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abdomen, using it to grow additional S ^ cells in the lab, then

BY ROl$Sf implanting the cells in the Barely Musical woman's breast with a biodegradResponding to a complaint able breast-shaped scaffold. The from customers at a coin-operat- sca ffo{d is metabolized within ed laundry in Hancock, cells should mulwee j< S) a n d Michigan, police found a naked tiply and mature into real breast man playing an accordion while t i s s u e ^ a c c o r aing to scientists four friends danced partially working on the project. They naked as their clothes were wash- believe the cells will fill the space ing. According to police Chief left for them by the scaffolding Mike Beaudoin, the man, a and then somehow know when graduate student from Brazil, to stop growing. told officers, "I cant play the accordion unless I am completeGetting Ahead ly nude."

Authorities accused Joy Abreast ojj the News LipoMatrix, Inc. introduced a new breast implant filled with salad oil. "Its natural, safe and secure," said company president Terry Knapp, who thinks the current $250 million worldwide market for breast implants is going to increase substantially, especially in Asia.

• The Food and Drug Administration tentatively endorsed a way for women to grow their own breast implants. Researchers at Carolinas Medical Center and the University of Michigan explained that the procedure, currently being tested on rats,

Classman, 60, of setting five fires in the Shasta Trinity National Forest to help her son, a seasonal firefighter with the U.S. Forest Service. "She wanted him to be able to go and fight a lot of fires and make extra money," said Mark Reina, an investigator for the California Forestry Department. Each fire was extinguished before a half-acre had burned.

• Baltimore police robbery detective Arnold Adams was accused of calling in tips on his own cases to Metro Crime Stoppers which offers rewards of up to $2000 for tips that lead to arrests. The Baltimore Sun first reported that the 28-year-old

The U.S. Forest Service proposed spending $18,000 to paint rocks along a scenic highway through Washington's Cascade Mountains. The agency explained that it wanted to dye the rocks gray and brown so they would look more natural to tourists. After persuading the agency to postpone the project, Representative Jack Metcalf{R- ; WA) noted that "rock coloriza- • : tion" projects aren't uncommon, ; occurring when construction exposes rocks along a highway becauseofconcernsthat it takes too long for them to weather naturally.

She's a People Person After winning New York States Mrs. Congeniality contest in June, Barbara Ricci of Mount Vernon was re-tried on charges that she attempted to run down the 11-year-old daughter of a neighbor with whom she was feuding. The first trial ended with a hung jury, but this time Ricci was acquitted. Asked what made the difference, David He-

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Twenty-five prison having a barbeque in the prison yard at Denmark's Vridloeselille Pignataro said. "I don't feel it at all state jail in August, watched by now." Although only the doctor only two guards, when a bulland two other men wear the snapdozer smashed through the wall. on wigs, he believes 3000 men will Twelve of the men, identified as be wearing them by 1997.

Denmark's most dangerous convicts, rushed through the openChocoholics Unite ing. thim a month later»one " c ; M o r g a n one-third o f , M of them, Kim Steven Kyed, 27, • ° • F r e n c h women responding to a showed up at the main gate at 2 , survey said they preferred chocoa.m. to let him • late to sex. Referents to food back in. Police Inspector Kai were common in responses to Hermann explained that Kyed the poll by sexologist Arnaud was ^homesick" for jail comforts. Sevene that asked one simple question: What is pleasure?

Rock Around the When the Swiss government Clock revised its 90-year-old food laws The first all-karaoke televito conform to the rest of Europe, sion channel will begin broadit included a provision that casting by the end of the year, chocolate may contain up to 5 according to its backer, the percent vegetable fat. Until the Magna Group. The Los Angeles regulation took effect July 1, based investment firm said only cocoa butter was allowed.

Channel KTV will originate in Reacting to incensed cdnsuitier Singapore and air 24 hours a day groups, Swiss chocolatiers insistthroughout most of Asia. ed they would not lower their ' >f ' „ standards. Nestle spokesperson Snappy Wighat Francois Perroud said that Dr. Anthony Pignataro, a New because adding vegetable oil ^ i ___ . * * ^chocolate keep at higher

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The article Dan saw appeared in the June 1995 issue of Modern Gun, which hit the streets maybe 15 minutes after my column claiming no nonmetallic (and thus undetectable) guns were currently available. It was headlined "The CIA's Glass Gun." Clearly an agency plant to make me look bad. However, I stand by my column. No nonmetallic guns are available — by which of course I mean commercially available. Whether they're available to CIA spooks is another story.

Allow me to summarize that story. The Modern Gun article is sketchy—no sources, no quotes, no indication how the information was obtained. A subhead archly informs us, "The Agency Could Tell You About Its Amazing Ceramic Full Automatic Pistol. But Then, of Course, "They'd Have to Kill You. "An editors note says the gun in the accompanying photos is "a full-sized model made up for this article. The CIA declined to help. Strange..." The mag is published by Larry Flynt of Hustler magazine fame and calls itself "Entertainment for Gun Owners." So skepticism is in order.

V The article says (well, implies) that t ^ p prototype * 4 al" originally developed for the exhaust vdves in Gertfcral** **^ * Motors auto engines. The stuff "literally has the strength of .• steel," the article says. "The agency considered the fhatenal so * * important to national security that it reportedly had its formula classified, thereby preventing GM from marketing it."

The gun depicted is a small automatic pistol. A magazine of bullets loads into the handle. When you pull the trigger a plastic spring drives the bolt/slide mechanism forward, pushing a bullet from the magazine into the chamber and firing it. The bullet has no case and apparently is the equivalent of a cannonball with a powder charge behind it. The propellant ignites in two stages to keep the chamber pressure low enough that the gun doesn't blow up in your hand. The bullet itself can be ceramic or aluminum"The Glass Gun's asset — its, innovative material-—- also created legal problems for the CIA," we read. "The Geneva Accords forbid the use by a nation's armed forces of anything but full metal jacket ammunition, and except for the aluminum bullets, no part of the gun or its ammunition was metallic. To save the Glass Gun project, Agency advocates argued to a Pentagon oversight committee that the Agency Was civilian, not military, and the gun would be used by civilians."

We also learn that "counterterrorism, not assassination, was the goal of the nonmetallic pistols. Terrorists and foreign governments protecting terrorists use metal detectors just like we do...[An agent with a glass gun] could get past magnetometer security into an area where hostages were being held and pro-

' f m lie relations. Her job is to tell people like me "no comment." She did. I called GM. They said they don't use 1 eeeamic m cost-effective. Yes, but v : " " § r ~ _ 1 because it isn't what about the CIA using your material to better ask the CIA about that." The Bureau Tobacco and Firearms said, we dunno, but the CIA is exempt 1 k " ~ * n g nondetectable guns. So who ic i nnnmAtollir mini Allif i-hnu/ it

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ot everyone gets a kick out of step aerobics. Or is willing to submit to a 45minute quad-crushing workout in place of lunch. But with Ann Quinn shouting orders over a revved up, hip-hop version of "Movin on Up," the torture session is actually tempting.

Every noontime, about 20 people show up for a marathon step class at the Body Garage.

Dozens more come after work to pump and peddle. But class

times are about the only thing "regular" about the fledgling downtown gym, which will celebrate its first anniversary at the end of the year. Where else in Burlington can you work out to hip-hop at high volume? Lift weights against a graffiti backdrop? And come out of the whole experience smelling like the Body Shop?

At first glance, the Body Garage looks more like a slick urban nightclub than a good

place to work up a sweat. The pulsating subterranean venue sports an artful array of machinery with enough display glass to turn some shy stairmeisters off.

Auto-industrial is the best way to describe the decor — a symbiosis of rock and steel and rubber funkified by vintage signs, gas pumps and car parts. The Body Garage does not offer hohum classes in slide, yoga and tummy toning. It teaches "hydroplaning," "chaisse align-

ment" and "spare tire."

The engineers of this modern fitness experiment are Ann Quinn and Tracy Stevens — both hard-bodied business women who also happen to be 32-year-old single mothers. The two met six years ago after both had their first babies, when Stevens enrolled in aerobics at the Olympiad to shed a few post-natal pounds. Quinn — also a new mother — was the aerobics instructor. Her highenergy approach to exercise so impressed Stevens that she decided to give up cosmetology for something more cardiovascular. She also lost 30 pounds.

