Page 2 etCetera, November 9,1981 - Drano, long lines, costumes, ba big bowl of soggy cereal if it rains, 4 a.m. Saturday: TCU students, alumni and 6 a.m. but we all feel confident that that I realize dimly that something professors. After mching some After hunting out restrooms and terrible is happening and that in eggs and coffee we all stand around finding the line we're supposed to be won't happen. It's hard to explain the childish some vague way I'm responsible. A in the front yard experimenting in, we stand in line a long time and sense of well-being and laid back warning buzzer is beating against with variations on, "Gosh, it's four- watch the sky become light. Some ecstasy that comes from sitting on a the jello walls of my consciousness. thirty in the morning." We look at a people are in Halloween costume, blanket in the middle of a football My God, there's been a meltdown! map to decide on a route avoiding but not nearly as many as we ex- stadium two hours before showtime. I'm Jack Lemmon in the "China the Fair Park exit off 1-30. pected. We had gotten up early, hassled in Syndrome" and the weight of the We decide to take Forest Lane. Most of the people look like lines, paid our dues, and now we apocalypse is on my shoulders. I've driven in that part of Dallas typical Texas adolescents, the kind had our own little space on our own There's a hallway, a long, white, before and never heard of Forest of people you'd expect to see little blanket. brightly lit hallway underground Lane, but then there are lots of carrying a bag of fertilizer to and I have to run through it in slow things I never notice. someone's car at Wolfe Nursery. Eighty thousand people were converging on one place, and for motion and insert a key in some In fact, I used to work at a Wolfe once we wouldn't have to sing the electronic gadget in order to prevent 5 a.m. Nursery in Dallas, and sure enough, national anthem or an alma mater. the end of civilization. I can't find We lose the caravan after the first in the midst of those 80,000 people I the door to the hallway, and I can't block. Oh well. saw someone else who had too. remember how the electronic Spider Man is in line, however, gadget works, supposing I ever 5:15a.m. and so are lots of witches and people found jt. We know we can't take the beer, with funny little antennae tied to Somehow I realize that no one cinnamon rolls, etc. into the Cotton their heads. One girl walks by remembers how it works. Bowl, so we start in on them now. dressed in what looked like Except my roommate. Yes, yes! he styrofoam egg crate liners. can fix it! He's taken calculus and 5:45 a.m. It was, like wow man, going to be grew up watching "Star Trek" and It turns out the street the map a happening. Patches of blue were understands how the universe goes called Forest Lane is now called appearing in the sky. Children of the 70s, we wished and now all that's going to pay off Martin Luther King Boulevard. I and he's going to save the world, remember reading in the paper or D petulantly that our decade could just like Carl Sagan said someone Magazine or someplace that there have given us something besides Watergate (which I barely like him would. was once a minor political battle remember), disco, a reputation for The buzzing stops. fought in the Dallas City Council to I see my roommate's body get the name changed. Now, with apathy and a sort of vague, post- looming over my bed in the the recent conservative trends coital depression that is our legacy darkness, fist firmly planted on the they'll probably start renaming from the '60s at Jarvis. Our snooze control of my alarm clock. streets after bank presidents. generation has got the Rolling Suddenly I'm awake. At Fair Park, a nice, grand- Stones too. The Stones took disco People who invent the sounds for fatherly man with a flashlight tells and proved that they could make it radio-alarms and auto ignition locks us where to go to find parking. It's just as outrageous as they did the must have a profound hatred for going to be easy! goody-two-shoes rock'n'roll that the humanity. Those things always I make affirmational-sounding Beatles first played. Ron Woods sound like the buzzing of a wasp cooing noises about how well the It was the Stones who tran- would sound if you were a very parking situation is being handled sformed "I Wanna Hold Your small insect about to be stung and and how glad I am we got there Hand" into "Let's Spend the Night early. Together," and "Boogie Fever" into The roadies were sending up eaten. enormous bunches of helium I guess they make them like that "Miss You." balloons tied to the ground with on the theory that people will notice Five minutes after we get in line, ropes back stage. The balloons were something really ugly more than we look behind us and see that the a neat idea-you got to have your they will notice something pleasant line was aboiit 300 yards longer than it had been. We saw our first cake and eat it too. or beautiful. You got to gaze at a whole bunch Some cynics have suggested that LSD salesman of the day, just walking along the line. of brightly colored balloons up in the same principle may apply to When we decline his offer, he the sky, but they didn't all fly away . If you would rather looks at the way I was dressed and and leave you wistfully meditating listen to your car door buzzer than says, "You look like you had enough on the transience of life. "Fool to Cry," be my guest. already anyway." The balloons were like a In the movie "Carrie," a shy, Since I'm not wearing a reminiscence of the timelessness of socially awkward girl not accepted Halloween costume, I find this a bit Eden. by her cruel high school peers offensive. discovers psychic powers that 10:45 a.m. enable her to turn the people who Looks like rain. The roadies seem are mean to her into big, gory blobs. 