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by Neil Rafferty Emilia Cri n told tud nt how ~mch. he w enj ying h r tay LAST WEEK , NINE • 9 Romanian students begin month-long m Edmburgh. Sh d ribed lh Romanian students arrived in Scottish pc plc . "very friendly" Edinburgh University to begin and said there was no differ n visit to University between Scot and Romanians, . a month long visit, during as in both countri s "you can which they will take an easily find . m n 1 talk to", English Language course at the Institute for Applied M Crisan, a medical ·tudent, ha already had th chance to .Language Studies examine how her Edinburgh The nine come from the counterparts deal with their Universities of Bucharest, Cluj, ubject, by attending lectures Timisoara and Iasi. As well as and even a dissection in the studying at the Institute they will medical faculty. The one be undertaking projects on conclusion he draws is: "studies Scottish culture and society. arc very serious, you have to At a press conference on 9th work lots, where ever you arc April, the students told of their you have to work hard." experiences during the revoultion in December and their hopes for ]IC'nnifcr Douglas-Homc,the a new Romania as well as their representative of the M1hai life under Ceasescu. Eminescu Trust was cnthu ·iastic about the opportunities the visit loan Opris, a third year history present . She pointed out that student at the University of Romania "has been very cut off Bucharest, described the. from western thought for many atmosphere in Bucharest during years" and that projects such as the revolution: "It was verY' this will help to e tablish "long dramatic, there was asuch a. term relationship ". movement , you could hear shots all around ". Casting light on the Meanwhile the University run up to the over throw of the Library i appealing for English regime Mr Opris said that there The Romanian students who arrived for a month long visit. relaxing after their lecture~. Language teaching books to be was ,"something in the air for a sent to Romania. While in the few days before hand". country a· part of the Flander · Emilia Crisan, a medical student All the students testified to the connections'. loan Opris told of students living and travel Scottish Alliance Convoy, in Cluj told of life under the fact that not much has changed in the the organised protest in the expenses, while the institute has Edinburgh student, Stcphen Bax communist regime: "they tried to Romania since the National History Faculty at Cluj, where waved the normal tuition fees. noticed a pecific and urgent destroy our memory, they Salvation Front took power. students boycotted the classes The students, who were chosen need for Engli h teaching· destroyed old buildings but they They pointed out that too many of communist professors. by the Romanian Education Authority will, in addition to material . The ability 10 pealc a · couldn't manage to destroy all figures still connected with the foreign language L seen a old government still held The visit has been organised improving their English language · the buildings". During the skills, be examining student life essential in Romania a the · revolution Ms Crisan had spent positions of influence. Within the jointly by the IALS and the country auempt.S to re· tabli h Universities, they believed it Mihai Eminescu Trust, a London in Scotland in comparison with itself a a member of time in the hospitals of Cluj their own experiences back helping those wounded by the was "necessary to remove based non-political organisation. international community. home. Securitate. Professors with communist The trust has met the cost of the Alumni Raise a Million Extra-Mural studies. buy a new Janou ek coxed four athletic ability." university in the U.K to have set racing boat and £800 for four new · . . . ___b.;.y_A_n_d_r_ew_H_ea_v_en_s __ .. up a fund-raising appeal relying The Veterinary Science ra ing blades. Dorothy Blackic, Str Da' td Smuh ha. almost wholly on the good-will of have benefitted from £3,000 for a c welcomed th Gen ral Counc1l FIVE THOUSAND past graduates. The model is an research program me to Boat Club President, de cribed Trust a a triumph. "Thi Edinburgh graduates have american one and exists as a investigate the pain caused by the donatio~ a ."marv llous" and upport repre ent · ey together raised £1,000,000 for responce to government calls on castration in lambs and calves. said that "tt w1ll be u."cd at all contribution to h lp maintain lh the University's General universities to generate more A further £125,000 has been prestige regattaS leadmg up to momentum of inn v ti n and internal income. donated by the Nancy Masscy the National Champi n. hip ". ·tandard of lien t th Council fund-raising appeal. Univc 'ty" he id. The money raised has Charitable Tru t for a research · The target was reached She ·e it a an been used to generate or keep project on the early detection of last month when the Edinburgh AIDS. "important tep forward a. ~ lh Club of London handed over a afloat projects in al the branches of University activity. Among A further notable .Aiumni are reali ing the cheque of £3000 to Edinburgh donation has been made to th importance of prom tin athleti Principal, Sir David Smith, at a these are £27,000 th the International Office to contiue University Boat Club, re cntly excellence". ceremony. in Old College. ·voted the be 1 Sports Club in the "College in th United Slat s" Edinburgh/Pennsylvania student after all " ell th m cl c u: Edinburgh is the first exchanges and £460 to subsidise Univer ity. £5,500 has gon to 2 thursday, april19, 1990 news student City honours Harvard Prof. This year's winner.'of the familiar "condensed evolutionary then "why did it take so long?'· time," so beloved of Sir David Edinburgh Medal was Pro and "why, when it did happen, did Attenborough in Life on Earth. it happen so suddenly?", he asks. fessor Stephen Jay Gould of l f evolutionary . He pointed out that, though 'Harvard University. The time becomes the Eiffel Tower, extensive work has been done on hiS (or her)' contribution to we come the (peeling) paint on the British Columbia seam of fos-. science and society, was top. silized soft-bodied creatures, no awarded to Prof. Gould for Having introduced grave evidence has yet surfaced to doubts as to whether humans suggest why some survived to his work toward "a better should be so precociously understanding of the evolu become the ancestors of present regarded as the high-poin~ of day fauna·, whilst others did not. tion of the human being." evolution, he suggested that ,.If we He talked on two major could rewind time and do it again,. Luckily for us it seems (though possibly not for the rest!) and indi themes, introducing them as "the might it not al} b~ very different ~ human status as regards evolution The unpreaictability of the vidual, Pikaia, did survive and it and the ideals we have", "the con world and its inherent total became the ancestor of today's cept of the individual within the dependence on what has gone vertebrates and so, eventually, theory of evolution." . . befort>J make it impossible, says humans. But what if it had not sur Beginning by asking "why IS It a Gculd, to believe that the evolu vived? Obviously those individu common misunderstanding that tion of humans was in any way als that did make it were very .human beings are the inevitable inevitatbe "unless the future con important, and Gould stressed 'end' of evolution?" trols the present, which I don't that in this scenario of chaotic . He firmly quashed any delu believe it does." . progress each individual may sions of human importance within If there was a predictable dnve always be an important source of the audience with · of the towards complexity and humanity change. Lords give loans a rough ride
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RQrp~nian Stqdents to visit this l'AJuNli TIMES country as free citizens ot· STAFF LIST ·their own are now studying at UMJHMIMI The government must surely STUDENT the Institute for Foreign be reeling at the ferocity of the MANAGER: Simon Horrocks response to their introduction Languages. This is a more significant milestone id the ADVERTISING: Mathew Nicoll of the poll tax in England and StephenBax Wales. Having gorged people history of their country than Deborah Macleay silly on a diet of "Greed Is Established in 1887 many perceive. The STUDENT NEWS Good", for over ten years, unhindered access to cultural , SERVICE: Deidrie Mackintosh 1lcientific and historical Michael Barron perhaps the government felt a 481'1uuutct, Edinburgh ~H89TJ. Tel. 5581117/88 right to expect a smooth ··information for other countries PROMOTIONS: Mark Sommerville transition in this latest phase is a keystone in any Caroline Workman democracy, and for a country DISTRIBUTION: Stephen Fraser of our metamorphosis to the COMPUTER 51st state of the USA. Instead that has been denied any sense CONSULT ANT: IvanReid of this, there have been to give Thatcher a firm long before then, What . of it's own history for so long, protests of unheard of warning, but the passion of the rem&ins to be seen is whether it is vital that they should begin !IIJIIIltJijl ferverence, although protest even in traditional Labour can exploit this gross to absorb some of the culture undoubtedly this has been, in Tory voters speaks against error effectivelt right up until which has been denied them for CO-EDITORS: AlisonBrown the extreme cases, the work this. the next election or if they can so long. Maxton Walker of militant protesters. one is In a perverse way, one hopes Similarly, the university should NEWS: Neil Rafferty convince the electorate that Andrew Heavens tempted to think that perhaps that Thatcher will stick to her they can really produce a be encouraging as many · the wave of unrest has been opportunities as possible to Louise Wilson guns until the general election 'fairer' alternative. Craig WiUiams induced in part by Tory voters in order to leave no iota of allow students at Edinburgh the FOCUS: Hester Marriott increasingly uncomfortable doubt as to the result. Already chance to see some of these Zae Pagnamenta with the ethos that they are many are talking of "surviving" ROMANIAN RIGHTS countries as they emerge from INTERNATIONAL: Ian Younger being asked to swallow, and the next election but it is a their shells, not least because Dirk Singer looking for a way to give their virtual certainty that tory What good is a man without a we take our own way of life so Paola Buonadonna consciences a perfunctory voters will be appeased with memory? much for 2ranted. SPORT: Chris Stephenson airing in a w~y that will serve basic changes to the poll tax Some the first draft of Hamish Lorrain Smith •• 'Come, follow me out of ·the MUSIC: JohnTuson Professor Aubrey David Hume Tower and we're · Stuart Walker ARTS: Eleanor Wood Manning, Head of the off..', you'd ~o- you're swept up. Fiona Gordon Tinbergen had the sa-me marvell FEATURES: TimDams Zoology Department, ous quality - which is a brilliant JamesNiven talked to Zoe Pag one to have, when you see it being FILM: TobyScott used in a good cause. Lutzen Andrew Mitchell namenta on the subject WHAT'S ON: JiiiFranklin My hero berger is a hero of mine in that I Susan Gillaoders ofhis heroes ... wish I had the knowledge and the AnneMeCall bravery to do what he's doing. · Richard Fraser Kaursar Butt I have a final type of hero - the "There are five or six type of person I turn to for reftec-. SCIENCE: Alex Spatuzzi people, in different aspects of tion on the human condition- how: Chia-Meng Teoh we feel about life and our emo-- PHOTOGRAPHY: HighPinney my life, whom I find have a tions and so on. I think Dos- GRAPHICS: Eduardo Welsh lot to offer me and whom I toyevsky was a gigantic genius, L------~ think about a great deal. especially after reading 'The I'm very concerned about Brothers Karamazov'. I adore environmental matters. When Jane Austen. I love irony and' PILGRIM you read about yet another of the Jane Austen's irony is perfect. I ghastly things which the human would love to have dinner with Writer's block is a dreadful thing . . race is up to - say machine-gun her. Ugly. Slimy and unpleasant. Much ning Amerindians from a helicop For moments of emotion I turn like Kenneth Baker, only worse. It ter in order to gain access to a bit to the strange, dried-up old scho- has many nasty features, not the of tropical rainforest, to ranch it lar, A.E.Housman, who wrote least of which is its tendency to, it is very easy to become totally 'The Shropshire Lad'. His life was cause people to write articles start- · pessimistic about the human race. ·filled with a lot of rage. He pours . ing "Writer's block is a dreadful In such a case I always think of out an extraordinary kind of emo- thing" but worst of all is its.ability Mozart. tion in his poetry. He himself to strike at any time, but usualy Mozart must have been one of described the trauma of his crea- during exams or essays. the most recognizable geniuses tive process - the feelings of plea- There you are, contendedly sit that ever