"We just started hanging out together, and our kids got attached," Quinn recalls, noting they had thought about doing "something like this for a long time." When word got out that Bob Miller was interested in

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The Body Garage benefits from the experience, and gender, of its owners. It strikes a pleasing balance between athletics and atmosphere, socializing and sport. "We have put certain touches on the club that two men wouldn't have been able to do," Stevens says. Like Body Shop products in the bathrooms. And their own children running around. "You won't see people prancing around here in thong leotards with their hair all Continued

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Twenty-six-year-old Troy Peters left a job in Philadelphia to accept the part-time job directing the statewide student symphony. A product of a youth ensemble himself, he says, "I feel strongly that a music director should be in the community." Peters, a composer and violist, has already picked up extra gigs in the area: He teaches music in and after school in Burlington r; .1 at the Lake Champlain Waldorf School in Shelburne.

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Artist Michael Oatman revisits a dark chapter in Vermont history: eugenics

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n 1924 President Calvin Coolidge — a Vermonter — signed the most restrictive immigration law in American history.

Many believe this act later contributed indirectly to the deaths of thousands of refugees from Hitler's Germany, who were effectively barred from entering the United States. The law was the product of a growing national fear that the country's original Anglo-Saxon stock was being diluted by "improper" breeding.

That fear was fanned by a popular movement called eugenics — a movement that sought to save Western Civilization by encouraging "good" families to reproduce and preventing "bad" ones from doing the same. Eugenicists — taking Darwin's principle of natural selection into their own hands — sought to weed out the "feeble-minded" and physically defective by sterilizing individuals deemed likely to produce such unworthy offspring.

For the most part these people were poor and/or nonwhite.

A leader in the American eugenics movement was University of Vermont zoology professor Henry Perkins, whose tireless efforts brought about a state sterilization law in 1931.

Under his aegis, more than 200 Vermonters — predominantly women — were rendered incapable of bearing children.

Behind this terse recitation of facts lies an unsavory chapter of Vermont's past, moldering in state archives until brought to light in 1991 by an enterprising history graduate student named Kevin Dann. Since the publication of Dann's article in a Vermont History journal, information has slowly leaked out about Vermont's role in the crude precursor to genetic engineering. It has been gathered as evidence of discrimination by the Abenaki community in its legal battle for sovereignty against the State. It has been the subject of newspaper articles, including one in The Boston Globe just last

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part. In the Fleming's largest gallery, Oatman has fabricated an office/study for Perkins — but not the professor's spare quarters as seen in yellowed photos. This one is elaborately furnished — an overstuffed metaphor for what Oatman imagines Perkins' psychological state to have been. "I've presented a dense, claustrophobic space in which to make my point," he says. "This room is a symbol for Perkins' paranoia."

At first glance the setting seems relatively normal by post-Victorian standards: heavy, dark furniture, a "fainting couch," an enormous coffee table formed by the encased topo map, and a large, cluttered desk and work table. Then you notice that the flames in the fake fireplace are on a large video screen, over which quotes from principals in the Vermont eugenics movement scroll past: "Blood has told, and there is every reason to believe it will keep right on telling." — Henry Perkins "The whole of the French-Canadian population could be wiped out of Middlebury and no one would miss it."

FORMER PRESIDENT OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE — Paul Moody (then-President of Dartmouth College) Across the room, a second video is projected on history and on the objects and formats on an arcadian landscape painting. It's an actor through which museums present history." It giving a speech that's part Perkins, part Oatman. occurs as museums nationwide are examining "The most outrageous lines are true," says the their white, male, Eurocentric bias. For the artist. Lines like: "Will Vermont become the Fleming and the University of Vermont specifidodo of the Union? Will the Union become the cally, Oatman's invitation resulted in a unique and unexpected airing of some rather dirty laun- dodo of the world?" The end of the 15-minute speech is followed by a darkly quirky song dry.

Oatman commissioned from an Albany band, Oatman is a Vermonter and Champlain The Weasels. Despite its flippant title — Valley Union High School grad. After he "Anyone For Eugenics?" — the sinister lyrics acquired degrees in painting at the Rhode Island refer to an incident in which 15 people, allegedSchool of Design and SUNY Albany, he ly Abenakis, were "taken off of Monument returned to Burlington as an adjunct professor Road" in Swanton in 1932. in the UVM art department. Long interested in local history — and something of an amateur In Oatman's — or rather Perkins' — imagisleuth — Oatman, now 31, began to pore over nary office, even the walls have something to the Fleming's background and artifacts. He say. Near the entrance, gold-leaf silhouettes of quickly discovered Henry Perkins. Serendipifamous Euro-Americans dot the green paint like tously, he also learned of the zoologist's obseswallpaper roses. As they approach the corner, sion with upgrading the Vermont gene pool — however, the gold begins to tarnish, the noble and came across a goldmine of Perkins' former physiognomies devolve. By the time the wall possessions. Like a 12-foot genealogical chart reaches Perkins' desk, the silhouettes are huge, outlining the lineage of two Vermont boys that black and monstrous. And on the other side of was shown at the 1932 Eugenics Congress in the desk, Oatman has fabricated a massive, 3-D New York. Like hundreds of slides of plant, ani"inkblot" that looks like tar — from which mal and human characteristics, used in Perkins' Rorschach test protrudes Perkins' worst nightcourses on genetics. A chart from the U.S. Draft mare: a dark face with primate-like features.

Board indicating the sizeable number of The room is literally crammed with and reasons for rejectees from jects, nearly all of them symbolic. A Vermont. Documents from the marble bust of Napolean turned to face Eugenics Survey of Vermont, a 10the wall. Two bronze cows resting on year study of Vermont families, the coffee table, one grazing peacefuland its offshoot survey, the ly, the other toppled. Classic paintVermont Commission on ings covered in text, such as a Country Life.

Perkins' motto, "Make Haste Slowly" — his admonition to do something, These and dozens more now, about the decline of the human objects from the museum's collecrace. Dozens of slides, on a light table tion — most obtained at the time and in boxes, bearing racial features Perkins was its inaugural curator and deformities. Perkins' own hand— piqued Oatman's interest "in the print. Casts from the Natural History idea of collecting data and objects.

Museum representing different races.

Essentially," he says, "Perkins collected Viewers exit the room through a closet people."

— which Oatman says represents how the contents of his exhibit were closeted for years — atman's installation, called Long Shadows: into a small information room. Here, a plethora Henry Perkins and the Eugenics Survey of of charts and texts attempts to reverse the Vermont, took one year to research and credecades-long secrecy about eugenics. ate. And hunting down objects — the enormous month. And it is now the inspiration for an art installation where Perkins himself was a virtual founding father: the Fleming Museum.

Eugenics. Racism. Sterilization. Social policy.

What's art got to do with it?

Ask Michael Oatman. A painter and installation artist, Oatman was invited last year by Fleming curator Janie Cohen to guest-curate a show at the museum using items from its permanent collection. Cohen notes that Oatman's work "is part of a recent movement in contemporary art in which artists have cast a fresh eye

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No cover. CLYDE STATS TRIO (jazz), Windjammer, 5 p.m. No cover. JOHR-LACKARD BLUES BAND, J.P's Pub, 9:30 p.m. No cover. EAST COAST MUSCLE (rock), Wolfs Lair, Colchester, 9 p.m. $2. ANNIE WENZ (contemporary folk), Wllliston Coffeehouse, 8 p.m. $6. OPEN MIKE WITH PETER MULVEY (folk), Pyralisk, Montpelier, 8 p.m. $5. PANTRUM (rock), Thirsty Turtle, Waterbury, 9:30 p.m. $2. MARK LAVOIE & MARTIN GUIGUI (blues), Tom's Riverside Grill, Bristol, 10 p.m. $2.

SATURDAY MICHAEL RAY & KOSMIC KREWE, TIJUANA CARAVAN (funk, groove rock), Club Toast, 9 p.m. $ 10. JAMES MCMURTRY (prairie pop), Club Metronome, 7 p.m. $8/10. ANNIE GALLUP (acoustic), Burlington Coffee-house at City Market, 9 p.m. $6. TABLE WINE, FIDDLEHEADS (folk-rock-jazz), Last Elm Cafe, 9 p.m. Donations. THE WARRENS (rock), Nectar's, 9 p.m. No cover. JOHN CARLETON BLUES BAND (rock), Alley-Cats, 9:30 p.m. No cover. ABAIR BROTHERS (rock), Patches, Holiday Inn, 9 p.m. No cover. EAST COAST MUSCLE (rock), Wolfs Lair, Colchester, 9 p.m. $2. PANTRUM (rock), Thirsty Turtle, Waterbury, 9:30 p.m. $2.

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THE ADAMS (rock), Patches, Holiday Inn, 9 p.m. No cover. BANJO DAN & THE MID-NITE PL0WB0YS (bluegrass), Sneaker's, Winooski, 9 p.m. $2. JOHN LACKARD BLUES BAND, Champion's Tavern, Winooski, 9:30 p.m. No cover.

