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• The Marine Spill Response Corp. agreed in June to pay Ventura County, California and the state Department of Fish and Game a total of $73,000 to settle a civil lawsuit filed by the county district attorney over a spill of • 383 gallons of diesel fuel into Port Hueneme Harbor. The fuel leaked from a new company ship designed to clean up oil spills.

ing. Company spokesperson Paul Miller blamed a computer glitch and estimated correcting the mistake would cost Bell Atlantic two to three times the original amount.

• The University of California at Santa Cruz library asked Mick Gannon, 57, to borrow some photos from his extensive collection of jazz memorabilia for a Black History Month display.

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After an ethanol shortage in Sweden caused the price of fuel to rise, the European Union gave the country permission to import 5000 tons of surplus red wine to use as fuel for buses in Stockholm.

• In Norway, a 30-year-old man was sentenced to three weeks in Ilseng Prison for drunken driving.

The newspaper Hamar Dagblad reported that the man's pals threw a going-away party the night, before - photos, his term began. The next morning, he*drove himself to the prison, where a guard smelled alcohol on his breath and found him legally drunk again.

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After; Amir Brifcho withdrew cash from a bank in La Mesa, California, he heard a loud bang, looked down and saw red all over his legs. A teller had accidentally given him an exploding packet of dye and tear gas, which are meant for robbers. "I thought somebody shot me," Brikho said. "1 was burning from inside, and smoke was coming from my shorts."

• Bell Atlantic spent $100,300 to print and; mail postcards notifying 388,000 telephone customers in western Virginia that their area code was changing from 703 to _ 540. Instead, the postcards went to business and residential customers in northern Virginia, where the area code isn't chang-

including several autographed to him personally, were cut up to make a collage. The university apologized and asked Gannon what kind of compensation he wants, but he lamented, "These things cant be replaced."

• After the government of Gabon announced it was cracking down on foreigners working illegally, some 65,000 Africans left.

According to the business monthly Jeune Afrique Economie, the exodus left the capital, Libreville, devoid of cabs, provoked a realestate recession and stalled construction projects because of the shortage of skilled laborers.

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Authorities said he moved into a hayloft above the antelopes, where he hung pictures and lived for a month before being discovered in July.

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French insect lovers fear that efforts to clean up the Paris subway endanger the crickets who have thrived in the warm, dark tunnels for 100 years. "Ideally, we'd like the two Metro lines where there are the most crickets to be declared a natural park," said Lionel Antoine, president of the Protection League for the Crickets of the Paris Metro.

Warning that powerful new vacuum cleaners, pesticides and efforts

to stop water leaks all threaten the insects, whose chirping is considered a sign of good luck, the league wants to limit strikes by Metro workers and the use of concrete in construction, since both lead to colder climates in the tunnels.

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Pigeons have been observed riding the London subway.

Letters responding to a query by the magazine New Scientist indicated that the birds seem to know where they are going, which lines to take and when to get off.

Lorna Read wrote, for example: "A pigeon, calm as you please, hopped on my Northern Line carriage at Kings Cross and stood quite calmly near the door. It appeared to know where it was going as soon as the doors opened at Euston, where it flew out."

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Mice living in the area around Chernobyl not only survived high doses of radiation from the nuclear accident nine years ago, but also are thriving in mutant forms. U.S. scientists from the University of Georgia discovered that the evolutionary change that has taken place in the mice's genes exceeds that which would have occurred normally in 10 million years. Dr. Ronald Chessar, director of research for the Chernobyl study, also noted

that other wildlife is flourishing in the region as a result of the complete removal of the human population since the disaster.

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Also in the Ukraine, rats have invaded a sewer system in the Ukraine and are using it as a "sort of subway for rats," according to a local official, to sneak into homes through the toilets. The newspaper Daily Express reported that one elderly woman in pnipropetrovsk died of shock after finding a sopping rat in her toilet bowl.