lived. He was a person of sure, pain, fear and anxiety, that ting in the library, having corn such miraculous attainments, who were involved - dredging out of pleted all the recommended read continues to speak to you as himself feelings he was afraid to • ing for your essay on "The role of directly and as movingly as ever. confront. Housman had such a the Offside Trap in Byzantine his If the human race could produce a rapport with nature. He could tory" when, as you start to pick up Mozart, just to have done it once, reveal his feelings about life, your pen, your mind empties of all is an achievement of such order through nature. the possible ways of starting the that we'd better keep going- we'd · It is very difficult to define the damned thing and all you can better not despair. I think a lot term hero. I don't think I'd like to think ~fis "Wa~; wa~, b~ck, ~any about him and find listening to his ·be any of these people, certainly . centuries ago... whtch ts gomg to music very inspiring. I often think not Mozart. I don't know whether score very low on the good start of Tom Lehrer's gag;'lt is a sober I'd get on with some of them if I · scale. ing thought tli'at by the time he Photo: Hugh Pinney met them. I admire them but I Try again. "Once upon a time, was my age, Mozart had been don't envy them that much. I in a galaxy far, far away ... ". No dead for nine years.' The fact that onto another. He used to use the -vey'. In the latter he put forward think I would want to be a kind of- points (Norway, null punkte). he was only thirty five when he amalgam really. Your last chance. "Saigon. Shit! died is quite staggering. term 'step by step analysis' in his ·the idea that progress as it is usu I'm still only in Saigon ... ". Mince. Coming closer to my profession work. He was a brilliant lecturer ·ally measured isn't progress at all Write that and your tutor is going - I work in animal behaviour, and who could communicate it's retreat! He said many things to have you shot. Get up, walk there are several people who have enthusiasm in a marvellous way. which at the time seemed quite around, think of something else: it been of great significance to me in A lecture given by him was rather ·heretical. I love the way he won't help. You're going t_o _be. my working life. Someone who like a religious meeting - instant responds to nature in his writing, stuck there scratching your navel was a tremendous influence on my conversion. and there can be such fury at and mentally undressing the libra life was my old supervisor Niko I have a third type of scientific times. rians until closing time and you Tinbergen. Tinbergen was a ·hero, relating to my environmen- A name I link with Fraser Dart won't have written a word. Dutch professor of ethology [the tal interest~. Frank Fraser Darling ing's is Waiter Lutzenberger's, Try writing the essay first and study of behaviour] at Oxford was an Immensely influential ·the Brazilian national who has then coming back for the introduc who won a Nobel Prize in 73. He figure in ecological and environ- done and is still doing so much to tion. It won't work. Go and ask for died just over a year ago but is mental fields. He was a Scot - a · save the environment in South an extension. Hopeless. Go and get still, in a very real sense, alive for prophet without honour in his America. He began his career drunk. Better, but still ineffective. me. As my teacher, he had a very own country. He lived in the working in the chemical industry,· The only thing you can do, wben direct influence on my life. He Highlands. He saw very clearly, selling insecticides to the Indian faced with this situation, is as fol-. taught me that you never get any- forty or fifty years before other farmers. He came to realise the lows. l) Pick up your pen. 2) Open . where in free discussion with people, the necessity for human destructiveness and ludicrousness a book, any book. 3) Close you people if you 're afraid of looking a ecology. Humans need to live in of what he was doing. He now eyes. 4) Underline something at fool. If you 're always cautious and balance with the environment. All works in a province in Western random in the book, open your won't make a comment or ask a the green issues coming up now Brazil called Rondoland, and is eyes and use that sentence for the question, because you're afraid of were, I think, anticipated by him. literally 'fighting' with the far start of you essay. what people will think of you, He wrote many books - the most . mers. He is a very brave man, very It may sound stupid, in fact it is you'll never get anywhere. I try to famous and influential of which unpopular with many. I've beeri stupid, but it works, Try to ensure put this across to students. In dis must have been 'Wilderness in lucky enough to meet him several that the book is in an appropiate cussion groups, Tinbergen would Plenty', 'A Natural History of the times. He is a brilliant lecturer. language, but otherwise just go insist on understanding one step Highlands and Islands', and the He can just lead you on, rather ahead. I'll see you in the Dole office of the argument before he moved controversial 'West Highland Sur- like the Pied Piper - if he said next week. Live In Fear! student port Briefs Girls go 3 I n 1h1 Well, \\hat an Easter! Where do The Ladies Ho k.e) lub sP '!~ ~h1. rt m we begin? Surel) the high points took Madrid b) storm this outfit. must be the magnificent F up aster in a tour that . aw lot emi finals ...sixteen goal , of a tion both on and off the unheard of! As a die hard td fan pitch. tho e two matches took vears o my life. But let's hope th~t '~e can see Oldham in thefirst Divi ion nncrved b) ft~ ing '' ith next season as their attitude to the Spanair. the grrb arrived in the game leaves certain clubs wanting. Spanish capital to tind cloudless Joe Royale for England! skies and temperature up in the high twenties. They \\asted no time in aclimatising and took on their first opponents. thletico Madrid. v.ithout a pause for So. the Hurricane has finally rdrt.:shment. blown out. If he's looking for Tht.: performance \\a. com another sport to try his hand at, I mendable. the Burgh girls notch hear Mike McCallum doesn't mg up a 2-1 \\ rn, Linda Bnm nand think that there is a middleweight Susan MacDonald both tinding l'\ ~f) nn,· njO\ ~J th~ I ur, lu m,unh toth hl prt.tht h \\11 b\ in this country to challenge him, the back of the net. Hod..c\ ''a~ not the onh form .1ttlw t.rnk-lrke prllp
for the short pitched ball, it seems G racme Maitland in the to illnt.:\s left a pn:viously invrncr- I. 12 :\4 Imm till' wrnning r idt• ot a I' 1 ·tire t•xhau'>ted:t Italian Students are once again back in the classroom. This time they are attending lectures rather than making speeches. Paola Buonadonna, a former student of Genoa University, follows up her recent report on student unrest in Italy with this analysis of the collapse of the revolt .. THE STUDENT revolt is shift from the "occupation phase" dead, long live the student to other, indeterminate forms of revolt ! Some of you may struggle. The last document pro remember our issue, about moted by the Panther contained some proposals for a New Univer two months ago, on the stu sity. The most important point dent revolt then in progress was the drastic rejection of any in the Italian universities. It form of private funding and the was, for the first time in increase of public funding through years, something massive : the reduction of the military not the usual demonstration, budget. They also decided that not the ordinary protest the last day of the occupation was march, with the equivalent of the 19th of March. In the mean while, some sign of violence had "Maggie, out !" feebly started to surface in the self bleated about. For three or declared pacific, democratic, anti four months, that is how long fascist movement. The 9th of it lasted, it looked as if the March, in Bari, there was a figh t ghost of Student Power or the 0 between a group of Popular For three or four months Only in a months time will it looked as if the ghost of we know if the political Student power was back, class has kept its prom actually alive and kick ises, once the students ing, ready for another '68. pressure has eased like was back, actually alive Catholics (an extremely conserva tive grouping) and some members and kicking, ready for ··- another '68. Occupations, ·~ .... of the Panther : 10 people were injured and several acts of van stt-ms, eat-ins, sleep-ins, dalism were performed against press conferences held by the libraries and offices in the univer "rebels" on the conquered sity. ground, a computer network As the date of the "normaliza- , tion" drew nearer the movement linking the faculties fighting selling off to the best buyer an then two'' entire pages with pic . On the 1st of March 528 rep for freedom and democracy apparatus which it was unable to tures. Sociologists rubbed their : resentatives of the students of 168 had a last, vaguely pathetic start of "revolutionary fever" which throughout the country: you administer, no matter if this hands : the '80s have been a rather faculties met in Florence to dis took the shape of a frantic, chaotic name it, they had it, had done appa~atus happened to be the of~- boring decade as far as Italian cuss the developments of the charade of mini hunger-strikes, it or we · t d ·t c1al s1te of culture and research 10 societal patterns are concerned. Revolt. It was clear to everyone 0 1 sit-ins in railway stations and slo re gomg o • the country. In the future the After the end of the "red ter that they could not just go on deputy manager of Fiat, for rorism" they have been so bored gans against everything and F or a moment or two even t h e · . occupying the faculties forever. t h d d . . d r . mstance, was to determme how that they started writing articles The authorities had likewise made everybody. As the sun was setting 0 on the day of student activism, the ~os ar ene ' mgrame P ttt- many engineers he needed for the on the "dynamics offashion" or clear that they did not intend to cta~s, men . accustomed to see year 5 and consequently allow prospect of a return to the boring 200 "sex and the couple" on women's intervene directly to force them old lectures, without actually hav the•; names m ~he papers .~or co~~ an equal number of people to magazines. A student revolt was a out. Two lines of action had been 1 ing achieved any concrete goal rupt. ?t~' bnbery' d madfia graduate in this discipline. If gold mine in their garden : I guess deviced to destroy the move ac lVI tes every · secon ay h 1 h was not thrilling anyone. before their breakf st h Id h . , among t ese peop e t ere was a at least a couple of books have ment's fragile cohesion from On the 18th of March a huge a ' e . t etr future Dante or Leonardo, bad been started, and never finished, within : students were not to be breath. What were they gomg to luck f h. . h h Id t b demonstration in Naples drew the d ? s 1 T' · l'k or tm . e e wou no e on the subject. Advertising men allowed to sit their exams at the o · ure ~ a tanamen 1 e mas- able to afford to stud what reall too, found a lucrative activity in curtains on the Panther's adven end of the ye~r and they we~~ _t~ sacre to dnve the students out of y Y · the revolt : theirs was the idea of . ture. ' · the occupied faculties was out of adopting the symbol of a black Only in months time will we the question. Difficult to keep panther (a sort of excorcism of the know if the political class has kept quiet. Giving in to the students The trigger of unrest was ghost of Student Power?) with the The struggle for free and its promises, once the student demands was likewise unthinka cunning slogan - We are the pressure has eased. ble. a bill of law. Panther! - for the student move political education be The episode on the whole is The trigger of the unrest in the ment. comes vital. open to many considerations. The situation of general decay and What did the students ask ? first thought to hit me was the apathy of the Italian university, This was the problem in the move striking synchronology between afflicted, like every Italian public interests him. ment : too.many people, of diffe be reported to the JUdtctal the revolt in Italy and the unrest in institutiof!, by a lethal virus of pat For a couple of months after the rent political backgrounds were authorities as civil offenders. The Britain over the Students Loans. ronage, inefficiency, bureaucratic presentation of the Bill there was involved in it and it was difficult to students answer to the second Which takes me to the second chaos and shortage of funds, was a a lot of talking of "the death of · even materially arrange a meeting threat was the organization of a observation : the right of educa Bill of Law. The long-awaited Culture" and so forth, but nobody with various representatives of massive self-denunciation cam tion and the freedom of culture Reform of the secondary educa seemed prepared to do anything the students throughout the coun paign, during which thousands of . seem to be at stake in many so-cal tion system, called