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To be fair, Perkins' life work — and Oatman's portrayal of it — must be seen in context.

Eugenics was initially considered a progressive idea (by whites); even Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger was behind it. Vermont was the 25th state to pass a sterilization law, just two years before Nazi Germany's similarly-worded mandate. In retrospect, the Vermont Commission on Rural Life spawned some relatively innocuous ideas — like the state's cultivation of a pure, clean image to attract wellheeled tourists. Or even good ones, like the no-billboard law and an emphasis on preserving the state's natural beauty. Even Perkins tempered his views — albeit reluctantly — by the mid-'30s, joining other members of the American Eugenics Society in acknowledging the rights of individuals to make their own reproductive decisions and the role of environment in shaping intellect and

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Oatman admits he began his project wanting to see Perkins as a monster.

"Gradually I came to see him as less a person than as a metaphor for the period, a metaphor for the kind of scientific zeal that gets caught in its own imagery and equipment."

But if Perkins was a symbol for the times, the question Oatman raises is whether those times are still with us. The 1930s were not the first nor the last era in which moral condemnation and bigotry were cloaked in the guise of Progress.

In a decade when California attempts to keep out Mexican immigrants, "ethnic cleansing" involves wholesale butchery in the Balkans, and genetic engineers play God with chromosomes, the idea of racial purity bears renewed scrutiny. In Long Shadows, Oatman has fulfilled his pledge to "make the invisible present." In the end, perhaps art — and artistic license — best illustrate why truth is stranger than fiction. •

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Best cult film made with the intention ot being a cult film: Tremors (1989).

Either director Ron Underwood is a genius who knew exactly how to capture the dumb and lovable innocence of Americans in a tiny, isolated town, or he is one of these Americans. The best part about watching this throwback to silly '50s sci-fi horror movies is that it can't possibly give you nightmares.

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If you want a whole night of disturbing films, also check out Lynch's Wild at Heart (1990) and Eraserhead (1977).

Best movie by a usually bad director: Talk Radio (1988). Ever had one of those days when everything you say just annoys the hell out of you? The best medicine is to watch Oliver Stone's Talk Radio by yourself. Only you won't be alone; you'll be with Eric Bogosian as a late-

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CONTACT IMPROV: Gravity plays a crucial role in this kinetic free-for-all.

Memorial Auditorium Loft, Burlington, 7:15 p.m. $1. Info, 660-0866.

t h e a t e r 'A PIECE OF MY HEART': Shirley Lauro's award-winning play looks at the experiences of six American women in Vietnam. Royall Tyler Theater, UVM, 8 p.m., $8. Info, 656-2094.

AS YOU LIKE IT': Lost Nation Theater stages this Shakespearean comedy of romance and folly. Montpelier City Hall, 8 p.m. $10.50. Info, 229-0492.

e t c 'WHAT IS POPULAR EDUCATION?': Find out how learning happens in Nicaragua, Zimbabwe and Appalachia.

Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345.

CHICKEN PIE SUPPER: Men do some of the cooking — and all of the dishes — for this harvest dinner of squash, potatoes and pies. Richmond Congregational Church, 4:30-7:30 p.m. $7. Reservations, 434-2516.

MOTHERLESS DAUGHTERS: Women who have lost their mothers meet for support at Woman Centered, Montpelier,? p.m. Donations. Register, 229-6202.

©thursday m u s i c ST. PETERSBURG PLAYERS: The Russian-based ensemble plays chamber music from home. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 7 p.m. $8.

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MANHATTAN TRANSFER: The eclectic ensemble sings in four-part harmony at Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $17-50. Info, 863-5966.

INDIAN MUSIC CONCERT: Veena player Durga Krishnan and flutist Suresh Mathur combine forces with percussionists on mridangam and tab la. Ira Allen Chapel, UVM, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 656-0685.

BARBER FARM BAROQUE ENSEMBLE: The Ambrose family joins Peter Tourin and Jean Sawyer Twombly for an evening of early

WOMEN IN MEDICINE TALK: Gender issues in health care are the subject of a lecture at Carpenter Auditorium, Given Building, UVM, Burlington, noon. Free. Info, 656-2005.

N.O.W. MEETING: The Central Vermont chapter of the National Organization for Women meets at Montpelier City Hall, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 229-9588.

'IMAGINATION AS MIRROR': John O'Donohue — poet, philosopher, priest ' and native of Ireland — leads a workshop that "evokes appreciation of the rhythms, cadences and dances of nature and the soul." International Commons, St. Michaels College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free.

'A PIECE OF MY HEART': See October 4.

AS YOU LIKE IT': See October 4.

'THE SOUND OF MUSIC': The Lamoille County Players sing "Edelweiss" at the Hyde Park Opera House, 8 p.m. $12. Info, 800247-8693.

t h e a t e r A PIECE OF MY HEART': See October 4, $8.50.

AS YOU LIKE IT': See October 4, $12.50.

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PETER BURNS: The local performance artist tells stories, sings songs and details his personal obsessions. Last Elm Cafe, Burlington, 8 p.m. Donations. Info, 6583654.

GAL: Janice Perry does death, taxes and transvestites in her new European-style cabaret act, Devil in a Blue Dress. Wright Theatre, Middlebury College, 8 p.m.

Free. Reservations, 388-MIDD. 'CHAPTER TWO': The Valley Players stage this Neil Simon comedy about bereavement and remarriage. Valley Players Theater, Waitsfield, 8 p.m. $9.

Info, 583-1674.

k i d s WHOLE FAMILY SHOW: Kidney Mime Theatre performs a 90-minute comedy show about the "hopes and struggles in relationships, family life, work and play." Shelburne Village

w c r d s ALICE FOGEL: The published poet reads from her verse at Cover-to-Cover Bookstore, Randolph, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 728-4206.

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k i d s SINGLE PARENTS NETWORK: Single parents and their children gather for community and discussion. Middle School, S. Burlington, 6:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 863-6613.

PARENTS ANONYMOUS: Terrible twos or teens? Get support for parenting while your kids play next door.

Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 800-639-4014.

e t c 'FROM BEIJING TO BURLINGTON': Five women who recently traveled to China lead a discussion about the Women's Conference in Beijing. A donated dinner follows at Marsh Lounge, Billings Student Center, UVM, Burlington, 4:30 p.m. $5-10. Info, 656-7892.

'AMERICAN POLITICS': Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Broder considers the future of American politics.

Ira Allen Chapel, UVM, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3050.

DRAWING SESSION: Artists get inspiration from a live model at this weekly drawing session. Artspace, 171 St. Paul St., Burlington, 6:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 862-2898.

HISPANIC WOMEN FORUM: The first woman elected to the vice presidency of Honduras acknowledges the importance of female figures in Hispanic culture. Spanish will be spoken at Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building, UVM, Burlington, 10:45 a.m. - 5 p.m. Free.

Info, 656-1367.

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Autumn leaves are not the only things flying at the Stowe Foliage Craft Fair this weekend. Look for comic entertainer Tomas Kubinek amongst the jewelry, porcelain and woodwares at Topnotch.

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Community Center in Jericho, 7 p.m. $7. Info, 899-2366.

AUTUMN CONCERT: The Upper Valley Duo plays selections from "An American Affair" on piano and violin.

Stowe Community Church, 7 p.m. $8.

Info, 253-7792.

BARBERSHOP QUARTET: The Top Drawer Four offers award-winning harmonies at Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 728-9133.

Register, 654-2533.

DE^LOPMENT MEETING: The Downtown Burlington Development Association discusses transportation issues at the Radisson, Burlington, 8 a.m. Free. Register, 863-1175.

PARALEGAL STUDIES MEETING: Interested in a paralegal career? Learn about a new one-year program at Burlington College, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 800-862-9616.

CANCER SUPPORT GROUP: People with cancer and their families sample support based on the work of the National Wellness Communities. Cancer Wellness center, Chace Mill, feurlington, 7 p.m. Free. Register, 865-3434.

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d a n c e PANASHE: Hear Caribbean steel drums played Burlington-style if) conjunction with the Hispanic Women Forum. A presentation precedes the samba sessions at North Lounge, Billings Student Center, UVM, Burlingon, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-1367.

BALLROOM DANCE: Fox trot, waltz, swing and samba on the largest dance floor in town. S. Burlington Middle School, 8 p.m. $14 per couple. Info, 878-3799.

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TECHNOLOGY EXPO: Check out the latest in business, educational and consumer technologies. Sheraton-Burlington, 10 a.m. - 8 p.m. $2. Info, 658-3448.