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Finns, reputedly among the loneliest people in the world, have more friends now than they did nine years ago, according to a study conducted by the Finnish National Statistics Board last year.

The survey found that 5 percent of Finns have no close friends, compared with 6 percent in 1986.

A joint Nordic survey in 1974 found that more than 25 percent said they had no friends.

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had | lot more to Say about theif goVernment — even in those years before the revolution —

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than the habitants who worked the St.

future of French-speaking peo-

Lawrence Valley under New France's medieval

ple in North America was

seigneurial system. So let's not paint the British

ignominiously compromised

conquest of Quebec as a victory of corrupt

by a bunch of court dandies"

totalitarianism over folksy grassroots national-

on the Plains of Abraham in

ism. It was a matter of one European power

1759? Who does he think set

besting another at a game both skillfully played;

LIGHTS OUT?

up the French experiment in

in the end, the power with the greater prospects

Quebec, a bunch of homespun

for growth as a modern society won.

Charlottes Old Lantern hangs in the balance between a square dance and a square deal

CLASSIC WOODY? Greek meets geek in the not so Mighty Aphrodite

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have happened if Britain hadn't wrested Quebec

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from the French. One possibility is that the

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America was, to a far greater

would have wound up being more famous for

extent than the British, a cen-

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tralized operation run by aris-

nial opportunity might have taken the econom-

Remembering Michael'Tyburski,

trade monopolists. What a

the 1789 revolution; or the revolution could

hoot to hear that an outfit

have happened anyway — with the Bourbons

whose chain of command ulti-

hightailing it to Quebec to set up a court in

mately led to Versailles was

exile. Or, La belle province could have wound up

defeated by "a bunch of court

being the Western Hemisphere branch office of

dandies." The real victors in

Napoleon's tyranny.

the French and Indian War, as it is still oddly

All in all, it's probably best that the court

called, were the citizen soldiers of New

dandies won.

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Dear Cecil, In trying to eat healthy, I have started to buy "tat-free" or "light" versions ot the real thing, whatever it may be. But I started to wonder: How do they get it to be fat-free? Is it chock-full of chemicals that will slowly fester in my body until it explodes? Is fat-free food really safe to eat.

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Don't be such a stiff. Being chock-full of chemicals has resulted in some of the most entertaining moments of my life.

Granted, the stuff in Snack Wells doesn't work on the same pharmacological principle. There's no single method of making a food fat-free, but generally what you try to do is substitute some ingredient (e.g., milk and egg protein, enzyme-treated oat bran or that old favorite, seaweed extract) that approximates the bulk and "mouth feel" of fat without fat's calories.

Usually these ingredients are more or less natural and presumably harmless, the only drawback being that some of them taste like axle grease. To compensate, some food manufacturers dump in a lot of sugar, with the result that the finished product often contains nearly as many calories as the fatty food it was meant to replace. (This seems to be particularly true of cookies.) The stuff does, however, qualify for a big zero (or at least some impressively small number) on the "fat grams" line in the nutrition box on the back of package, and in minds of weight watchers with tunnel vision, that's often enough.

You have to give food makers credit for ingenuity. NutraSweet's Simplesse, for example, consists of whey protein (a cheese-making by-product) that's been fashioned into microscopic spheres that roll around the tongue like little ball bear- f ings, simulating the smooth, creamy feel of real fat. Only problem is that, taste-wise, Simplesse-based ice cream approximates the real thing about as well as Dustin Hoffman approximated a woman in Tootsie. A truly convincing fake fat has yet to make it to market.

