick- artist Barbara Kruger: the WatchGirls watching. We met on the 2nd floor of a called “the ten plagues of America,” ers. The ground at Alice’s feet swarms question the all-powerful status ac- crumbling building located on a blind leading inevitably to a Third World with graffiti and her face is covered corded to Dr. Manhattan’s western, alley just off of 39th Street, in a storage War. For many, the only solution is an with black paint; her blue eyes cry red heterocentric and phallocentric fig- room so disgusting that it made the exodus! tears. The huge mushroom that serves ure. In response to this suffocating garbage cans in the entrance look like Rather than flee, many community as a base for the statue bears the fol- supremacy, they have erected the fig- artistic masterpieces. In a bar three groups, political organizations and in- lowing inscription (in French): “Alice ure of Dr. Harlem, heroine of “masked hundred yards from the meeting place, dividuals have preferred to take action, a des yeux bleus. Et rouges. Elle s’est avengers of the political world”, in the we were greeted by our first contact: and have not hesitated to express them- ouvert les yeux en traversant le miroir” image of a powerful black woman, re- a grubby, nervous man in clownishly selves vehemently on the matter. The (“Alice’s eyes are blue. And red. She minding us that in “Manhattan”, there striped pajamas. He introduced him- omnipresent poster campaign waged cut them open during her trip through is “MAN.” What would happen if the self as Joe Chip (Oddly enough, Joe by the feminist collective WatchGirls the looking-glass”), the first lines of a Manhattan Project were countered by Chip is the name of the central char- has been one of the most intriguing book by Luce Irigaray, Ce sexe qui n’en a Harlem Project, with a Little Girl and acter in Philip K. Dick’s 1969 novel, enterprises of this type. Several ex- est pas un, published in 1977. (Irigaray a Fat Lady against Little Boy and Fat Ubik), a “Less than Nothing” of the amples of their work are reproduced advocated the advent of a female sexu- Man? Are weapons of mass destruction Congregation of Antiheroes, and asked here. Welles would undoubtedly have ality “other than that defined in and necessarily male? us to stand still for two minutes while been pleased by the landscape that by the dominant phallic economy”). Dr. Harlem is also a rebuke to he examined us slowly with his widely greeted New Yorkers this morning in The Lewis Carroll characters appear- President Nixon, who in 1973 (accord- dilated pupils. “I have a special talent,” the street. Posters were plastered in ing on the fountain, dedicated to “The ing to the Oval Office recordings made he said. “I am able to sense whether every nook and cranny of Manhattan Godmother of American Children,” in January and February of that year) or not people have superpowers. We this morning, tangible evidence of have also been painted black. Mother advocated abortion in special cases don’t want to be infiltrated by Nixon’s Nino Caprioglio such as rape or interracial intercourse, thugs.” Next, Chip guided us to the even if he otherwise considered it a squalid building where we waited for factor in the destruction of the family. Donna Haraway. Surprisingly, she The revision of Central Park’s stat- insisted that we call her by her first ues as black figures also denounces a name. The interview began … lily-white America, and a government What Lies Behind the Masks? which while considering the breakup The New York Times: You claim that of the typically WASP family out of the bearded kook in your video, who the question, finds it perfectly normal announced that the Apocalypse would would have said. And since then, we have asked War in two sentences: “Your mother is a whore! to exterminate a racially-mixed child. take place this month (October 1985), Continued from Page A1 him repeatedly and insistently to come back. No, your mother is a whore!” To be perfectly aligned with contem- is none other than science fiction wri- porary society’s new sexual attitudes, ter Philip K. Dick. According to our I arrived at Sing Sing at 9 a.m. For the in- Yet they are certainly more than just onlookers. But then, what is left to do except wait for the it is best to establish one’s heteronor- sources, he died on March 2, 1982. mates, the day had already begun. They were This difference is what interests me: are they bombs to fall? mality with utmost exactitude, on the Are you really serious? strolling around the courtyard. However, the crazy? Unfortunately, I do not know which will prevail, dotted line. Congregation of Antiheroes: You are most famous inmates, constantly guarded un- “I am the strongest! No, I’m the strongest!” These the death drive or the life drive, or in what form. The WatchGirls were awakened free to believe whatever you want. If der high security conditions, were nowhere to are the kind of thoughts that truly seem to guide Our destiny is our responsibility, as the inevi- by the glimmers of cohesive nuclear you compare the man in our video be seen. The hallways were filthy, the lighting them. Be they super-villains or superheroes, all table Adrian Veidt pointed out. His laboratories force from the cyborg shadow of Dr. with photos, tape recordings or videos dim. Finally, I arrived at Dr. Long’s office. He they can do is to enter a power struggle to remain invented MRI (Editor’s note: Magnetic Resonance Manhattan, a man “spawned by ma- of Philip K. Dick, you will see that it is opened the door with a smile, shook my hand, undefeated—invincible. And, rather than feeling Imaging) in 1980. This is a fabulous tool that has chines.” Their action is directly linked clearly him, or else a dead ringer. You looked me straight in the eye, and then seated like we need their protection, we feel like judg- proven, with hard science, the existence of the to the Jupiter Space concept, developed are of course aware that he was the me in the chair facing his desk. I suddenly had ing them. They believe we are victims in need unconscious: the millions of brain processes that by Zoë Sofoulis last year (Zoë Sofia primary inspiration of our congrega- the strange feeling that I was in a psychiatric of assistance. But, at the same time, they need are constantly active in our deep brain without (Sofoulis) “Exterminating Fetuses: tion, our shabby, omniscient prophet, consultation. But my objective here was not to us to validate the morality of their actions. They making it to the cortex, the center of our con- Abortion, Disarmament, and the who understood even the tiniest part analyze my own mind. Neither had I come here are guided by their instinct and not by free will. sciousness. They are simply too numerous. They Sexosemiotics of Extraterrestrialism”, of everything and every being. So it’s to analyze the world, the country or this city and This is especially true of Rorschach … He is the control our breath and our posture, affect our Diacritics 14, n°2, 1984, pp. 47-59). In not surprising that he contacted us six its inhabitants who never sleep. Rather, I wanted only one operating outside the law. I think this reflexes, our gesticulations, govern our atten- Sofoulis’ article, Strauss’ Blue Danube months ago. He explained that he has to analyze the superheroes, the masked ones, is their driving force, not the fear of death or the tion, and determine how we react to everything Waltz (again, the color blue) serves as been kept in a state of partial anima- the Watchmen—call them what you will. Since need for recognition, which inhabit most of us. that is concerned by our desires. In reality, these a backdrop for a Jupiter-bound space- tion in the Good Friars Moratorium, the passage of the Keene Act, nearly all of them processes make us tick. They also, unbeknownst ship just as the embryonic imagery of and that the seriousness of the cur- have disappeared from everyday life. But with The Comedian and Dr. Manhattan are two cos- to us, give meaning to our existence. Formerly, it Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey be- rent situation prompted him to inter- the Doomsday Clock indicating five minutes to tumed adventurers who remain operative, wor- was called instinct. The backdrop, if you will, of comes the impetus for a “cannibalized vene publicly. With his guidance, we midnight, wouldn’t it be about time to revoke that king exclusively for the US Government. Can we the spirit. Thus, my unconscious does not lie deep extraterrestrial and hyper-masculine hacked a television satellite and used law? How would they react if we suddenly asked hope they are at work as we speak, sabotaging in my spirit, it is rather a sum of imperceptible excremental rebirth.” Jupiter Space it for our purposes, which are to fight them for help again? And are they the only ones Russian nuclear facilities? processes that do not perceive the world and can may also refer to the controversial against these superheroes who continue who can save us? I tried to read the look in the Yes, most likely. Yet, apparently, the Russians do only react to the present: it is our present. This is Sally Jupiter, former resident female to serve in violation of the law enacted eyes of my interlocutor. He glanced downward, not feel that they are in a weak position. the only way we can exist. In fact, what is called of the Watchmen clan, who has since in 1977, and to promote ourselves, the and the interview began. the ID is simply a reaction to the world and a become the trophy wife of hegemonic true antiheroes. How can we understand the mentality of a mas- way of adapting to its constraints. I know that my Dr. Manhattan. Today she has melded Doctor, in these troubled times, can we count ked individual? scientific answer means little, because at the end into the Andersen statue, in a far cry Why can’t we meet him? on the masked vigilantes? Well … simply by looking in the mirror. Take of the day, people do as they please, don’t they? from fairy tales. American women are Since he is only partially alive, he Your question perfectly expresses why humanity the example of Rorschach. He lives in a binary What drives the spirit of a costumed adventurer is all princesses who wake up because doesn’t want to see anyone. But I as- has reached the point of no return: our reliance world. Everyone is either a criminal who must paranoia, megalomania, madness and the desire they felt the peas that had stealthily sure you that he is much more than a on others to dispel our own doubts and fears. be punished, or an honest citizen. There are for omnipotence. It is therefore likely that they been slipped under their mattresses: “ghost in the shell …” I’m warning you: What are our observations, as psychologists? no shades of gray. But when he makes a mask, feel capable—not all, but most of them—of cor- technological triumph is of necessity, if you continue to insist on seeing him During the first years of our lives, we form an how does he choose it? Or, more precisely, from recting our follies. But we’ve driven them away: that of masculinity. in person, I’ll have you removed from essential part of our neural network, or our brain, behind his mask, what does he see? Inevitably, we attacked them directly, and in doing so we For the WatchGirls, rethinking the premises. However, I can show you if you prefer. We learn to think, live and love, Rorschach sees the world in black and white. This denied their capacity for empathy, humility and these man-machine couplings by re- other recent footage of him, which is while the circuits that emerge carry the electri- is an important point, because his mask controls generosity—their human side. Also, I think that leasing them from their gender con- longer than the video you saw … cal currents allowing thought. At this time, we and shapes his psyche. But that does not make they are eager to let us deal with our own destiny, texts is a way of opening the door to are constantly dominated by two key figures: our him a unique individual: how are we different? guided by the non-masked pseudo-vigilantes who new social configurations, and reposi- That’s fine, but you can understand father and mother. Those who do not have these Are our blinders any different? I don’t think so. govern us, as well the ideologies we embrace. tioning women at the heart of the de- that we have nagging doubts. We also figures will always—without exception—find We live our lives according to our desires and And otherwise, what would they do? They would bate. They present a feminist economy find it difficult to understand why and substitutes for them, even if they are imaginary. our aversions. All of that is filtered through our continue to subscribe to their own personal myth as a contrast to the political-military how a science fiction writer like Philip Later, we have to face life alone, confronting memories; they guide our ego. They determine in which we play only supporting roles. I think outcomes generated by the US pos- K. Dick was able to become the God failures, sorrows, difficulties and fears. What our perceptions of what we see … or don’t see. they would continue to hunt down criminals in session of the ultimate weapon, the of your congregation … is our first reaction? We ask daddy to punish the rubble that we would have left them. H-bomb, that is the human bomb: Dr. We have no God, with or without a capi- the wicked, or, perhaps, we take refuge under Only two masked adventurers, Nite Owl II and Manhattan. tal G. We are the fools, the destitute and mommy’s skirt. And so, throughout our lives, Silk Spectre II, have finally ceased their ope- I switched off the tape recorder and rubbed The recent article by Donna Har- the lost: just like those we look up to. we lurch back and forth between the desire for rations. Shouldn’t we therefore consider the my temples. The doctor looked at me in sympa- away, “Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Dick was the most important source of revenge and the need for comfort. But neither Keene Act a failure? thy. Will the Watchmen save us? And isn’t it really Technology and Socialist Feminism in enlightenment in this gloomy world, desire can ever be fulfilled. We want a savior: Yes, like all decisions made by people who don’t our job to save ourselves? Wouldn’t it make more the Late Twentieth Century”, published a spiritual man in every sense of the be it Dr. Manhattan or Che Guevara, our entire have a say in the matter. However, it was worth sense to rely on them rather than on the good in Socialist Review 80, (vol. 15, No. 2, word. His antiheroes come from the being longs to find an external figure with the a try. faith of Nixon and Gorbachev? Without daring to March-April 1985) seems to suggest street and the gutter. They are the lit- all-powerful nature that we associate with our believe all of Dr. Long’s theories, I left the inter- an alternate interpretation of cyborgs, erary expression of Kurt Schwitters’ parents. But it is a fantasy, of course. A nice story Back to the point: can we rely on the Watchmen view disturbed by these questions. I don’t know in more of a bilateral than a unilateral Merzbau: a haphazard sculpture com- for our own benefit. The important thing is not to protect us against the risks of nuclear war? about you, but I have no hankering for these light. Although Haraway cites Sofoulis, posed of a thousand grottoes rising that Œdipus slept with his mother, but that his This is precisely the kind of risk that can only Minutemen, these vigilantes, these guardians. she makes a case for parallel consid- to infinity and filled with waste, from destiny was to blind himself. Like him, in order be eliminated through diplomacy, dialog, and Back in the street, I was glad we and not these eration of blurred boundaries between dirty towels to hairpins, cigarette butts to hide the childish feelings that are considered a desire to make concessions in order to live in schizos controlled it. I headed for the first burger nature and culture in a strategic man- and broken combs. Philip K. Dick’s los- intolerable by an adult with a mature morality, harmony. But they are not very skilled at diplo- joint I saw, surprised by my appetite. Leaving a ner. “There remains the overarching ers, like those in neo-Dadaist works, we live with blinders on, with our own sort of macy … including Dr. Manhattan, who projects prison, when you haven’t spent 30 years there, problem of cyborgs: they are the ille- are free of preconceived notions, internal masks, our fictional stories and personal such a powerful image. He masters all the forces tends to abate your desires, other than that of gitimate offspring of militaristic and and perfectly indifferent to political myths, which continue to separate us from oth- of nature except one: language. Because he is wanting to hang yourself. In any case, that’s patriarchal capitalism, not to mention or economic powers, bourgeois in- ers. Psychoanalytic work often consists of real- too distant from us to know how to speak to us. what always happens to me. The waiters rushed state socialism. But illegitimate chil- stitutions, and social and artistic hi- izing that our parents are not omnipotent. They This is surely why he grants so few interviews. around among waiting customers. Nothing ever dren often prove exceedingly unfaith- erarchies. Their filthiness and their simply did what it was within their power to do; a Moreover, we consider him more as a tactical changes in New York City. However, that may not ful to their origins. Their fathers are, pariah status have freed them from power that, in reality, is no greater than our own weapon than as a conscious being. But in the last much longer. We eat hurriedly, the clock is after all, out of the loop.” If we are to these impediments. And because they is today. In 1977 (Editor’s note: date of the Keene East as in the West, we continue to fight like little ticking. The future depends on us, not on those believe Haraway, the solution is in the are indifferent to status, rank or fame, Act), we tried to kill the father. Just like we tried to children to prove the superiority of our ideology guys in tights. Sing Sing is a thing of the past and hands of Dr. Manhattan himself: if he they inadvertently arrive at universal kill God, as the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and our way of life. I will summarize the Cold the sun will rise again tomorrow. would only turn against the state and truths. Dick’s antiheroes are therefore impose his own law, thus proving his the exact opposite of those infamous infidelity, hope may still loom behind costumed vigilantes who, in the name the gloomy and particularly threaten- of good, murder our children and are ing opaque polynuclear clouds that preparing to unleash the Apocalypse. now cast their shadows on our country.

But why do you so despise these mas- AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE • NORMAN MAILER • CANNES FILM FESTIVAL• KISS • NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ked vigilantes? DAVID MAMET • SANTA FE LIGHT OPERA • THE BIG CHILL • WARREN BEATTY • SUSAN CHEEVER • THE KENNEDY CENTER Dr. Manhattan is a cold-blooded mon- ster who thinks nothing of teleporting a CULTURE CLUB • ISAAC STERN • DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM • BRIAN DE PALMA • DIANE ARBUS • LEONARD BENSTEIN boy to Mars and killing him in the name ROCKY IV • BLOSSOM MUSIC FESTIVAL • LOS ANGELES PHILARMONIC • TWYLA THARP • MERYL STREEP • MILES DAVIS of science. This blue nuclear-powered abomination is a caricature of the com- NORA EPHRON • STEVEN SPIELBERG THELONIOUS MONK • JEAN LUC GODARD • SPOLETO FESTIVAL • JULIAN SCHNABEL plex and tortured Silver Surfer. The KIRI TE KANAWA • EUGENE O’NEILL • STEPHEN SONDHEIM • JEAN PIERRE RAMPAL • MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY Comedian is a fascist thug—in fact, he reminds me of Captain America. As for J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM • ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER • EDWARD ALBEE • CLAUDE MONET • WOODY ALLEN• MOSTLY MOZART Ozymandias, he is the most repulsive sort of capitalist speculator, pretending to be a charitable leader. These arro- CULTURE! CULTURE! READ ALL ABOUT IT. gant machines—they certainly aren’t human beings—are worse than the criminals they claim to pursue. And I won’t even mention the policemen they put out of work! These superheroes have no empathy.