Ruberti about it until one morning a group try. However, their basic request . them and some sympathetic lec led liberal countries, two decades Reform from the name of the of psychology students in Palermo was the abolition of the Bill (read turers signed their names down after the big student revolutions socialist MP who proposed it, had got particularity fed up and : modification) and the total, and sent it to the police : too many of 1968. turned out to be a long term plan occupied their faculty. Something immediate reformation of the uni to be prosecuted. But there was Twenty years ago Herbert Mar for the privatization of the scien was finally happening. Every day, versity system (read : slow, nothing that the students could do cuse wrote :" To the degree to tific, "productive" faculties, such nearly every hour in the following gradual, partial changes). More against the decision, announced which the university becomes as engineering and chemistry, weeks, some other faculty in some realistically the students asked to by the Academic Senatus, to dependent on the financial and while the so-called Humanities other city "joined the move be represented in the Academic "abolish" the current year of political good will of the commun faced a destiny of neglect and slow ment". Senatus, to have a say in the study unless they stopped the ity and of the governments, the death. National newspapers started administration of the institution occupation. struggle for a free and critical edu The students were outraged : taking an interest in the event : a and to secure fresh funds for So the Florence meeting, which cation becomes a vital part in the the "softer" interpretation of the couple of columns on page 20, academic actnttes without lasted for more than a week, largest struggle for change." It has Bill was that the State was in fact then a whole article on page 15, "privatizing" the uHiversity. ~ issued the proposal of ·a pacific never been so true. student international thursda .april 19. 19YO 7 EAST GERMANY ne to ne ------East Germans have much to come to terms with in the followil;g months. Lucy Hooker has filed two reports from Leipzig. In this weeks article she reports on the growing fear that German unifica tion may turn out to be the annexation of the East. SIX TO ONE and falling has What did people expect ? That been the going street rate for hero Helmut and henchman those offering the banana Genschman could whip together a currency. This is all very well Wirtschaftswunder in time for the first of April ? for those treating themselves to a longed for luxury, but One to one did not seem such a faced with imminent mass had idea to some. West German unemployment and high industry could breathe freely at inflation on basic goods, the the thought of the GOR's exhor East Germans are beginning bitant labour costs. Consumers to see the unfunny side of and savers would be able to keep things. their heads above water as sub sidil!s are removed anti Eastern prices catch up with Western prices. There is something worth while about recognising a clay's S~ddenly they arc beginning to work in the East as of as much ceahse. . I that ba free market unifiea- value as the same day's work in l'hoto: EtHt Germa11s fear that rt•tmificatioll may h•atltn a rapid tscaltum offom/ pria1 t10n ts ess a out sharing the gains the West, a feeling echoed in the of forty years of successful PDS election slogan "We arc a neighbour. He used to have less to overmanned, and cnv1romentally tims". a curious way to refer to th, capitalism than it is about West people, one to one". spend it on too. But will low rents. criminal. lt 1s unlikely to survive affluent Burghers ot the FR , . German elections, profits and cheap travel and a comprchen,ive as healthy mdependent con1pct1 new labour markets. ------health and welfare system survive t10n. the change'? lt prompts the question hmo, It was obvious before the There is a growing susp1cion much Kohl wants reunifkat1on It was obvious before the elec election that unification that the GDR is to cushion unifi and whether he would not reall • tion that unification would be a The CDU's view 1s that Last cation by providing cheap labour be sat1sfied with a healthll} unba long messy business, but whereas would be a long, messy German business will at least have for expanding Western industry lanced annexation. As the roman the SPD were foolish enough to a chance to compete and that during the first few years of tic embraces between a dividetl say so in front of the voters, the business halved wages are always better adjustment. Kohl has prom1sed people make way fro the more CDU, to coin a phrase. promised ------ than dole money. The truth of his West German electorate. with malicious aspects of unification. a fast buck. Now Chancellor Kohl Two to one means that wages in East Germany's industry is that it Bundestag elections looming, that and the East Germans wake up told us he had his fingers crossed the GDR are halved. A worker requires reconstruction through taxes will not be raised in the FRG with post-election hangovers. 1t is all the time he talked of a one to here already earns a good deal and through. It Jacks proper man to finance reunification. His time to lool-. at who is looking one currency conversion. fewer Marks than his Western agement skills, it is inefficient and phrase was "they will not be vie- after whose interests. TURKEY No Vacancies of defence. Turkey is in the ian heritage. Turkey on the other frontline of NATO's defence pol hand is the traditional scourge of Turkey is anxious to join the European Club. Michael Barron reports from icy as it has a long border with the Europe and its Muslim hcntage is USSR. The USA have early warn alien and little understood. Ankara on why its applications have been greeted with "non" ing stations in Turkey as well a-, a heavy committmcnt in term~ of men and military hardware. Tur- WHILE Margaret Thatcher long martial tradition and the pre- expressed at all. The communist key's economic troubles are bar- Next Week drags her heels over Britains sent army is proportionately one party is banned as is the promo- der for Brussels to 1gnore a. it full participation in the EEC, of the largest in NATO. This is tion of communism. would directly affect the EE Turkey is almost on its knees partly due to the fact that every Those who do try to pread budget. Turkey ha an annual Lucy Hooker report on begging to be let into man has to do military service. communist propaganda or any inflation rate of about 65% and a ·other propaganda find themselves very uneven pattern of inve tment student unrest in Ea t Europe. Turkey is annoyed in a Turkish pri on, made infam- in the country. Istanbul and Ank- Germany. th a t not on y ave 1ts· app 1-. The country has now returned ous by the film ''Midmght. ara arc thriving commercial . I h 2 1 to civilian rule with an elected par- Th · d - cations been rejected but that liament which in turn elects the Express". e film ts ban ne in centres with office of most major there is a strong possibility president. The current president Western firms present. A half Sarah Hanson give her that East Germany and Hun- Turgat Ozal has however been the country. Amnesty Interna- hour journey out of Ankara f gary Will make it firSt and are accused of abrogating tOO many Of tiona( put OUt repOrtS that suggest though takes you intO aver} diffe- aCCOUnt 0 teaching in a . h . . . rent world. Itisaworldofpea ant nT Af · ·1 b emg actively wooed by t e pnme mm1sters powers and in some respects the film may not communitie. where the hor e and remote neSt ncan VI - Brussels. The EEC however ______have been too far from the truth. ··-,rt is still more common than the lage find Turkey's application an . . The abuse of human rights i~ a ------embarassement, for a start Thea.b.use. ofhum. annghtstsa sensitive i sue with the govern- h h ment in Ankara. This ensitivitv The horseandcartis stilllmore only~% of Turkey is actually senswve zsue wzt t e govern- extent! to their treatment t;f common than the internal Dirk Singer reports from part of Europe, the rest is ment in Ankara minontles. Turkey protested geographically Asia. loudly when Bulgaria denied the combustion engine. Budapest on the aftermath Turki'oh minority there the right to of the Hungarian elec mternal combustron engine. The dutie ... This fledgling tlemocraq u'c Turkish names or to speak Turk1-.h or promote their culture . -.t mdard of li\ 1ng is barely a hove tion , and the per ecution . Even if geographical considera is supposed to be multi-party and The Kurtli~h minority in ca-..tern that of a Tlmd \\ orld countt). ttons are ignored. there is the oppo~ition parties do sit in parlia of gypsie . Turkc;. arc not allm,:ed to peak political stability of Turkey and ment and loudly criticise the gov Kurtll'.,h or promote the J<..mdish the extent of its democracv. its ernment. When the cntici.,m 1s rhe recent ll'\O]Utllln 111 I·a t- culture. Ankara \\as up-.et that 1t violation of human rights. a~ well reported though 1t "only an echo. l'rn brrnpe and th~.: Jlfl' , ...·et of Piu,: ethnic unre,·t in ditl not rlceive 'trong backlll!! (oerrnan teuniticallPn h:l\e not as galloping inflation. Since the Restrictions and ccn .. nr-..hip arc from I r..: m:c n ati~>nal comm •1111\ end ot tht: Second World War. sttll1n place and the broaocasllng h lpc,t I urkC\ · b1d to he Tran ·yl ania. A Hungar 111 Jt\ protest against Bulgaria. • Turkey has experien~:ed a coup media are all statt.: controlled The .tccepted into the l'Ommon Furo- ian and Romanian tud nt approxim<~tely every 10 years. state also has an mtercst in many pean home. l·a ... tern f: urore·, The last was by the army in 19RO. of the newspaper..,. Student news These political infidelities haH: cnmmittment to democran. h.i' ar gue 1't u t . The army is a powerful force in papers arc strictly forbidden. been convcmcntl} forgotten by been "pectacularly demnn..,tratl.'d Turkish politics. Turkey has a Some viewpoints cannot bl the rest in Europe in the interest-. and the: 'hare a common hri..,t· 8 thursday, april 19, 1990 features student than they've ever had before." Emphasising the importance of establishing good relations with the host Educated at Eton, Oxford and subsequently at nations of the ·e terrorists, in particular with Iran where a Harvard, foreign minister at forty-four, even a Briton, Roger Cooper, is imprisoned, he said:"It's a very descendant of the longest ever serving prime fine line between not making concessions to the actual minister, William Waldgrave, MP for Bristol hostage takers and not missing an opportunity to re West has with some justification been tipped as establish good relations with the people who .may have a future leader of the Conservative Party. influence over them." Though he dismissed such ambition as irrational, he The sterility of these long running negotiations were in does concede that were it to happen then of course he stark contrast to the sudden execution of the journalist, would accept it - a scenario the wouldn't be too out of · Farzad Bazoft last month, a subject which has been of place in an episode of "Yes Minister", yet his allusion to considerable significance in the foreign office ever since. a place in the cabinet as a realistic goal seems genuine The minister described the quiet negotiations preceding and unqualified. Already he is convincing me, perhaps the sentencing, and the world-wide appeal for clemency it's the tie which hangs unhappily at an angle and the subsequently as being "about right", but he realised that ungroomed hair which lend an overall appearance of it "wasn't perfect." He felt that no obvious mistakes had having run to work,\ And yet this, and his wandering been made and added:"In retrospect I have a profound speech and rare eye contact belie a keen interest in what feeling that it may have been that as soon as he allegedly he is talking about, when it ceases to concern himself, confessed to being a spy, it may have been that it was coupled with a considerable knowledge of what he wants all over." to say. Only the occasional' lapses into standard · rhetorical devices which avoid controversy, or at least allow a possibility of escape remind me that this is an "It's the first time since Winston Chur- · M.P., that I'm in the foreign office and that I'm one street away from Downing Street. I might otherwise be chill that we've had a world figure in talking to a perfectly reasonable man in his office. t!J,is country." Having always wanted to be involved in public affairs, Waldegrave graduated through the civil service to the political arena under the win g of Edward Heath's "think · "Mentioning the confusion that inevitably arises as a tank". His rise has been swift but unspectacular which is result of "cross-cultures", he explained that there was perhaps the way he would like it to be. Speaking of Sir absolutely no reason to suspect Bazoft was guilty as far Robert Walpole, his famous relative who dominated as Britain was concerned. He did have contacts in the much of British politics in the eighteenth century, he . police, but they were legitimate, and implying an almost highlights the unobtrusive brilliance with which that unbelievable naivety on the part of the Iraqis, the prime minister managed to avoid wars throughout his minister said: "I think the Iraqis may genuinely have career and so to help build a colossal empire. thought that if you talk to the Metropolitan Police you Unflamboyant achievement seems to characterise much are talking to the British security services." of what is central to him and is reflected by his appreciation of the great scientists, whose ability to get Impressed by Mr. Waldegrave's obvious awareness of things done, and his own deficiency in this area make the subtleties and fragility if international diplomacy, them his most admired men and a little surprised at exactly how subtle and fragile it is, I asked if the re-unification of Germany created a threat of any kind. The answer was emphatically "No", As a party politician, "it's always explaining that there was no intention to recover concern . tempting to be in favour of devolu for the Poles. He went on to describe "the transformation of Germany into a real and formidable democracy" as tion." "one of the .great triumphs of the modem world", and in his view, "the more Germans, the better." More broadly I asked how he saw Britain fitting into the If this is propaganda, it fits in easily with his reserved free-market economy of Europe in 1992, which he saw personality, which fails to obscure an intense desire to as a positive, viable movement but explained the do more. Apart from the Home Office, the Treasury Government's wish to go on into such as massive holds the most immediate attraction after his own upheaval slowly, on the grounds that:"Most European department, seeing it as the most central to the countries have been for prolonged periods of time part of mechanics of government. Describing his talents, he bigger federations, whereas we, and the French are rather spoke almost with envy of thick skinned Tebbit-like unique in being committed for a thousand years or more politicians, whose bruising capabilities he felt he lacked. to a completely separate nation-state, so we have rather Happier criticizing himself, he did suggest. though that different instincts about it." With Tory populafl he possessed effective analytical and speaking abilities. The caution inherent in this, and reflecting perhaps the The answer was courteous, but I suspect for him his opinion of a power greater than his own, was then wentt success is less a priority than simply a part of his life abandoned as he launched into an energetic appraisal of James Niven I asked if he really though that the release of John the efforts of Mr. Gorbachev, a man who he has met and Mcarthy and Terry Waite was likely, particularly in the obviously admires a great deal. Describing the task Minister William light of -the recent French exchanges with Libya. Re facing "the amazingly impressive" Russian leader, of iterating what has been said many times before, Mr. altering Russia to a consumer society as "titanic", he leading lights ·ofne Waldegrave intimated the immorality and impracticality alluded. enthusiastically to the premier's tactics of of doing deals with organisations holding hostages. "It · responding to the worsening economic conditions by conservatism. simply never works" he said. "The Americans tried to do going even faster with reform. a deal over Irangate and they've now got more hostages The almost climactic nature of present day Russian • • • features meetings • • • wedn "There's two of them standing over there, watch these guys, You can't sell memory though. and art in our day d age look at them, they're dripping money!" has become commodity. Mach reacts against this. "We live in a I'm sitting on an unclaimed pile of out of date news very conserv ive age. You've got to round off the edge , m e papers talking to David Mach; 34, bespectacled, Scottish, things easy. Well fuckth t Make things difficultto swallow,m e and an artist with an international reputation for large scale things hard. Spend six weeks placing ev ry ingle newsp per by public sculptures and installations. We have just touched hand and then whip it down the next day. To me that' much more important." upon the subject of dealers, and coincidently enough, two Mach likes to think of his works "constantly provoa:.- members of the art market have descended upon the Tram tional", with a high element of communica1ion. The m gazin md way in full glory. newspapers that he use are the unsold surplu of the m di ' Mach draws upon his umpteenth cigarette. The taller of the warehouses. Mach is commenting upon world consumeri m and two dealers walks over, large grin, nice suit. perfect haircut "How over production. Ironically, his work. like the daily p per h you doin'? You setting the place on fire?" His leather soled shoe short existence. "Painting to me seem ad d Jo • It' weeping statement, but it's o difficult for painting to get aw y from pure grinds out a smouldering cigarette butt that has for some time, and decoration. It hmgs on a wall." oblivious to anyone else's attention, been eating away at the dust Howd hethereforeviewtheworkofth urrentScou· h strewn papers under our feet. Business is arranged. We continue favourites like Stephen Campbell and Ken Currie? The c ntribu our conversation. "I work with dealers, private and public galleries, tion to contemporary art by these figurative Gl gow lads is alway I work with everybody.What I don't want is someone taking over, good for a discus ion, md Mach meets my que lion with a glint in and I become part of a stable. I dislike that intensely. I want to be theeyeanda ilent,thoughnottooenamoured~e tur . "It' all very as individual as I can within that system. I decide where I want to nice. They're good painters. The most intere Ling one for me i work; ifsomebody offers me the work in the first place, please god!" Peter Howson, but it's not something that's going to t the world There seems no shortage of offers. David on finat all. They're domg well, th t' great. but it Mach travels about eight months per year, and was just adds to the problem more thm solv . it. They're asked to make an installation for the year of culture very attractive, desirable things Wh t'. the impor "a good while ago". His initial idea was to make a tanceofat.shirt,andwhat'sthelmportm eofaP t r sculpture in the city, the plan was too big; consider Howson print? I think painting' g t a problem, I ing the factors of time and money, so the alternative really do. lt can't go any further, and if it do s; it'· space of the old transpOrt museum was found. "I'd made columns before, and when I saw the space, it was perfect for making them again." Here to Stay is being constructed inside the old tramshed. Tramlines zig and zag across the floor, whilst scissor lifts and scaffolding frame hardboard tubes and a hundred tonnes of newspaper; which is being magically ttansformed into deceptive columns of classical masonry. Twelve cast iron columns are the invisible foundations for the idea, "taking the architectural space and using that as well as making a space." It has been three weeks of hard work for David and his eleven helpers to get three quarters of the way through the construction. Four people have worked on Mach products before, the others are local. "I like working with other people, because you have this area where people exchange ideas genuinely, not just because it'd take six months to make it by myself. Some people would do that, spend all that time, it's a deliberate decision." For Mach, collaboration is as important ingre dient as "the fact that there are newspapers, an image, a time limit, a team, a space, a social concept of space, political concept, and the physical space itself. You've got a million and one things to try and take into consid eration, and try not to give anyone of these so much importance that it fucks up the others." The culminat ing result therefore on more extravagant pieces, (Mach cites this installation as "quite minimal''), is very often a suprise, since it is impossible to "control" everyone. The finished piece is an immense, untrans not painting anymore." portable, non-saleable art work. It can't be bought by Paralleling painting to "wallpaper"; Mach a gallery and placed on a nice little plinth now and certainly doesn't mince words. He obviously feels again for public perusal. So what about money? that his art poses more questions than does that of his "I get paid well, a set fee for what I do. It two dirnertSional compatriots. He acknowledges this doesn't cover accomodation, costs, anything; so I get possibly conceited position, but concludes, "in the end it's impos all that over and above. The people I'm working with organise the sible for me to avoid decoration, to me these columns look very nice, materials, so I walk away with that fee intact. The people I work so in the er.d maybe I just decorate as well. Maybe I just think I'm with are paid similarly." Newspapers, spit, and chew- doing more than thaL I could never be a painter that's for sure." No sum is disclosed, but such fmancing does not seem at all Perish the thought! Mach's sculpture has always been a bad considering the columns will be pulled down at the end of April ing gum may seem odd materials good fuel for Joe-publics' reactions. London, 1984, saw one man and sent away to be recycled. A question of his sculptures' so incensed by Machs' replica of the Polaris ubmarine in used car impermanence rouses quite a reaction from Mach. Somehow I feel for sculpture, but then, Fife born tyres that he set fire to it. and in the event. burnt himself to death. he's been asked this many times before. In the ertSuing m nths David Mach has five hows to make "It doesn't have to be impermanent. They could have this artist David Mach doesn't care work for, mcluding a piece involving two Sumo wr tiers in Russias piece, it could stay here for five hundred years if they want it What October Square. ''I'm absolutely up to my eyeballs in 1L I hope it is temporary and what is permanent about it? That's the important for conventions. Alison Brown continues like that. I'm trying to spread all the time. I wmt to question for me. It's a political decision. Somebody says 'we are surpri e poople, and urprise myself." going to have these pieces and let them stay in Glasgow', that's what went down to Glasgow's Tram Three weeks after our conversati n. the twelve Tram ay makes them permanent; not because it's made of marble, stone, or columns, each 25 feet high, are completed. Pmk tr c f ~ s~ili1.cd steel, or as it might be, of magazines, spit and chewing gum." way and found herself in for an Financial Time • battle for vi ibility among. t th Sun ', DaJl)' Mach sees permanency as being in the mind, and not in the Records',mdTodays', Bundlesofunuscdtabl i elcftjumblcd art. "It's a bit like being in a band, going from place to place doing immense surprise. in the corner of the shed. Here Sta ' ir nicall lid and these things." He gesticulates to his art around him. "I remember permanenta arance cemstom em temph llcally,Murdoch concerts I went to when I was younger that will stick with me andMuwell 'empir utreemlytransient,unim runtand l forever, permanent in my mind. I think there's an element of that ful. in this." student 10 thursday, april19, 1990 what's on LUNCHTIME CONCERT G~EEN BANANA CLUB SUNDAY Pupils of St Marys Music school hi EARTHBEAT THE FLORAL RIOT PARADE Wilkie House: mix of garage, rap, Wilkie House: Wot no Spanish Harlem? Network 2: an unknown quanti'ty. house and funk but even at Easter we 11 pm-3 am, £3. 10.30 pm-4 am, £2. can guarantee no Judy Garland. CLUBS SATURDAYS If pm-3 am, £3 (Students £2.50). GREEN BANANA CLUB Potterrow: Music good, drink cheap, people outgoing and professional. APOCALYPSE POWER THURSDAYS seeking suitable partner. Chambers Street: biggest night of the The Mission: Wot no Kangaroo Klub? 8 pm-/ am, students 50p with Matric week. Students and guests only. 10 pm-3 am, £3. CliATEAUX CHA CHA Card. 9pm-1 am. Blue Oyster Club: Gay/Straight club, Thursday night fever for designer WEDNESDAYS UFO INFINITY groovers. The Venue: The lnspiral Mondays and Oblomous: Techno, House and free. BREATHLESS /0.30 pm-3 am, £2.50. The Happy Roses played regularly to 9pm-l am. Potterrow: Leave the house music and keep those flares a flapping. fruit machines and venture, if you dare, SHAG Midnight-4 am, £2. IMMIGRANT CLUB upstairs to sample the amazing pinball The Mission: we can all sleep easier in ShadyLady's: What's On's club pick of machines or even the overwhelming · our beds knowing the ABBA music the week, due largely absence of MARLEYS change machine. museum pounds on. Shady Lady's: reggae (this is esoteric tracksuiets and the presence of reasona /0.30pm-3am, !1.50. 8 pm-/ am, students 50p with Matric reviewing). ble music. Card, guests £I .50. 