Food scientists haven't given up, though. There's no question some fat-free products ain't bad, and a lotta folks figure that ain't good. Many dietitians fear that weight watchers will consume fat-free products so obsessively that they won't eat a balanced diet — neglecting their daily-fiber quota, for example. Equally worrisome, people may figure eating a fat-free food is an excuse to heavy up on some other artery-clogger, the rationale for such breakfasts of champions as Ho-Hos and Diet Coke; On the other hand, if you apply a modicum of intelligence to your eating habits —: admittedly a stretch for many consumers i—- fat-free foods offer genuine benefits. Low-fat mayo, for example, has half the calories of the regular stuff; no-fat mayo has one-eighth. Consumer Reports has calculated that if you replaced fatty foods with no-fat substitutes in a typical daily diet, you could eliminate 275 calories and reduce your calories-from-fat intake from 36 percent to 26 percent, well below the 30 percent recommended by the Surgeon General.

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I Can't Stand It As part of the widening conspiracy to undermine your columnist's moral authority, no sooner do I claim that none of Lewis Carroll's nude photographs has come to light (October 25) than The New Yorker goes ahead and prints one in its October 9 issue. The subject is a little girl named Evelyn Hatch in a pose that, were Evelyn older or Cecil weirder, would be seductive. The picture is one of four nudes unearthed by Morton Cohen, to be published in his forthcoming Leiuis Carroll: A Biography. The treatment is not shocking by the standards of, say, a Calvin Klein ad, but you can bet it never would have happened under that nice Mr. Shawo.

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eer season doesn't begin until Saturday morning, but the shooting's already started within the ranks of the Vermont Democratic Party.

Facing an open rebellion by the party's liberal/activist wing Governor Howard Dean has chosen to flex his political muscle to quash the revolt before it's too late. As a result, party's senior staffer, Executive Director Jim Ward, was summarily sacked last week and Maida Townsend, the party chair for the last four years, abruptly changed her mind and decided to seek re-election in a showdown with Rep. Steve Howard of Rutland. L'il Stevie Wonder is House Speaker Michael Obuchowski's lieutenant and a talented organizer and fundraiser. He wants to lead the party back to its roots and slug it out with the Republicans. And that's got H o - H o worried because he's a passionate moderate who's never had the time of day for those damn liberals.

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In a beautifully orchestrated set-up, H o - H o got Maida to jump back into the race for party chair at the 11th hour to block L'il Stevie's ascension.

He even went so far as to provide cover in the form of a telephone call from his buddy Bill Clinton. Like Paul on the road to Damascus, Maida Townsend had a miraculous epiphany and suddenly realized as she wrote fellow Dems, "I cannot walk away

from a job not yet completed." But Democratic State Auditor Ed Flanagan told Inside Track this week that after Maida announced back in July she would not seek reelecton as party chair, he tried three times to talk her out of it. But each time, said Flanagan, Maida stubornly refused, saying she was "depleted of energy" and "couldn't do it anymore."

Finally, he said, Townsend told him to "please stop asking," and he reluctantly did.

Flanagan described Steve Howard as "a young wizard."

L'il Stevie, said Fast Eddie, is "incredibly bright and energized. He is precisely what we need." Howard Dean, he said, "mysteriously feels threatened by people who stand up for Democratic principles."

That observation is reinforced by comments made to Inside Track by Jim Ward.

Ward ran unsuccessfully for the state senate before beginning his seven-month tour of duty as the party's executive director. He said that prior to his senate bid he told H o - H o he "wanted to capture both the middle and the left."

Dean told him he had "no use for the left wing of the party," and they had "nowhere else to go anyway."

When he started as E.D. in March, said Ward, there was an agreement in place for U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy and H o - H o to each raise $60,000

for the party's depleted coffers. Leahy came through, said Ward, but Dean "has not raised a penny for the party."

Dr. Dean, he said, "is going to do what he has to do for his own political star, but he hasn't done anything for the Democratic Party."

Ward also said that fundraising among Democratic contributors had been difficult because of questions about the direction the party was taking under Howard Dean's leadership. And behind the scenes, he said, the governor was doing his best to stifle the criticism of liberals like Obuchowski. Last July 10 when Obie convened his own budget hearings at the Statehouse,Ward said the word came down from the governor's office that-the video of the event was not to be aired on public access televison until after the N.G.A. annual meeting at the end of July.