Here again, your views are in harmony with Philip K. Dick’s. Yes, because you must be a nobody to feel empathy, that uncommon ability to Find your world in ours. really get into someone else’s shoes, to put your ego in the existential corpse A6 THE NEW YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1985

A Mysterious “Blue Movement” Plans Fire Against Geographic, National, to Create Other Dr. Manhattans Racial and Sexual Borderlines

A team of New York Times reporters By Zachary Sheep By STAN H. WASS attempted to enter into contact with these BROOKLYN, Oct. 10 — We want Special to The New York Times passionate devotees. However, our report- better films! has probably been one ers’ attempts were rebuffed with indiffer- of the most controversial—as well as one of the shortest—art exhibitions of The Bronx — Oct. 12, 1985. Jon ence and/or hostility as the readers hastily the last twenty years. Named after a Osterman (aka Dr. Manhattan)’s sudden de- repaired to their homes, from which they key motto of Close Up, an avant-garde parture for Mars, while causing panic in the emerged at night, their faces hidden behind film journal, the show contained a wide range of works, historical documents entire Western world, has strangely enough hats, scarves, and glasses. While our report- and films from the thirties up to the been seen as good news by a certain press. ers tailed them, they threaded their way in present, with a cross-section of under- The cover of the “Blue Book,” a comic book small groups toward an abandoned hangar, ground and experimental movies, in- cluding sections devoted to alternative which hit newsstands a few months ago, in front of which two bouncers screened all distribution methods and networks, featured a drawing of the mutant floating in arrivals. One of our journalists managed to censorship, Soviet film-making, rac- space, a benevolent smile on his lips, hand enter. Inside a group of individuals were wait- ism, as well as gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights. raised as if to say goodbye, with the cap- ing in silence. In the back of the space, a small Around 4 a.m. following opening tion, “The Long-Awaited Event Has Finally stage was set up beneath a gigantic picture night, less than an hour after the end Occurred.” of Dr. Manhattan, crowned by Dr. Milton of the event, a fire broke out in a new (and as yet unnamed) bookshop in Glass’s famous quote: “God exists and He is Williamsburg. The fire, which police American.” After a half-hour spent waiting suggest may have been caused by ar- Danny Lyon, Memories of the Southern Civil Rights in total silence, an entirely nude individual, son, devastated the whole exhibition space and first floor of the former head shaven and covered in blue body paint, storage building in which the show camouflage portraits (photomontag- Jean Genet’s Song of Love into the appeared on stage. Addressing the crowd as had been held for a few hours. Only es) of Robert Mapplethorpe and Indra US, showed it in New York and was his “brothers and sisters” he explained that a handful of lucky guests in the know Tamang from the mid-1970s, and last arrested. had a chance to attend the opening and but not least the 1933 experimental Police are currently interviewing the quantum mutant’s departure for Mars enjoy such a rare and mostly unpub- and queergender novel The Young the organizers and artists, who also heralded a new era: “By leaving us alone, he lished selection of artistic and literary and Evil. stand accused of subversive acts li- has given us no other choice but to reshape works, as well as unreleased or new As an extension of this corpus, able to cause a breach of the peace, short and full-length features. a screening program was held in an as a number of pornographic images ourselves in his image.” While the man was We want better films! also affor­ ironically curtained-off back room were visible through the paint-cov- speaking, members of the audience began ded the opportunity to sit comfortably featuring Macpherson’s Borderline ered windows. Neighbors told the po- disrobing, removing shirts, skirts, t-shirts and read the collection of Close Up (1930, re-discovered by chance in lice they saw one of the vigilantes— issues. This publication, co-founded Switzerland two years ago), and Maya Rorschach? The Comedian?—pass and underwear, thus revealing skin that had by the Pool Group, was published Deren’s newly edited documentary by the corner of the street on several been painted blue. Beards and hair turned out between 1927 and 1933. The edito- film Divine Horsemen, The Living occasions on the night of the fire. to be fake, as all sported shaved heads. Our rial threesome of Close Up—Kenneth Gods of Haiti, produced by Teiji and However, investigators have refused Macpherson, Bryher and the poet Cherel Ito. Photographer and film- to corroborate those remarks and reporter’s skin color made him easily iden- H.D—set up the magazine as a me- maker Danny Lyon—well-known for have yet to confirm their suspicions of tifiable as an intruder, and he was summar- dium for intellectual discussion about his work about bikers, prison inmates, arson. In a comment, President Nixon ily expelled from the meeting, nude. Luckily cinema while actively pursuing a abandoned children, and tattoo art- said that although he respects free- ménage à trois in Kenwin, a mod- ists—was supposed to present Willie, dom of expression, he does not con- enough, cabdriver Jack Exelberg, a faithful ernist villa located in La Tour-de- a film he made this year in New Mexico sider it to be absolute. While publicly and understanding reader of this newspaper Peilz on the shores of lake Geneva in about a twenty-seven-year-old man condemning the destruction of this took him in, saving him from a worse scrape, Switzerland. Their writing demon- who is in and out of, but mostly in, the cultural heritage, the government has strates how cinema, going against the state penitentiary. A special screen- also deplored the fact that the orga- and we would like to take this opportunity to grain of traditional commercial inter- ing of Arthur Bressan’s unreleased nizers didn’t make better-informed thank him here. ests, transformed psychic, gendered Buddies had been scheduled for next decisions before carrying out their Now that we no longer have direct ac- and racialized experience, while ex- week. This dramatic film deals with project. While calling to mind the ploring radical outlets. the AIDS pandemic and responds to 1977 Keene Act, which outlaws non- cess to those whom one can only refer to as In parallel to the Pool Group’s writ- the long-standing Hollywood taboo governm ental organizations or indi- “followers,” we have pursued our investiga- ings and films, the exhibition includes against depicting homosexuality. viduals from taking the law into their tion through secondary channels and sources Charles Henri Ford’s surrealist publi- Last night’s incident hearkens own hands, this episode also high- cation View, some of his later works back to certain form of censorship, lights the belief that such illicit con- both fragmented and less viable. However, such as the poem posters series from as it echoes a similar case from the tent should never have been allowed through cross-checking, we have been able his 1964 Mexico exhibition, some 1960s, when Jonas Mekas smuggled to enter the US. to piece together the following facts: the The Blue Book cover “Blue Movement” is a sect whose belief sys- tem incorporates Buddhism (much like the Enlightened One, Dr. Manhattan has achieved “Go Ahead, Make My Day!” But What The drawings are simple, almost naïve, a superior state of humanity through his own and the publisher—Blue Press—unknown. Its willpower), the latest discoveries in nuclear Is a Typical Day for Harry Callahan? address—a post office box in New Jersey— physics as well as a mythological hodge- and phone number are listed, though no one podge of ideas stemming for the most part ever picks up. Proprietors of bookstores and from science fiction narratives. The group, By Mark Frintz newsstands which carry the “Blue Book” all similar in many ways to the Raelien move- Dirty Harry (1971) is remembered as the first film in a series whose am- tell the same tale: a little over a year ago, ment, finds most of its recruits among finan- biguous, high-caliber hero, Inspector clients began asking for the item, which none cially independent hippies, who are attracted Callahan (Clint Eastwood) does not had ever heard of before. A few weeks later, to the pseudo mystical, scientific discourse hesitate to pull the trigger to make peo- ple respect the law. Violent persuasion two men came with a dozen or so copies. and the psychedelic ceremonials. The “Blue and deception are among the methods Since that time, several reprints have been Movement” is said to have a retreat in the he considers justified and appropri- issued. Arizona desert, where the faithful practice ate within a chaotic, corrupt society. Pointing his gun at a delinquent caught The “Blue Book” recounts the various nudism and attempt, through intensive medi- red-handed in a robbery, he imparts stages of Dr. Manhattan’s life, with one no- tation, to reconstruct the atoms of boulders. his subtle conceptions of instruction table disparity regarding the official history: We have been unable to locate this retreat and civic responsibility: “You’ve got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel the transformation of the young researcher with any degree of precision. lucky? Well do ya, punk?” The script, into a quantum creature is not presented as And what of the links between the “Blue originally entitled Dead Right, was a laboratory accident, but rather as a kind of Movement” and Dr. Manhattan? Since the set in New York. However, Director Don Siegel preferred to shoot it in inevitable self-awareness. According to the latter is currently on Mars, we have natu- San Francisco. The film is notable “Blue Book” Dr. Manhattan is the first man rally been unable to broach the subject with for its blurring of established social in the history of humanity to understand that him. Ex-members of the group have revealed values ​​and functions, which are alter- nately inverted and substituted. The we are able to manipulate time and matter that the sect’s “priests” are “ordained” by Dr. “straight” cop—gray suit, red V-neck The Mars Bar, East Village, New York as we please. And, the comic strip insists Manhattan himself, who is said to have en- sweater and tie—against the robber, repeatedly, with enough ascetic detachment trusted to them the task of spreading his teach- the “punk”. The origin of the word “punk” is unknown, but its appearance arising from all sides, whether in the declined. Have these artists and jour- and willpower we can all transform ourselves ings. The same sources allege that the famed dates back to the sixteenth century. form of isolated criminality or the ex- nalists abandoned their easels and into Dr. Manhattans. mutant has on occasion graced the Arizona The archaic meaning is prostitute; treme left. Clint Eastwood himself di- desks to drink with Rorschach at the Readers of the “Blue Book” tend to fall campus with secret visits; however neither of today, it has come to mean hoodlum. rected Sudden Impact, from 1983, in Mars Bar? Both definitions designate an outcast. which the inspector is on the trail of a The existence of an art gallery into three categories: fans of the Silver Surfer, these assertions has been confirmed at the It is important to note that the film pre- serial killer who turns out to be a neu- called “Nature Morte” and a nightclub a character sharing many of Dr. Manhattan’s present time. People close to Dr. Manhattan dates the musical “punk” movement, rotic, traumatized artist for whom the called “Pyramid” attest to the nostal- physical and psychological characteristics, have categorically denied his having had any which is therefore not a concern here. boundaries of catharsis and personal gia that informs New York’s current Otherwise, Callahan would be a cop revenge are more than a little hazy. underground scene. At a recent art whose adventures were discontinued by contact whatsoever with the “Blue Movement,” with “punk” methods in a “hippie” city: This blurring of apparently incompat- opening, the bohemians in attendance Marvel Comics in 1982; children and young whose very existence they claim he had no San Francisco. ible values—justice and vengeance— manifested their disenchantment by adults to whom the “Blue Book” represents knowledge of. “He’s an army unto himself. Callahan is as isolated a figure impels the cop to cover up for the killer. parodying 60s Mafia attire: tight-fit- within his police administration, much Today, public fascination with ting suits, white shirts and black ties. a contemporary alternative to the Pirate Why in the world would he need soldiers?” as Rorschach remains confined to his violence has grown to the point that These outfits remind me of a series of Comics so prevalent these days on news- Dr. Manhattan’s girlfriend, Laurie Jupiter said. own mind. The Keene Act, prohibit- copies of Life magazine with Charles drawings by Robert Longo depicting stands around the city; and the fanatical col- Be that as it may, certain facts would ing vigilantism by costumed adven- Manson on the cover (subtitled “The bankers being gunned down. In an- turers, prompted The Comedian and Love and Terror Cult”) fetch very high other realm—that of comic art—Frank lectors who come to pick up their copy on the seem to confirm that contact between the blue Dr. Manhattan to join forces with the prices. Violence is also a recurring Miller released the first installment of day of each new release, reverently placing mutant and this eponymous movement exists. government. Rorschach’s political po- theme in the columns of this newspa- Daredevil in June. Entitled “Badlands,” the periodical in a plastic sleeve. Besides the mysterious camp in Arizona, the sition is as elusive as his ever-changing per. Earlier this year, New York State the episode is a thinly veiled reference mask, an inkblot which one is tempted allocated funding for security guards to the film by Terrence Malick, which sect appears to be in possession of a num- to interpret in the worst possible man- in elementary schools (The New York recounts the life of notorious 1950s ber of hideouts in various locations across ner. Rorschach’s isolation appears to Times, January 22, 1985). Scientists serial killer Charles Starkweather. the country. On the very few photos New have been aggravated by his paranoia. have proved the correlation between Frank Miller, whose Ronin series (no. However, one wonders if this thought media coverage of violence and the 1, July 1983) featured a lone vigilante, York Times reporters have been able to see, process didn’t already have a hold on homicide rate (The New York Times, stated that his objective was to create deep caves with innumerable galleries and him during the golden age of masked January 8, 1985). A few months ago, a sort of naturalist, dark, Batman- mountains as hollow as Halloween pumpkins vigilantes. my colleague Nadine Brozan raised type character. Criminal or vigilante, The wonders of In 1971, Dirty Harry pits inspec- the question of protecting children the American hero certainly seems as are clearly visible. These colossal technical tor Callahan against a serial killer. from violence on television (New York lonely as Rorschach. With the imagi- achievements are all minutely executed (de- Five years later, in The Enforcer, he Times, June 5, 1985). Figures show that nation of America seemingly captured the world are in spite the hardness of the stone, the walls are is confronted with a hippie move- the crime rate rose steadily in the six- by the theme of broken social ties, the ment advocating revolution by way of ties and seventies. Today, American question remains: will Clint Eastwood all perfectly straight) and can only have been armed struggle, patterned after the artists of every stripe have a grim view play Harry Callahan again? Will he achieved with considerable means, and one Symbionese Liberation Army. These of American society. Yet, from 1980 continue to be as solitary as ever? And cannot help but imagine—though this theory films reflect a fascination with violence to 1985, the crime rate has steadily what threats will he now face? Science is not borne out by facts—Dr. Manhattan’s sweeping powers having contributed to the construction of these shelters. Times Might not Dr. Manhattan have grown weary of working for the government and Tuesday in bearing the responsibility of the nation’s nu- clear defense, and encouraged the forming of the “Blue Movement” in order to have at his disposal a contingent of devoted foot soldiers? If so, to what ends? Is he preparing, from his Martian exile, a triumphant return to Earth? Are his followers now supposed to help him put an end to East-West tensions and set up an exclusive domination of the planet? Without Dr. Manhattan’s powers it is impossible to answer these questions, and despite having followed to the letter the meditation instruc- tions found in the “Blue Book,” this reporter must confess that he has yet to succeed in his mission to master matter and time. Sports Page