7 a.m. to be almost finished doing the That's not what really happened. Still standing in line. Most of the crowd looks like ZZ Top fans. I take things that roadies do. What really happened is that she back what I said about "children of It's almost time for the Fabulous grew up and got a job at Panasonic the '70s. Such descriptions only Thunderbirds to come on stage, but designing electronic alarms that make sense when typed into a the energy level of the audience isn't make everybody feel bad. typewriter. right. Everything is too laid back. Nobody actually goes around Everyone seems to be oppressed by a 4:30 a.m. A few minutes later, it turns out feeling that way about himself, least sense of impending rain. Three friends and I gather at the that the grandfatherly man with the of all this crowd of ZZ Top fans, visitors' parking area and throw our flashlight directed us to the official LSD salesmen, and former Wolfe 11:00-11:45 a.m. stuff into the yellowish-green Ford state fair parking area, where we The Fabulous Thunderbirds are that has its right front bumper pay two bucks to drive our car into Nursery employees. fantastic! Much better than on their permanently twisted into an in- a place that looks like the pictures in 9 a.m. album (I've only heard one). Jimmy sidious leer. We've got clothes, hats, National Geographic of the mud Our clump of 100 people gets It. Vaughan plays guitar like a glacier a thermos of coffee, a six-pack of flats at Yellowstone. in the stadium. The Cotton Bowl is rolling over a volcano-a perfect Lone Star and tickets to see the As. we step out of the car, the still mostly empty, the weather feels blend of hot and cool. Rolling Stones. people in the car next to us repeat over and over with maniacal glee, great, and amazingly, we find the A pianist in our group says that Just like 80,000 other people. members of our lost caravan right one of his solos reminds her ol Of the four of us. one person has "Two dollars to park here! Pay the in front of us, down on the field. The Mozart - a lot of energy put into a brought a raincoat, for some un- toll! Pay the toll!" Oh well, the ground will have probably dried out field is covered with a plastic tarp. few notes. Kim Wilson, the vocalist, fathomable reason Because of the waterproof tarp, sings great and plays harmonica We drive over to my brother's by the time we get out of the concert the field looks like it will turn into a even better. house to join a caravan consisting of anyway. etCetera, November 9, 1981 Page 3

Story by Kerry Bouchard es, balloons, rain and rock'n'roll Art by Cruz Puente

In my biased opinion, his har- and looked at neato balloons up in together!" Each song the Stones do, monica solos were the best solos of the sky and cheered when ZZ Top they sound better. All the in- the entire concert. The bass player sang "Cheap Sunglasses!" struments and mikes are wireless, gives the band its name, always It may not have been very which means that everybody in the playing so low in the register that profound - rock'n'roll rarely is-but band except Charlie Watts on the band sounds like a big, navy it was fun. drums gets to come out and get blue Thunderbird cruising down rained on. Main Street in the bad part of town 1 p.m. They all do. in the days when gas was cheap. The crowd noise to get ZZ Top The Stones may be overpaid, The PA system set up in the back on stage for an encore is pampered asses, but they're troopers Cotton Bowl is fantastic too, and the unbelievable. too, in the grand tradition of Thunderbirds take full advantage of It's like a John Cage composition medieval dumb shows, Houdini and it, belting out a spectrum of sound where he just sets an open piano out Carol Burnett. that stretches from rumbling bass to on stage and whatever sound Richards looks pretty healthy piercing harmonica. happens in the room is what the despite his perpetual heroin glare. My pianist friend, who has perfect music is - only these sounds were Ron Wood still looks like Rod pitch, said she'd never heard notes really interesting-all varieties of Stewart and still acts ACDC on that low amplified without whistles and cheers and hoots. ZZ stage. is bizarre-he distortion. Top played hard to get, but they just stands there stiff as a board in Unfortunately, the crowd doesn't finally came out and romped his white suit playing bass, looking get into the Thunderbirds much. though "Tush" with beautiful like the Beatles first looked, long Maybe it's too early in the