Steve Howard told Inside Track, that Maida Townsend's last-minute switch is "a dirty deal." Maida, he said, "should be held accountable" for her

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lackluster performance as party chair and the party's large debt. (L'il Stevie says it's "approaching $70,000. Maida says it's "around $40,000.")

"After two years with Steve Howard as party chair, there won't be a debt," he promised.

"We can't out-Republican the Republicans, If we rely on fatcat contributors we'll lose in the end." In his October 24 letter to state committee members, Howard outlined a 10-point plan of action including a grassroots effort to wipe out the party's debt by getting 10,000 Vermonters to kick in $10 each. Maida still doesn't have a plan, he noted.

For her part, Townsend denied there had been any "external monkeying around" in getting her to change her mind about stepping down.

Asked if she had been contacted by Ho-Ho, or those who speak on his behalf, and urged to get back in the race for party chair, Townsend replied cryptically, "I would not act in a vacuum." She conceded she had made "courtesy calls" to both Leahy and Dean to find

out if "they would be offended" by her change of mind.

Give me a break.

Maida was similarly frank when asked the circumstanceof Jim Ward's sudden departure. " O n Tuesday night," she said, "I met with Terje Anderson (the party's vice-chair), and Jim offered his resignation. I accepted it effective immediately." Asked if Ward's declaration that he'd been sacked was true, Maida said, "You know better than to ask a question like that." This week a lot of Vermont Democrats are asking a lot of questions, and the answers they get will chart the course of the party through the 1996 elections. And even if Maida beats L'il Stevie Wonder in Saturday's election, the split between H o - H o and the party's increasingly vocal _ activist wing is out in the open to stay.

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Even without reports on federal cutbacks, lifetime achievement awards tend to be. Bennington composer Vivian Fine was acknowledged for her musical contributions. Arthur Williams, for so many administrative acts of kindness — he actually hand- • delivered sculptures to our interstate rest areas. And poet Ruth Stone was honored for her exemplary verse and offspring. T h e wise and witty matriarch of the prolific Family Stone had two of three daughters in tow: painter Phoebe and writer Abigail. T h e cultural kudos were not limited to artists. T h e Burlington law firm of Paul, Frank & Collins got a prize for corporate philanthropy — for seven years, the firm has underwritten the Lane Series presentation of the New York City Opera. Four guys in suits came forward to receive the plaque, then fumbled around a bit trying to decide who should give the speech. At which point singer-songwriter Jon Gailmor leaned over and whispered, "Reminds me a little bit of the Academy Awards."

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It was freaky enough going through old police records to investigate the murder of Mae Labelle — the Johnson Hotel worker who was shot five times by a stalker on the train platform in Essex Junction. Her untimely death in 1911 was the subject of a one-night art installation by 21-year-old art student Amanda Keeley, whose interpretation of the killing was designed to coincide with the arrival of a train last Tuesday night. T h e other coincidence was not planned. T h e event was originally scheduled for the empty lot where 18-year-old T i m o t h y Ring was found dead last weekend. "It was eerie, I'll tell you that," Keeley says... It takes a quick wit to keep up widi Louis M a n n o and Jim C o n d o n . Especially on live talk radio at six o'clock in the morning on WTKDR. Joy Hopkins holds her own. And will continue to at W Z B Z - A M , now owned and operated by radio veteran Barry Lunderville. "I'm a big ham and now I get a little more air time," says Hopkins, who will host the "Joy Hopkins Show" every morning at 10 a.m. on 1070. Lunderville started out talking to Jack Barry. But the deal fell through, says Lunderville, because "Jack wanted to negotiate with someone else." Now Rush Limbaugh finally has some competition. From Gordon "aim for the head" Liddy... Sometimes it pays to be unknown.