May, the Royals’ hitting coach, and with Hal McRae, the designated hit- Morris has Giants on the run this year, he has 74 carries for 278 yards. At that rate, he will ter, to discuss solutions. finish the year with 885 yards, a respectable figure for anyone ‘’All I’ve tried to do is get him to When the Giants drafted George Adams on the first round short of an Eric Dickerson or a Walter Payton. relax a little,’’ May said. ‘’He’s been this year, it seemed inevitable that he would soon become their Why is Morris running well? Because, he says, he is get- tight. He’s been trying to hit too many starting halfback. But not yet. For now, the job belongs to Joe ting more opportunities to run. pitches out of the ball park. It’s only Morris, and he could tell Adams about the often-rocky path Why did he not run well earlier in his career? Because, he human nature for him to try to do what from college star to pro starter. says, he did not carry often enough. he does best - hit home runs -but he has At Syracuse University, everything seemed to come easily ‘’He was getting yanked in and out of the game,’’ said to realize he can’t carry the team on his for Morris. He was a 5-foot-7-inch powerhouse who ran for Rob Carpenter, the Giants’ fullback. ‘’You’ve got to get into a shoulders all the time.’’ more yards than Jim Brown, Larry Csonka, Floyd Little, Ernie rhythm, not only physical but mental. If you get enough repeti- Still Batting .083 Davis and every other Syracuse running back in history. tions, you’ll miss some cuts, but you’ll get some, too.’’ Then, in 1982, the Giants, desperate for a running game, ‘’Our running game is better this year,’’ said Morris, ‘’be- Balboni, who is still batting just drafted Butch Woolfolk on the first round and Morris on the cause we’re having success with it, so we’re staying with it .083 in the series, said he did not think second. Both were running backs. Woolfolk became a rookie a little longer. Last year, if we ran and the play didn’t work, the hit would help solve his problems. starter, Morris a disaster area. we’d go to a pass. Now we may try the run again. He had struck out on three pitches in Almost everything Morris did seemed to go wrong. He ‘’You try to make every play succeed because if you do the sixth with two outs and a runner would run in motion in one direction when he should have you will run it again and get better at it. The more success at third, and in the fifth he lined out to gone the other way. He would drop a pass. He would reject an you have, the more the coaches will say, ‘Let’s run again.’ So the warning track in left. off-tackle hole, try to run outside and lose 4 yards. He would one good run means we get a chance for another good run.’’ ‘’I don’t think it’ll make a differ- fail to block a blitzing linebacker. That success comes down to this: The Giants are rushing ence,’’ he said. ‘’I’m still struggling. That season, he carried only 15 times for 48 yards. The next for 126.6 yards a game, or 22 percent better than for all last All I want to do is try and help us win. year, he carried 35 times for 145 yards. These were question- year. They are running more often than passing, something I wouldn’t care if I didn’t get a hit and able contributions from such a high draft choice. coaches treasure, and they are averaging 36 carries a game, we won. I wouldn’t care if I didn’t get ‘’Those two years were very difficult for me,’’ Morris says enough to win most games. a hit in the whole series as long as we now. ‘’I was trying as hard as I could, but I think I was too tense. Morris is averaging 15 carries a game. He is doing it with won. I’d still be happy.’’ You do well in preseason and you think you’re going to get the a slashing style that uses his great speed to get to the hole. Howser’s torment had gone back opportunity to play. It doesn’t happen. I started to think I was He has also come to peace with the knowledge that a to 1980, when the Yankees were swept here only in case someone got hurt. I went from optimism to first-round draft choice is challenging for his job. When the in three games by Kansas City in the doubt.’’ In the 1983 season, a 3-12-1 nightmare for the Giants, Giants drafted Adams on the first round, people said it was American League playoff. But he the final game provided hope for Morris. In a 31-22 loss to the because the Giants had no confidence in Morris. downplayed his poor playoff record Washington Redskins, he carried 13 times for 69 yards and But the week before training camp started, Coach Bill while the Royals were in Toronto, and caught a touchdown pass. He was sure his fortunes would Parcells and Morris had a long talk. Morris said Parcells told he downplayed it again tonight. turn around in 1984. him that Adams would be a good pass receiver and third- ‘’That’s nice,’’ he said when some- But in the first half of the 1984 season he played little and down runner, so Morris could concentrate on the things one asked about the victory, ‘’but this achieved little. Early in a game, he would stand on the sideline Morris did best. It has worked out that way. puts us right back in the picture. I’m and try to be mentally alert. After the first quarter, he would Much of the Giants’ revitalized running game is a result not concerned about my record. I don’t kneel on the sideline and think what he would be doing if he of Morris’s perspective and maturity. Even he was surprised have to defend my record.’’ were on the field. by one incident. He even admitted surprise when ‘’The mind was working,’’ he said. ‘’The body was not.’’ ‘’One day in camp this year,’’ he recalled, ‘’a coach said, Brett caught a pop fly in foul territory Then Woolfolk was slowed by nagging injuries, Morris got ‘All veterans stay out of this drill.’ I realized that meant me. and then handed the manager the ball a chance and never looked back. He became the starter, and You go from being a rookie to being a young guy to being a as the Royals celebrated on the field. after the season Woolfolk was traded to the Houston Oilers. veteran. Here I am, an old guy of 25, a veteran, and I’m hav- ‘’That was the last thing on my Morris ran for 425 yards in the second half of the season ing some success running the ball. So I’m enjoying it all, at mind,’’ Howser said. ‘’I just didn’t and finished 1984 with 133 carries for 510 yards. In 5 games least when we win.’’ want to get stepped on out there. Then George just about stuck the ball in my chest. But it was nice. That’s the kind of player he is—unselfish.’’ Drug Seller Loses Bid . . . Walker Russell, who was cut by edged Toronto, 6-5, for Manager Dick out a different way to handle him to- into left field, enabling Garcia to score the Atlanta Hawks after 21 games last Howser’s first victory in 12 postseason morrow night,’’ Barfield said. the lead run. for Freedom season and again during training camp games. Steve Balboni, who had been Brett, who hit three home runs Saberhagen writhed in pain on the Cards Back this year, signed a multiyear contract hitless in 11 times at bat in the series, against Catfish Hunter in a 1978 play- ground but returned to the mound af- Philadelphia—A Federal ap- with the Detroit Pistons, the club that drove in Brett with the winning run in off game against the Yankees and ter having the heel treated, and pitched on Magic Carpet peals court panel today refused to re- cut him after 16 games in 1983. the eighth inning with a two-out bloop clinched the 1980 playoff against the to one more batter. That batter was lease Curtis Strong from jail while he The 24-year-old Russell is a brother single to short center field against Jim Yankees with a three-run homer off Mulliniks and he hit another two-run By George Abravanel awaits sentencing for selling cocaine to of the former Knick Campy Russell. . Clancy. Rich Gossage, devastated a former homer. major league baseball players. . . Alexis Arguello will be fighting Pat “If we had lost the game,” Brett said, Yankee pitcher, Doyle Alexander, But Jim Sundberg hit a home run in ST. LOUIS, Oct. 11—To the St. Three judges of the United States Jefferson instead of Andy Nance in his “we would have been six feet under.” with his onslaught tonight. He hit a the fifth inning, and Brett connected Louis Cardinals, it is home, and it has Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third comeback bout in Anchorage Oct. 25. The Brett-inspired and delivered bases-empty home run in the first in- again in the sixth after Willie Wilson all the comforts of home: the carpet, Circuit said that Strong, who was con- Nance had to bow out when he suffered victory was the Royals’ first after the ning, doubled and scored in the fourth singled, tying the game, 5-5. the pool-table green, the true bounce, victed Sept. 20 of 11 counts of cocaine a severe cut. . . . Marvin Johnson, a for- Blue Jays had won the first two games and tied the game, 5-5, with a two-run ‘’Blacky,’’ Brett said, referring to Bud the high hop, the fast lane. distribution, failed to meet the burden mer light-heavyweight champion, and in the four-of-seven league champion- homer in the sixth after the Blue Jays Black, the pitcher, ‘’told me I jumped 10 It is where they won 54 games and of proving he would not be a danger to Prince Mama Muhammed of Ghana ship series. The Royals, who had lost had erupted for five runs against Bret feet in the air. I said you’re crazy; there’s lost 27 this season: two of every three. the community if freed. have been chosen to fight for the World 10 consecutive postseason games dat- Saberhagen, the Royals’ 20-game win- no way. I don’t show my emotions on It is where they swept nine straight The 39-year-old Strong, a caterer Boxing Council light-heavyweight ing to the 1980 World Series, will try ner, in the fifth. Barfield and Rance the field. I’ll have to see a tape of it.’’ from the Pittsburgh Pirates, and took who at one time provided food to the title taken from Michael Spinks after to even the series Saturday night when Mulliniks each hit a two-run homer He might also want to look at a tape six of nine from the Mets. It is where Philadelphia Phillies’ clubhouse, is ap- Spinks won the International Boxing Charlie Leibrandt, the first-game loser, against Saberhagen. of the play he made in the third in- they were the most successful team in pealing the conviction. Federation heavyweight crown. pitches against Dave Stieb, the first- ning. With Garcia at third, Moseby hit the business. game winner. a bouncer that seemed headed for left But the team with the best record Brett, whose dazzling defensive field. But Brett made a lunging, back- in baseball came home today with the Sports People: Comings Brett Sparkles as Royals play prevented a Toronto run in the hand stop, his momentum carried him worst record in the National League third inning, caught the final out in another five steps and, in foul territory, playoff, two games down to the Los and Goings Triumph Over Blue Jays the ninth inning, a foul pop by Lloyd he made a leaping throw to the plate, Angeles Dodgers and needing to win Moseby near third base. As soon as the where he easily nailed Garcia. four of the next five to capture the John McEnroe has withdrawn from ball settled in his glove, Frank White, Brett’s hitting enabled him to set pennant. By George Abravanel the Australian indoor tennis champi- the veteran second baseman, raced two overall league championship se- The team that stole 314 bases and onships next week, saying he aggra- KANSAS CITY, Mo.—George Brett, to Brett and embraced him. The rest ries records, tie another and break scored 747 runs in 162 games stole just vated a shoulder injury during an exhi- the heart, soul, breath and blood of of the Royals followed. ‘Hall of Fame two American League championship one base and scored three runs in two bition match against Ivan Lendl in East the Royals, singlehandedly resusci- Performance’ series records. The two home runs, games in Dodger Stadium. It lost the Rutherford, N.J., Wednesday night. tated the withering Western Division ‘’That’s an MVP performance,’’ the double and the single gave him 71 first game, 4-1, and the second game, He missed the 1984 event because of champions tonight in the American Howser said later. ‘’That’s a Hall of total bases, shattering Pete Rose’s play- 8-2. But then, Dodger Stadium has shoulder and elbow injuries. . . . Jackie League pennant playoff. Fame performance.’’ off record of 63, and the four runs he grass and red clay and palm trees, and Moore, the Oakland A’s manager, has Lashing two home runs, a double It was, according to Jesse Barfield, scored gave him a playoff total of 20, it isn’t home to the Cardinals. Palatial, been rehired for next season. . . . Ken and a single in a record-shattering the disappointed but appreciative eclipsing Rose’s record of 17. maybe, but not fast, and not home. Oberkfell, the Atlanta infielder, signed performance, Brett drove in three Toronto right fielder, ‘’a phenomenal’’ The home runs were Brett’s sev- ‘’It’s good we’re going home,’’ said Brett Saberhagen a four-year contract with the Braves. runs and scored four as Kansas City performance. ‘’We just have to figure enth and eighth in playoff games, Cesar Cedeno, who has made his home ‘’When we tied it in the sixth,’’ Dan breaking Reggie Jackson’s American at Busch Stadium since only Aug. 29. Quisenberry, Kansas City’s relief chief League championship series record of ‘’Being home should make the differ- said, ‘’the guys in the bullpen talked seven and tying Steve Garvey’s overall ence. It’s not a home-run hitter’s park. N.B.A N.H.L about how we had a chance to win be- championship series mark of eight. His Turf and singles, that’s our game.’’ Standings Standings cause George had another at-bat.’’ four hits vaulted him past Jackson’s ‘’Whitey Herzog is a master at Monday Night Monday Night With the game still tied, 5-5, Brett American League playoff record of 32 building teams to fit stadiums,’’ said AT LOS ANGELES LAST NIGHT’S GAMES AT BLOOMINGTON, MINN. LAST NIGHT’S GAMES opened the eighth by grounding a sin- by two. Darrell Porter. ‘’And that is what he NETS (98) Chicago at Knicks. Devils...... 0 0 2—2 Toronto at Islanders. gle between first and second on a 1-1 has done with this team. The stadium FG FT Reb Minnesota...... 2 2 2—6 Balboni, Howser End Min M-A M-A O-T A PF Pts Nets at Golden State. FIRST PERIOD—1, Minnesota, Habscheid 1 Philadelphia at Pittsburgh. forkball from Jim Clancy. plays to our game.’’ Cleveland at Houston. Washington at Detroit. O-For-11 Streaks Williams.....33 2-14 5-6 7-13 2 5 9 Denver at Sacramento. (McCarthy, Ciccarelli), 8:20 (pp). 2, Minnesota, ‘’Everybody said the Blue Jays were Even Tommy Lasorda, the manag- King...... 39 7-16 3-4 1-8 1 2 17 Indiana at Atlanta. Habscheid 2 (Ciccarelli, McCarthy), 16:57. MONDAY NIGHT’S GAMES Giminski....25 5-11 4-4 2-5 1 1 14 Milwaukee at L.A. Lakers. Penaltiesderson, Devils (tripping), 7:03; Rouse, Min Rangers 6, Quebec 6 (overtime). going to pitch around me,’’ Brett said, KANSAS CITY, Mo.—The ball just er of the Dodgers, conceded that the Birdsong....15 3-6 0-0 1-1 6 2 6 Philadelphia at Seattle. (hooking), 9:10. Minnesota 6, Devil 2. ‘’but if you’re pitching around a guy, kept fading away, its trajectory car- Cardinals were homebodies. ‘’Yes,’’ he Cook...... 39 4-10 0-0 0-3 9 4 8 Portland at Phoenix. SECOND PERIOD—3, Minnesota, Blugstad 28 Boston 6, Hartford 3. Dawkins.....32 9-15 4-6 2-5 5 6 22 (Bellows), 1:23. 4, Minnesota, Roberts 2 (Nilsson, Calgary 6, Los Angeles 3. you don’t throw fastballs down the rying it farther from the outstretched said, with a touch of envy, ‘’they like Mk.Jhnsn...12 2-4 0-2 0-3 2 3 4 MONDAY NIGHT’S GAMES Acton), 18:03. Penalties—Stewart, Min (holding), Montreal 4, Buffalo 1. middle. That’s what they had been do- gloves of the three fielders who fran- the carpet.’’ Richdsn...... 30 8-15 0-0 4-6 3 4 16 L.A. Clippers 103, Nets 98. 19:34. Ransey...... 7 0-2 0-0 0-1 0 0 0 Dallas 124, Chicago 116. THIRD PERIOD—5, Minnesota, Acton 17 (Nilsson, WALES CONFERENCE ing. But then Clancy fooled me with tically pursued it. When it fell, Steve And Orel Hershiser, who won Game O’Koren.....7 1-2 0-0 0-0 1 2 2 Denver 124, Cleveland. Viveiros), 3:52. 6, Devils, Verbeek 12(Bridgman, Patrick Division a forkball and it must have been my Balboni and Dick Howser must have No. 2 on natural grass, said: ‘’Hold a Totals...... 240 41-95 16-22 17-45 30 29 98 Detroit 118, San Antonio 117. McNab), 7:03. 7, Devils, Gagne 15 (Higgins, Adams), W L T Pts GF GA Milwaukee 127, Utah 103. 8:19. 8, Minnesota, Broten 20 (Bjugstad, Bellows), Philadelphia...... 35 14 0 70 215 147 worst swing of the bat. I hit a routine felt some kind of personal relief, per- ball shoulder high and drop it on the Percentages: FG .432, FT .727. 3-Point Goals: 0-2, .000 17:41. Penalties—Daneyko, Devils, major (fighting), Washington...... 29 14 4 62 193 159 ground ball that everybody dived for haps even vindication. They had wait- St. Louis turf, and it bounces to your (King 0-1, Cook 0-1). Team Rebounds: 10. Blocked shots: EASTERN CONFERENCE 7:27; Stewart, Min, major (fighting), 7:27; Anderson, Islanders...... 21 17 10 52 194 176 5 (Gminski 2, Birdsong, Dawkins, Williams). Turnovers: Atlantic Division Devils, (misconduct) 11:04; Coulis, Min (misconduct), Pittsburgh...... 22 22 5 49 189 182 and nobody caught.’’ ed too long for this moment. knee. There are rules on bats and balls. 16 (Williams 4, Richardson 4, King 3, Dawkins 2, W L Pct. GB 11:04. Rangers...... 22 23 4 48 171 170 It was Balboni, hitless in 11 times at There ought to be a rule on elasticity.’’ Birdsong, M.E Johnson, Ransey). Steals: 8 (Cook 5, Shots on goal—Devils 7-10-17—34. Minnesota Balboni Comes Through Williams, King, Richardson). Technical fouls: None. Boston...... 33 8 .805 – 11-13-6—30. Devils...... 15 31 2 32 180 232 bat during the American League cham- Herzog, the manager of the Illegal defense: One. Philadelphia...... 29 15 .659 5½ Power-play Opportunities—Devils 0 of 1; Minnesota Nets...... 26 20 .565 9½ 1 of 1. Adams Division Hal McRae sacrificed Brett to sec- pionship series, who deposited a bloop Cardinals, admits that the synthetic L.A. CLIPPERS (103) Washington...... 23 21 .523 11½ Goalies—Devils, Chevrier (30 shots-24 saves). Montreal...... 28 17 5 61 223 171 ond, and he moved to third as White single into shallow center field tonight, surface gives his team a natural advan- FG FT Reb Knicks...... 15 29 .341 19½ Minnesota, Beaupre (34-32) Quebec...... 28 18 3 59 205 168 Min M-A M-A O-T A PF Pts Central Division A—10,013. Boston...... 24 18 7 55 196 176 grounded out to short. Clancy walked scoring George Brett from third base tage, so to speak. But he doesn’t like to White...... 36 12-18 5-7 3-5 2 2 29 Milwaukee...... 31 15 .674 – Referee—Terry Gregson. Linesmen—Wayne Forsey, Hartford...... 26 21 1 53 202 180 the left-handed Pat Sheridan pur- in the eighth with the run that gave the encourage the notion that his team has Nimphius...33 4-8 3-6 0-10 1 5 11 Atlanta...... 24 18 .571 5 Leon Stickle. Buffalo...... 22 22 5 49 182 173 Benjamin...32 4-9 3-4 0-4 0 5 11 Detroit...... 22 23 .489 8½ posely, bringing up the right-handed Kansas City Royals a 6-5 victory over been tailored to a carpet. Mq.Johnsn.36 3-9 2-3 0-5 5 0 8 Cleveland...... 18 26 .409 12 CAMPBELL CONFERENCE Balboni, who not only was hitless in Toronto. And it was Howser who was ‘’We had the best home record in Nixon...... 26 2-8 2-2 0-2 10 2 6 Chicago...... 16 29 .356 14½ Norris Division Maxwell.....31 3-5 10-10 3-7 3 2 16 Indiana...... 12 31 .279 17½ W L Pct. GB this series but also had not had a hit given the ball by Brett when the game baseball,’’ he said. ‘’But then, we had Bridgemn...20 4-8 0-0 0-4 1 0 8 WESTERN CONFERENCE Monday Night Chicago...... 23 19 6 52 218 214 in 16 consecutive postseason attempts ended, in appreciation for the manag- the best road record in baseball, too. Valentine...26 4-9 6-8 1-3 3 1 14 Midwest Division Minnesota...... 19 22 8 46 198 190 Totals...... 240 36-74 31-40 7-40 25 17 103 W L Pct. GB AT QUEBEC St. Louis...... 20 20 6 46 174 182 going back to last year’s three-game er’s first triumph after 11 consecutive We just didn’t play very well in Los Houston...... 30 14 .682 – Rangers...... 1 2 0—6 Toronto...... 12 30 5 29 180 230 loss to Detroit. postseason defeats. Angeles.’’ Percentages: FG .432, FT .727. 3-Point Goals: 0-2, .000 Denver...... 26 19 .578 4½ Quebec...... 2 2 0—6 Detroit...... 10 34 5 25 163 266 (King 0-1, Cook 0-1). Team Rebounds: 10. Blocked shots: San Antonio...... 24 22 .522 7 FIRST PERIOD—1, Minnesota, Habscheid 1 ‘’I don’t keep mementos,’’ Howser Ozzie Smith also doesn’t like to ad- 5 (Gminski 2, Birdsong, Dawkins, Williams). Turnovers: Dallas...... 21 21 .500 8 (McCarthy, Ciccarelli), 8:20 (pp). 2, Minnesota, Smythe Division said later. ‘’The only balls I’ve kept mit that the Cardinals are beholden to 16 (Williams 4, Richardson 4, King 3, Dawkins 2, Utah...... 22 25 .468 9½ Habscheid 2 (Ciccarelli, McCarthy), 16:57. Edmonton...... 35 11 4 74 263 202 Birdsong, M.E Johnson, Ransey). Steals: 8 (Cook 5, Sacramento...... 16 28 .378 17½ Penaltiesderson, Devils (tripping), 7:03; Rouse, Min Calgary...... 23 21 4 50 206 188 have been from my first win as the the carpet. Williams, King, Richardson). Technical fouls: None. Pacific Division (hooking), 9:10. Los Angeles...... 15 27 6 36 174 182 Yankee manager and my first win as ‘’I like sleeping in my own bed,’’ Illegal defense: One. L.A. Lakers...... 32 10 .762 – SECOND PERIOD—3, Minnesota, Blugstad 28 Vancouver...... 15 27 6 36 173 201 Portland...... 28 20 .583 7 (Bellows), 1:23. 4, Minnesota, Roberts 2 (Nilsson, Winnipeg...... 15 31 5 35 181 237 the Royal manager. That’s number Smith said, discussing the comforts Monday Night L.A. Clippers...... 18 29 .383 16½ Acton), 18:03. Penalties—Stewart, Min (holding), (Last night’s games not included) three right there—the one sitting in of home, ‘’but that’s as far as it goes. Seattle...... 16 28 .364 17 19:34. AT DALLAS Phoenix...... 15 27 .357 17 THIRD PERIOD—5, Minnesota, Acton 17 (Nilsson, my locker.’’ You’ve got to play someplace, on all CHICAGO (116) Golden State...... 14 34 .292 21 Viveiros), 3:52. 6, Devils, Verbeek 12(Bridgman, The victory was the first in the se- fields.’’ Woolridge 7-17 0-0 14, Green 6-14 4-4 16, Oldham (Last night’s games not included) McNab), 7:03. 7, Devils, Gagne 15 (Higgins, Adams), TONIGHT’S GAMES 4-5 0-0 8, Gervin 15-29 15-16 45, Macy 5-9 0-0 10, 8:19. 8, Minnesota, Broten 20 (Bjugstad, Bellows), Pittsburgh at Devil, 7 : 35 P.M. ries for the Royals, who lost the first Still, the Cardinals left Los Angeles Corzine 5-11 3-3 13, Oakley 0-0 0-0 0, Banks 4-9 0-0 TONIGHT’S GAMES 17:41. Penalties—Daneyko, Devils, major (fighting), Rangers at Chicago. two games to the Blue Jays in the four- eagerly, almost fervently. They played 8, Paxson 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 47-96 22-23 116 Atlanta at Detroit. 7:27; Stewart, Min, major (fighting), 7:27; Anderson, Boston at Hartford. DALLAS (116) Philadelphia at Utah. Devils, (misconduct) 11:04; Coulis, Min (misconduct), Buffalo at Winnipeg. of-seven-game playoff. They were con- six games there during the regular sea- Aguirre 5-11 10-16 20, Perkins 9-19 0-0 18, Donaldson Phoenix at L.A. Clippers. 11:04. Calgary at Vancouver. tests of frustration for Balboni, who set son, and lost four. They played two more 4-4 1-2 9, Harper 6-6 0-0 12, Blackman 9-15 15-17 San Antonio at Dallas. Shots on goal—Devils 7-10-17—34. Minnesota Edmonton at St. Louis. 33, Vincent 6-16 0-1 12, Davis 5-6 4-4 15, Ellis 2-4 Washington at Indiana. 11-13-6—30. Minnesota at Los Angeles. a club record with 36 home runs during there this week, and lost both. Even 1-2 5, Keeling 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 46-81 31-42 124. Power-play Opportunities—Devils 0 of 1; Minnesota Quebec at Montreal. the season but had become a liability in John Tudor lost there, and he hadn’t Chicago...... 26 35 29 26 — 116 1 of 1. Washington at Toronto. Dallas...... 32 31 31 30 — 124 Goalies—Devils, Chevrier (30 shots-24 saves). the Royals’ lineup during the playoff. lost anywhere since July 20. For that Three-point goals—Davis. Fouled out—None. The Leaders Minnesota, Beaupre (34-32) He came to bat with Brett at third matter, the teams have played six times Rebounds—Chicago 55 (Corzine 9), Dallas 41 (Perkins A—10,013. 8). Assists—Chicago 28 (Macy 7), Dallas 27 (Aguirre Referee—Terry Gregson. Linesmen—Wayne Forsey, and with Pat Sheridan, a left-hand- in St. Louis, and won three apiece. 8). Total fouls—Chicago 31, Dallas 17. Technicals— SCORING Leon Stickle. Monday Night ed hitter, having been intentionally When they resume the series Chicago 2 I-illegal defense, Dallas 2 illegal defense, Viannay, Utah...... 42 440 353 1233 29,4 Three-point goals—Davis. Fouled out—None. Steve Balboni Harper. A—16,498. Zoffoli, Denver...... 44 495 293 1284 29,2 Rebounds—Chicago 55 (Corzine 9), Dallas 41 (Perkins AT CALGARY, ALBERTA walked by Jim Clancy, the Blue Jays’ Saturday afternoon in Busch Stadium, Wilkins, Atlanta...... 42 452 259 1171 27,9 8). Assists—Chicago 28 (Macy 7), Dallas 27 (Aguirre Los Angeles...... 0 3 0—3 The burly Balboni blooped the ball reliever. the Cardinals will be pitching Danny Short, Golden St...... 42 425 208 1066 25,4 8). Total fouls—Chicago 31, Dallas 17. Technicals— Calgary...... 3 2 1—6 Bird, Boston...... 41 386 203 1007 24,6 FIRST PERIOD—1, Calgary, Macoun 5 (Quinn, to short center, and it eluded the lung- Cox against Bob Welch. And they will ‘Everything Still Worked Out’ Santini, Chicago...... 44 406 262 1078 24,5 McDonald), :5. 2, Calgary, Loob 13 (Risebrough, ing reach of Tony Fernandez, the short- be running on their own express carpet. Tennis Vandeweghe, Port...... 45 384 315 1083 24,1 Bozek), 2:56. 3, Calgary, Bourgeois 5 (Otto), 3: 29. Free, Cleveland...... 40 344 233 1029 23,8 Penalties—Sykes, LA (roughing), 7:53; Macinnis, Cal stop, who raced futilely for the ball ‘’I wasn’t thinking about anything,’’ Still, the Cardinals acknowledged Malone, Phila...... 44 323 387 1033 23,5 Monday Night (slashing), 7:53 Williams, LA (roughing), 8:09; Kromm, with Damaso Garcia, the second base- Balboni said, ‘’except about what I that they might have been stopped Monday Night Olajuwon, Houston...... 44 398 233 1029 23,4 Cal (roughing), 8:09 Bourgeois, Cal (roughing), 8:09 Aguirre, Dallas...... 35 321 166 809 23,1 Suter, Cal (roughing), Ledyard, LA (roughing), 10:46; man, and Moseby, the center fielder. wanted to do. And I didn’t do it, but more by the Dodger pitching than by AT Philadelphia Abdul-Jabbar, Lakers.. 42 390 175 955 22,7 AT CHICAGO Bourgeois, Cal double minor (roughing), 13:09; Hardy, Bizzarri, Boston...... 39 334 208 876 22,5 Edmonton...... 2 1 1—4 LA, double minor(roughing-unsportsmanlike conduct),. Steve Farr, the unheralded relief everything still worked out.’’ the Dodger park. In two games, Vince U.S. PRO INDOOR Nance, Phoenix...... 40 341 201 883 22,1 Chicago...... 2 0 1—3 SECOND PERIOD—3, Calgary, Hunter 4 (Beers), pitcher who joined the Royals Aug. Balboni swung at a 2-0 fastball Coleman had two singles and no sto- Rodriguez, S. Antonio.. 45 405 169 979 21,8 FIRST PERIOD—1, Edmonton, Messier 21 (Anderson), 2:31. 5, Los Angeles, Wilks 3 (Sykes, Erickson), 3:15. CHAMPIONSHIPS Johnson, Clippers...... 42 364 178 907 21,6 11:37. 2, Chicago, Secord 26 (Savard, B. Murray), 16:24 6, Los Angeles, Dionne 27 (Paterson, Engblom), 4:32. 8, then sealed the victory - he pitched from Clancy that was on his fists. He len bases. Willie McGee, the league’s Prudhomme, Wash...... 44 391 164 949 21,6 (pp). 3, Edmonton, Anderson 33 (Messier, Gregg), 7, Calgary, Beers 11 (Bozek, Macinnis), 6:23 (pp). 8, four and one-third innings of two-hit, hit the ball just beyond the reach of leading hitter, had one single and no First Round Ewing, Knicks...... 39 320 187 827 21,2 18:20. 4, Chicago, Sutter 4 (Lysiak, Olczyk), 18:48. Los Angeles, Erickson LA (hooking), 7:03; Macinnis, Cal Matt Anger, Pleasanton, Calif., d. Larry Stefanki, Thomas, Detroit...... 43 339 194 888 20,7 Penalties—O’Callahan, Chi (holding), 9:15; Lowe, (hooking, 10:24; Redmond, LA (interference), 11:42; scoreless relief—by retiring three Blue the converging fielders - the shortstop stolen bases. Menlo Park, Calif., 6-3, 6-7, 7-6, 6-2; Tim Wilkison, Garnier, Lakers...... 42 360 144 864 20,6 Edm, (interference), 12:55; Kurri, Edm (tripping)., Bourgeois, Cal (double minor).. Jays in the ninth, Moseby the last on Tony Fernandez, the second baseman Worse, in the first inning Thursday Ashville, N.C., d. Tom Warneke, Lakeland, Fla., 7-6, 7-6. FIELD GOAL PERCENTAGE 16:55; Huddy, Edm (hooking), 19:00. THIRD PERIOD—9, Calgary, McDonald 19 (Quinn, Donald Agenor, Haiti, d. Glenn Michibatta, Toronto, FG FGA Pct SECOND PERIOD—5, Edmonton, Napier 15 (Messier), Kromm), 14:43. Penalties—Sheehy, Cal (roughing), the foul to Brett. Damaso Garcia and the center fielder night, both sprinters got on base 7-5, 6-3; Ricardo Acuna, Chile, d. Bud Schulz, Boston, Dawkins, Nets...... 252 395 .638 14:42. Penalty—Savard, Chi (holding), 7:50. 1:39; Paterson, LA (holding), 6:52; Otto, Cal (miscon- Saberhagen, the 21-year-old right- Lloyd Moseby. -and both were thrown out trying to 6-4, 6-2; Dan Goldie, McLean, Va., d. Balazs Taroczy, Johnson, San Antonio...... 227 358 .634 THIRD PERIOD—6, Edmonton, Anderson 34 duct), 15:55; Macinnis, Cal (cross-checking), 15:55; Hungary, 6-2, 7-6. Thorpe, Sacramento...... 165 267 .618 (Napier), 16:58. 7, Chicago, B. Murray 6 (D. Wilson, Hardy LA, major (spearing, game misconduct), 15:55; hander, had faltered in the fifth in- ‘’I shouldn’t have even swung at get to second. The catcher was Mike Andy Kohlberg, Dallas, d. John Sadri, Charlotte, N. Gilmore, San Antonio...... 264 447 .591 Fraser), 17:15. Penalties—None. Wells, LA (high-sticking, roughing), 16:15. ning, giving up five runs that wiped that pitch,’’ Balboni conceded. ‘’It was Scioscia, who at the time was 1 for 13 C., 3-6, 6-1, 6-4; Slobodan Zivolinic, Yugoslavia, d. Worthy, Lakers...... 360 616 .584 Shots on goal—Edmonton 10-11-00—29. Chicago Shots on goal—Los Angeles 8-11-7—26. Calgary Ken Flach, Prarie Oaks, Fla., 5-7, 6-3, 6-3; Leonardo REBOUNDING 11-11-13—34. 14-12-11—37. out Kansas City’s 2-0 lead. Ernie a bad pitch. I don’t even know if it was in throwing out Cardinal runners. Lavalle, Mexico, d Ramesh Krishnan, India, 5-7, 7-6, G Off Def Tot Avg Power-play Opportunities—Edmonton 0 of 1; Pwer-play Opportunities—Los Angeles 1 of 8; Whitt singled, and Barfield hit the first a strike.’’ ‘’I won’t even count McGee, be- 7-6. Laimbeer, Detroit...... 44 161 391 552 12,5 Chicago 1 of 3. Calgary 1 of 5. Vince Van Patten, Newport, Calif., d. Shahar Perkiss, Williams, Nets...... 45 167 371 538 12,0 Goalies—Edmonton , Fuhr (34 shots-31 saves). Goalies—Los Angeles, Janecyk (3 shots-1 saves), home run of the inning. One out later, Balboni’s eagerness to swing at cause that was on a broken hit-and- Israel, 7-6, 6-4; Ben Testerman, Fort Lauderdale, d. Malone, Phila...... 44 199 319 518 11,8 Chicago, Suave (29-25). Eliot (3:21 first, 23-19). Calgary, Lemelin (26-23) Garcia doubled and Moseby smashed anything even remotely close to the run,’’ Scioscia said. ‘’But getting them Aaron Krickston, Grosse Pointe, Mich., 6-4 6-4; Robert Olajuwon, Houston.....44 218 280 498 11,3 A—17,568 A—16,760 Seguso, Prairie Oaks, Fla., d. Sergio Casal, Spain, 6-4 Sampson, Houston...... 44 131 367 498 11,3 Referee—Dave Newell. Referee— Mike Noeth Linesmen—Swede Knox, a wicked one-hopper off Saberhagen’s plate has been his major problem in gives the team confidence that we’re 6-4. Barkley, Phila...... 43 177 289 466 10,8 Linesmen—Kevin Collins, Jerry Pateman. Randy Mitton left heel, the ball caroming all the way the playoff. He has huddled with Lee able to slow down their running game.’’ A8 THE NEW YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1985 The Economy