10.30 pm-3 am. /0.30 pm-2 am, £2. FRIDAYS THE AMPHITHEATRE MAMBO• CLUB The stuff that first week rugby club THE DEEP DREAM Network 3: African dance music. qiscos are made of The Mission The Mission: tracksuits and waist-pouch 10.30 pm-3 am, £2 members/£2.50 10 pm-4 am, £/.75 before 11 pm. £3.50 10.30 pm-3 am, £2 thingys essential. Reportedly good for non-members. its type. (i.e. house nonsense). after. · 10 pm-3 am, £3. GRAEME MURRA VGALLERY EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY 1 LIB· CENTRAL LIBRARY GEORGE IV BRIDGE 2255584 15 SCOTLAND STREET 5566020 RARY GEORGE SQUARE 6671011 RIVERS OF THE CITY WAR TIME GARDEN Work by pupils of Edinburgh Academy Twenty-four stone carvings by !an A REMARKABLE IMPROVEMENT: on Edinburgh's rivers and streams. In the Hamilton Finlay. HISTORICAL ASPECTS OF FOOD, Fine Art Library. RICHARD DEMARCO GALLERY Untii6May. DRINK AND HEALTH IN Until30 May. Tue-Fri 10am-5pm;Sat lOam-! pm. BLACKFRIARS ST 5570707 SCOLTLAND Mon-Fri 9 am-8 pm; Sat 9 am-noon Exhibition in the Drummond Room in THREE FRENCH ARTISTS: THE association with the Edinburgh Festival ROAD TO MEIKLE SEGGIE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN of Science. This probably beats the THE SCOTTISH GALLERY · Something to do with a Scottish 'lost set GARDENS, 552 7171 Library coffee bar, playing on the 94 GEORGE STREET 2255955 tlement' with a very stupid name. . · INVERLEITH HOUSE computers and working hands down and Until28 April. asit requires little of no effort to get there 1t IS well worth a visit. ROBERT LEISHMAN RSW (1916-1989) Mon-Sat 10 am-6 pm. SHELTERS AND BASKETS Until29 June. MEMORIAL EXHIBITION Touring exhibition of sculptures made Mon-Fri 9 am-5 pm. Paintings in .oil and watercolours. from objects the artist found on his Until 24 April. wanderings in the countryside. Mon-Fri 10 am-6 pm; Sat 10 am-1 pm. THE FRENCH INSTITUTE Until 29 April. 13RANDOLPH CRESCENT 225 5366 Mon-Sat 10 am-sunset; Sun 11 am-sunset. GALLERY OF MODERN ART COLLECTIVE GALLERY BERNARD FAUCOPN: LA PEUR DU BELFORD ROAD 556 8921 160 HIGH STREET 2201260 VOYAGE HANOVER FINE ART Faucon has been commissioned by the 22a DUNDAS STREET 5562181 FRENCH CONTEMPORARY ART Institute to take photographs recording 1960-1990 TWO INSTALLATIONS Edinburgh life. SUZANNE GYSEMAN: FLOWERS OF Selection of artwork from the Calais Craig Richardson and Christine Borland Until5 May. ISLAY region. have obviously installed something but Mon-Fri 9.30 am-5.30 pm; Sat 9.30 Landscapes from where else, but Islay. Until28 May. you'll have to go along to find out what. am-1.30pm. Unti128 April. Mon-Sat 10.30 am-4.30 pm; Sun 2.30-4.20 Unti129 April. Mon-Fri 10 am-5.30 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm pm . Wed-Sun 12.30-5.30 pm. NATIONAL GALLERY OF SCOTLAND KING'S THEATRE A SONG A FROCK AND A TINCKLE The Mound 5568921 2 LEVEN STREET 229 120 Aone woman show by Su Pollard. Need any more be said. ROMANTICK VIEWS BY JOHN THEATRE Sun 22nd April CLARK OF ELDIN . 7.30pm BALLET'S BY WORLD MASTERS Drawings and etchings by the 18th £3.50- £6.50 The Scottish Ballets first programme for Century artists. BEDLAM 1990. Perforrnancesof'Who Cares?" and 2 FOR REST ROAD 2259873 Until3 June. "Scotch Symphony" by Georges ROYAL LYCEUM Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun 2·5 pm. Balanchine and "Paquita" by Minkus. GRINDLA Y STREET 229 FRICTION FICfiON Untill Sat21 st TORRANCE GALLERY EUTC perform Roddy Mcdevitt's 7.30pm" 29b DUNDAS STREET 5566366 intellectual farce about a meeting £18.50-£5.00 (£15.50- £3) THE DUCHESS OF MALFI between Flann O'Brian and Carl Jung ~ Jon Webster's 17th century revenge Untill Sat 21st April drama IN ORKNEY WATERS 7.30pm Frid 6th to Sat 28th April: Mat 21st April Seascapes by !an Maclntyre. £3.00,£2.00, £2 7.45pm (Mat 2.15pm) Until21 April. Mon-Fri 11 am-6pm:Sat 10.30am-4pm. It's Official! L'Auberge is Restaurant of the ~ear. C}ur G~umbling FOOD Gourmet, Neil Ra[[erty ,stuffs his face and gz~es hzs verdzct. course a damned impressive really don't want to go into all WE AMATUER feed. Now rather than restricting that awful wi~e drinkers guff themselves to what schmucks about pretentious noses and JOURNALISTS don't often like you and I regard as haute cheeky but well rounded get invited to press cuisine (i.e. French food, French bouquets, suffice to say it was a . lunches, in fact I'd never wine and French waiters) the good Claret ~nd it tasted great. society decided to go global and been to one (not surprising thus during their year sampled But now we reach the really, I have the table Indian, Chinese, Mexican and part all you post-lent sugar manners of a first year Italian cookery. The fact that demons have been waiting for· medic) so you can imagine still plumped for a French Yes i(s THE PUDD~Nq! (o; restaurant in the end is not sweet If we are to mamtam the the overwhelming sense of surprising, L'Auberge is superb. elegant facade). Imagine if you joy I experienced when the The dapper, self- will, ~he richest,smoot~est, University Gourmet effacing and welcoming owner is creamiest, chocolatlest, one Daniel Wencke. After chocolate mousse you have ever Society phoned and asked accepting the trophy from Ken .. ~reamed about ~nd the~ put a if we would like to send a Laidlaw, Monsiuer Wencke gave sauce on top. Now this sauce delegation of our more a polite humble thank you speech looks a bit like custard, it may presentable hacks along to before imploring us all to eat even smell a bit like custard but their annual award lunch. drink and be merry, ensuring that you know, oh you know th'at it we woul~ be well _taken cru:e of. has gone way beyond custard. The setting was The serv1ce was h1ghly pohshed Its the sort of superior substance L'Auberge, an elegant and included the most fascinating that custard pretends to be French place in St. Mary's device; a sort of silver plated related to when it's drunk at mini-hoover which scooped up parties. Get the picture. Then Street and runaway winner the innumerable crumbs and imagine scoffing the whole of the Society's. Restaurant other assorted debris, scattered plateful in under thirty seconds of the Year A ward. I dug by the uncou~ ~wine, '!Ying to and then you'll see what they out my best bowtie, pass for sophiSticated JOUmos. mean by a culinary experience. Even the bowtie and braces, ad L'Auberge describes polished my grubby shoes exec, look coud not disguise the itself as "The perfect combination fact that for the last three years and set off to indulge in an I've been eating pot noodles and · between price, quality and style orgy of midday decadence. Monsieur Daniele Wencker, owner of the prizewinning fried egg sandwiches. . in an elegant atmosphere". Well When I arrived, one of L'Auberge. The meal itself may we didn't find out too much about the first things that struck me have been nouvelle cuisine (to be the price but let me assure. you was not just the cool, subtle It was at this point we enviable position of being able to honest I'm not really sure) but it it's a once term experience, at refinement of the place .· but were introduced to the man who . enjoy some of Edinburgh's best was nonetheless beautifully most. As for the other three; this also the way in which the had made it all possible, Ken cuisine at discount rates as well presented and rich in flavour. place certainly lives up to its waiters reacted to us, not with Laid law, President of perhaps · as being able to show off and be After an aperitife of Kir publicity. the. sn,o~bish arrogance that the most indulgent society in posh in front of their friends. Royale, we were presented with One final suggestion, Mait~e d s h~ve . become so Lothian Region. Ken ftlled us in Towards the end of second term a smooth avocado salad. The the next time your folks are in as~octated w1th, mstead they with a few facts. The Gourmet they sit down, compare notes entree (ooh how posh !) was town and they stupidly offered to qmetly took our c~ats and m~de . Society ,now in its second year of and decide which restaurant teqder veal stuffed with spinach take you out for dinner, give ~s/omfortable while we wai~ed ·existence, meets twice a term to most ably satisfied the three and mustard, not too harsh but L'Auberge a go. The elder~ 0 our table. (I sh?uld mentiOn wine, dine and generally have essential requirments, that of still full flavoured and again might well become catatonic that we s~uck out hke a thumb ·bloody good kneesup. 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W Id •ra of th stagnan y of m poliu m th .light of m the Ea t. lt vcrg on th pccuhar to h ar a man elf contam d and r ·n d a the ~i?i t;r talk of the "far more dnvmg and d t rmmed v~ ton of th Ru stan I ader, "wh1 h 1 why w uppon hun." Though he d conce "The Arnericans tried to do a deal (H'£'1' lrangate. They've now got more hos tages than before." as containing "quite a few countries where the human rights situation is pretty frightful.", he said the "we have to make it clear that by trading with people we are not necessarily approving of them."] It is legitimate, then that the well being of our own nat~on should supersede the social well-being of the nauons we trade with. Though this well being can be shockingly disproportionate, the continuation of trade relat!ons is obviously perfectly reasonable, and yet contmually seems to prove uncomfortable to the government over South Africa. Because apartheid has such a high profile image, and the British government's refusal to place sanctions has created so much controversy at home and i other Commonwealth countries, I asked if Britain's position was morally Sanctionfi are. "merclv svmbolic and defensible and if an isolationist stance on sanction was any threat to the unity of the Commonwealth. The express disapprm·a/. '' answer to the former was predictably "No", and Mr. Waldgrave followed a well-trodden argument that progress could not be made from external pres ure but from the development of internal pres ure. European devel pment is rc1ther pamdoxical." The repetition of the word "We" and his unprompted Finally, I approached the subject of the party leader hip admission that there were two sides to the anction and the taggcring demise in Tory popularity, and asked argument suggested the South Africa was an is ue whose if he felt that the re ·ponsibility for this lay with Mrs. fate in Conservative hands had been decided too long ago Thatcher or ti-c continuing failing of party poli y. Th to be susceptible to change now. "Really big busines in reply seemCI.i .oo swift and strong to be ·pontaneous "I South Africa is now actually on the side of reform", he think her personality 1 o strong that when the even said, but did admit that existing sanctions are government gets unpopular, she gets unpopular. "But if "merely symbolic and express disapproval." Regarding this was rehearsed, what came next wa ·aid with Yat an all time low, the Commonwealth, "relations are often very much genuine respect: "It's the fir t time incc ~ inston beuer with black commonwealth countries at a working Churchill that we've had a world figure in thi · speak to the Foreign level as opposed to a rhetorical level, and he hoped ' country ... .I don't think there can be anyone int h anyway that the rather sterile argument of South Africa, country who doe n't have an opinion about h r." aldegrave, one of the with the release of Mandela and the impetus of de Klerk As to who would be the next leader will be. the would give way to a collective effort to build a fair minister was unwilling to be drawn, but dtd menti n th~ tgeneration nation. The fascination with which he had spoken of Bath MP, Chri Pauon a a po · ·iblc Russian affairs had gone, but a convincing lucidity till candidate, imagining that the n w leader would come remained. from the next generation of Torie . A generation that h He relaxed a little again as the interview turned toward has already di tingui ·hcd him .· If in, and ould \\CII home affairs, where his answers were les practised and, i excel alone from . sday 1.15 pm. • • student offices 11 • 4 I • I ...... 