STOWE CRAFT FAIR: One-of-a-kihd and limited edition art, crafts, d,ern/as,and music are featured at this foliage fair with live entertainment. Topnotch Field, Stowe, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. $4. Info, 253-7321.

BOOK SIGNING: Physician-author Beach Conger signs copies of his latest book, It's Not My Fault. The Book Rack, Champlain Mill, Winooski, 1:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 655-0231.

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Info, 985-2827.

SINGING: Robert Resnik shares his musical talents with youngsters at the Fletcher Library, Burlington, 11 a.m.

Free. Info, 865-7216.

PLANETARIUM SHOW: How do you explain heaven to kids? Transport them to the Discovery Museum, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. $4.50. Reservations, 878-8687.

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Free. Info, '658-6795.

BOOK SIGNING: Vermont author Barry Estabrook signs copies of his new mystery, Whirlpool. Chapters Bookstore, Shelburne, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 985-9719.

'MORNING O N T H E MARSH': Contemplate lingering migrants and flocking residents at a peaceful turn-ofthe-season marsh. Meet at the Fishing Access, Bay Rd., Shelburne, 7 a.m. $5.

Info, 985-8738.

VETERANS REUNION: Members and friends of the 8th Air Force, 388th Bomb Group hold their annual reunion at the Ethan Allen Club, Burlington, 10 a.m. 3 p.m. Free. Info, 864-6485.

QUILT OPEN HOUSE: Fabric artist Carolyn Zeiset is featured at an artful open house. Quilts by Elaine, Jeffersonville, 2-8 p.m. Free. Info, 655-5438.

DAUGHTERS WEEKEND: Daughters over six find solidarity among female relatives or friends. Try canoeing, line dancing or hanging around the campfire.

Camp Hochelaga, S. Hero, 6 p.m. tonight till 11 a.m. Sunday. $50.

Register, 862-7520.

O U T R I G H T SUPPORT GROUP: Gay, lesbian, bisexual and "questioning" youth are invited to an ongoing support group meeting. Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 865-9677.

SENIOR SWIM: Folks over 50 exercise in an 86-degree pool. YMCA, Burlington, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 862-9622.

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'SCENES FROM C H I L D H O O D ' : Author and actor Robin Hirsch performs Kinderszenen, the memoirs of a young German Jewish boy. A free discussion starts an hour before the show in the faculty lounge. Bentley Theater, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H. 8 p.m. $10.50. Info, 603-6462422.

'OCTOBER TALES': Tim Jennings and Leanne Ponder tell traditional tales of darkness. Open mike starts the evening.

Ripton Coffeehouse, 7:30 p.m. $3. Info, 388-9782.

a r t ARTIST SESSION: Artists and photographers get perspective with a live model.

150 Elm St., Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 229-5253.

f i l m 'RED': The subtitled French film, directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski, stars Irene Jacob and Jean-Louis Trintignant. Twilight Auditorium, Middlebury College, 4 & 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-MIDD. 'JOURNEY INTO COURAGE': This documentary celebrates the spirit of six Vermont women who survived domestic violence, then turned their healing stories into a play. Hazen Union High School, Hardwick, 7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 633-2306.

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OKTOBERFEST: Wide Wail, Dr. Plaid, Lost Posse and the Channel 2 Dub Band converge at the annual college bacchanalia. Redstone Campus, UVM, noon - 5 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2050.

d a n c e CONTRA DANCE: Paul Rosenberg calls for the Beverwyck String Band.

Capitol City Grange, Montpelier, 8 p.m. $5. Info, 426-3734.

t h e a t e r 'A PIECE OF MY HEART': See October 4, $8.50.

'AS YOU LIKE JT'; October4, _ _ $12.50.

T H E SOUND OF MUSIC*: See October 5.

'CHAPTER T W O ' : See October 6.

FAMILY ART DAY: Parents and kids over five find inspiration in nature.

Shelburne Farms Coach Barn, 9:30 a.m.

- noon. $5. Register, 985-8686.

STORY TIME: Kids over three listen up at the Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

e t c STOWE CRAFT FAIR: See October 6.

QUILT OPEN HOUSE: See October 6, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

ANTIQUE SHOW: Sixty dealers offer furniture, jewelry, tools and toys ranging from primitive to turn-of-the-century.

Champlain Valley Fairgrounds, Essex Junction, 10 a-m^ - 5 p.m. $3-50, Info, 1 863-3489.

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APPLEFEST: Celebrate the apple harvest with crafts, cider-pressing contests and a flea market. South Street, South Hero, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Free. Info, 372-5566.

CRAFT SHOW: The Festival of Vermont Crafts Show has Vermont-made products, demonstrations and kids activities. Montpelier High School, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. $2. Info, 229-5711.

FESTIVAL OF ANTIQUES: Seventyfive dealers gather at this foliage-inspired fest. Stowe High School, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. $3.50. Info, 800-24-STOWE. HIKE: A five-mile hike brings you up and down Mt. Worcester. Take your lunch. Meet at UVM Visitors Parking Lot at 8:30 a.m. Free. Info, 860-1530.

LONG TRAIL HIKE: This 15-mile trek peaks on the top of Mt. Laraway. Meet in the rear parking lot of Montpelier High School, 7:30 a.m. Free. Info, 2233350.

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by Haydn, Schubert and Sibelius. Flynn Theatre, Burlington, 3 p.m. $11-23.

Info, 863-5966.

EARLY AMERICAN WORKS: The University Concert Choir and the Catamount Singers perform old American tunes, African-American spirituals and a few chamber works. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 3 p.m. Free.

Info, 656-3040.

CHAMBER SOLOISTS: Faculty musicians Lia Kahler and Emory Fanning compare notes. Concert Hall, Middlebury College Center for the Arts, 3 p.m.

Free. Info, 388-MIDD. VAUGHAN RECITAL SERIES: Soprano Holly Outwin-Tepe performs works by Handel and Brahms. Faulkner Recital Hall, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 4 p.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2422.

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STOWE CRAFT FAIR: See October 6.

QUILT OPEN HOUSE: See October 6, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

ANTIQUE SHOW: See October 7.

CRAFT SHOW: See October 7.

'BARK' YARD SALE: See October 7.

FESTIVAL OF ANTIQUES: See October 7.

APPLEFEST: See October 7.

CAMERA CLUB OUTING: Foliage motivates members of the Lite n' Lens Camera Club. Photographers meet at Gutterson Field House, UVM, Burlington, 9 a.m. Free. Info, 862-4966.

AIDS QUILTING BEE: Lost a loved one to AIDS? Quilt a memorial square with materials provided by the Costume Shop, McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michaels College, Colchester, 1-5 p.m.

Free. Info, 654-2535.

FESTA CANDOMBLE: Wear white to this celebration honoring the African Orixas. PanAshe Cultural Center, 280 Main St., Montpelier, 7 p.m. $10. Info, 223-9560.

ADIRONDACK OUTING: The Green Mountain Club leads a strenuous hike up Big Slide and The Brothers. Meet at UVM Visitor Parking Lot, Burlington, 7:30 a.m. Free. Info, 863-1145.

MEN ALIVE: Men "looking for a safe place to be" meet at Bishop Booth Conference Center, Rock Point School, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 865-2247.

FOLIAGE HIKE: An easy seven-mile walk along the Long Trail starts at the Ben & Jerrys parking lot in Waterbury Center, 9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 244-6123.

HARVEST CELEBRATION: Go back in time with a traditional husking bee, barn dance and other farm harvest activities. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. $6. Info, 4572355.

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'DANVIS TALES': David Budbill reads from his latest book — a collection of stories by Rokeby writer Rowland Evans Robinson. Rokeby Museum, Ferrisburgh, 2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 877-3406.

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• m u s i c MASTER MUSICIANS OF JAJOUKA: This l3-member ensemble of Moroccan musicians has inspired Ornette Coleman, Robert Plant and The Rolling Stones. See story this issue. Flynn Theatre, Burlington, 8 p.m. $12-20.

Info, 863-5966.

VAUGHAN RECITAL SERIES: Italian concert pianist Guiseppe Scotese performs piano compositions. Faulkner Recital Hall, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H. 12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2422.

d a n c e CONTACT IMPROV: See October 4.

t h e a t e r AS YOU LIKE IT': See October 4.

HARMONIC CONVERGENCE: Innovative, eclectic, unpredictable.

The Manhattan Transfer does "Groovin" like no other vocal ensemble.

The swinging foursome performs Friday at Memorial Auditorium.