Japan Still Europe Threatens A Financial Collapse of the Dependant on to Withdraw American Help from the Gatt Likes Never Seen Since 1929 TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 6—Despite the Agreements efforts of the liberal Democratic party in power since the end of WWII to PARIS, France, Oct. 6—The modernize the Japanese economy and European Union has once again sol- implicate it in international business, emnly requested that the American 2000 Energy Consumption of U.S. Japan has yet to diversify its produc- government cease the production of Markets Expecting tion. If the Land of the Rising Sun ex- the free electricity furnished by Dr. cels in textile industries, its steel com- Manhattan. According to them, this an Imminent panies have been unable to get back on state of affairs is tantamount to a hid- End to the their feet since the tall of the empire den subsidy, violating the terms the in 1945, and its famous historical con- spirit and of the GATT agreements. Manhattanization glomerates (the “Keiretsus”) have not According to German Chancellor of the American been rebuilt. Helmut Kohl, the free electricity gen- 1990 Japan’s industrial balance sheet erated by Dr. Manhattan is a “disloyal US production US production forecasting show a heavy deficit, which has once advantage to American steel and auto- Economy Oil, coal, nuclear, gas, hydropower Oil, cauldron, nuclear, gas, hydropower again caused the US to make a loan to motive manufacturers to the detriment help the development contribute to the of their European competitors.” French By STEVEN V. ROBERTS Dr Manhattan’s production Dr Manhattan’s forecasting development of resources which have president Mitterrand has declared that been set in place by our nation for its “American perseverance of the status

