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September 1987 Anne Waldman and Andrei Codrcscu Tuesday, Sept BU~TE""'" •. •• u. S. POSTAGE ..... PAID • ~it No. 2419 '. ~nd.pty, MO .0 ·: Willia. S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, Tangier, 1961. DAVE ALVIN INSIDERS ROMEO'S ESCAPE GHOST ON THE BEACH including: r.;§"n. including: Fourth Of July ;::P=/ Ghost On The Beach/35,OOO Every Night About This Time Love Uke candy/Sad Songs ~ Romeo's Escape/Border Radio Price Of Love ;::P=' New Tattoo Including: Waterfall/Honeymoon Express/Stay Blues Away/Song About [. ! 1"'-1 Compact Discs $11.99 as available. Hear the BEST NEW BEATS at LIVING IN A BOX . Iud' ~ -..,..,~ I'-_.-..r..'~dr/ ,.,. ~I' -- .-,1' ·r inC Ing: Chrylal". Living In A Box/So The Story Goes Generate The Wave/Scales Of Justice MODERN MUSIC MONDAYS BRIAN McDONALD GROUP DESPERATE BUSINESS '-1 including: L__ J Life Is A Desperate Business This Lonely Heart These Are The Good Times Just lmaglinati;on FROM CBS RECORDS On the loose JACK CASH ILL pool. For whatever reason, the Fairway pool is as spontaneous as the Prairie Village pool is uptight. No unnecessary rule mongering A tale of two cities' from a cultural memory of Quantrill's raiders here, the only rules being traditional ones like or a more contemporary anxiety about you­ "No diving in the baby pool" and that sort of pools know-who's, I can not rightfully say. But thing. As a result, people sit in deck chairs at whatever the justification, the result is that the poolside and yell at their kids who are in­ t the zoo, not too long ago, my Missourians who do sneak in across the variably throwing balls around or jumping daughter asked me which were borders (usually under aliases as carefully happily on each other's heads. People even eat the Indian Elephants and which crafted as my own dear Greenberg) have no at poolside - hot dogs, nachos, all the were the African ones. A good more rights than any wetbacks do anywhere. delicacies - on little tables with umbrellas no question,A but she might as well have asked me Admittedly, there are more oppressive places less. Better still, Missourialls get to use their Publisher Hallrody in this world. The Soviet Union comes to mind. to split an atom. Nature was never my long real names here, as they are not only legal but Executive Editor Donna liussell suit. I was 18 before I saw a rabbit; 22 before So too does South Africa. And as for swimm­ often the majority. Managing Editor ScoU O'Kelley I saw a pig. Elephants were way beyond my ex­ ing holes, I recall one back in New Jersey that On a recent hot day, as the summer drew to Advertising Hearne Christopher perience. All I knew was that they were huge lists, among 32 boldly posted interdictions, its doggy conclusion, I decided to bring my 1)'pesetting Graphie Specialties II gray ugly things and that some had big ears such gems as "No forming of human pyra­ deck chair into the baby pool to cool off and Printing Neff Printing and some had little earsand I'd be damned if mids;' "No landing in swimming area by to better watch my tot. It seemed a logical Distribution Saul Tucker, I knew which had which. parachute;' and, best of all, "No imitating park thing, and Fairway I knew to be tolerant of Connie Yukon A few'years ago, I knew little more about raRgers!' Still, though, an injustice is an in­ logic. So there I sat and drank my diet Coke the Johnson County suburbs. 