Hall, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 864-6703.

Burlington, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 656-0242.

TEEN CLINIC: Get information about birth control, sexually-transmitted diseases and free pregnancy testing. Planned Parenthood, 23 Mansfield Ave., Burlington, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-6326.

ADAPTED SWIM: Disabled folks take advantage of one-on-one instruction at a free swim. Ross Sports Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 6:45 & 7:30 p.m. Free. Register, 654-2674.

d a n c e MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP: Daring tradition — and musicality — is the specialty of choreographer Mark Morris. His company performs at Moore Theater, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $20.50.

Info, 603-646-2422. f i l m 'LAW OF DESIRE': A wacky Spanish comedy looks at a gay filmmaker and his transexual sister. Theater, Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington, 7:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 862-3361.

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m u s i c COMMUNITY BAND PRACTICE: Musicians of all levels are invited to rehearse with the Waterbury Community Band. Waterbury Congregational Church, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 244-6352.

w o r d s READING DISCUSSION SERIES: Readers consider literature that examines the tensions between individual, family and community. The group will meet four times, every other Wednesday, at Dorothy Ailing Library, Williston, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

d a n c e MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP: See October 9. k i d s PARENTS ANONYMOUS See October 5.

STORY TIME: Hear a story, then act out some aspect of it Children's Pages, Winooski, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 655-1537.

STORY HOUR: Kids between three and five are entertained by stories and activities. Milton Public Library, 10:30 a.m. & 1 p.m. Free. Info, 893-4644.

k i d s STORYTIMES: Three-and-a-half- to five-year-olds hear stories at the South Burlington Library, 9:30 a.m.

Those four through six listen up at 3:30 p.m. Free. Info and registration, 658-9010. e t c AMNESTY WRITE-IN: You can save a life for the price of a stamp. Use pen power against human rights abuses at the Unitarian Church, Burlington, 5:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 864-4838.

CAMERA CLUB: Get your photo assignment at this "techfest" program.

Room 201, Delahanty Hall, Trinity College, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 864-6485.

GEOLOGY LECTURE: Sue Brantley addresses "The Plumbing System Within an Underplated Package in Kodiak, Alaska." 200 Perkins Building, UVM,

e t c MENOPAUSE TALK: Physician's assistant Bryn Perkins takes a close look at health issues for women. Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf, Burlington, 7 p.m. $3. Info, 863-3659.

GALLERY TALK: The guest curator of Everyday Life in the Ancient World discusses the exhibition. Middlebury College Museum of Art, noon. Free.

Info, 388-MIDD.

w c r d s AFRICAN-AMERICAN SERIES: This five-session reading-discussion series focuses on the work experience of African-Americans in New England.

Fletcher Library, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Register, 865-7211. k i d s PRESCHOOL OPEN HOUSE: Adults check out the new Waldorf program.

Richmond Waldorf Morning Garden, 7:30 p.m. Free. Register, 985-2827. e t c SCIENTIFIC RACISM TALK: A Dartmouth professor speaks about eugenics and social engineering in conjunction with the current art installation.

See story this issue. Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington, 12:15 p.m. $2. Info, 656-0750.

SISTER CITY MEETING: The Burlington-Bethlehem-Arad Sister City Project meets in the conference room at Burlington City Hall, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 863-4848.

GARDEN PANEL: Landscape professionals, horticulturalists, a garden historian and a sculptor discuss garden design of the past and future-. Shelburne Farms, 7:30 p.m. $4. Register, 985-8686.

FARMERS' PASTURE WALKS: Interested in improving your pastureland and pasture management system? A soil scientist leads a tour of a holistic dairy farm. Meet at the Rutter Farm, Bridport, 10 a.m. - noon. Free. Info, 656-0641.

SENIOR GATHERING: Elders meet for coffee and conversation. Wheeler School, Burlington, 8:15-10:15 a.m.

Free. Info, 865-0360.

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PHOTOGRAPHING YOUR ART: DUH' Sunday, October 8, noon - 4 p.m. Frog Hollow, Burlington, $30. Register, 8636458.

Artists on a budget learn how to photograph their work.

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WOODWORKING: Monday-Friday, October 9-13, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. The Wood School, Burlington. $325.

Register, 864-4454.

Intermediate woodworkers design and build a Windsor chair.

H O M E JEWELRY STUDIO: Saturday, October 7, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Frog Hollow, Burlington, 525. Register, 863-6458.

Nationally-exhibited jeweler Corina Brown discusses tools, supply sources and bench building.

STAINED GLASS LAMP-MAKING: Saturday October 7, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Frog Hollow, Burlington, $66. Register, 863-6458.

Watch, and discuss in detail all phases of lamp work.

BASKET WEAVING: Mondays, October 9 & 16, 6-8 p.m. Woodbury College, Montpelier. $30. Register, 229-6202.

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MOVEMENT IMPROVISATION: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 5:45-7:45 p.m. Room A404 Burlington High School. $6. Info, 864-4705.

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AFRO-CARIBBEAN DANCE: Thursdays 10 a.m. - noon. Capitol City Grange, Montpelier. Fridays 5:30-7:30 p.m. Chace Mill, Burlington. $8.

Info, 985-3665.

Carla Kevorkian teaches traditional dances of Cuba, Haiti and Brazil AFRO-INSPIRED DANCE: Tuesdays 5:30-7 p.m. Hinesburg Town Hall. $8. Info, 453-4490.

Anna Consalvo teaches an Afro-Caribbean-style class with live drumming.

AFRICAN DANCE: Mondays & Wednesdays 5:30 p.m. Memorial Auditorium Loft, Burlington. $8. Info, 862-6727.

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Stuart Paton teaches Japanese festival drumming.

HAND DRUMMING: Mondays, 7:30-9 p.m. 389 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Thursdays in Montpelier. $12. Info, 658-0658.

Learn skin-on-skin music making from Stuart Paton.

HEALTH & FITNESS

ADVANCED DIRECTIVES: Wednesday, October 4, 7-8:30 p.m.

Burgess Hall, UVM, Burlington, Free.

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FUNERCISE: Wednesdays at noon.

The Olympiad, S. Burlington. $5.

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Even "those of us hardly in shape" can play exercise games.

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TEACHERS' NATURE WORKSHOP: Friday October 6, 8 a.m. 4 p.m. Vermont Institute of Natural Science, Woodstock. $70. Register, 457-2779.

Explore the effects of deforestation on our migrant songbird populations.

PARENTING T H R O U G H T H E YEARS: Wednesday, October 11,6-9 p.m. Woman Centered, Montpelier. $25. Register, 229-6202.

Learn how to meet your child's changing needs.

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BRAZILIAN SONG & RITUAL: Saturday, October 7, 4-7 p.m. Sunday, October 8, 3:30-9 p.m. PanAshe Cultural Center, 280 Main St., Montpelier. $30. Register, 223-9560.

"Cantos para os Orixas" is taught by Brazilian singer Angela Patua.

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MEDITATION: First & third * Sundays, 10 a.m. - noon. Burlington Shambala Center. Free. Info, 658-6795.

Non-sectarian and Tibetan Buddhist practices are taught.

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he bleating caterwaul of the pipes, the ecstatic spiral of circular rhythms shatter the air like thunder and lightning.

The drone of chanting sounds as ancient as dust, as urgent as a telegram, as commanding as Niagara Falls. Post-war expatriate artist Brion Gysin, who came upon the music in the early '50s, described it as the sound of the earth sloughing off its skin. Legend has it as the musical bacchanale of Pan the goat god — a pagan festival absorbed by Islam after the Arab invasion. It was an ancestral Attar, they say, who discovered the mythical goat-man, Bou Jeloud, and became the keeper of his entrancing music.

Whatever its origins, the aristocratic tribe of pipers — now referred to as the Master Musicians of Jajouka — entranced sultans for centuries in the remote foothills of Morocco's Rif Mountains. Next summer the group that originated "world music" joins the W O M A D tour with Peter Gabriel. In between, they're coming here.

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honor of being the first stop on the first American tour of the Master Musicians of Jajouka.

(Pronounced juh-JOO-ka, the word translates as "something good will come to you." Despite their appeal among Western musicians over the last 40 years — from The Rolling Stones to Ornette Coleman to Sonic Youth — this group with 4000 years of history has performed in the U.S. only once before. Ironically, its current international acclaim comes at a time when the music — passed down only from fathers to sons in a special caste of families — is an endangered species.

"We think we're the last generation of musicians," said leader Bachir Attar in a phone interview from Morocco last week. "Kids are now going to school. The time is changed."