The numerous restaurants around Energy imports Energy imports forecasting allies. quo regarding these matters of inter- the New York Stock Exchange are Mostly oil Mostly oil national business would imperil the dramatically empty, and if it weren’t global balance of power in the post- Energy consumption Forecast of energy consumption for the skyscrapers, the area might be in the United States in the United States WWII free world structure.” easily mistaken for one of the many de- The federal government has not had 1985 Speedrail 4 Breaks serted Midwestern towns along Route an official reaction to these attacks, 500 66. The entire neighborhood from the a New Speed but Democratic leader Jimmy Carter 100 World Trade Center to the Brooklyn 0 has solemnly exhorted Washington to Bridge is eerily calm. However, the Record placate its historical European allies. 215000 0 world’s financial center is a pressure cooker, awash with market orders 0 SAN DIEGO, Calif.—The new while the grid remains desperately 250 American high-speed train developed empty. The S&P 500 fell 20% yesterday 0 in part by General Electric, Boeing and Cozying Up to 3000 while the Dow Jones was down 25.52% MTOE the national railway company AmTrak at closing. Major market players talk 19 * yesterday established a new speed re- 60 the Soviet Block openly about Bloody Monday, in refer- 1980 cord in California, breaking that of its ence to the Irish group U2’s megahit predecessor, Speedrail3, which was TEHRAN, Iran—Saudi Arabia recounting Bloody Sunday in Northern clocked at 408 miles an hour. Speedrail and Iran have joined Qatar and the Ireland. The collapse of market shares 4 traveled more than 450 miles an hour United Arab Emirates in a growing seemed to continue this morning, during a trial run in California yes- list of Gulf States that have become though at a less dizzying rate (-8%). terday. Future connections between strategic partners of the USSR and its Is all this, in the words of Central Washington and New York, and New Eastern European and Asian satellites. Bank governor Paul Volcker, nothing York and Detroit as well as Chicago Much like its American counterpart, more than a sneeze and not a harbin- and Boston could top 380 miles an hour. the USSR, which has been the leading *Energy production (MTOE : Million Tonnes of Oil Equivalent) sources : IEA, Energy stats, 1985 BP Statistical Review, 1984 ger of a terrible cold to come, or the 1970 The American consortium which world producer of energy since the ear- sign of a future economic collapse of David Suter bought out its Canadian competitor ly fifties, is now on the brink of a total the United tates, following unprec- US Energy Consumption Follows Dr Manhattan’s Production Bombardier, is confident it will be and definitive depletion of the Siberian edented and continuous growth since able to land the contract for the 2006 oil reserves that have been operated the American Army’s brilliant victory economic authorities are obviously source. Better yet, this gave them a solve the energy problem, and in the construction of high-speed trains in by Petrolprom, a sister company of over communist Vietnamese forces? attempting to reassure the markets in competitive edge against European current geopolitical state of affairs, the Germany, seeing as the national leader Gazprom. In the present context, the Secretary of the Treasury Milton order to ensure that the public contin- companies, and even the industries Pentagon would like to be able to keep Seimens seems to be lagging behind implementation of long-term energy Friedman and his cabinet colleagues ues consuming and investing. They do of developing nations whose cost of him at hand. with its Bahn 2, whose maximum partnerships are key to the survival of continue to insist that the fundamen- have a point, for the American econ- labor is much cheaper than ours, such This is why doubts about Dr. Man- speed is 200 m.p.h. the enemy block. tals of the economy remain excellent— omy is in good objective health, and as Mexico. hattan’s health have sent shockwaves estimated growth for 1985 and 1986 is we are still worldwide leaders in the This has also had the result of through financial markets, which have at around 4.5%—and that the dramatic industrial sector. making American researchers con- suddenly become aware of the Ameri- Evolution of U.S.’s Interterteerrnnationalnanatioata ioonanalnaall RelationsRRelReela fall of market shares is nothing more The markets’ current panic is a centrate their efforts on areas associ- can economy’s growing weaknesses, than a logical downswing after mar- direct consequence of the worry that ated with electricity in order to develop and the necessity of finding a new 1950 19858 URSS URSS ket excesses of the past. Democratic Dr. Manhattan’s health issues have advanced technology which will be a balance in the country’s energy poli- M M e idd e idd leaders are suspicious of this line of spawned. Indeed, he has appeared to determining factor in heretofore un- cies, with greater use being made of rop leE op leE u as ur as E t E t thought and have said so, but the dom- be suffering from severe fatigue and/or imagined mastery of electric energy. alternative sources of energy such as inant ideological and historical posi- depression since his ex-wife’s cancer All American automobiles currently oil and gas. Also, the United States is tion the Republicans have held for the was made public, and investors have have electric motors, and the problems increasingly behind its European allies past fifteen years has rendered their become painfully conscious of the linked to stocking electricity have now in service-oriented markets, since the protests all but inaudible. consequences his disappearance from been partially solved. latter have been forced to give up their On the other side of the Berlin Wall, the scene would have on an American Another consequence of this state own heavy industries in the face of Dr. Soviet leaders have been trumpeting economy commonly referred to as of affairs is that unlike its European Manhattan’s decisive advantage. De- the beginning of the end of Capitalism, “Manhattan-dependant.” allies, the United States is not depen- spite current diplomatic pleas regard- which Marx predicted in his theory of Flashback: the unprecedented ex- dant on hydrocarbons. In a centraliz- ing renegotiations of the 1947 GATT the tendency of the rate of profit to pansion of the American economy ing spirit not unlike that of the commu- agreements, Europe has decided to bet fall. Soviet Economy Secretary and since the end of the Vietnam War is nist block countries, the government on service-oriented industries, such as Secretary General of the Communist intimately linked to the use of Dr. and Am Track trains have supplanted telecommunications. France’s recent Imports Exports Diplomatical Gap party in charge of economic affairs, Manhattan’s powers during that con- planes as a principal source of travel invention of the minitel is a cruel in- Relations Andrei Syrkin made a tongue-in-cheek flict, since America’s largest electri- and shipping. SpeedRail 4’s recent dicator of our allies’ advantage in this comment about President Nixon’s cal companies, such as Duke and world speed record is a perfect il- area. David Suter Chief Economic Counselor John Excelon, not to mention the economic lustration of the dominance of the America’s economy must be “de- Sharpe’s insistence on the fact that leaders, became keenly interested in American railway system compared to Manhattanized,” and the federal gov- Wall Street has long road ahead of it. his becoming an extremely cheap—if its Russian, Chinese or even European ernment is now conscious of this state IMMEDIATE CASH According to Syrkin, “the road in ques- not free—source of energy, on a scale counterparts. of affairs. Saudi Arabia and Iran have tion is just around the corner,” refer- never seen in this country. However, this state of affairs is a recently signed Enhanced Cooperation FOR DIAMONDS William Safire ring in reference to President Hoover’s American industrial lobbyists did double-edged sword, since the uninter- agreements with the Soviet enemy— ill-timed and infamous comment from the rest, and the government went all rupted growth of the American econo- a truly negative signal. The United & FINE JEWELS Sunday 1929: “prosperity is just around the out to persuade Dr. Manhattan to give my being so linked to Dr. Manhattan’s States must now integrate the energy WRITTEN APPRAISALS and Thursday corner.” freely of himself for several hours each energy supply—which he also shared problem into its diplomatic endeav- And what about the man in the day, in order to benefit our industrial with Canada—has had the effect of ors. President Nixon’s upcoming trips Marcus Galleries on the street? Confidence in the future is a competitiveness. And so it came to monopolizing ever bigger portions of to Norway, along with intensive drill- GIMBELS Op-Ed page key element of economic growth, and pass that our industrialists were able the superhero’s days. It seems obvious ing in Alaska, are steps in the right 5th floor, 33rd and B’way 212-736-0808 the United States governmental and to access a free and abundant energy that he will not be able to permanently direction. New York Stock Exchange Issues HOW TO CONSOLIDATED TRADING • TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1985

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171/8 163/4 177/8 − 1/8 181/2 151/7 Herculus 2.40 13.2 25 245/8 245/8 133/4 + ¼ 58 271/4 Ahmns 1.20 9.6 13 11 11 11 + ¼ E F G H 217/8 171/3 Hershy .8 … 302 393/4 391/4 395/8 + … place newspaper. 41/2 21/2 Aileen … 20 1739 273/4 27 273/4 + 7/8 17 15 EGG 1.8 4.1 33 188 261/8 27 261/8 + 1/8 361/8 81/8 Hesston2.64 4.7 18 282 215/8 21 221/3 + 2/3 691/8 467/8 AirPrd 1.48 2.0 187 113/7 111/8 111/8 177/8 − 3/8 323/4 101/4 EQK … 18 282 215/8 21 221/3 − 1/8 571/2 39 Hexcel 5.19e .8a 17 76 661/4 633/4 661/4 − 1/8 243/8 171/2 AirbFrt .60 … 25 245/8 245/8 133/4 + ¼ 221/8 97/8 EagleP … … 13 11 11 11 − ¼ 456 521/2 Hilton 4.7 15 39 171/8 163/4 177/8 − 1/8 Isn’t that the best of all rea­ 21/8 11/2 AlMoan 1.50c 2.1 7x1174 271/4 261/8 271/8 + 3/8 151/8 353/4 Easco 2.18 9.2 … 9 235/8 235/8 235/8 − 1/8 58 281/4 Hollin S 1.20 8x4 13 87 87 87 + 1/3 291/4 25 AlaP pf 2.63e 3.1 … 9 235/8 235/8 235/8 + 1/8 25 321/4 EastAir 3.77 … 18 282 215/8 21 … + 1/8 32/3 21/2 Holnt … 20 890 673/4 67 673/4 … sons why your help wanted 333/8 27 Anastasia pfA 3.92 … 13 11 11 11 + ¼ 113/4 75/8 EsAir 4.01 … 512 25 245/8 245/8 133/4 + 1/8 491/6 45 Human 1.48 2.0 187 153/7 151/8 151/8 397/8 − 3/8 83/8 7 Arow pf .87 9.4 14x33 122/8 213/4 227/8 + 1/8 363/4 9 Echlin 5.99t … 13 164 14 133/4 14 + 3/8 123/7 171/2 Hydral 7.80 … 25 245/8 245/8 133/4 … 3/8 advertising belongs here? 891/2 69 AsdD pf 9.00 13.8 187 113/7 111/8 111/8 17 − 3/8 553/8 323/4 Eckerd 5.01 5.0 … 302 393/4 391/4 395/8 − 1/8 271/2 961/2 Atlas 11.00 10.1 15 40 271/8 163/4 677/8 − 1/8 44 12 EDO 2.3 … 75 141/8 137/8 14 … − 2/3 I J K Call (212) 354-3900 for help. 283/4 631/2 Augat s 8.16 10.1 17 12 551/4 633/4 681/4 + 2/3 381/8 405/8 EPG 2.72 10.0 90 271/4 261/8 271/8 + 3/8 171/4 123/4 ITT 1.8a 7.8 13 42 19 153/4 153/7 − 3/8 891/2 151/4 Auto .16 10.4 1102 113/4 391/4 395/9 − 1/8 44 56 ElToro 1.40b 2.1 17 40 661/4 633/4 141/8 + ¼ 33 101/8 IdahoP 0.6 03 98 323/8 451/2 33 22 + ¾ Outside New York State, 107 81/8 Avery .42 1.1 13 214 19 133/4 34 … 283/4 605/8 Elcor … 1.8 20 55 273/4 27 393/4 + 7/8 191/2 301/4 IdealB … 18 51 313/7 271/8 311/8 … … 803/4 39 Avon .76 2.3 19 145 361/8 26 161/8 + 1/8 395/8 16 EmRad 7.40 3.1 17 122/8 213/4 217/8 … + ¼ 281/8 171/2 IlPow 1.84 … 46 161/ 7 26 261/8 … call toll-free 1-800-223-7437 263/8 521/2 Aydin .80 2.6 … 9 215/8 235/8 245/8 + 1/8 223/4 33 Energen .32b 3.7 1.8 20 217/8 167/8 17 + ¼ 167/8 251/8 ITW 2.40 13.2 25 245/8 245/8 … + ¼ 28 16 BMC 2.1 16 191 261/8 26 261/8 + 1/8 183/8 83/4 EnsEx 1a 8.0 15 39x5 171/8 163/4 177/8 − 1/8 291/2 17 INCO 12A .8 … 21 423/7 391/4 395/8 − 1/8 24 101/4 Ball … 18 282 215/8 21 221/3 + ¾ 761/2 321/8 Entera … 13 29 281/4 29 18 15 − 2/3 51/2 81/8 IJndiM 2.64 4.7 18 45 343/8 21 221/3 + 3/8 353/8 97/8 BltGE … … 13 11 11 11 + ¼ 425/8 605/8 EntexE … … 78 113/7 111/8 177/8 245/8 − 3/8 351/4 44 Inexco 5.19e .8 17 … 435/9 221/3 661/4 + 2/3 503/4 353/4 BncCtr 2.18 9.2 … 9 235/8 235/8 235/8 + 1/8 683/8 223/4 Equfx 1.84 11.0 191 261/8 26 261/8 122/8 + 1/8 213/4 167/8 IngerR 7.8e 4.7 15 39 245/8 163/4 521/2 − ¾ 357/8 321/4 Ban Tex … 18 282 215/8 21 221/3 + ¾ 281/2 151/8 EssBus 2.40 13.2 25 245/8 245/8 133/4 + ¼ 44 18 Insilco 4.50 9.6 13 11 11 11 + ¼ 433/4 75/8 BkBos … … 512 25 245/8 245/8 133/4 + ¼ 521/2 151/4 EsexC s .8 … 302 393/4 391/4 395/8 − 1/8 361/2 21/2 Interco … 20 2345 273/4 27 673/4 + 7/8 163/4 103/8 BkNY … 13 164 14 133/4 14 … 551/2 81/8 Estrine 4.7 18 282 215/8 21 221/3 + ¾ 461/2 331/2 Intrik 5.87 3.7 56 327/8 161/4 313/4 21 − 1/8 553/8 323/4 BnkAm 2.00a 5.0 … 302 393/4 391/4 395/8 − 1/8 961/2 39 Ethyl s 5.19e .8 17x7 4087 661/4 633/4 661/4 + 2/3 153/8 321/2 IntMin … 9x2 215/9 123/7 133/4 + ¼ 90 101/2 Bear St 2.3 … 75 141/8 137/8 14 … 101/4 291/4 ExCelo 4.7 15 3909 171/8 163/4 223/4 − 1/8 121/4 211/2 IntMn 5.50 2.1 7 371/4 261/8 271/8 + … Source: Chilton Research Service 671/8 205/8 BASIX 2.72 10.0 7x1174 271/4 261/8 271/8 + 3/8 58 271/4 Excelsr 1.20 9.6 13 11 11 11 + 2/3 331/4 21 IntSec 3.1 … 9 235/8 235/8 235/8 + … for The New York Times 23 451/8 Beat pf 1.40 2.1 17 4087 661/4 633/4 661/4 + 2/3 41/2 21/2 Exxon … 20 87 273/4 27 353/4 + 7/8 343/8 43 IowaEl 6.12 … 13 11 11 11 − ¼ 383/4 205/8 BellAtl 50 1.8 20 1739 273/4 27 273/4 + 7/8 171/2 467/8 FMC 1.48 2.0 187 113/7 111/8 111/8 75/8 − 3/8 173/8 7 Ipalco .54 9.4 14x33 122/8 213/4 227/8 + 1/8 195/8 10 BCE .40 3.1 18x999 122/8 213/4 217/8 + 1/8 243/8 54 FPL Gp .60 … 25 245/8 245/8 133/4 + ¼ 891/2 69 IpciCP 9.00 15.8 387 113/7 683/4 211/8 17 + 2/3 223/4 14 BellSou .32b 3.7 1.8 20 217/8 167/8 17 + 1/8 21/8 11/2 FabCltr .42 1.50c 2.1 7x1174 271/4 261/8 271/8 + 2/3 271/2 961/2 IrvBnk 11.00a 10.1 15 50 271/8 163/4 677/8 − 1/8 TECHNOLOGY 183/8 83/4 Bemis 1.36t 8.0 15 39 171/8 163/4 177/8 − 1/8 291/4 25 Facet 3.1 … 9 235/8 235/8 235/8 3.1 + 2/3 983/4 631/2 JWT 8 11 19 22 551/4 63 701/4 + 2/3 1151/2 221/8 Benef … … 7429 29 281/4 29 18 − 1/8 333/8 27 Fairchd 3.92 … 13 11 11 11 19 + ¼ 33 151/4 JRiver 16 10.4 4x77 113/4 391/4 435/9 − 1/8 105/8 105/8 ABenef … … 222 113/7 111/8 111/8 177/8 − 3/8 83/8 7 FamDl 9.4 14x33 122/8 213/4 227/8 302 + 1/8 57 81/8 JerC .42 1.1 13 214 19 133/4 34 … 383/8 145/8 Berkey 1.84 11.6 191 261/8 26 261/8 + 1/8 521/2 69 Fansfel 13.8 187 113/7 111/8 111/8 17 164 − ¾ 882/3 753/4 JerC .76 2.3 19 145 361/8 26 161/8 + 1/8 341/2 151/8 BestPd 2.40 13.2 25 245/8 245/8 … + ¼ 271/2 803/4 Farah 11.00 10.1 15 271/8 163/4 677/8 261/8 − 1/8 523/8 331/2 JerC .80 2.6 … 9 215/8 245/8 + 1/3 941/2 151/4 Black .12A .8 … 302 393/4 391/4 395/8 − 1/8 283/4 631/2 FedlCo 8.16 10.1 17 12 551/4 681/4 13 + 2/3 35 141/2 Jewlcr 2.1 16 191 261/8 26 261/8 + 1/3 51/2 81/8 Blair2 .64 4.7 18 282 215/8 21 221/3 + 3/8 891/2 151/4 FdMog .16 10.4 1102 113/4 391/4 395/9 122/8 − ¾ 775/8 101/4 JohnJn 5.8 … 18 572 215/8 21 221/3 + 1/3 Faster, Better, Cheaper 1571/2 39 Blk 5.19e .8 17 … 661/4 633/4 661/4 + 2/3 66 81/8 FPap 1.1 13 214 19 133/4 34 141/8 … 111/4 97/8 JohnCn7.99c … 42 38 24 − ¼ 1501/4 521/2 Boeing 4.7 15 39 171/8 163/4 177/8 − ¾ 353/4 39 FedDSt .76 2.3 145 361/8 26 161/8 122/8 + 2/3 761/4 353/4 JhnC pf 2.18 9.2 … 9 235/8 235/8 55 … 758 271/4 Boise 1.20 9.6 13 11 11 11 + ¼ 263/8 521/2 Ferro .80 2.6 … 9 215/8 235/8 245/8 + 2/3 257/8 283/4 Jorgen … 18 89 215/8 21 221/3 23 … 41/2 21/2 Borden … 20 2345 273/4 27 673/4 + 7/8 28 16 FireFd 2.1 16 191 261/8 26 261/8 + 2/3 113/4 131/3 Josten s … 87 25 245/8 241/8 21 + 7/8 multimedia: it can be transformed puters significantly more accessible. 691/8 467/8 BorgWa 1.48 2.0 337 113/7 111/8 111/8 177/8 − 3/8 24 101/4 FBkFl … 18 282 215/8 21 221/3 + ¾ 163/4 103/8 JoyMfg … 13 99 29 033/4 … … By MARK D. WEISER into a musical instrument, or used The Commodore Amiga has under- 113/8 171/2 BosEd .60 … 25 245/8 245/8 133/4 + ¼ 353/8 97/8 FBost … … 1367 11 11 11 + ¼ 353/4 261/2 KDI 7.5a 5.45 … 30 443/4 761/4 235/8 − 1/8 Special to The New York Times 121/8 11/2 Bowatr 1.50c 2.1 7 371/4 261/8 271/8 + 3/8 503/4 353/4 Ftcity 2.18 9.2 … 9 235/8 235/8 13 + 1/8 33 441/2 KLM … … 75 141/8 137/8 14 … to produce digital graphics! The ses- gone further improvements since 291/4 25 Brock pf 2.63e 3.1 … 9 235/8 235/8 235/8 + 1/8 101/2 321/4 FtWisc … 18 282 215/8 21 221/3 261/8 + ¾ 171/3 371/2 K mart 5.6 10.3 23.6 23 245/8 817/8 271/8 + 3/8 With great fanfare, Commodore sion ended with the famous Boing July, and will be presented tonight 343/8 27 Bose pfA 3.92 … 13 11 11 11 − ¼ 433/4 75/8 FleetEn … … 512 25 245/8 245/8 133/4 + ¼ 72 53 KN En n… 4.8 17 35x7 661/4 321/8 661/4 − 2/3 83/8 7 BrwnGp .87 9.4 14x33 122/8 213/4 227/8 + 1/8 163/4 103/8 Flower … 13 164 14 133/4 14 … 283/4 405/8 KaisrAl8.8 24 4.3 20 88 37 17 49 + ¼ introduced its new Amiga comput- Ball demo, already displayed last in its final version at the Los Angeles 891/2 69 BrlNth 9.00 15.8 387 113/7 331/8 211/8 17 + 553/8 323/4 Fluor 2.00a 5.0 … 302 393/4 391/4 395/8 − ¾ 395/8 10 Kaneb 3.40a 9.0 18 661/4 213/4 217/8 … er on July 23. A spectacular public year, which is poised to become the Convention Center, with Jay Miner 271/2 961/2 Burrgh 11.00 10.1 15 50 271/8 163/4 677/8 − 1/8 90 101/2 FooteC 2.3 … 75 141/8 137/8 14 … 423/8 17 KCSou 47 5.5c 3.1 23 217/8 167/8 17 683/4 631/2 Burrrghs 8 11 19 22 551/4 63 701/4 + 2/3 671/8 20 FMOG 2.72 10.0 7x1174 271/4 261/8 271/8 + 3/8 205/8 271/3 KanGE 1.84 .4e 15 21x56 273/4 163/4 177/8 + 1/8 demonstration at Lincoln Center in- geometric symbol of Amiga produc- and Larry Kaplan, co-founders of 571/2 151/4 CBN .16 10.4 1102 113/4 391/4 435/9 − 1/8 23 48 Frigtrn 1.40 2.1 22 66 661/4 633/4 661/4 + 2/3 361/2 221/8 KanGE … … 2 29 281/4 29 18 + ¼ cluded artist Andy Warhol creating tions. Trivia item: the designers’ Amiga Corporation, in attendance. 57 81/8 CRSS .42 1.1 13 214 19 133/4 34 … 467/8 27 Fruehr 50 1.8 20 333 273/4 27 273/4 + 7/8 125/9 105/8 Katyln … … 18x7 113/7 111/8 111/8 177/8 − ¼ 1803/4 39 Calmat .76 2.3 19 145 361/8 26 161/8 + 1/8 195/8 10 Fuqua .40 3.1 4x54 122/8 213/4 217/8 + 1/8 245/8 145/8 Kauf 3.88 11.0 191 261/8 26 261/8 + … a portrait of Debbie Harry (singer names are stamped into the case of For this second launch event, they 463/8 521/2 Caesar .80 2.6 … 9 215/8 235/8 245/8 + 1/8 323/4 33 GAF .32b 3.7 1.8 20 217/8 167/8 17 + ¾ 181/2 151/7 Kelog 2.40 13.2 25 121/3 221/3 133/4 − ¼ of the group Blondie) on the com- the computer!But the real advantage have pushed the envelope still fur- 28 16 CarP pf .56 2.1 16 191 261/8 26 261/8 + 1/8 183/8 123/4 GATX 1.36t 8.0 15 39 171/8 163/4 177/8 − ¾ 267/8 61/3 Kellwd 3.9b … 59 193/4 221/8 445/8 − … 245/8 101/4 CartWI … 18 282 215/8 21 221/3 + ¾ 81/8 7 Gap … … 7429 29 1151/2 29 18 − ¾ 361/8 81/8 Kenmt 2.64 4.7 18 282 215/8 21 221/3 − 2/3 puter as she modeled live. The rest of of this marvelous new machine may ther, with an even more famous guest 153/8 97/8 Ceco … … 13 11 11 11 + ¼ 105/8 205/6 Gelco … … 34 113/7 111/8 111/8 177/8 … 571/2 39 KeysCo .8a 56 87 315/8 433/4 461/4 − 1/8 the demo was carried out by Robert be its price, which makes it the first than Andy Warhol: none other than 503/4 353/4 Celan 2.18 9.2 … 9 235/8 235/8 235/8 + 1/8 361/8 145/8 GnCorp 1.84 11.6 191 261/8 26 261/8 … 78 521/2 Kid prB 4.7 15 39 171/8 163/4 177/8 − 1/8 257/8 321/4 Centry … 18 282 215/8 21 221/3 + ¾ 341/2 151/8 GAlnv 2.40 13.2 25 245/8 245/8 … + ¼ 43 281/4 Koger 1.20b 14 13 87 87 87 + 1/3 Pariseau, an Amiga engineer. As re- computer truly aimed at the consumer businessman Adrian Veidt, who was 113/4 75/8 Centex … … 512 25 245/8 245/8 133/4 + ¼ 941/2 11 GHost 12A .8 … 302 393/4 391/4 395/8 − 1/8 32/3 21/2 Korea … 45 28 673/4 74 521/3 … ported at that time, it spotlighted the market. Commodore assures us that invited to challenge the machine in 163/4 103/8 Censow … 13 164 14 133/4 14 … 51/2 81/8 GnHous 2.64 4.7 18 282 343/8 21 221/3 + 3/8 305/8 45 Kroger 15.0 56 461/4 151/8 30 21 − 3/8 553/8 323/4 CNAI 2.00a 5.0 … 30x6 393/4 391/4 395/8 − 1/8 1571/2 39 Gninst 5.19e .8 17 … 435/9 221/3 661/4 + 2/3 123/7 181/4 Kysor … 25 167/8 155/8 113/7 … Amiga’s impressive capabilities: dis- it will revolutionize the world of busi- a series of computing tests, designed 33 441/2 Christh 2.3 … 75 141/8 137/8 14 … 3001/4 361/2 GMot 4.7 15 39 245/8 163/4 521/2 − ¾ play of 4,096 colors simultaneously; ness, but also graphic production and especially for the occasion. Who will 281/8 205/8 Chroma 2.72 10.0 7x1174 271/4 261/8 271/8 + 3/8 758 10 GMtr 1.20 9.6 13 11 11 11 + ¼ 72 451/8 Church 1.40 2.1 17 4087 661/4 633/4 661/4 + 2/3 41/2 21/2 GNC … 20 2345 273/4 27 673/4 + 7/8 exceptional resolution (640 × 400); entertainment. Imagine a future in be smartest and quickest, man or ma- 283/4 405/8 Cilcorp 50 1.8 20 733 273/4 27 273/4 + 7/8 271/8 467/8 GPU 1.48 2.0 337 113/7 111/8 111/8 177/8 − 3/8 remarkable computing speed due to which everyone has their own com- chine? Many are betting on Veidt to 395/8 10 CinBell .40 3.1 18 122/8 213/4 217/8 + 1/8 113/8 171/2 GenRe .60 … 25 245/8 245/8 133/4 + ¼ Commodities the use of co-processors rather than puter, both at home and at the office! win. But human brainpower may not 223/8 14 CinGE .32b 3.7 1.8 20 217/8 167/8 17 + 1/8 121/8 211/2 GTFI 1.50c 2.1 7 371/4 261/8 271/8 + … 183/8 83/4 Circus 1.36t 8.0 15 39x44 171/8 163/4 177/8 − 1/8 291/4 33 GaPac pf 2.63e 3.1 … 9 235/8 235/8 235/8 + … Monday through Friday a single processor; emulation of an Even if this smacks of science fiction, eternally retain this superiority, as 361/2 221/8 CocaCl … … 2 29 281/4 29 18 − 1/8 343/8 27 GaPw pfA 3.92 … 13 11 11 11 _ ¼ 125/9 105/8 Clorox … … 187 113/7 111/8 111/8 177/8 − 3/8 83/8 7 GIANT .87 9.4 14x33 122/8 213/4 227/8 + 1/8 in Business Day IBM PC running DOS; speech syn- it appears that the rapid advances in computer technology continues to ad- 183/8 145/8 Compaq 1.84 11.0 191 261/8 26 261/8 + … 891/2 69 GibrFn 9.00 15.8 387 113/7 683/4 211/8 17 + … thesis. The Amiga is multitasking and technology may one day make com- vance. The future is now! 181/2 151/7 Corein 2.40 13.2 25 245/8 245/8 133/4 + ¼ 271/2 961/2 Gould 11.00 10.1 15 50 271/8 163/4 677/8 − 1/8 The New York Times THE NEW YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1985 A9