morning, energy. ago. maybe the Cotton Bowl is too big Both he and Charlie Watts for their kind of '50s rock, maybe The Cotton Bowl is just about 1-1:45 p.m. stammer and look embarrassed the audience is just too young and packed now. ZZ Top is louder than Wait for the Stones. The floor of when Jagger tries to introduce them stupid to get into anything they the Thunderbirds-the guy with his the Cotton Bowl is jammed. I feel to the audience. Charlie Watts looks haven't already heard on the radio a hand on the volume control of the sorry for anyone who has to get up like Willy Wonka or Danny Kaye, million times. PA system is probably one of the and go to the restroom. somehow finding himself playing When Kim Wilson says goodbye most powerful men in Texas for the The clouds are extremely dark. drums in this famous rock band and he sounds angry, and I don't blame next few hours. The roadies are taking their time, now knowing how he got there. him. , I hope he doesn't have any weird, dawdling in fact. This is known as Mick Jagger looks like . . . pent-up hostilities, because if he crowd control - don't let the band 11:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. wanted to, he could maim the come out until everyone is We watch the crowd continue to hearing of 80,000 people in one fell exhausted and calmed down. expand and wait for ZZ Top. There stroke. are as many hawkers claiming to be The good vibes flowing around 1:45 p.m. selling LSD as you'd expect to find the crowd during ZZ Top's set are Everyone on the floor of the hot dog vendors at a baseball game. wonderful, regardless of what you stadium quits sitting on their Is anyone actually naive enough to think of the music. Despite the blankets and rushes to the front of believe that's what they're really volume and the pounding beat, it is the field. Now I understand why a selling? A line from an Eagles song not violent music. lot of people chose to sit up in the comes to mind-"We haven't had Rock'n'roll has never been violent seats. If you're short, it's impossible that vintage here since 1969." music, not really, not at its best. to see anything. I start worrying about the high At times it has been music about school kids who might be buying violence, and many times it's been 2:40 p.m. hits of Drano, and feel suddenly old. taken far too seriously. People who Finally! The designer curtains think rock'n'roll is violent may close, the crowd makes lots of noise, 12:30 p.m. quote the first lines to "Street the Gargantuan wall of speakers ZZ Top comes on stage and the Fighting Man" by the Stones-- booms forth a big band crowd goes wild. I'd never seen ZZ "Everywhere I hear the sound of arrangement of "Take the A Train" Top before; the bass and guitar marching, charging feet boy; Cause (you got to give it to the Stones, players look like a couple of gnomes summer's here and the time is right they've got good taste in jazz), and Mick Jagger from a J.R.R. Tolkien story who for fighting in the street boy. . . " the big, bad band takes the stage decided to start a rock'n'roll band. But they ignore the words of the and starts in on "Under My The greasy, icy-hot of the chorus: "What can a poor boy do, Thumb." Well, you've all seen pictures, and Thunderbirds is replaced by but to sing in a rock'n'roll band? They sound embarrassingly hundreds of journalists have driving, raunchy, southern rock. Cause in this sleepy little London ragged after the tightness of the squandered their talents inventing Between songs, the guitar player town, there's just no room for a Thunderbirds, ZZ Top, and Count metaphors for it, and the only thing keeps telling the audience how glad street fightin' man." Basie. The energy in the crowd sags, I could come up with can't be he is to be back in Dallas, his home Violence happens when but everyone goes crazy when printed, and anyway I don't want to town, and each time he says this, the humorless men with idolatrous Jagger so much as leers in their waste my time trying to describe stadium roars. ideals try to make the world safe for general direction. Keith Richards what Mick Jagger does on stage, democracy or communism or and Ron Wood aren't fired up yet. which is not all that outrageous, not monotheism or whatever. It starts to drizzle. in the Year of our Lord 1981, and so Violence happens when people A couple of songs later, they start if you want to know then go to the who don't have enough get mad at to fire up. The crowd begins to library and look him up, or better, the people who have more than cheer because the music's so much get your own ticket and drive to a enough. fun, instead of merely cheering concert at 5 in the morning. Violence happens when hurt, because Mick Jagger's so famous. My mother saw him on the news, lonely, life-scarred people get sick in It starts to rain seriously when and said that he was the ugliest man the head and do sick things. Jagger says, "Keith Richards is she's ever seen. Maybe so. Sometimes violence happens going to come out and sing in the About the rain. It rained real when reasonably sane people lose rain for you." hard. their tempers, which is why too It's just what Richards needs