Attar, who began playing at the age of three-and-a-half and has mastered every instrument in the group, noted that his craft is "the most difficult music in the world." Children have to grow up with it, he said, to be trained from a very young age and do nothing else. In modern times, this tradition is slipping

away. Furthermore, Bachir Attar has no sons.

Attar, 32, is himself the son of the late Malim Abdasalam Ahmed Al-Attar, who lead the group for many years and composed most of the songs heard on Brian Jones Presents The Pipes

with guitarist Elliott Sharp. In 1989 The Rolling Stones recorded with the Jajouka musicians on Steel Wheels. "We do things with Western musicians," said Attar, "to keep our music alive. It is a bridge from one person to another."

cane flute. Gimbri, a rustic lute with three or four gut or nylon strings, dowel-shaped fretless neck and a goatskin stretched across a gourd.

In the West, a Jajouka performance begins with Attar playing on stage alone, usually against a backdrop resembling a Moroccan tapestry. One by one the other musicians enter and join in. The music swells to a transporting, frenzied sturmund-drone, echoing the revelry of ancient rites which is its source. Gradually the music becomes softer and more mesmerizing, and the performers both sing and dance in the traditional goat head and skins — the legacy of Pan. In the music resides a healing power, said Attar, which the world needs now more than ever. Listen, and something good will come to you. •

of Pan at Jajouka. This first Western recording of the Master Musicians was done by the Stones guitarist shortly before his death in 1969. Those tracks — which Jones flanged and reverbed in the psychedelic manner of the times — recently have been re-released on Point Music. The Master Musicians have also recorded Apocalypse Across the Sky — a more authentic production by Bill Laswell — and Bachir Attar has recorded his own The Next Dream with alto saxophonist Maceo Parker and In New York

Though some women can be heard chanting on the Jones recording — he's the only man to sit with the women, said Attar — traditionally women and men do not perform together in Jajouka. Laswell also captured some women singing on Apocalypse. The 13-member group coming to Burlington next week, though, is all male, each a masterful musician of a variety of exotic — to Western ears — instruments. Rhaita, a double-reed wind instrument whose sound resembles a bagpipe. Aouada, a piccolo-like

Bachir Attar will give a preperformance talk about musical traditions and life in Morocco on Wednesday, October 11,6p.m. in the Flynn Educational Space, 147 Main Street. The lecture is free and open to the public.

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NEW WORKS: ARTISTS FROM HOWARD COMMUNITY SERVICES, drawings and paintings by artists with developmental disabilities, from GRACE workshops. Metropolitan Gallery, Burlington. Reception October 6, 5-7 p.m.

ART FROM THE HEARTH, paintings by Linda Hampton Smith and quilts by Jane Clark Jackson. Pickering Room, Fletcher Library, Burlington. Reception October 7, 1-3 p.m.

MAKING A LIVING: THE WORK EXPERIENCE OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IN NEW ENGLAND, portraits, engravings and more from the New England Foundation for the Humanities and Museum of AfroAmerican History. Fletcher Library, Burlington. Reception October 11,7 p.m.

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FARM ANIMALS & LOUNGE LIZARDS, new works in watercolor and ink by Lisa Lillibridge. Daily Planet, Burlington.

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A SOMEWHAT RETROSPECTIVE, mixed media works by P.R heAd Gail Salzman's figurative FIRST Smith. Burlington College, Burlington. Through October 31. paintings about women's vulnerability and PICASSO: MULTIPLE-STATE PRINTS, exhibition oflith- strength share space with Pam Marrons ographs by Pablo Picasso from the Ludwig Collection. Also, the New England landscapes at Gallery 2, Ormsbee Collection of Pacific Art and Artifacts. Fleming Woodstock. Above, "Spin 2."

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CHI LDREN OF THE ANDES, photographs by David VanBuskirk from Peru and Bolivia. Fleming Museum, Lower Lobby, Burlington, 656-0750. Through October 29.

EXPERIENCE, three-dimensional installation by Jane Horner. Rhombus Gallery, Burlington. Through October 15.

ORIGINAL ACRYLICS and PASTEL DRAWINGS, by Jeanette Chupack and Cindy Wagner, respectively.

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CHILDREN'S ART SHOW, works from students at the Lake Champlain Waldorf School and Shelburne Community School. Furchgott SourdifF Gallery, Shelburne. Through October 11.

SHAMANISM, MAGIC AND THE BUSY SPIDER, a touring exhibit of Abenaki history and culture. T.W. Wood Gallery, Vermont College, Montpelier. Through December 15.

CLAY SCULPTURES , with architectural and archtypal elements, by Bette Ann Libby, Vermont Clay Studio, Montpelier. Through October 11.

SCENES FROM NATURE, paintings by Marie LePre-Grabon, Vermont Council on the Arts, Montpelier.

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INTERSECTION, Books as Paintings/Paintings as Books, by Ken Leslie. Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College. Through October 19.

PHOTOGRAPHS by David Carlson. Woody's THE FIRES OF WAR,'paintings of Gulf War fires by Susan

by Rosalyn Driscoll meant to be experienced through all the . ege Museum of Art, Middlebury, 388-3711. Through October 29 and Deceml vW EXPOSED! VERMONT SCULPTURE OUTSIDE, by r " Day Art Center, Stowe, 253-8358. Through GAIL SALZMAN AND PAH MARR0N, Woodstock, 457-1171. Through October 9.

OUT TO PASTURE A n y excuse to visit Shelburne Farms is welcome — for the view alone. But "Envisioned in a Pastoral Setting," the eighth annual juried exhibit in the Coach Barn, offers up dozens more views. Despite the 11 new artists this year, there's an odd sense of deja vu\ Many of last year's artists were invited back, and their entries are exceedingly similar. N o t that this is a problem; variety is the operative word here. T h e exhibit saved some of the best for first: Facing the entry are three oil-pastel landscapes by Marilyn Ruseckas and a half-dozen spherical pots

by Bob Green that set the standard for voluptuous beauty and ore-rich colors. Nearby, D o r o t h y Arseneau's pastel farmscapes seem to toss in a meteorological whirlwind, while across the room Liz Schott's vivid, textural abstraction investigates the effect of seeing red. Beyond this, "Envisioned" is a maze of paintings, sculptures, weavings and even jewelry that interpret — literally or lyrically — the bounty of nature.

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Despite a huge oriental carpet confusing Bent's otherwise ingeniously simple set, we're ready to believe it is the Forest of Arden before a word is spoken.

Unfortunately, the Big Apple talent infusion highlights the local cast's uneven acting abilities. Despite some of Lost Nation's best work, the evening belongs Lost Nation had a good idea to New York. T h e inexwhen it joined forces with a haustible Linda M. Larson new Manhattan classical comdelivers a spry, smart and pany for this delightful producstudied Rosalind, the exiled tion. Fresh blood from New noble in drag. Exhibiting York's Essential Stages — the great range, she finds every brainchild of Duxbury native facial twist, strut and comic Ann Harvey — seems to have pause of this demanding inspired all hands, on and role, and makes it all acces- FOOL FOR LOVE David Richard gets a behind the stage. sible.

Her well-cast comple- Kathleen Keenan in As You Like It. Some fine performances come ment, Douglas Landenfrom Vermonters in ^ ^ lets the impressive David this energetic Little dorf, uses considerable Richard choose an oddly dignicomedy of love, „ y.^cts^of Kindness, poise to create a fied approach to the jester, gender and

by David BudbllOT® charming Orlando, o , © Touchstone. The resulting intersocial reform. directed by Andrew.O^for Rosalin-da's clueless pretation makes Richard seem a Most ^ e n t e S t a g e Theatre Co, Barre conquest. misplaced romantic lead on a ^ * sSilP " " notable are Opera House. October 7. Flynn Director Ann fool's errand.

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Harvey's insightful Still, it's a good show — fun, * l * \ , r Hughes, Steve Middlebury High School work is near-perfect. warm and beautifully costumed Small and the Auditorium, NovemShe does, however, in reverent service to Mr. graceful Kim ber 4. miss some critical details.

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Bent, who finds the Rosalind's first disguised ideal outlet for his clench-jawed encounter with Orlando, for udbill is back. After two style in the melancholy Jacques. example, beautifully exploits the years of rewrites, the Even the set exudes a sense of male guise theme, but delays Wolcott playwright resurconfident quality, complete with attention to sexual layers until rects Little Acts of Kindness on a live trees and mottled lighting. late in the scene. Harvey also

ocial outcasts are all the rage on Vermont stages this month. Wolcott playwright David Budbill marches his collection of lost souls around the state in his revamped Little Acts of Kindness, while Lost Nation Theater brings Shakespeare's gender-bending band of banished courtesans to Montpelier with As You Like It.