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A10 THE NEW YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1985 Thomas Pynchon About America, President Nixon, Hemingway, Céline and Teaching

read when you said you wanted to interview By George Plimpton me... Did you read it? There is no such thing as good or bad or beautiful or ugly floating Having spent the last weeks arranging around in a vacuum. This entire either-or just this interview, I pretend to be unimpressed does not correspond to what we know about when the door opens. Thomas Pynchon’s the physical universe, about the chemical New York apartment is decorated with nu- universe, about the molecular universe, or merous musical instruments, among which I about any knowledge we have. spot a few ukuleles of various shapes, sizes and colors. Before being asked the slightest You’ve stated before that you like both Jo- question, the author, who has only published seph Conrad and Graham Greene. Don’t three novels to date—V, The Lot of Crying 49, both of these authors believe in a universal and Gravity’s Rainbow—offers me tea and duality? begins by explaining: Graham Greene does because he’s a Catholic, and everything with him is written from that Thomas Pynchon: Well, it wasn’t until I heard viewpoint. I like Conrad a lot better that Tiny Tim’s “Tiptoe Through the Tulips” that I Greene; I think Conrad is a much more pro- really fell hard for the instrument. It’s quite found writer. easy to learn a few chords and start strum- ming to simple folk tunes. I believe the in- At the time when you still considered your- strument was introduced to Hawaii by the self a writer, you kept away from the media Portuguese, who saw in Hawaii and its peo- and literary scene, to say the least. Then ple a great opportunity for exploitation and a few years ago you started doing reading domination. tours and your audiences were quite respon- sive. And now you’ve become a sort of “trav- George Plimpton: You have said, “a paranoi- eling performer.” You’ve even accepted the ac is a man in possession of all the facts.” offer to write a column for the French daily Would you agree that you are perhaps ex- Le Figaro. Do people tend to love you for cessively suspicious of authority? who you are or for what you do? I never made that remark about paranoia, Well, for starters, I no longer do reading tours; though I guess somebody must have. you know that. As I told you I am just a hum- ble teacher now. Anyway, that’s a tricky ques- Well, it seems I should double-check my tion, and by the way, it’s the last one I will an- facts and sources. Anyway, let’s get straight swer today, because I don’t want to miss my to the point: are you still writing, Thomas? train. Oftentimes people have a picture, an I would say I wrote two and a half books a image they have projected on me, which may while back. Three were published. I haven’t or may not have anything to do with me at all. been writing lately because of my teaching schedule. The last decade I haven’t really Please, one more thing… Do you think that been doing much writing. has a lot to do with the media’s image of you, and of your writing? Have you actually stopped writing? Well, I feel a novelist doesn’t have by nature I obviously have stopped publishing books! of his profession a clear-cut image of himself Sinclair Lewis said that if you have just writ- or a clear-cut image in general. And if he cul- ten something you think is absolutely great tivates his image too much, his work will suf- and you can’t wait to publish it, or show it to fer. Strangely enough, that’s what happened someone, throw it away. And I’ve found that to to me and that’s why I stopped publishing be very accurate. Tear it up into small pieces books a while ago. Another perfect case at and throw it into someone else’s garbage can. the other end of the spectrum—the very same phenomenon, but inverted—is Hemingway. What do you think of the Nixon administration? His determination to act out what I feel are At least, since the late 1960s, Nixon has been the least interesting aspects of his work—the doing something. Thanks to him we won the big-game hunter and so on—and to do every- Vietnam War. I know that much. Did you read thing that his characters did, always shooting that article in Teaching Mathematics Today and fishing. So finally, there’s nothing there that says that the most powerful instrument Douglas Florian but the image: Papa Hemingway. You can see in the hands of the rich is, of course, econom- a steady deterioration of his work while his ic control—since they control prices? They something completely different... I’ve made a Interesting. own image is more and more emphasized. can create economic downturns; they can number of attempts that haven’t really worked Gore Vidal said he never heard me say any- Sad to admit, in a way, but what some peo- collapse currencies at will. But they can’t go out. I’ve been thinking of writing a straight- thing interesting. But I have no interest in be- ple call “a self imposed exile” when they talk too far without sawing the branch they’re sit- forward novel with a beginning, middle, and ing interesting. That’s what you say to writers about me, was the equivalent of Hemingway’s ting on. In a way I believe Richard Nixon is end. But, as of late, I haven’t been able to make who send you unreadable stuff—“very innar- macho image. I think his overexposed image helping the US citizens to live decent lives. it happen. esting”. was disastrous for his work, and the kind of translucency of mine, so to say, did not work And what do you think of revolutionary Reading you I get the impression that you Do you believe that forces such as good and well for me either. The Snows of Kilimanjaro: groups like the Symbionese Liberation Army? have attempted to defy classification, mak- evil are somehow external to man? great short story. But in pieces like Green They’re ridiculous. It’s unrealistic for any ing it a challenge to interpret your meaning. This whole either-or dichotomy is one of Hills of Africa, and Across the River and Into small group to make any political changes, How do you go about escaping the categori- the great errors of Western thought. I don’t the Trees, Hemingway’s image takes over. except for the worst. Whether the French are cal imperatives of reason? think it exists. It just does not correspond to Too much image is a very dangerous thing for willing to admit it or not, George, the days Take the case of Joyce, who spent 20 or 30 the actual process. George, this one book by a writer. But the image of a recluse is worse of old-fashioned terrorism and barricades are years writing Finnegan’s Wake, a book no Korzybski, Science and Sanity, I asked you to than being a recluse, it’s deadly. over. A revolution is not feasible in any indus- one can really read. I could not let that hap- trialized country, even countries as industri- pen. For one thing, I have to make a living. alized as, let’s say, Greece, Mexico, or even Brazil. Simply because of the weaponry. The Thus the teaching job, right? By the way, I heavy weapons are not in anybody’s hands, can’t resist asking you: would you say that Justice for Calvino which, if you ask me, is rather a good thing. you have been influenced by Céline? intelligentsia, captivated by the ex- of the future could all share: as new Yes, very much so. By Ronald P. Pask treme left’s terrorist rhetoric, and its literature must tap into the timeless What are the principle means at our dispos- Siena, Italia, Oct. 11 — A great brutality—which is unfortunately not tradition of tales transmitted from gen- al for transforming the planet? Did you ever meet him? man died on September 19. A great only verbal—condemned these subtle eration to generation, this vernacular writer has left us. A great body of work works as scholarly but totally gratu- that is our common heritage; thus the The situation hasn’t changed much since Yes, actually. I went out to see him in Meudon is now complete. Around the world, his itous games of the sort one expects postmodern writer must pay attention 1969, you know. The political hopes that shortly before his death. death has been mourned, his books from an elitist, “decadent” bourgeoisie. to the popular tales of his time, be they many held proved to be unfounded. We have lauded, his intelligence, erudition and Calvino then became a scapegoat, verbal or visual (Calvino was very in- skill emphasized, his essential contri- because of his having supposedly left terested in comic books and pirate sto- to face the fact that a leftist revolution is out Would you agree that he was one of the very bution to Italian and world literature this world of tears and rage to live in ries, which he hoped one day to write of the question in this country, or anywhere rare French novelists to write in association widely recognized. However, this pas- one of perfect, unemotional fantasy. It himself), in order to narrate the fables else for that matter. I think President Nixon blocks? sionate praise is invariably tinged with was said that he had “betrayed” and of the modern era, creating new liter- error and contradictions concerning abandoned the “cause,” which could ary forms that will be the foundation will go down to history as one of America’s Only in part. People complained that my his work as well as his life. According have benefited from his undeniably of a new era. However, if yesterday’s great folk heroes. You have to remember that novels had no plot. Well, a picaresque novel to his detractors, Italo Calvino, once a extraordinary gifts. His famous 1979 tales were informed by religion and lots of people in America were pro-Hitler, and has no plot. It is simply a series of incidents. committed young man, ready to use his meeting with Dr. Manhattan was fod- superstition, tomorrow’s will require writings to defend freedom, gradually der for his detractors, who interpret- a different cultural basis, another rep- not only the rich. The whole of Yorkville in That tradition dates back to the Satyricon of became entirely disinterested in hu- ed it as confirmation of his betrayal resentation of the world, as embodied New York was pro-Hitler, whole sections of Petronius Arbiter and to one of the very early man affairs, working on the sidelines, and his collusion with neo-fascist by science. Hence, his sophisticated Chicago were pro-Hitler. novels, The Unfortunate Traveler by Thomas away from the fire and blood of hu- American imperialism, as personified stories with their crystalline symmetry manity’s struggles, producing works by the indigo Übermensch. Above all, can be seen as fragments of a future Nashe. I think Céline and I belong to the same as cold as they were abstract, creations this encounter became symbolic, and a Weltanschauung. We can therefore Are you surprised at the current state of tradition. I find the same critical misconcep- of a pure, calculating spirit devoid of perfect excuse to ridicule Calvino. He conclude that Italo Calvino was an America? tions put forth by critics with regard to his emotion. became the Dr. Manhattan of Italian important political figure; more im- These critics divide his life and literature, in search of an inhuman portantly, it must be emphasized that I’d say it’s about as easy a place to live as you work are put forth to mine: they said it was a work into three phases: activism (neo- perfection; the cartoon published in his formalism is actually a form of can find. It looked like it was going to develop “chronicle of despair,” etc. I found that very realism), withdrawal (fabulism), and Il Manifesto portraying Calvino as humanism, full of determination and into a repressive police state, and that didn’t funny. I think Céline is primarily a humor- indifference (formalism). His initial Manhattan (impassive, naked, with hope for the future, despite concerns commitment to resistance (The Path to blue skin, the hydrogen atom engraved about the present. The best evidence happen. But what is an American? We’ve got ous writer. And a picaresque novel should be the Nest of Spiders, The Crow Comes on his forehead) became known the is undoubtedly his magnificent and everything from sharecroppers to atomic phys- lively and funny. Last) and communism, flush with so- world over, and fixed this image of the visionary book, Invisible Cities. To icists here, and there’s certainly no uniformity cial criticism, ended in 1956 with the writer in people’s minds. Having been emphasize this, I will quote the gener- entry of Soviet tanks into Budapest, on friendly terms with him, I can attest ous sponsor of the Veidt Lectures, for in their thought processes. They have very lit- You once said you might have ended up head an event which filled the author with that this state of affairs anguished him, which Calvino was to be the principal tle in common. In fact, Americans have less in of the CIA. What was that supposed to mean? disgust. Initially an actor, Calvino be- though his anguish contained more contributor, and for which he was writ- common than any other nationality. There are Well George, as you probably know, I volun- came a spectator, abandoning the great than a trace of pride. His discussions ing “Proposals for a New Millennium” theater of the world to enter an autho- with the blue superhuman, constrained when he was struck down by a stroke. such huge differences between the rural and teered. I went down and saw Bill Donovan, rial ivory tower. A second phase fol- by “Top-Secret” American government Hours after the death of the great writ- city environments. There are so many differ- Chief of the OSS in Washington. A friend of lowed, during which Calvino seemed restrictions, were not things of which er, Adrian Veidt said, “I’m not a great ent social and professional groups. my father had told him, This boy is a natu- to neglect the present and immerse he could speak freely, but it was clear reader of literature. I prefer the lessons himself in a collective historical past that they had had a profound effect on of history and principles of philosophy ral; he studied physics, he spent two years (the Middle Ages portrayed in Italian him. “Achieving a literary equivalent of to his fiction. Yet I am fascinated to Is there something you’d like to write about in the US Navy and so on. It was the man Folktales and the famous trilogy, Dr. Manhattan’s perception of the world find these three elements intertwined that you haven’t written about? Something who’d been the head of my House at Cornell Our Ancestors: The Cloven Viscount, is one of the great challenges in fiction in Calvino’s writing, to their mutual The Baron in the Trees, and The today,” he confided to his friends. benefit. Invisible Cities is, for me, an that would be a complete change in terms of University. He just didn’t like me and I didn’t Nonexistent Knight) as well as an indi- The truth is that Calvino never inexhaustible source of dreams and re- characters or subject matter? like him. This son of a bitch put the skids un- vidual one (childhood, fairy tales). His “betrayed” the cause, his cause, that flections: I do not hesitate to count this I’ve been thinking a lot about that lately, while der me. We don’t want this guy. But remem- final phase hinged on formalism: the of humanity. He was one of the first collection of utopian proposals and writer lost himself in scientific abstrac- to perceive the illusory nature of com- dazzling sketches of improbable cities taking the train to Albany on Mondays, Tues- ber James Angleton. He started out as an in- tion (Cosmicomics), joined the experi- mitment to “the cause” and of cheap as one of the most brilliant achieve- days and Wednesdays, and to Poughkeepsie tellectual and poet and became head of the mental French writers’ group OuLiPo routes toward a clear conscience. ments of the human spirit, a product on Thursdays and Fridays. You know that I CIA. He was the one who really saved Ezra and created combinatorial narratives More ambitious than other writers, of Calvino’s implacable rigor and un- (The Castle of Crossed Destinies, If he tried to confer the noble function bridled fantasy. In radiant sentences, teach math and physics in two different high Pound. He hated Colby, who eventually threw on a Winter’s Night a Traveler, etc.). A of unification to his literature, creat- he traces mankind’s path toward a bet- schools, right? Well, well, well… Writing him out. non-negligible portion of the Italian ing an imaginary universe that people ter world.” THE NEW YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1985 A11 Gwendoline Van Zsandt aka the Entity Super Eros