to Everyone got drenched, raincoats many handguns are a bad thing. wake him up on a Saturday af- or no. The band ended their set with Sometimes violent people go to ternoon. As soon as he gets really (what else?) "Jumpin' Jack Flash." rock concerts and do sick things wet, the rhythm starts sounding with Wood. Wyman. Jagger and there - as happened in Houston. three times more energetic. Richards all standing in the very The crowd loves ZZ Top, and ZZ Jagger, who has been periodically front of the stage like the four Top seemed to love the crowd, and shouting up at the sky, "Don't rain horsemen of the apocalypse, rockin' people got dressed up and painted on me!" gives up and tells the and reelin' in the downpour, and it Bill Wyman their faces or put on funny masks audience "We're all gonna get wet was indeed a "Gas gas gas." Page 4 etCetera, November 9, 1981 Bisset romps in events etC steamy sex scenes Monday Career Placement Seminar. 4 p.m., Student Center Rotnfl 218 Interdorm Council. 4 p.m., Student Centei Room 222 By Rosalyn Royal International Student Week. Programming Council. .S p.m., Student Center Room 211. "Rich and Famous," thai ultra soapy drama about two Advance registration for spring semester. Student Foundation. 5:30 p.m., Student Center Room 222. women's friendship-and I did say friendship, nol Brown Bag Series. "Stones Knows How." film l>> M.III ACL'-I Tournament. 7 p.m., Student Center Ballroom. lesbianism-is a jewel for Jacqueline Bisset and a real loser Govenar who will discuss' lus work on tattoo art., noon. Unity] 7:30p.m., Student Center Room 222 Student ("enter (iullorv. Wednesday Night Bible Study. 8 p.m.. Student Center for Candice Bergen. Panhellenic. 3 p.m., Student Center Koom 218. Room 207 Bergen seems to be repeating her recent "Starting Over" Interfratemitv Council. 3:30 p.m., Student ('enter Koom buffoonery in this one. 222 Bisset is the talented but poor writer, the scrubbed- Concert Connection. 4 p.m.. Student Center Koom 202 Thursday 12 looking, intense loner. Bergen is the best-selling trashy Films Committee, 6 p.m.. Student Center Koom 202 Faculty Chamber Music. novelist, the showy egotist. The movie takes us from their Campus Crusade for Christ. 9 p.m., Student Center H(xmi Campus Crusade for Christ. 8:30 a.m.. Student Center college days at Smith in 1959 through Bergen's marriage 205 Room 203. and motherhood and Bisset's one-night romps. Advance registration tor spring semester. Through Bergen's celebrity status la la Jacqueline Tuesday 10 Final run-off. Student House ol Representitives elections Campus Crusade, ri p.m., Student Center Hoom 204 Suzann ) and Bisset's one-night romps. And through International Student Week. Career Placement Seminar. 4 p.m., Student Center Room Bergen's shed husband and daughter's freaky boyfriend Advance registration for spring semester. 218. days and Bisset's one-night romps . . . Interracial Encounter Croup. 4 p.m., Student Center Koom Arnold Air Society. 4:30 p.m., Student Outer Room 205- Get the picture? Bisset's bedroom scenes-or should I just 208 218. say sex scene..- since one takes place standing-up in the Student Government. 5 p.m.. Student Center Kcxmi 222. Intercomm.4 30 p.m., Student Center Room 214 Student Affairs. 5:30 p.m.. Student Center Rm 203. Nurse's Christian Fellowship, 5:30 p.m., Student Centej restroom of a 747 -are steamy and very definitely R-rated Permanent Improvements. 5:30 p.m., Student Center Koom Room 215. stuff. She goes from saying no to Bergen's husband to the 215. Campus Chest. 6 p.m., Student Center Room 204. stranger on the plane to an 18 year old to a Rolling Stone Academic Affairs, 6 p.m.. Student Outer Koom 204. reporter she falls for. TCU Spirit Wranglers. 6 p.m. Student Center K(x)in 207- The emotional blood and gore between Bisset and Bergen 209. Friday 13 Young Life, 6 p.m.. Student Center Koom 202 takes us through 22 years. In the end, Bergen calls Bisset a BSU, 6 p.m.. Student Center Rcxrni 218. "slut," Bisset retreats from her New York hotel suite to her Forums, Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley, 8 p.m., Staff Meeting, 8:30 a.m., Student Center Koom 214 Connecticut hideaway, and Bergen spends $90 on a cab to Student Center Ballroom. Advance registration for spring semester. take her there so the two of them can toast the New Year in. Texas Section of American Phvsies Teachers Meeting, All kissed and made-up. Wednesday 11 Registration, 8 a.m.. Student Center Upper Lobby; Lun- cheon, I 1:30 a.m.. Student Center Ballroom; Dinner, 6:30 The ending is cute when Bergen says, "Don't tell me after p.m.. Student Center Ballroom. all these years, you're going to tell me you're a . . . ." International Student Week. Film: "Friday the 13th," 5, 8, p.m.; Midnight show, "Wait She doesn't and she isn't. They're just friends. Advance registration for spring semester. Unitl Dark," Student Center Ballroom. See it if you can take lines you read in books but don't University Chapel, noon Robert Carr Chapel. B.S.U. Inner-City Missions, 6 p.m. outside University- Forums, 4 p.m., Student Center Room 214. Ministries office. really hear people say. Maybe see it just to watch Jacqueline