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— all but steal It's all worthwhile as a comthe show. munity event, though, thanks leg up with With the to solid work by Russ Longtin, nationally acEllen Peterson and Robert claimed Judevine Nuner. And there's a glimmer to his credit, David Budbill is of something exciting here. in the uneviable position of the Standing out from the melange successful: Now folks expect of broad-stroke, sentimental each effort to top his last. Sadly, scenes is an interacthis play falls short.

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BY ROB BRUSHY (Mar. 21 -Apr. 19): Aries of the Week is Grandma Betty, a 66-year-old fireball from Philadelphia. Betty redred from her job at the phone company last year in order to launch a full-time career as a prayer warrior (non-fundamentalist variety, thank you) Now, for four hours a day, six days a week, she solicits Gods assistance for the needy souls on her prayer list. Trying to kick a bad habit? Hoping to find success on a risky mission? Grandma Betty may be the ally you're looking for. Like a true Aries, she's never satisfied with the good work she's doing, but always wants to up the ante. She's asked me to invite my Aries readers to make special requests. If you want her to seek a divine intervention on your behalf, mail details to me. Box 150247, San Rafael, GA 94915. It's free! Send no money!

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): The trials of being a horoscope writer. This week, a nine-year-old boy writes to me saying he will not change his socks until I mention him by name in this column. (Jason Tipley.) A 23-year-old performance artist blames me for the fact that her girlfriend refuses to perform nude sex acts in her shows. Worst of all, I whisper sweet nothings to you Taurus folks 50 weeks out of the year, and the two weeks I get heavy, half of you write in to complain, "Why do you hate Tauruses?!" Please, people: Cut me some slack.

While you're at it, go easier on your friends and loved ones.

This period of adjustment you're rumbling through ain't my fault. In fact, it's nobody's fault. It's simply nature's way of making you mad enough to rise up and defeat your pain.

GCMINI (May 21-June 20): "Beginners mind" is a Zen practice. Because it's so simple and innocent, it's one of the hardest things you could ever try to do. When you're in beginner's mind, you set aside all your wisdom and expectations. You act as if you're an anthropologist from Mars, or a country rube seeing the big city for the first time. When you're in beginner's mind, you can't possibly imitate what you've ever done before. There are no maps, no security and no impossibilities. Ready to try it?

CANCCR (June 21-July 22): Seeing as this is the horniest time of the year for the horniest sign of the zodiac, I've got ARIES

to believe you're in the midst of a flurry of home improvements. Redecorating the walls would be a good idea.

Moving the furniture. Tuning up the vibes between you and your housemates. But your most important assignment is to create an altar. Doesn't have to be religious in the traditional sense. Include a picture of the person who inspires you most, even if it's Roseanne. Incorporate a treasured object . from childhood, or a symbol of your highest goal, or the best love letter you ever got.

LtO (July 23-Aug. 22): I would never try to talk you Leos out of your suspicion that you are the most important thing on earth. I've come to believe that your ability to dispense all your beauty and blessings cannot function properly without your regal fantasies. And besides, for all I know, you are the crown of creation. Having said all that, though, I would humbly like to request that you try to live without your megalomania for a few days. As long as you can stand it, place the needs of your friends and loved ones before your own. If you've ever wanted to find out what it's like to be a love slave, now s the perfect time.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In the 16th century, rumors arose in Europe of a fabled land in the New World called El Dorado, where gold was so plentiful that even children's toys were made of it. Beginning in 1532, adventurers launched a long series of expeditions in search of the lost city. One hundred years later the last quest ended as all others had: in failure. And yet in the process, explorers discovered scores of other valuable resources. Most notable among these was the potato, which rapidly became the number one hedge against famine back in Europe. I'm telling you this litde story, Virgo, because something similars unfolding in your own life. Though you won't find the gold you're looking for, you will stumble on the equivalent of the potato.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I'm not worried at all about the monkey wrenches, trick questions and time bombs late has been testing you with. Call me overconfident, but I truly believe you'll triumph over every last one of those bugaboos.

What I am nervous about, though, are the oh-so-subtle perils of the gifts coming your way. As sheik Cajit Goskin says, "The Bear has 40 obstacles and all of them involve pears -— because the Bear loves pears."

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): This week you will not have a decadent folie a deux with an aging alpha primate who'll play you like a tuba. And you will not be tempted to rendezvous in a seedy bar after midnight to find a new solution to the half-empty/half-full problem. No, Sagittarius.

Your fate is far less weird than that — although just as interesting. In fact, you will have a delightful folie a deux with a quick-change artist who will play you like a harmonica. And you will be called to a righteous sanctuary at midday to find a new solution to the half-empty/half-fuU problem.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Don't tell me there's still a difference between your career and your job! What are you waiting for, some "benevolent" authority figure to corne along and heal that split? Hallucinate on, sweetheart. There's only one way you'll end up doing the work that lets you express your deepest calling; And that's to swear a sacred vow that you'll do everything you can — tap every resource, draw on every connection, eliminate every trivial goal — to make it happen. Now, please. The moment is ripe.

AQUARIUS Qan. 20-Feb. 18): You Water-Bearers seem to be going through an extra-naughty phase right now. One four-year-old Aquarius I know recendy took a garden hose and filled up the inside of his mothers grand piano. A 20-, year-old Aquarius of my acquaintance "borrowed" his father's credit card to finance a workshop on shamanic trance states.

A 45-year-old Aquarius left her college-professor husband to start an affair with her 25-year-old aromatherapist, I would bet that you, too, are involved in smashing a few rules. Lets hope they're more of the "shamanic trance" kind and less of the "water in the piano" brand.

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): You'll have no one to blame but yo' mama if you haven't scammed enough fresh cash by Halloween to buy your most expensive costume ever. The planets are massaging your dormant financial genius. Your biorhythms are fermenting in such a way as to transform some of your erotic energy into a lust for more money. And all this week, to top it off, I will personally be supplementing your already-rich luck by casting spells to turn your wallet into a money magnet. ©Copyright 1995

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hen Alan Goldfarb works, he performs a strange dance. He sits, stands, spins and sits again, moving gracefully and precisely. His stage is a rough concrete floor, with unfinished tables scattered about like so many props.

Forming a formidable backdrop are three steel furnaces, raging with blinding orange heat. At 2400 degrees, heat moans like

terns. Next, Goldfarb applies a scavo coating that gives the pieces an aged or excavated appearance, and ecco: Old and new unite in stunning equilibrium.

"It's a balancing act," says Goldfarb, explaining how he juggles modernity and antiquity in his latest designs. That balancing act is also an appropriate metaphor for Goldfarb's life. The 36-year-old, New York-born

C L A S S I C A L G L A S S Alan Goldfarb transforms glob to goblet angry wind.

Despite the dramatic setting, Goldfarb's performance has nothing to do with theater. His true art is quieter, more introspective. His medium is fragile: glass. Delicate hand-blown mugs, vases and goblets contrast sharply with his steel and concrete work space in Burlington's North End, but Goldfarb finds contradictions compelling. "My thing right now," he explains, "is to create a bridge between contemporary glass techniques and the time before the Industrial Revolution. I'm creating hybrids."

Hybrids have never looked so good. For the past four years of his 16-year career, Goldfarb has been designing and producing hand-blown glassware that combines traditional ceramic shapes with stain-glass colors and surface textures of ancient glass. His Celtic cups, for example, are goblets of assorted shapes and sizes bearing ominous-looking thorns or "prunts" around the stem.

Another design from Goldfarb's "Historical Derivation Studies" is his silver scavo amphora. Here, Goldfarb plays with an ancient Greek vessel traditionally used to store oil or wine by adding a surface treatment that originated in Murano, Italy. The blue and matte surfaces are finished first with a silver-leaf glaze that cracks into variegated pat-

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As Goldfarb forges an archetypal foundation, his next challenge is to put a contemporary mark on the work. Although he asserts that some of his best pieces are created when he simply "gets out of the way" of the material, glass enthusiasts maintain it's Goldfarb's presence that makes his work so powerful.

Robin Mix, a professional glassblower in Tunbridge, explains: "Alan combines refined, subtle colors and flawless execution. In particular, he puts a lot of energy into perfecting a surface technique such as the rough, scavo finish. By making it less 'pretty,' he succeeds in deglamorizing the material and giving it unusual depth."