ageless. Eternal. No past, no future. I her, these two events seemed to trig- Osterman, placed himself in limbo in only exist in the here and now. I’m your ger a negative spiral that could only order to find peace. Are You Watching every desire …” end in chaos or ridicule. She decided Bing-Bang Bondage With these words, Gwendoline van at that time to become a contract kill- Me, Watching You, Zsandt pours herself some Cheval er and help rid the world of riffraff. Although she does not come right Eyes Wide Shut Blanc, bringing it to her lips with a sort She could have triggered World War out and say it, the two remaining of aristocratic, decadent anguish. She III—as Ozymandias attempted to do Watchmen are undoubtedly most im- stares at you as if you were a tiny, use- in the throes of madness—but instead portant to Gwendoline van Zsandt. By Moshe Axelman less atom in the universe, inviting you preferred to act with the deadly dis- The Silk Spectre II, Laurie Jupiter, “I left the rock stars of the 60s to continue the interview since she has cretion of an anonymous vigilante. It daughter of Sally and The Comedian … and 70s to Pamela Des Barres, be- already condescended to it. was a kind of Harry-Callahan-meets- “Dissecting her, dismembering her. cause if you’re after unbridled sex, Since the famous trial, van Zsandt elementary-particles. I loved it. She was my Christ on the they’re a bunch of losers, whereas the vs. United States, it is widely known All this while simultaneously pur- cross. A Greco by day, a Bacon by Watchmen are the real deal!” that Gwendoline van Zsandt is the suing “romantic” relations with the night. She was meat, flesh and blood. Stretched out languidly on a chaise daughter of Dr. Manhattan. Like Watchmen … What more can one say? She was viscera and secretions. She longue in her panoptic Martian palace, Athena from Zeus’s skull, Gwendoline was the perfect lover.” One does not Watchmenocracy Rules Gwendoline van Zsandt set the tone van Zsandt was born from the flesh of wish to dwell on their diabolic copula- early in the interview, putting down her “father” as he disintegrated. And, “So, there was Rorschach. I crept tion. “I gave her the ultimate orgasm. Mick Jagger, Jim Morrison and Jimi like her famous parent, she put herself into him, into his arteries, blood ves- Death, followed by resurrection.” For Hendrix in a burst of dark laughter. back together and returned to haunt sels, pores, metastases, his diseased the first—and last—time, emotion “Mick Jagger was lucky to be shot at the world with powers similar to those synapses. I saw the world through his creeps into The Entity’s voice. Altamont by the Hell’s Angels, on the of Jon Osterman. mask. It was a very strange experience, When she mentions Eddie Blake, orders of the Black Panthers, who were When representatives of the mili- even for me.” The Comedian, Gwendoline van following the orders of Edgar J. Hoover tary-industrial complex then involved If, according to van Zsandt, he Zsandt breaks into a sly grin. and Nixon, who were in turn following in the Vietnam War discovered her ex- was less sexy than the man with “He could have been my great love. the orders of Elvis Presley. At least he istence and asked that she join forces the Scrambled Faces (who disap- But he wasn’t up for it, and I did not didn’t embarrass himself in old age with them, she refused. She hired peared into limbo, circa 1983), less want it to be.” Imagine Elizabeth Taylor like Morrison, playing dreadful double the best lawyers and won her case crazy than Derek Hermann (aka the with super powers and Richard Burton bills in Las Vegas with Duran Duran against the Nixon-Kissinger govern- Vampidermist), and less obscene than armed with a force as strong as his al- and Julio Iglesias!” ment, which argued that Gwendoline Sybil Seberg, the SlaughterSlut, he had coholism and you get an idea of the a certain sensitivity, a nostalgia for a relationship between The Comedian bygone world. and The Entity. They met for the first Clearly, Rorschach refused to admit time in Vietnam when The Comedian that his time had already passed. He was in a very destructive phase. Later, “I screwed them simply because had never accepted the Keene Act and after the victorious close of that war, behaved like a child whose toys have they crossed paths again in the seedi- they made me come!” been taken from him. est sections of New York, where they “But he could be tender and com- infected each other with boredom and passionate. He knew how to let his unhappiness. And while you listen, you guard down. He didn’t want the dream really want—but don’t dare—to ask the to end. But it was already over before it ultimate question, which Gwendoline Although we may concur with this van Zsandt was a technological entity began. Apocalypse Yesterday.” van Zsandt answers anyway. artistic viewpoint, it is still crucial to belonging to the US, rather than a hu- In this sense, Gwendoline van “Yes, the rumor was that it was I, know why Gwendoline van Zsandt de- man being with rights and individual Zsandt agrees with the popular theory and not Ozymandias, who killed The cided to make the Watchmen the sole freedom. that like rock music, Western prosper- Comedian because he wanted to rape objects of her sexual passion. Was it Armed with this verdict, she en- ity, the hope for a better world, the end his own daughter, Laurie …” a conceptual decision—in the man- tered the Rockefeller Military Research of history, and all the other whims of A crime of passion, a woman’s re- ner of Pamela Des Barres (although Center, met her father … and made love the masses, stupefied by drugs and venge. You wait for the other shoe to Van Zsandt does not hesitate to dish to him. “There was no taboo to break. rhetoric, the era of the Watchmen ac- Gwendoline van Zsandt drop, watching her greenish-blue eyes. on that infamous groupie)? A hunger At most one might speak of incest or tually ended in the middle of 1967! The “Perhaps for once the rumor is true. But for the extreme from a woman who quantum masturbation, but nothing eyes of The Entity express an unlikely the legend tells a different story. And starred in some of the first porn films more than that. It was like finding a feeling of compassion as she thinks of another aberration committed during Pythia of Western arms merchants. He don’t you think it is more beautiful than shot by the major Hollywood studios lost part of myself. We only did it once. one of her more ambiguous lovers … a time of madness. heralded an infamous period of decay the truth? So let’s stick with the legend.” (including Kenneth Anger’s experi- It was a cosmic orgasm!” said van Her connection to Sally Jupiter, Silk She is not very forthcoming about and degradation. But Gwendoline van Enter The Entity mental 1973 film Quark Whore, made Zsandt in an emotionless voice. Spectre I, was a mixture of fascination Hollis Mason, the Nite Owl I, suggest- Zsandt knew him biblically, just as for a whopping $32-million budget) She describes herself, without any and hate. “Yes, you could say that our ing only that he was not very good in she did the other Watchmen. “A real She serves you a drink, and talks of whose aim was to destroy the rising moral indulgence or puritanism, as relationship was sadomasochistic. bed. She is even tougher on Daniel introvert. He disgusted me. And that’s this and that, finally indicating that the power of Franciscoland and the young “a fucking quantum whore, a cosmic Sally had sex in the Oval Office with Dreiberg, the Nite Owl II. “He was a exactly what turned me on.” The Entity interview is over. The Entity is more Turks associated with fascist madman cunt!” Nixon and Kissinger, both of whom I cross between GI Joe and Ken! Really has never met a paradox she didn’t comparable to the stars of the 20s, John Milius? A frantic desire to share Though she would have been en- hated. Any psychologist would say that boring to be around. No imagination, like. And unless you want get atom- like an ageless Gloria Swanson, than quality time with the most magnificent titled to inherit the estate of her de- she was reliving being raped by The no initiative. A pitiful fellow, the kind ized, you listen politely as your host to the dilapidated superheroes she has outcasts of their generation? Or a con- miurge father, presently roaming the Comedian, but I have a simpler expla- you see in lame Hollywood comedies continues. known and loved … or not. She claims stantly evolving orgiastic suicide des- cosmos, she preferred to chart her own nation: she was just a slut, hungry for for suburban housewives. But he was “I even got it on with Bubastis, that to now have close relationships with tined to leave her mark in the history course. The explanation she provides recognition and power. She took all hung like John Holmes. He was my outlandish animal. She ultimately certain humans, though she wants to of martyrdom? for this is only partially convincing. the drugs she could get her hands on. super-toy! Nothing more. Pamela Des proved to be a better lover than her kill others. Irony is the weapon Gwendoline In 1977 two major events affected her Mandrax, Quaaludes, poppers, heroin, Barres should get to know him!” master.” But when you are one with atoms, van Zsandt uses to resist both psycho- life: the promulgation of the Keene coke, hash … She wanted to stay young She still does not seem to under- The Entity expresses all this with- how interesting can it be to talk with analytic explanations and conspiracy Act, which prohibited the actions of forever, like me, and she wanted the stand why Laurie Jupiter (The Silk out hatred or bitterness, as if she had humans? theories. “I screwed them simply be- masked vigilantes, and in effect signed skin—in the literal sense of the word— Spectre II) fell in love with the man suddenly become an accountant con- That is the drama of Gwendoline cause they made me come! And I really the Watchmen’s death warrant, and of her daughter.” she regarded as the embodiment of ducting an erotic debriefing. And she van Zsandt’s life, and that of her fa- got them off too! Period!” the release of the album Never Mind On several occasions, The Entity unattractiveness. smiles at you. Next … ther’s as well. She became The Entity, a Allow us to remain skeptical. The Bollocks by the Witchmen, the and The Silk Spectre I made love and Her eyes sparkle much more—with “Dr. Maïak!” At this point, you cosmic delicacy, and incompatible with rock band formed after Altamont by participated in White House orgies, all anger, rather than desire—when dis- blanch. Everything The Entity has re- ordinary peoples’ neurotic intricacies. Slut For Life Keith Richards and his sidekick Gram during the famous trial that pitted the cussing Adrian Veidt, the man who had counted so far has been surprising, to She did not choose to become a killer; “I was born somewhere between Parsons, along with Iggy Pop return- government against van Zsandt. Was the nerve to engrave these lines in the say the least. But to hear her state that the Universe decided for her! August and November 1959, but I am ing from Lhasa to sing lead vocals. For this the height of perversity? No, just marble of his Antarctic retreat: she had sex with the Soviet equivalent Looking out over the Martian chan- My name is Ozymandias, king of of Dr. Manhattan leaves you speech- nels that disappear into the horizon, kings. Look on my works, ye Mighty, less. “The Russians managed to perfect she deftly terminates the interview on and despair! him. At Tcheliabinsk 69. Around 1979, a deliberately vague but poetic note. “Rather pompous, don’t you think?” 1980. Well, he did not have the grace- “Papa wasn’t a rolling stone, but he Gwendoline van Zsandt laughs, seek- fulness of Dr. Manhattan, and even was a cosmic hobo!” ing your approval. It is true that less his philosophical turn of mind, After teleporting you back to your the man she calls “the Watchmen’s but at least it was not my father.” She newspaper desk, where you land Marketing Director,” who considered laughs before continuing. “He had a haggard and breathless, The Entity, himself to be the pharaoh of a new tormented Russian soul, and was a true spoiled little girl that she is, disappears humanity, was somewhat laughable. romantic.” You wonder if she is leading into the Milky Way, leaving behind a He dreamed of being Alexander the you on or telling the truth. Maybe both. heavy odor of cordite and the echoes Great, but was finally no more than the She lets you imagine that he, like Jon of a booming laugh.