4 fltrlrf • student 14 thursday, april19, 1990 mustc later with the now obligatory After over thirty dates up R Birds Fly, extended into an and down the . Icicilian Jive Bunny with snatches of,amongst others, c?untry,including a hugely eturn Who Do You Love?, Magic Bus d1ssappomtmg appearence Of The·Hairiest · and All You Need Is Love being at the Venue back in · matched to a ·pulsating drum february, the all new Icicle beat.In between several new songs arc aired, ranging from Works roadshow finally the. not brilliant (a dirgey lament ground to a halt i~ Kentish to some girl called Melanie, Men In Rock! threatend as a future single), Town. through tqwe good if not exactley avant garde (the recent Well, not quite ALL •. non-hit Motorcycle Rider), and new, for tonight a fine mixture of the title track of an LP promised old singles and new material is for May, Permanent Damage, on offer, with what had seemed which is thankfully not the lumpy and leaden in Edinburgh chundering Napalm Death effort majestic and inspiring here in a its title might suggest, but converted cinema in North instead a rather pleasing foot London. Front-person McNab tapper with an always-look-on still gets a bit carried away, the-bright-side-of-life · churning out guitar solos during message. which one could quite possibly They might still be a read the entire translated works long way short of reclaiming of Leo Tolstoy, and the inclusion their previously held position in of a rendition of the truly awful Byrds dirge Triad .is something the premier division of pop, but of an indulgence on the hairy on tonight's evidence it singer's behalf, but we can shouldn't be too long before the forgive him. One rather Icicle Works are challenging for suspects that he only includes it promotion to join the ranks of in the set in order to give the the Wonderstuff, the devoted in a meagre crowd Waterboys, Green On Red et al. enough time to nip out for a After a difficult couple of years, quick pee without missing McNab appears to be once more anything of interesty on stage. hitting a rich vein of form. If the For the rest of the show it's a city of Liverpool sees its standard Icicle Works musical star ascend once more package.The faces behind .when the bubble of its McNab may have changed, but Mancunian neighbours little else has altered. They still eventuallly bursts, don't be too kick off with the buttock surprised if the Icicles are at the clenchingly passionate Hollow front of the revival. Horse, and close two hours John Tuson DAVID BOWIE tor (Laorie) that he had lost his Hannah, the opener tonight, powerful melodic riffs that drive sisted mainly of fourteen-year-old genitals. But no problem , said slowly creeps up on you and sucks their loyal crowds mental. A weeny rockers, crew-cutted forty Royal Highl~d Exhibition Hugh , as a rottweilerdog, a book you into its relentless climax. The large pile of kit bags .in the year-old bikers and punks of all Centre,Ingliston a!Jout guns or a camoflauge jacket controlled aggression, the light corner show that the Troupe ages- and sure enough, encore would make up for any deficencies and .shade in this song alooe sets have attracted their own band of one: Killed By Death Bomber; fe1t in the trouser department. To the pattern for the rest of the gig. faithful followers. Their massive . tncore two: Ace Of Spades. David Bowie is a very that list could well be added an The band slip confidently from sound can no longer be No doubt if I .was a seasoned fortunate man. Despite his electric guitar, or at least an elec- . the gut-wrenching Shine On (a contained in su<;h small clubs, veteran Motorhead fan I'd tell · and will soon burst out into the last two albums bejng tric guitar as played by Jus tin Cur- hit! a hit!) to the aural intensity of you that they're a bunch of senile rie of Del Atnitri. Can this really Love In A Car. Bathed in strobe big halls where hopefully it will almost universally get the attention it deserves. old farts and you shou ld have be the band who at one stage were lights and tortorously teasing his seen them in 1935 etc. out as this condemned as utter the epitome of all things twee guitar, Guy doesn 't sing this one, Simon Kellas was my first time it was all jolly turkeys, and his Tin and ... well, nice. Well the side- he breathes it. good fun. What's more 'their total Machine LP being an burns are still there, but that is all. Forget Madchester, forget lack of on-stage antics came as a uninspired slab of rockist Young Justin clearly has some young pretend.ers like the Pale relief after supporting thrashers sort of hang-up about his man- · Saints and Ride, The House Of ' MOTORHEAD hogwash, he is still Slammer. I thought that thrash hood, as elaborate clumsy guitar Love have staked their claim as Glasgow Barrowlands was there to sweep away the regarded by many people solos followed one another with the great white rock hope for the THERE I stood quietly, hoping cobwebs, kick out the old, stale, in a . manner usually tedious rapidity, and the pouting nineties, and I've a sneaking that no lowly sadistic rodent seventies rock dinosaurs and all reserved for deities, or at thrusting mainman cracks feeling that they can only get would ask me any awkward ques- that. Actually it gives a whole least Dutch goalkeepers.· unfunny jokes about oral ' better. The potential is almost tions like "Could you name more new generation the excuse to Tonight, in Edinburgh's largest sex ... most obviously a REAL frightening. than four Motorhead songs" indulge in the most wanky ,. cattle shed, the basic band and man. Tonight Del Amitri were Mark Campanile when it eventually dawned on me embarrssing, macho posturing stage set meant that all quite dreadful. The subtelties of · that practically nobody else there known to man and the girl from attention focussed on one man their pleasing Waking Hours ••••••••••••• could either. After twenty Heart. By contrast Le m my resem and his songs, and he revelled album lost in an appalling clap- · \minutes the natives were restless. bleq a bloke after a bad day at the in it. A whistle stp tour through along, climaxing in a pub-rock CLAYTOWN TROUPE "Ace Of Spades," scowled huge . dog track, mumbling away in his back catalogue proved once chunter through the lager The Venue. mounds of hair and leather. "Kil- b~tween songs in a good- · and for l!il that1he has produced drinker'.s anthem, Maggie May. led By Death-Bomber." Still , naturedly pissed off manner, some of the finest pop music of The support slot on Deacon Recently members of they grunted appreciatively often incoherent and usually the last two decades. The Blue's 1991 world tour beckons. enough in between songs, know- obscene. • passion of Heroes, the glani of .John Tuson ' certain trendy groups have ing that all they had to do was wait Anyway, I've done it- after all, Zigg'y, or a camp skip t,hrough . been predicting the demise for the encore - this is actually· a .you've got to see Motorhead Weill/Brecht's Alabama Song all of old fashioned gigs, to be liberal and artistic misinterpreta before you die. Or before thev showed off the versatile genius of the world's greatest living THE HOUSE OF LOVE . replaced by the so-called tion of the audience·, which con- · do. Stephen Barn;bv · Englishman. People will no Glasgow Barrowlands "rave". If such people, whose doubt whinge their personal musical tastes are more often *favourites, but to try and satisfy THE House Of Love had some dictated by fashion than musical everyone would have involved thing to prove tonight. Two years merit, think that the old band entering a Springsteen-esque ago they were the darlings of the audience confrontation is on its endurance test. Bowie preferred way out then they should think to leave ·with shouts for more "serious" music press with a hat trick of fine singles under their again. Flares and ecstacy are still ecboing around the arena. not always necessary for . a He had more than proved belt. Two years and one guitarist groovy time. The Claytown himself. The Thin White Duke later the new LP has finally Troupe are not from had returned, throwing darts in sneaked out from under Fon Mancheste'r, nor do they wear the cynic's eyes. tana's protective cloak and flares, but there's more energy coughed politely in our ears. Yes, in them than fifty thousand Robin Mitchell it's a miracle they've actually ravers on an island in the managed to release anything, • Mersey could ever imagine. but. .. Playing the Venue only eight Tonight's set, however, weeks after tht:ir hist visit, DELAMITRI ·• , banishes any nagging doudt's when 100 punters had to be The -Town And Country· about The House Of Love's locked. out, the Troupe are Club ability. The new songs may not rapidly outgrowing such small · London sound as immediate as many on venues with their brand of sub Mish alld Cull "ock ant~•t:ms. On a recent show of A Bit Of Fry the first album. but in a live con text they make sense. In A Room Comparisons with fellow .>'we're Former music editors James and Dessie say a fond f: ·well to their And Laurie, an injured victim of a not really Goths" the Mission legions of admirers. Their writing and experience wil . , missed. Mean .ea r_crash{Fry) was told by his doe- i~ ?~ P?':V~!ful a~ .?~¥~h,i~~ ~uy__ Chadwick has ever wntten, and - can be- -made - ~- both -ereate while, we hear a support slot to Manhattan Transfer will follow . student mu ic thltr d·1y. ap il 1 , I I COMPETITIO FUGAZI bur~t~ ol noise, an the mic summer choruses, hypnotic moments of 'J h1 \\~; "- th~; r~:ka of th Repeater repetitive guitar, slice of reggae , fir t fulllen~th album h\ th~ hand Di chord LP lump · of hardcore: mew here in one~ de rib d a ... "th~.:- future of between The Rut · and Rape man. WHAT a lo~d of cobbler·. My Britain' guitar pop medium": I wa none too keen on Gu\ granny would ·ound better than ummerhill. Tit! d We t Of Picciotto' vo1ce initially, \\ith this if you w1red her up to the b~t Here. it's a tine a piece o mu 1c every album I warm to it more mains and dropped her in a fish as ha been relca.ed thi year, and more. As for Ian MacKaye, tank. Yuk. Vomit. This hould be with more rolling melodic. antl after all the e years (and Fugazi sold in big crates with Wombat's ing-along choru cs than e'en the are, at the very lea t, his fifth Piss written on the side. most optimi. tic among~t u ... could band by my calculation ) hi Phew. Right, disregard every \\ish for. nd thank to the out distinctively, erm. basic vocal thing I've said so far because rageous!) gencrou... people at ha e lost none of their angui hed, Repeater is an excellent album, Pol)dor Re ord \\e\·c got nine he?rtfelt thingummy. The only Fugazi's strongest effort to date copie to give awa): three album .... qUJbble I would have is over the and the finest new release I've three tapes and three compa 1 rather pointless, pun ked-up heard in a good long while . di.cs. In order to get hold of one, remake of Provisional. mv fave Harumph. I hate reviewing things all you need to do i amwer the e track from the Margin W;lker I like . Okay, stand by for in ipid, three quest1on~ : I . Whi h t\\O LP. Overall, though, stirring dreary, sycophantic claptrap. bands did ummerhilltour Britain Boring boring boring. stuff, but don't thin!, for a mmute that I'm pleased about it. with at the tall end of la~t year'! ------:------=:-;:--:~==------Fugazi arc a compelling mix of 2 Wh1ch band did umcrhill d TONIGHT (Thur day) the cerebral and the starkly emo singer c ri Burnett previOUsly ee the return of th. tional, their songs twisting and soup ragon Stephen Barnaby froni''3.From\\oher doth band oup Drag n t turning, stopping and starting; ta!,e their name? Answer' on a postcard, stating preferred for- Edinburgh, where they will CHEERING THE.WAKE nightmare of post-punk anarchy. mat, to the Student offices. be churning out their v ry It's Time Wrong again. Cheering the wn brand of r t h d p Wake are in fact a Glasgow trash at th Network. Why Wait 12" based guitar four piece with a Canadian singer called "The If last autumn's ppear ne 1 CHEERING the Wake Admiral". (Get the boaty link th alton tudios ts nything could have been a band ?!). Anyway, "It's Time" is a to go by it . h uld be quit a four track 12" which overflows • how, and w hav p ir of formed on the banks of an with energy and guts. The tickeL~ to give away. But you'll idyllic river by a bunch of shortest tracks arc the best. have to hurry, ntri s ne d to be jolly holiday-makers, Both "Prepare" and "The Last into the tudcnt offic by 2.30 p.m. this aft rn n ( 19.4.90). waving and smiling at Days" are three minute explosions of driving guitaring And n w ~ r a qu stion. 'Jh every passing Hoseason's over enthusiastic drumming and Soup Dragon· forth oming LP i · long-boat. They could have bass. The punkish vocals, to be entitl d Lov God.Who sung songs of sweet smells and though, sometimes detract from was the Greek God of love? flowers, picnics and sunshine. the rest of the recording; but Sadly, the sleeve ruined all that. then again, what can you expect A lip-glossed male with a from a guy who once played leather cap and a big stick. with bands called "Slaughter Urban decay, a violent Squad" and "Pscotic Erotic."