1b me they all justice, and protest I must - especially since and ate a Butterfingers and concluded that Contributing writers: Leroiifl Jack Cashill. Clay CopiIevitz, seemed as blank and uninhabitable as the a happy alternative sits just 14 blocks north sometimes, in some places, even in Johnson Fred Douglass, Art Mayo, Bill Marks, moon, and if there were a difference between on Miss~Road. County, things can actually approximate life. Mike Soden any two of them, I presumed it could be of no The alternative, of course, is the Fairway more cosmic consequence than the size of an elephant's ears. But come to find out, I was wrong. If their swimming pools are any reflection, and I suspect they are, Johnson County suburbs vary considerably. I speak here specifically of two pools, one in Fairway and one in Prairie Village. Curiously enough, I am a member of both. In Prairie Village my name is Greenberg. areTeqijired.h~re.\~~·:It& po inf~PiCpla~oneoftlieseven wonders of Johnson County. It ranks right up ~re with the famed Zarda cow as testament to~e coun" ty's love for things voluminous. T1l\~!COmplex. as it is rightly ~, huno fewer than ~jght distinct sub-plexes (cd; n9te: "plex"ls tile i0C9 .. word for ''thing'' 85m a "four-plex"thc;ater) . ...... two baby pools, one diving pool, one lap pool, a lap pool at:U1ex for rafts, a big Pool, a fenced.m area fOf sunbathers, and another "ICF1! I No SIMI/..AA.ITIES IN.THt::SE:. f!,A8IES separate area for people to eat - and each.plelI: is as segregated and as. finely regUlated. as a FT;u::..S ~ {)Vf(. FvrCl4/S ME:. PRiA10. WI-I V ~ South African homeland. 8E.CAV5E- We.. #(IVt/UFA?Tl.RE- iHEft( t;e;1A/(;? fI.fE. ~WRENC$ 844. MassachUsetts All eating and drinking is done in the snack "I£$T d(UAt,./tY OF CANVI"\S ,~tJIV MIl> ~ plex. All floatitig is done in the raft piex. All Lawrence, KS 66044 sunbathing is done in the sun deck plex. trH.I:: FD4'Vl 1$ f{ArEJ;> Ib ~r I~ -:J.o 'IEMS) ,N\Al>E. (913) 7494211 Should you try to float in the big pool, you're AVA//..A8I..E:. TO tf;. WI-IA, e.~ CAl\} WE. S<y? sent elsewhere. Should you take a deck chair WEU-,tIt., TAA7' WE HNlE... 1{P DIF~Nr from the sundeck into the big pool, where there SOUTH KC are no chairs, you get yelled at. Should you !5:l1Y /...~ ()F FuToN FRAMes I Ai sro::.J<. I -GEE:. 1201 W. 103rd bring a cup of pop anywhere, they just might WHIZ-. WEl...L. k./JOCI<. YWR SocJ<...~ oFf::.' w/-lfE:N Kansas City, MO 64114 arrest you. It's that serious an offense. As a (816) 941·3970 result, people who watch their kids swim in the YOUSE-IE- OUR... NE..W SHoP. Y£.P. big pool - the most common pool scenario AUUl/cN I~CoIt£fi - do so on their ass, on the concrete, sans food fWIN or drink. REC£I VE3:. /O! t::F~ 1Ipt9 I/~ OVERLAND PARK worse is that no one protests the -rH£5G. FVTbN-+ FVU- /2"2- 11/1 Prairie Villagers actually like it. They're l'i/I/£EA/ 1~5 It;f stratification and segmentation in a big I<.!N(? PRICES Wi AP* I~&f way. For them, the system has the delightful U, bouquet of big league technocracy about it which they, as aspiring managerial types, can only admire. And Kansas Citians - here's the BLUE rub - can't say anything at all because official­ '137 Ic'tA '":bACi1 uSErrtt; ly they're not even there. HERON You see, the one rule that dwarfs all the other u..wP.ISAICE..J 1<$. bizarre rules at Prairie Village is the prohibi­ t::tl!/ -&/-1' tt'H-3 tion against Missourians. Other Johnson are allowed in, but alas, no Show­ this prohibition stems From the GRAMMY WINNING label that brings you the best in Bluegrass/Country... FLEETWOOD DOC WATSON MAC FIRST NIGHT OF THEIR '/\ country music FAREWELL TOUR legend lives on ..." 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