A Sunburn in November: Immaterial Things Exhibition

of a decentralized ego, non-linearity, and the Continued from Page A1 decline of high-flown rhetoric. The once hierar- chical boundaries of our society have become In the “material” zone, the “fragmented a relentless, scattered flux. The artificiality of body” section shows the components of na- the virtual world is reinforced by the grow- ture’s most complex organism, revealing its ing influence of computers. In January 1983, similarities to the simplest ones. A live body Time magazine elected the computer “Man of and a dead body contain the same number of the Year.” Lyotard sees the postmodern era as particles. Structurally, there’s no discernible the end of the “high-flown rhetoric of legiti- difference. These unquantifiable abstracts are mization” that once shed light on a complex Back to the Future, with Eric Stoltz illustrated in the exhibition by a handful of pink world. A unilateral, rational explanation for sand, a chaotic flux of silicone that can take on this fragmented society no longer exists. The myriad forms. Among the prosthetic devices modernist dream of social progress shaped by and bandages shown in the “second skin” sec- art has been replaced by an era of sign-saturat- Back to the Future tion, Lyotard included Rorschach’s famous ed techno-science. mask, a piece of cloth with a fluid contained be- It took two years of preparation to orga- By Judith Miller tween two latex membranes. A system of liquid nize this encyclopedic exhibition that appears crystals creates an ever-changing design that to penetrate the invisible wiring of the human Back to the Future is producer years earlier. Much like Dr. Manhattan, Therefore, Marty is to his parents Steven Spielberg’s latest smash hit, Marty becomes omniscient (he knows what Dr. Manhattan is to America: a resembles a Rorschach test. As a counterpoint, cortex: language, genetic codes, cuisine, super- continuing his series of films for, and the past, present and future) and all- scion, but also the guarantor of per- there is an astronaut’s spacesuit and a sensory symmetry theory, astrophysics, contemporary about, teenagers. It is the story of powerful: in control of his own his- manent power. deprivation chamber, artificial envelopes cre- art, observation of the cosmos, space technol- Marty McFly, a boy whose friend, the tory, he orchestrates his parents’ first And that’s where this highly pol- mad scientist Emmett Brown inadver- meeting, gives a soda fountain busboy ished blockbuster film, calculated ated to extend the boundaries of our skin. How ogy. If the glimmer of Andromeda, two million tently sends him back in time to 1955, the idea that he will be elected mayor to appeal to its market, is less naive can we define where the “outside” begins? light years away, the extinct trilobites, or the the year his parents met. in 1985, and inspires Chuck Berry to than it appears. For Marty’s trip in Visitors are free to move as they please, supernova discovered in 1855 by Ernst Hartwig The film begins with a strong compose the song Johnny B. Goode by time, a metaphorical expression of the sequence in which director Robert playing it for him one night. transformation of Dr. John Osterman while listening to a soundtrack on headphones. are not enough to please the visitor, he or she Zemeckis introduces Marty (played However, Zemeckis does not stop into Dr. Manhattan, is also a subtle Each section of the exhibition has an infrared certainly won’t remain indifferent to the two- by Eric Stolz, who seems a tad too old there, adding to his film the elements warning. transmitter providing snippets of text, mu- headed cat born in Queens or to Bubastis, a ge- for this role), a typical teenager with a of a cautionary tale. Marty will change The first thing Marty does upon ar- pathetic family: an alcoholic mother; the sad fate of his parents by rewriting riving in 1955 is save his father’s life, sic and information. Minitels are also part of netically modified lynx, in the “maternity” sec- a morbidly shy, stupid father, who lets key events of their history in their favor. causing a young girl, who will later the exhibition, allowing visitors to follow dis- tion. After visitors view the electric limousine himself be bullied by a neighbor; mo- Where his father failed in 1955 (having become his mother, to fall in love with cussions by physicists, philosophers, writers and works by Lucio Fontana, Takis and Dan ronic brothers and sisters. Marty is been bested by his arrogant and vio- him. By becoming an obstacle to the aware of all this, and regrets that he is lent future neighbor), he succeeds, with romantic meeting of his parents, he and filmmakers whose thinking informs the Graham, the culmination of the exhibit is the powerless to change it. Marty’s help (triumphing over his fu- imperils his own future existence. He show. Participants have individual comput- video La Desserte blanche (1980) by Thierry Following the minor film Rom­ ture neighbor). In 1955, Marty imbues must then work hard to repair the tear ers, networked with cutting-edge technology Kuntzel, in which human bodies are pixelized ancing the Stone, ostensibly a comedy his father with values dear to the youth he has made in the fabric of time. adventure, which was in fact an ode of 1985: justice served by individuals, We could well imagine this film, (Internet), allowing them to write and share and disappear into a snowy fog. to American supremacy (the green using violence if necessary, and wear- without the happy outcome dictated their definitions of keywords requested by From broken watch mechanisms on a back- diamond being a metaphor of Dr. ing masks (the final fight scene takes by Hollywood studios, ending like a Lyotard. A novel linguistic exercise, this post- drop of black velvet to the latest nuclear physics Manhattan’s nuclear power), Zemeckis place during the prom, with Marty’s Greek tragedy with the disappearance has now seemingly reaffirmed his at- father disguised as Hooded Justice, of Marty in the present time. modernist puzzle, entitled “writing tests,” experiments on the intrinsic field,Immaterial tachment to contemporary American the masked judge of the Minutemen). In the same fashion, Dr. Man­hattan’s blends different forms of language. “Immaterial Things is a sunburn in November, a temporal values. Through supernatural interven- nuclear gifts are the guarantors of our Things is not an exhibition of new materials void without seasons, without hourglasses; a For Back to the Future is clearly a tion, the pitiful dad of 1955 becomes, in security, but simultaneously the most fable about Dr. Manhattan’s role in US 1985, the mainstay of a family of slick, terrifying threat that hangs over hu- and new technologies but rather the intellec- world in which visitors can flow in the pink global dominance. The scene in which fulfilled young professionals who of- manity. With this film, Zemeckis pays tual and philosophical issues they engender,” sand of a clock which no human hand has de- Marty is sent into the past calls to mind fer Marty the shiny black SUV he was tribute to the American superpower says Lyotard. signed. For if time is not constant, what good the transformation of John Osterman: so keen on having at the beginning of while expressing concerns about the he accidentally gets into a car that runs the film. The posters of rock stars that dangers it breeds. He has created an Immaterial Things reflects a new sensibil- are watchmakers? on plutonium, stolen by Dr. Brown from covered Marty’s bedroom walls at the eclectic film—with its blend of science ity (described by Lyotard as “postmodern”) Vietnamese terrorists who want him to beginning of the film are replaced, in fiction, comedy, parable, sex, rock and a growing trend toward immaterialism. Immaterial Things build a bomb. In a distressing turn of the revised year of 1985, by family pho- and roll—which has the merit of be- events the car and its passenger dis- tos and a poster of his father shaking ing somewhat less dutiful than it would Cybernetic and digital technologies are the Museum of Modern Art, New York integrate, only to reappear intact, 30 hands with Dr. Manhattan. appear to be at first glance. keys to this new postmodern condition, that Exhibition from Oct. 12 to Dec. 6, 1985 A12 THE NEW YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1985 Andy Warhol, Icons and Safe Investments Power and Artistic Practices Through the image of Joe Dalle­ By Plurabelle Huntington sandro, his favorite model (who al- By ARON HERBST Special to The New York Times ready played a parody of a Wild West Despite the difficult circumstanc- hero in Warhol’s Lonesome Cowboys Faced with the extreme polariza- es and gloomy atmosphere, a crowd (1969), Warhol reclaims the myth of tion spawned by the Cold War, Western gathered last night at 511 West 22nd Buffalo Bill in his own special style. artists and galleries have chosen sides. Street, anxious to attend the opening Or rather, it means that the Warhol The threat of Soviet supremacy has of “Glamour is Vigilance/Vigilance superstar and the American myth are caused Western contemporary artists is Glamorous,” Andy Warhol’s latest one and the same; that the interpre- to align themselves politically with exhibition. It was also an opportunity tation of a founding iconography is their governments. And yet, the grow- to see Bruno Bischofberger’s first gal- constantly renewed. A little later in ing weakness of the USSR makes one lery space in the Big Apple. “Given the evening, Ricard continued, “What wonder how long this union sacrée will the circumstances,” he said, “I had to would be more natural than to juxta- last. have a location in New York and, in pose the Western, with its particular Since the establishment of the po- addition to my galleries in Zurich and sense of justice, and the saga of the litically opposed blocs, two radically St. Moritz, to have one in the Chelsea Watchmen, the high sheriffs of the different periods have in fact produced District. As you know, in recent years 20th century?” similar effects. Post World War II, the it has become the center of the art mar- In the long-distance iconic duel on prevalence of works questioning the ket. It was just as natural for me to ask the walls of the gallery, opposing Dr. wisdom of our economic model seems Andy to be the first artist to exhibit Manhattan and Niatmar Vankrazov, to have strengthened its appeal. From there.” For this event, Warhol chose to the status of the providential man and production techniques to sales meth- exclusively present his latest produc- his relationship to power is also at ods, artists have followed dominant tions, straight from the (third) “facto- stake. “Of course,” said Mary Boone, economic patterns, allowing them in ry,” located a few blocks further south. “power fascinates Andy. But the politi- turn to continue unabated. Four series of artworks are displayed cal power of a dictator, based on his It followed that by the mid-eighties, in two huge white cube-shaped rooms, authority and the cult of personality, is the hardening of East-West relations connected by a small corridor barely obviously inferior to Jon’s superpower, paradoxically brought the political wide enough for two to people pass which directly modifies matter and is and artistic elite closer. Any perceived side-by-side. “I like this configuration therefore liberating.” This is certainly slight or lack of respect of the current of two rooms connected by a sort of why Warhol chose to exhibit a huge political orthodoxy is immediately tube; it is simultaneously cold and very portrait of Dr. Manhattan and his fasci- seen as un-American. Therefore any organic,” said Bischofberger, “but it’s nating blue form. “His physical appear- artist who wants to have a good pub- also why I chose this space over certain ance is already pop and visually stimu- lic image must appear with our politi- larger ones that I considered.” lating,” said Jean-Michel Basquiat, arm cians, in order to remain in the public In the first room, large silk-screened in arm with Madonna, and accompa- eye, and to generate approval of their portraits of the seven Watchmen, in the nied by Francesco Clemente. In the work. exaggerated colors that are Warhol’s eyes of Andy Warhol himself, accord- And yet, now that the collapse of trademark, face three huge busts of ing to Mary Boone, “Jon is the great- the Soviet bloc seems imminent, we Niatmar Vankrazov, the dictator of est artist in the universe. He can move believe that the artistic world should Tikharistan. In the second room, a anything, or through anything. He is progressively move toward new posi- series entitled “Buffalo Joe”, consists infinitely malleable. And his relation- tions. With no challenger in sight, the of photographs of Joe Dallesandro ship with time is precisely that of an artist-as-symbol of a victorious empire dressed as Buffalo Bill, alongside a artist. Everything is simultaneous for will soon appear meaningless. The single portrait of Jon Osterman, aka him: the past, present, and future—he persistence of this incestuous rela- Dr. Manhattan. For René Ricard, crit- sees everything at once. He lives in all tionship might end up giving rise to a ic and curator, “the conception of the dimensions of time. For me, he is not a predictable State Art utterly devoid of show is clearly based on contrasts: nuclear prodigy. He is the culmination spontaneity and zest. Buffalo Joe meets the Watchmen and Nico and Andy Warhol as superheroes of the History of Art.” Jon meets Vankrazov.” The painting’s force resides in its It is certainly not the first time that uniqueness, and it literally seems to Warhol has depicted the Watchmen, beautiful, with a unique character, way, by hiding a political fable behind burst into the room, in violation of the in whom he long ago and by his own both mysterious and strong-willed, she the perfectly pure surface of his vivid laws of physics, just as Dr. Manhattan admission identified the ultimate star represents a feminine prototype that colors and the visual shock they pro- is capable of doing. In contrast, the qualities. “They are cool,” Warhol said, appeals to this artist. Furthermore, voke—expresses the very essence of triptych of effigies of Tikharistan’s “I love them. They hide behind masks, by choosing very early in her career America. To me, this part of the ex- dictator, who was, as everyone knows, and yet they are so familiar, they are to be managed by an impresario, Sally hibition is without a doubt a profound a costumed hero fighting in Vietnam a part of peoples’ lives.” A few steps worked the hardest of all the vigilan- meditation on the origins of the United before becoming a doctrinarian au- from the man with the ash-gray wig, tes to make their exploits a public States. On Mount Rushmore, our tocrat in Central Asia, spotlights the Mary Boone, a yellow dress accentu- spectacle. founding fathers were transformed interchangeable reproducibility, as ating her raven-black hair, told us, “It Starting in the 1930s, the Minute­ into monumental figures carved in threatening as it is commanding, of is normal for Andy to be interested in men heyday, Sally was working with the rock: a spectacular approach to his power. vigilantes. They defend an individu- Laurence Schexnayder, her agent and history, with great men engraved in Of course, Andy Warhol himself alist notion of charity, and they have future husband. She understood that the landscape to be adored and con- downplays a political interpretation of a unique iconic potential. Hollywood her actions had to be accompanied by templated. Andy follows directly in this this exhibition, despite the fact that his needs celluloid to make the body of image building. She was a true pioneer line. Just as Mallarmé said that the ex- friends have been doing exactly that. a pretty girl into the image of a star, in this regard. Naturally, all the other istence of everything in the world ends Nevertheless, today, when the fate of whereas the Watchmen are icons with- vigilantes then became celebrities as up in a book, for Americans, the world the world is more uncertain than out even trying, so to speak.” We find well, giving performances, showing exists to end up in a show. The feats ever, its icons appear anxious, and them all together, lined up along the up at charity galas, etc. Their mere of Buffalo Bill and the Watchmen have art serves to transfigure this anxiety. wall: The Comedian (Eddie Blake), presence ensured the success of an this in common: they are made to be In the words of Bruno Bischofberger, Nite Owl I (Hollis Mason), Nite Owl II event. This, said René Ricard, is pre- staged. But, consequently, it is diffi- “Our world is disturbing, of course. (Dan Dreiberg), Ozymandias (Adrian cisely why the artist chose to hang cult to know if they inspire the show, But in these troubled times, no matter Veidt), Rorschach (Walter Joseph these portraits opposite those of Joe or if the show creates an imperative where you are, everyone knows that Kovacs), Silk Spectre I (Sally Jupiter) Dallesandro. Buffalo Bill is legendary for such feats to feed it. You never art is a safe investment. People need and Silk Spectre II (Laurie Juspeczyk). for having staged his own exploits. His know, in fact, if reality precedes the beauty, they need images that express It is no coincidence that the portrait big traveling shows crisscrossed the show, or vice versa. I personally think their concerns, and this is also valid of Sally Jupiter should be the central major cities of the United States. that reality and the spectacle are one from an economic point of view. In fact, painting of the exhibit. Of all the “This is comparable,” continued and the same; they are simultaneous. everything is connected. More than Watchmen, Sally has always held the Ricard, “to a kind of mythological pe- And that’s what Andy, that little albi- ever, Andy’s art is a mirror reflecting greatest interest for Warhol, and she culiarity which, in my opinion—and I no Polack, has understood better than the symptoms of today’s sick society,” is the one he has most often painted. believe Andy is trying to highlight this anyone. And above all, he has por- concluded Bischofberger, raising his Undeniably photogenic and objectively as well, in his own inimitably discrete trayed it for us as no one else could.” glass of champagne.

Art Biennale of New York, October 1—30, 1985, on Central Park’s Great Lawn. The Art Biennale of New York Reservations can be made at the usual outlets.

Authors Gerald M. Boyd...... François Delvoye Bernard Weinraub... R.Juan-Cantavella Index James Blake...... Jacques Barbéri Roman Paynes...... Oliver Rohe Kathrin Slater...... Maud Assila International Roberto Suro..... Eloy Fernández Porta Heysel Tragedy: Stadium Wars, Stan H. Wass...... Philippe Vasset an Unexplained Stampede Zachary Sheep.....C. Soyez-Petithomme Left 40 Dead and 600 Wounded Mark Frintz...... Julien Fronsacq in Europe A2 Steven V. Roberts.....Philippe Berneur Operation Paradise: Fighting Mark D. Weiser...... Jill Gasparina the Enemy of the Future A2 Harry Hell...... Ariel Kyrou Dr. Mayak Versus Dr. Manhattan A3 Laura Pietz...... Émilie Notéris Mikhail Gorbachev Hunter S. Thompson...... J. Millanvoye Rumored to Be Dead A3 George Abravanel... Philippe Aronson George Plimpton...... Nicolas Richard General Thomas Pynchon...... Himself Dr. Manhattan, a Family Affair A4 Ronald P. Pask...... Renaud Pasquier A Year of Music, a Year of Anger A4 Anna Miller...... Mathieu Andrieu Philip K. Dick Lives! A5 Aron Herbst...... Mathieu Andrieu No Woman’s Land A5 Boris Neufang...... Florence Ostende What Lies Behind the Masks? A5 Plurabelle Huntington...... M. Larnaudie Moshe Axelman...... Yves Ramonet New york Judith Miller...... Lila Pinell A Mysterious “Blue Movement” Plans to Create Other Illustrations Dr. Manhattans A6 Audrey Wiseman...... A. Prudhomme Fire Against Geographic, Dave Ridley...... Raphaël Garnier National, Racial and Sexual Fred R. Conrad...... Gaëlle Boucand Borderlines A6 Nino Caprioglio...... Aline Zalko “Go Ahead, Make My Day!” Tiffany Weiner...... Clotilde Viannay But What Is a Typical Day David Suter...... Maxime Zoffoli for Harry Callahan? A6 Douglas Florian...... Yann Legendre Michael Bartalos...... Mathieu Andrieu Sports YSL Ad...... J. Braun & W. I. Rafik Morris Has Giants on the Run A7 Real Estate Ad...... Jagna Ciuchta Brett Sparkles as Royals Triumph Over Blue Jays A7 Translation Cards Back on Magic Carpet A7 Jonathan von Zelowitz Balboni Comes Through A7 Philippe Aronson Economy Graphic design Michael Bartalos A Financial Collapse of the Likes Vasco The Dr. Manhattan’s “Archisculpture” on Central Park Never Seen Since 1929 A8 Editorial Culture Clotilde Viannay Thomas Pynchon about America, By ANNA MILLER This year, among all the works se- overall impression is of a cross be- composition leads the spectator di- President Nixon, Hemingway, This newspaper is published as part of Art Critic lected by the High Counsel of American tween a castle and a factory—a sort of rectly to a numerical ideal of absolute Céline and Teaching A10 the exhibition W by Clotilde Viannay, The sixteenth Art Biennale has set Art, the major attraction will undoubt- utterly original fusion of a fairy tale truth. Using numbers and equations as Justice for Calvino A10 Palais de Tokyo (10.07.2011–11.02.2011) up shop in the heart of Manhattan, edly be Dr. Manhattan’s new opus. This world and high-scale engineering. other artists utilize brushes, the artist Gwendoline Van Zsandt on the lawns of Central Park. The never-before-seen work, which spans a Seen up close, the apparent chaos is has here launched a form of absolute aka the Entity Super Eros A11 Thanks to: Aldo Jesorka, Nicolas most politically committed artists of semi-circle two dozen yards wide, will organized; the composition becomes and timeless mathematical art. Back to the Future A11 Delarce, Melanie Jackson, Alexandre the free world are in residence there dominate Central Park. The famous symmetrical. This sculpture forms • A Sunburn in November: Civico, Mathilde Helleu, Frédéric for the month of September, a stone’s hero’s sculpture, or “archisculpture,” a scientifically structured space, a Compared with Soviet obscuran- Immaterial Things Exhibition A11 Hallier, Owe & Victoire Orwar, throw from the Metropolitan Museum is an ice palace whose constellations gigantic three-dimensional clock tism, this approach is reminiscent Andy Warhol, Icons and Safe François & Béatrice Viannay, Thomas of Art, for what will surely be one of of crystalline, translucent stalactites through the hands, cogs and dial of of the artistic and scientific break- Investments A12 Bizzarri, Julien Fronsacq the most exciting shows of the season. sparkle incessantly. which the visitor walks. throughs of the Renaissance. From the The Art Biennale of New York A12 Compared to the obvious weakness Glass lances jut out into the sky Great watchmaker of time and Italian quattrocento to late twentieth Power and Artistic Practices A12 of current Soviet art scene, the works above the rooftop garden of the MET. space, the Doctor has given us a set century America, artists have become exposed here attest to the western art A series of crenellated arcs fan out at of immutable laws that govern the politicized in order to take part in the ISBN 978-2-916940-75-5 world’s supremacy and innovation. its base, forming gigantic gears. The universe. The mathematic rigor of its defense of our ideals. 9 782916 940755