Examples of Goldfarb's depth are displayed locally at the Frog Hollow Gallery on Church Street — President Clinton bought a $90 silver-leaf vase when he visited Burlington this past summer. In the next year, his work will appear at two of the nation's most prestigious craft shows. While Goldfarb contends that support for glass work is often lacking in Vermont, his vision for the future is optimistic. "After 16 years in this business, I'm finally starting to feel grounded. When I work through my personal limitations, my designs will be both •creative and technically deep.

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tionally acclaimed Italian glass master. Under Tagliapietra Goldfarb learned the art of "team blowing," a technique that requires two skilled artisans. The team leader — or gaffer — spools molten glass onto the end of a long thin blowpipe. The second team member — called a servitor — kneels at the mouth of the pipe and blows high-pressure air down the tube, transforming the red-hot glob into an eggshell hard cavity. The gaffer colors, shapes and decorates the vessel before allowing it to cool in a 1000-degree oven.

By recreating original techniques and forms, Goldfarb's challenge is two-fold. First, he must perfect highly complex glass-blowing skills that usu ally demand a lifetime of study. That goal is daunting in itself: only 20 glass-workers in the United States have mastered techniques born during the Italian Renaissance.

"Today, most glass workers rely on automated glass pressing rather than hand-blown pieces.

But don't get me wrong. I'm not on any Luddite trip against technology. I just want to create a foundation for my art, and that» foundation was built 6000 years ago."

artist is determined to maintain a contemporary, lucrative production studio while immersing himself in the study of ancient glass.

"The two are often antithetical," he admits. "I get no funding beyond what I sell. My grey hairs come from trying to make ends meet." Grey hairs must be worth it, for Goldfarb's commitment to the task extends beyond erudition: It has become his defining factor in art, as in life.

"I'm exploring my connections to the archetypal spirit of glass," says Goldfarb, pointing to his selection of exquisitely delicate stemware modeled after traditional Venetian designs. "The Italian maestros who first blew glass transcended the material and expressed their souls. Their elemental humanness came together with the elemental qualities of glass, revealing a broader human spirit."

Goldfarb's fascination with classical Venetian styles was cultivated during his study with Lino Tagliapietra, an interna-

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Movie thai shouldn't be in the video store's comedy section because it is actually funny: The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977). Before there was Airplane, the Zucker-AbrahamsZucker crew created a movie that's funnier, more offensive and far more immature. "What, did a cow shit in here?" "This is not a chawade. We need total concentwation." "The popcorn you're eating has been pissed in.

Film at 11." By now, you're either laughing or have skipped to the next paragraph.

For more cheap laughs, see Amazon Women on the Moon (1987) and the TV series Police Squad! (1982).

Best " I like the characters because they're just like me" movie: Diner (1982). Watching this Barry Levinson fdm alone almost makes you feel like hanging out with your buddies. Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Paul Reiser, Kevin Bacon...and Mickey Rourke. Well, there's one in every crowd. The guys' fdm to end all guys' films, Diner is best watched in the late evening, when you would probably go to a diner.

Best movie to sing along with: Grease (1978). Olivia Newton-John comes to her senses and realizes that it's better to be a blackleather-wearing, cigarettesmoking hooligan than a polite, studious girl. Grease is proof that if you want to get away with making a movie that promotes shabby morals, it's got to be a musical. I don't know about you, but I always thought the tough guys at my high school were a bunch of assholes. Little did I know that when I wasn't around, they were busy singing "Summer Lovin'" at football stands.

Proof that a good war movie doesn't need violence: Dr. Strangelove (1964). No fdm captures the absurdity of war and America as well as this Stanley Kubrick film. In a memorable scene, Peter Sellers must make an urgent phone call to the President of the United States to warn him of a possible nuclear war. But, since he doesn't have a dime for the pay phone, he tries to convince a nearby soldier to shoot a soda machine to force its change out. The soldier reluctantly agrees after telling Sellers, "O.K...but if anything happens, you're going to have to answer to the Coca-Cola Company."

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SEVEN DAYS C l a s s i f i e d s Central School. Outstanding references.

William Oetjen, 864-7480.

DRIVERS, COOKS, MANAGERS, COUNTER PERSONS: Call Mt. Wings & Things after 5 p.m. at 658-WING (9464). 101 Main Street, Burlington. Full and part-time positions available.

ENVIRONMENTAL ATTITUDE: Growing marketing co. looking for individuals who want to make a real difference & real money. Call 862-6656.

BORED W I T H YOUR JOB? Or just not making enough money? If this is you, let us show you how to have fun while making an excellent income. Call 862-6656.

music BASS LESSONS: Berklee grad accepting students. All abilities, acoustic or electric.

John Lilja (Science Fixion, Jenni Johnson, etc.) 655-3259.

GUITAR INSTRUCTION: All styles, any level. Emphasis on developing strong technique, thorough musicianship, and personal style. Call Paul Asbell (Unknown Blues Band, Kilimanjaro, Sneakers Jazz, etc.) 8627696.

DRUM LESSONS: learn from 25 yrs. experience: N-Zones, X-Rays, HooDoo Revue etc. Call Bruce McKenzie, 658-5924.

tutoring GENERAL TUTOR: All academic disciplines through the 8th grade. Emphasis on gender/race equity. UVM student of education with two years experience at Wiiliston

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services PROFESSIONAL WOMAN SEEKS EXTRA INCOME: Desktop publishing, word processing, administrative tasks, sewing and more. Temp/part-time. Call Kim at 482-4165.

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WORLDLY, DARK-HAIRED SWF, 40's, with a brain, heart & spirit. Eclectic interests. You: 45-55; likewise N/S, curious, creative, educated, playful, sensitive, emotionally secure. Open to sharing.

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YOWZA! POLISH/IRISH CHICA: blonde, blue-eyed, 21-year-old mix of meathead and Mc with weird middle name and even weirder sense of humor ISO swell guy, 21-28, who likes to talk and doesn't have the attitude or smell of a Calvin Klein ad. Body of C.K. ad acceptable. Box K " * ' ^ " V

YABBA DABBA D O O : Dinosaur seeks same. Days of fins, flash, chrome, barn dances, drive-ins. Share new memories.

Dina: 48, blonde/blue, armful. Dino:40-

N O R T H COUNTRY LIVING — like it just fine; seeking fella whod like to be mine.

Long brown hair, plus-sized, fun. You: 40-50, tall, outgoing, affectionate, smoker. Box P-7.

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WANTED: Vermont artists familiar with anger, gluttony, avarice, pride, lust, sloth and envy to participate in a March '96 exhibition celebrating the Deadly Sins. Seven artists will be selected to exhibit. Painters, sculptors, photographers, et al. invited to send slides/resume and preferred sin to D. Wilkinson, March Curator, Caravan Arts, 43 Upper Main St. Essex Junction, VT 05452 WHAT IS CRUDE? Artists wanted for the Crude Art Show. January, 1996. Call Michael Evans/Caravan Arts. 660-0869.

UNDER STRESS? For alternate relief, hot-

55, fun, nice, interesting. Box P-4.

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OFFER OF A LIFETIME!!! Laptop Computer (286-IBM compatible) with Canon InkJet printer, 14.4 Fax modem, external keyboard, and 14-inch color monitor. $600. 862-0816.

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CIANS: Recruiting local bands for possible thematic compilation CD project. For more info: Mike, 1-800-545-2326, xl32.

VOLUNTEER IN AFRICA: One year posts in health, environment, refugess, democratization, human rights, etc. Call (202) 625-7402.

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SILVER FOX: Lonely the problem?

Solution at hand, pretty classy lady, good dance band. Dinner, movie, options galore, he a non-smoker to continue the score (58-65). Box P-8.

men seeking women EDUCATED MAN D W M 35, very attractive, educated, professional, published writer, poet, linguist. Humorous, sincere, sensitive, athletic, good conversationalist, romantic. ISO pretty, intelligent woman for LTR. Box P-l.

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W S M 30-YEAR-OLD W I D O W E R , have good job, good-looking, respectful, likes movies, bicycling, going out to eat. Seek-, ing good-looking woman around same age, respectable, nice, down-to-earth individual interested in dating and friendship.

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Want to teach the Wafusi? Reach 12,000 people within driving distance of Burlington with a SEVEN DAYS classified ad. We specialize in arts and music. Other categories include: housemates, services, cars, help wanted, home wanted and more. Price: $ 5 for five lines, live words per line. Each additional line is $1.50. Run an ad three or more consecutive times and get a I S percent discount. All ads must be pre-paid. Call Maggie at 8 6 4 - 5 6 8 4 or write: CLASSIFIEDS c/o SEVEN DAYS P.O. Box 1 1 6 4 , 2 9 Church St., Burlington, VT 0 5 4 0 2 .

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