! STUDENT MORTGAGE PLAN Magnus Willis . Tired of paying exorbitant rent to stay in someone else's property? Why not ask your parent to consider helping you to purcha e a flat Singles for your use? A LOT of old people releasing Morrissey's back! Er ... So singles this week. Terminally crap what? The title of hi latest 45, Phi! Collins has a jolly Jimmy November Spawned A Monster, Somerville-type brass section on refers to his last dirge, Ouija Something Happened On The Board, Ouija Board, released in Way To Heaven and just like his that dark month, and judging by Many parents have recognL~ed the benefit. of purchastng a propertY f< r the11 children when thev are at fellow potatohead fails to disguise this new lament hi next single college. rather than paytng out large . urns tn rent. Until now raising a mongage on a property to b a lame pop song. Robert Plant will be called Oops, April occupied by students has been difticult to arrange and not very tax efticient. At Hill Samuel we have overcome th e problems by allowmg the student to purchase a prop rty in "lifts" Hurting Kind from his Spawned A Monster Too. Moz his/her own name. recognising that they have no mcome to ervice the m ngage. If you tind th1s 1dea Manic Nirvana LP (''heave" could take a tip from Sinitta, who attractive and would like to hear more about 1t. clip the coupon and send to: might be more appropriate for thumbed her way round Piccadilly Lindsev Pinkenon. Advi er & Licensed Credit Broker. Hill Samuellnvestment Serv1ce.. utherland this turgid track) and The Circus to promote her song Hou e.' Dundas Street. Edinburgh. EH3 5DQ Stranglers release an original Hitchin' A Ride (oo-er). She's a composition, Sweet Smell Of game girl. Martin Stephenson is Please send me information on the Hill Samuel tudent Mongage Success. Bit ambitious aren't we, as earnest a ever on Left Us To lads? Burn, and fellow Tynesider ·ame: ...... " ...... Friends release another lovely Other old people foisting sing fluffy ball of romanticism in The Address ...... les upon us include Billy Idol Fir t Day Of Spring. Goodbye Mr · (Cradle Of Love) and Lulu, the MacKenzie might be unleashing svelte arthouse chanteuse, with their quite loud Love Child Telephone ...... her version of that lounge lizard shortly, depending on which way smooch, Nellie The Elephant. th~wind i blowing. Then again ... Parent.' ·ame & Address (Optional): ...... And what's this? A Bruce Dickin son solo single? Have Iron This week's Golden Spangle Maiden split up or something? (fanfare plea e) for be t ingle Quick! Chuck up the marquee, goe to (expectant drum roll) The spread the pate and invite the Lilac Time, who e tephen Duffy Telephone:...... Fotherington-Harpers: it' a compo ition All For Love i out bash! Best single by an old per on on Fontana. [t' the u. ual this week is Rockin' In The Free exemplar_ guitar pop, Beatlc que World. taken from Neil Young's harmonic and a perfect melod timely return to f6rm LP Free A fine ong from a fine band. dom. And hey. it's got a mes 'tuart Walker sage ...... h 16 arts student. was infused with a strong positive personality and he decorated the sco slow movements inventively. The Queens Hall Winter section was pictorially the 12 April most vivid with the initial stac catos pointedly as chilling as ici AS VIVALDI'S The Four cles. The SCO provided orchest Seasons holds universal pub ral detail which was both refined and atmospherically expressive, lic appeal it was not surpris creating a storm in the finale so ing to discover a socially tempestuous that dread filled the diverse and culturally air. pluralistic audience at the The performance of Handel's Queens Hall- ranging from Dixit Dominus possessed plenty the elitist snobs of the Edin of vitality. The magnificent open burgh bourgeoisie to the ing movement went with a tre mendous swing, if with a hint of nouveau classical fans indoc sublime chaos. This resulted in a trinated by the omnipotent tension, a "nervy" quality that did Nigel Kennedy. Nobody not seem wholly appropriate and from either tribe could have one was left with the feeling that been disappointed as they the music was being driven too heard a performance of great hard. finesse fired by inspired inter The choral singing was of high quality, responsive and often pretative imagination from finely detailed in its shaping. The Andrea Cappeletti and the women matched the clarity and SCO. There was no doubting penetration of a good boys' choir the spontaneity of the music and provided a splendid ring in making from the infectious the great choruses. The boldness lilting swing of Spring to the and confidence of Handel's music icily bleak Winter. has a formidable air and the Cappelletti gave an individual SCO's powerful attack and clear, and highly communicative firm tone was overwhelming, pro account displaying bravura which voking quasi-religious awe of a was highly involving without lusty, base nature in this reviewer. being self-indulgent. His playing Alan Campbell equally individual prints. FIVE MILES OUT - FROM Colin Mcllvenny's portraits of FILM TO FABRIC people at work carry a sense of perceptive affection which 369 Gallery suggests a real relationship bet 7-28 April ween subject and photographer. James McFarlane's work records FIVE MILES OUT exhibits his social enviroment. His sub the work of four young artists jects, self conscious and all too living in and around Edin ready to declare their collusion in burgh, and working with the project, lean conspiritorially across pub tables to grin at the photography and silk screen lens, or strike extravagent, printing. The artists attend embarassed postures. His work, port of Irene Macdougall as the Cherry Road Resource however is assured, and like that The haunting atmosphere of centre for adults with learn of the other artists, has a clear, THE DUCHESS OF MALFI the opening scene soon dissipated Cariola. First prize for absurdity must ing difficulties, where they recognisable purp9se. Lyceum Theatre and what followed was a strange mix of genuinely convincing however go to the costumes and met to discuss the project, Rosie Story records the land 6-28 April characterisations alongside props which were a peculiar and to co-operate in the stag scapes, particularly shorelines assortment of period and contem and birds, which she enjoys. The I WAS LEFT in some doubt amateurish overacting. James ing of this exhibition. Bryce as Bosola provided some porary items. It seemed fatuous to Each artist's contribution fol images are well composed, stark, at the conclusion of this pro continuity and gave one of the few have one character carrying a lows a similar pattern: a broad and structured around light and duction as to whether "The outstanding performances in the torch and another a candle in the range of photographs document form. In contrast, Susan Stewart Duchess of Malf1" was a play whereas Jonathan Hacket same scene although the audience ing important themes in the plunges into minutia, in compli tragedy or as the last three playing the Cardinal succumbed appeared more interested in artists' experience, from which cated, crowded pictures of appa hours would have me to an ecclesiastical stereotype Julia's risque neckline. the elements of certain strong rently mundane objects. Her por more appropriate to comedy. The Ignoring the final scene, this images have been selected and trait of her mother, however, and believe, a farce. Harsh words production is quite a reasonable her icon-like images of the Virgin perhaps, but there is surely manic portrayal of Ferdinand by developed, and printed decora !an MacKenzie appeared at first one. There are some commenda tively and colourfully on silk. The stand apart. so mething seriously wrong to be overdone but admittedly as ble performances from individu translation from photography to I would have liked to have seen when an audience is in fits of the plat progressed his characteri als in the cast and the narrative is textiles is fluently and intelligently more substance to the silk screen laughter at the climax of a sation became more plausible. clear even to those who have made, yet there is a certain unifor prints, which could have been supposed tragedy. The bright never read the play. Unfortu mity in the printed work. A pity, more adventurous in terms of col spots of this production were Victoria Hardcastle as the nately for those who have, there is since the various· artists display our, and the adaptation and Duchess gave, for the most part a no getting away from the ridicul very distinct styles, interests, and abstraction of the photographic somewhat overshadowed by somewhat uncharismatic perfor ous ending which, taints the play images. Hopefully, the artists will affectation and absurdity aesthetic responses in their black mance. This was only relieved as a whole and leaves an overall and white photography, which continue to explore the medium. which rendered Webster's during her prison and death· bad impression. could and should have led to Joanna Swanson masterpiece ridiculous. scenes and by the admirable sup- Eleanor Wood re~·ponse to its disasterous non Peter Blake ( who we find still Wiszniewski amongst all his appropriately enough, to the GLASGOW'S GREAT diverse public forerunner. All constructing pastiches of 60's pop figurative compatriots? When theme of " My Way" issued from BRITISH ART EXHIBI· artists included have proven repu singers ) . David Hockney contri including construction - photo another T.V. set, from another TION tations, and lots of zeroes after the butes 3 oils and an immense draw graphers Ron O'Dannell and sculpture I video performance by pound and dollar signs when it ing sent by fax. It's good to see Boyd Webb, why not Callum Col Bruce McClean. The artist nods The McLellan Galleries comes to market time. It's the that ·whiffs of technology and vin ( a current Fruitmarket his head to the boomings of some until9 May cream of the British crop; essen commercialism stil reek occasion exhibitor )? Howard Hodgkin, middle-aged crooner, whilst flic tially figurative, and mostly over ally loud. Richard Long, Gilbert and kering segments of Britain rush the grand age of thirty-five (the by. YOU MAY remember The George, all recipients of the British Art Show limit). Turner prize are included. Why Third British Art Show The London school is equally The songs' strains encompass strong. Two Freuds', Kitajs', then exclude Malcolm Morely ( not only the whole of the McLel Altogether, not only is this staged not so long ago at the Averbachs', Kossofs' and a Bacon the first prize winner ) , Richard lan viewing space, but the work as exhibition a celebration of the McLellan Galleries; alterna nicely nestle. Their figurative Deacon and Tony Cragg? well. British artists, whatever the best of British, but shows what the tively you may not care to. executions amongst the four vib medium have consistently worked leading figures, past and present The content is as varied as con rant John Bellany's and the con along their own sweet lines, in The critics panned it and are presently up to (save for Fran tinents crossed by birth. Paint stantly debateable 'great' young their own sweet way. Diverse and even the director of Glas cis Bacon whose recent work is ings, drawings, photographs are Scots Peter Hawson, Ken Currie entertaining, The British Art gow's City Museums and Art currently showing in America ). vibrant and lustrous. Sculptures in and the Stephens, Conroy and all their varied forms of construc Show and this "greats" exhibition Galleries, J ulien Spalding, really do prove both our countries The names littered along the walls Campbell. tion are powerful testimonies to has recently admitted to his cultural wealth and the atrocities of one of the seven rooms proves diversity. Michael Sand le's futile attempts at aborting it. of taste favoured by art market how important British Art has Appreciating that the exhibi lifesize " A mighty blow for Free dealings. It seems therefore that He was unsuccessful. It went been since the end of WW II. The tion had only six months from dom Fuck the Media" constructs Britain has three concurrent blos ahead. It was unsuccessful. old British Pop Artists are scat reactionary conception to the faceted styles of art into its faceted somings; mainstream, eccentric tered through the rooms with actual hanging on the walls situa bronze surface. A man blasts a and downright pretentious naiv- Glasgow's Great British Art imposing presence; Richard tion, there are still some very baf pick-axe through a TV screen. It is Exhibition is Spalding's own Hamilton, Eduardo Paolozzi and fling exclusions. Where_is Adrian tense and explosive and shatters, ity. A_Iison Brown student arts/ film 17 lcry. olvin use p~otography to lizard, Pachycephal construct and r cord his intricate LIVE and fa..,cinating images whi h brou ht lO li~ . Revamp comprise large format Try nn urusR m c1bachfrome prints. The result is n i . whil th Dimetr n h lp an alluring cacaphony of images: explain th qu tion: wh n 1 combining the kitsch \\-ith the clas- dinosaur not a dino ur? w ical. Thes arc complicated Y children I had wh nitisaliz.ard(lookatthel w rk . 