Bisset. If you can take the corn. etc. Schieffer views world from 'front row seat' He said he found it fascinating By Carrie Cassell se"at in the press box and preferential fascinating to watch the way dif- and fun, and still does. "There are treatment, he said, "no one was ferent human beings deal with the In 12 years with CBS News, Bob not many things that a young ever invited to a murder, or to any same problems," Schieffer said. Schieffer has had a "front-row seat" person can do that have more kind of a tragedy. It's where you The Washington press corps to some of the most important impact, or more access to important learn to work in a professional way lifestyle-skiing at Vail with Gerald events in the world. events," Schieffer said. "I mean, when other people are hysterical or Ford, going to White House dinners A 1959 TCU graduate, Schieffer when I was 19 years old and under great stress. You see a side of and receptions, meeting world said he's always thought of covering working at KXOL, I could call the life that most people don't ever see." leaders-is exciting, he said, "but the news as "a very interesting way mayor and get him on the phone! In 1963, Schieffer covered John you have to be careful not to let it to spend your time." Not many 19-year-olds can do that. Kennedy's assassination from a get the best of you." This fall, Schieffer was TCU's "But we always have to somewhat unusual angle. A woman "It's a real problem not to become honored alumnus at Homecoming. remember not to be carried away called the Fort Worth Star- totally overwhelmed by a situation And the hometown boy impressed with our own importance. We also Telegram and asked for a ride from like that. You must always the crowd of alumni and guests who have to recognize that the reason we Fort Worth to Dallas. remember that you are a reporter, gathered at Colonial Country Club can do that is because we represent The 26-year-old Schieffer an- and the president is the president." Oct. 30. a news agency, not because of who swered the phone and later drove Schieffer's two daughters-Susan, His address was described as we are." the woman, who turned out to be 12, and Sharon, 10-haven't been "powerful" by one alum, yet his While at TCU, Schieffer worked Marguerite Oswald, the mother of overwhelmed by having such a demeanor was friendly and modest. almost full-time for KXOL, driving the accused assassin, to Dallas. He famous father, Schieffer said. When Smiling, shaking hand after hand, the mobile unit around Fort Worth was the only reporter to interview Susan was little, she thought that all CBS's number two anchorman to cover accidents, robberies-- her during the first three days fathers were on television responded graciously to a swarm of whatever was news, as it happened. following the assassination. Sometimes father was at home, and well-wishers. He said he has mixed feelings, "The emotion doesn't come out sometimes he was on television. Fort Worth was his home town. however, about working so much when you're working, because Only after they were older and Radio station KXOL, the TCU while in college. "I've never been you're working very hard and started traveling around the country journalism department, and the able to figure out where I learned you're in a competitive situation- it with their father and their mother. Fort Worth Star-Telegram gave him most of what I know during my numbed me in some ways," he said. Pat, (also a Fort Worth native) did his first experiences at college years, whether it was "If you're not moved by death, it's they realize that television was newsgathering. From there he went working or going to school. I really time to start doing something else." everywhere-and that their father to CBS, where he covered the was busy though." If a reporter becomes too steeled was a familiar lace to many people. Pentagon for four years, became Schieffer's "beat" at KXOL was to tragedy, he can't do the kind of he said. chief White House correspondent in the police department, and he said story that ought to be done, he said. Schieffer said he plans to remain a 1974, anchored the CBS morning he believes that police reporting is "You have to bring some emotion familiar face to CBS viewers, and news from New York, and is now the best possible training for a into it, because you're always that he likes what he's doing. national correspondent and sub- young reporter. dealing with human situations." "I've been very lucky in that I've stitute anchorman for Dan Rather. "You're always working in a The human aspect of the been able to do what I always stressful situation, and you're presidency was what made covering wanted to do at a fairly voting age Although Schieffer started out at always working in a situation where the White House during three I'm 4.S yean old-I feel I'll get a TCU as a pre-med major, he said he you're not wanted," he said. administrations interesting, he said. chance to do this lot a very long soon realized that journalism was In contrast to covering a football Washington was different under time." what he really wanted to do. game, where the reporter is given a Reagan, Carter and Ford "It is just