1mposs1bly crowded and a omplete fa cination with Fo it are reprodu d. ull vividly coloured they challenge dino aur . c o Jane di played, and th Ap to uru the viewer with their di torted My PY en e of proportion, perspective Wern r wat ·on' book nth (Bronto auru ) way 1 ' tong and scale. Colvtn u es clever vis horrible creature went snake-like neck, lliclcs its' eye into ual era -references to create verywhere with me. It wa focu and reduce the wee bairn to work hat i both thought provok my bible, in the beginning tears with its' roar. Ju t \\'hen you ing and humourous and above all \\a th~ word, and then came t.Jx-ughtthat Britain h d hit the Pre not boring. . evolutton. historic years on e ag in, th or- The same however, could not be said of the other two artists. The City Art Centre's ganisers thoughtfully include a The prolific phtographs of Waiter "Dinosaurs Alive" reassured me skeletal carrirage, whi h explain Dahn are concerned with ''human as the minion groups swarmed the monster's mechani ation of development" and at a push they aroundmylegs,thatallchildrenare computer programmes and corn could be said to fulfil this idea but basically the same, all having hared pre ed air, and allow the viewer their blandness and uniformity at some point that gory fascination to operate its' movement. left me with an overwhelming sense of boredom. There has to be with the humongous beasts, that something in the old maxim even today, live only half in the "quality not quantity". The final imagination. Asitwa in my youth, "the Brontosaurus sway artist and the first to exhibit in the is now, and ever shall be; prehi - its long snake-like neck, newly created 'Projects Room' is toric monster provide education flicks its· eye into focu Hclen Flock hart who it wold seem from her paintings has a rather under the aegis of entertainment. and reduces the wee distorted body image. Presented This exhibition is mounted o that bairns to tears with its in the style of traditional icons her children learn as they look as they roar., depiction of women is described are scared out of their wits. as "ha.unting" but I think perhaps this was a misprint and they actu Half and full size monsters FRIDAY NIGHT saw the on the ground floor has been ·. ally meant "horrific". There is inhabitthetwofloorsofthegallcry. The purpos of thi. display more enjoyment in watching open long-awaited reopening of improved by the knocking down TI1cy arc products on a world tour i educative fun gear d pnmarily to of a dividing wall but the so-called heart surgery than in looking at from an American based company the young ter • but al. o 1s an oppor the Fruitmarket Gallery her paintings and both for me arc new gallery i , to say the least called "Dinamation", and it has to tunity foradultstorcliv th irchild which has been closed since small. Designed to provide "a fairly nauseaus. January for refurbishment One out of three is not that bc said, arc much more convincing hood. In conjunction, the Cham focus for new initiatives, young than tho c caly dinky-toy that bcrs St Mu urn is running a picto· and the creation of a new gal talent and the most immediate good a ratio as far as exhibitions lery. and progressive work happening go but, looking on the bright side ~ade ~~u~~ Welch fall out of.her rial exhibition showing the varying on the contemporary Scottish art it can only get better (I hope). honskm m The Land that T1mc rcprc cntation ofthccrcaturc over The opening itself was a Becks scene could be condensed to "an Fortunately since Callum olvin Forgot". the lastl50 years, and the Mu 'um i on the ground floor you never swilling, who's the trendiest one working on a small scale". of Childhood;"Our friend the novelty value of the movie's basic worthy of comment at all. The film 1 LOOK WHO'S TALKING premise and joke, that of the is just about saved from complete Dir. Amy Heckerling newly-arrived infant having the anonymity by Kirstie Alley's per Video Review ·· ·:·.~: . (dubious) advantage of an adult's formance as the the mother of the ' Ode on capacity for mature consideration baby-with-Bruce's-voice, and by a IT SOUNDS like a really good and perception, wears off after return to the silver screen of John David become friends, united by a idea for a movies. You about ten minutes, and the Travolta, who has finally found a CLARA'S HEART force greater than that which successful alternative to his street divides them. immediately wonder why remaining eighty-six are spent in speculative contemplation of what strutting Saturday Night Fever Dir. Robert Mulligan Sound familiar? Though the nobody has thought of it the Manager is going to bring the persona, which is just as well, as I A COT death in an American superficial elements of this film before. And the answer is Press Corp to eat after the show · suspect that an attempt to fit back middle class family is the may sound refreshingly original, soon apparent: it doesn't into his tight white suit would be a its central theme is all too cliched has ground to its climax. (The ans tragedy which . sparks off a work. wer is, as ever, soggy sausage prelude to disaster. and corny. There is nothing origi The film is a comparatively rolls.) George Segal and Olympia series of unlikely, but not nal here at all, and any film that is short one, but not nearly shorf The sad truth about this film is Dukakis could have been good, but impossible, events in the film promoted with well-worn phrases enough, as it turns out. The that Look Who's Talking is hardly not, unfortunately, in this film: Clara's Heart. Whoopi such as "Ciara's heart was once they are··wasted, as are a whole Goldberg (The Colour Pur broken ·too, but now she can help series of potentially promising ple, Jumpin' Jack Flash) David get through his pain while scenarios and plot lines. The film stars as the wise Jamaican healing her own deep hurt" has been a resounding box-office deserve to be greeted by the sound hit· in America, which says as housemaid, befriended and of prolonged retching. Even the much about Hollywood promo later employed by the cinematography and music are tional capabilities as it does about bereaved Mrs. Hart (Kath thoroughly mediocre. cinemagoers. leen Quinlan) whilst on a To be fair, Clara's Hart does .Presumably, when Bruce Willis recuperating holiday in have its moments, the acting of next actually ventures onto out Jamaica. Patrick Harris (David) helping to screens he will have the voice and Back home in the U.S.A., the secure one .or two laughs, but the reasoning of a one-year-old child, Hart's son, David, a typically film's humourous elements are but will he still have as little hair. obnoxious teenager, initially lamentably undermined by an Personally, I would not be the rebels at the admittance of a overabundance of slushy senti -slightest surprised by either even stranger to the family. The mentality. As a hater of all films tuality. At the very least, we impending . Hart's divorce and a reminiscient of Lassie, my account should be grateful that the voice sinister event in Clara 's past prove of this one may be a little biased, over part went to someone other invaluable in bridging class, race but either way, this is a film to than Chris Tarra:~t for a change. and age divides, for despite their make you cry, but probably Bill. Dale different backgrounds, Clara and through boredom. 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FAST REPAIR SERVICE & BIKE HIRE AVAILABLE 34 CANDLEMAKER ROW MY LEFT FOOT EDINBURGH Fri-Sat 5.40, 8.50. student science thursday, april19, 1990 19 opular c1ence• Maxton Walker visited the Edinburgh Science Festival during the Easter break. MONDAY this week, after to advise on the scientific side." around with black holes which can staging over 350 events, the · Current public attitudes to par cause some pretty wierd accidents second Edinburgh Science ticular events inevitably influ if you don't know what you're enced much of the content of the doing. The main crowd puller, Festival came to an end. festival. Environmental issues which has recently been attracting The previous two weeks had predictably had a particularly high audiences of half a mile long is the seen a bewildering variety of profile, including a talk by Tarn "Dinosaurs Alive" exhibition at events. exhibitions, and lectures Dayell, the labour MP, and New the city arts centre, which uses aimed at improving the profile of Scientist columnist, who has been computer controlled latex models events are still running and well new workplace nursery tax should science in the eyes of everybody heavily involved in conservation to bring the reptiles back to life . In worth a look. Inevitably of course help to redress some of the regardless of age or background. work for the rain forest, having conjunction with that is the "'Di any fest.ival needs some star qual balance." All in all the festival As Brian Gamble, the festival brought an issue before the Com nosaurs Pas and Present" exhibi ity if it really wants to be special, seems to have built strongly on the director said in a recent interview, mons. He was recently invited to tion at the Royal Museum on and this was provided this year by. success of the first one, and things "Running the festival is just like join a rally by the Amerindians of chambers street, which traces the Dr. Mary Archer, solar chemist, look good as it heads towards its running a business. I'm not a sci the Xign river. John Gribbin, a attempts of artists to picture what devoted wife of that burnish first hattrick and Brian Gamble i entist but then about 70% of our old hand at popularising science, dinosaurs may have looked like. backed megalith of popular litera already looking out at the shape of audience are non-scientists - and who has written extensively on The exhibition also includes "Liz ture, Jeffrey Archer. Just before things to come: "Once we've reco that's me. Another 20% of our such topics as diverse as te rain zie", the oldest reptile ever disco the festival she gave her opinion vered from this year, we '11 have to audience are young people and I forest and quantum physics. He vered on the planet, who was · of women in science, "I think that organise next year where the main have young people of my own so I gave two lectures, one on the rain found in Lothian. He or she may the important.thing is that women event will be the science of the have a fairly good idea of what forest and another on time travel, be making a one way trip to should not be specifically discour body. Also, we've had requests makes them tick. Ten percent of where he explained that Eins Stuttgart if the museum can't raise aged from entering science, which from Australia, Japan and Korea our audience are serious tein's theory of relativity hadn't the money to keep Lizzie here by often happens, not through delib about how one goes about academics, and they're catered refuted the possibility of time the middle of the summer, so now erate action but simply through organising a science fe tival." for because I have an academic travel, although much of the may be your last chance to see it culture at home and in schools. And if imitation isn't a sign of suc advisory committee that help me theory depends on messing on home ground. Both dinosaur . Hopefully, though things like the cess, what is? and a 10.9% increase in women feine, but of of the other 500 chem when people drinking less than one icals in the average cup of coffee. It · cup of coffee were compared to will be a long time before this those drinking 9 or more. After cholesterol causing chemical is iso other risk factors such as smoking lated and a "Cholesterol Free Coffee Crisis and stress were taken into Instant Coffee" is on the market. account, the results showed that Sometimes one wonders whether coffee consumption is associated all this worrying is really neces with an increased risk of heart sary. Every few weeks we are attacks. For men the risk of a heart hearing about new medical Coffee is one of world's most popular beverage. Now it appears that attack more than doubles at coffee research implicating almost every coffee may do rather more than just keep one awake. Chia-Meng Teoh consumption of more that 9 cups thing and anything a possible per day. Surprisingly women injurious to our health. In the last reports. don't seem to be affected until few months it has been revealed their coffee consumption exceeds 7 that fluoride in drinking water What do saturated fats, salt and the National Health Screening Ser were taken. Information regard cups per day. If you are fairly may cause cancer, whereas caf smoking have in common? Well, vice in Norway, and just published ing each individual's smoking, health conscious and avoid satu feine may trigger childhood diab they all increase the risk of a heart in the British Medical Journal may physical activities and coffee con rated fats, yet guzzle down more etes. And so it goes on. "Living" is attack. Now it appears thatcoffee have provided rather significant sumption were also recorded. than 9 cups of coffee daily (and seems is bad for your health. may well be joining the list in the evidence. This study involved Each was then followed up for the starting to feel a little worried Perhaps we should really read near future. The effect of coffee on 38564 Norweigan men an women next six years. Altogether 168 men reading this article), the obvious medical articles with a pinch of salt the heart has always been controv- aged from 35 to 64 years. At th~ and 16 women died of coronary solution wold e to switch to decaf (which causes high blood pres ersial. Most previous studies have · initial screening, various measure heart disease during these years. feinated coffee. Unfortunately, it sure), and get on with our li\'es as failed to "yield conciusive results. ments including blood cholesterol There was a 13.1% increase in seems that the villain which causes best we can. Now a major study carried out by levels, blood pressure and weight blood cholesterol levels fo~ men, raised blood pressure isn't caf- • EDINBURGH Come down to the LANGUAGE ...... FOUNDATION OLD GREEN TREE TEACHING B-AR & BEER Le SEPT Still undecided about the summer? 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