T h e Utrecht Blues Festival seeks out low-profile, cutting-edge acts for its annual musical extravaganza. T h e U n k n o w n Blues .

Band fits the bill, which translates into an all-expenses paid trip to Holland for Big Joe and the boys. Next week the band is off to Europe to recreate the sound on their latest album, Every Time I Hear that Mellow Saxophone. Check out the rehearsal Saturday at Club Metronome. •

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But suddenly, in 1992, he smashed the rules and sky-rocketed the stakes.

First, he dumped long-time leading lady Mia Farrow for her adopted daughter, college co-ed Soon-Yi Previn. He then further offended the public by seeming truly astonished at the ensuing fuss. Many of his fans decided: This is not the Woody Allen we thought we knew. A May-December romance is one thing — remember Manhattan? — but one shaded with incestuous overtones is quite another. Or, to put it in Allen's own language — the title of his short film in New York Stories-. "Oedipus wrecks."

But die-hard Woody Allen fans have more selfish worries. If the filmmaker has personally developed into something of a dirty old man, can he still carry off convincing, sophisticated films about love, marriage and infidelity — like a Hannah and Her Sisters or Husbands and Wives? Or does he dare spout on the big screen the kind of morality that made him a tabloid cover-boy?

In his latest flick, Mighty Aphrodite — his 10th full-length feature in as many years — Allen certainly plays with fire, yet allows very little material to ignite. The promising, even titillating plot — seemingly inspired by equal parts autobiography and Greek tragedy — is undercut by Allen's half-hearted spoofs of each. In the end, the movie feels like one long, mildly amusing inside joke on Allen's recent scandalous love life.

Allen plays Lenny Weinrib, a sportswriter sharing a cozy, if claustrophobic, Upper East Side marriage with Amanda,

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Though he could pass for his wife's grandfather, it is clear Allen-as-Lenny is intent on portraying quintessential Woody Allen. And, except for a few notches less energy and a sad slump to the shoulders, he succeeds.

But in her preparations for the role of Lenny's wife, Helena Bonham Carter seems to have done some trance channelling of Mia Farrow's very soul. She parrots Farrow's acting down to the hair-tousling tic, the ever-averted eyes and constant, plaintive mumbling. But her character resembles Farrow the person as well, particularly in the film's opening scene when Lenny and Amanda discuss having a baby. Amanda claims she can't take the time to carry a child to term, then quickly adds, "The world is full of needy kids... Why over-populate the world if there's so many needy kids?" Within minutes it's decided that adoption is the only suitable answer;

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and Sugar Ray his best shot — is no longer enough. Fast-track Amanda wants her own gallery, and in order to get financial backing, she needs to schmooze. Lenny is against schmoozing.

He's also disgruntled with their move downtown — closer to Amanda's gallery world in Tribeca. Their sex life can be summed up by this scene: In bed together, both looking miffed, Amanda turns her back on Lenny and says, "What do you mean, you couldn't find it?"

But Lenny takes emotional solace in Max, who tests as "gifted," has a great personality and is all-round adorable.

Out of the blue, Lenny decides he must find the birth-mother. If her son is any indication, he believes she must be one spectacular gal. To which the chorus cries: "O cursed fate! Curiosity, that's what kills us!" And then they deliver the most succinct line of the movie: "Please, Lenny, don't be a schmuck!"

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enny secretly tracks down the birth-mother, whose habit of changing names first divulges the seemingly innocuous "Leslie St. James," then "Linda Ash," noted to "do sex movies." She's also known by her stage name, "Judy Cum." By the time Lenny locates Linda's Manhattan apartment, he's faced the fact that the mother of his child is a hooker. So what does he do? He makes an appointment.

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EDWIN MCCAIN BAND, FRANCES DUNNERY (Southern pop), Club Toast, 9 p.m. $10. COMEDY, ANNE'S BAND (funk, soul), Club Metronome, 10 p.m. No cover.

FORTUNE TELLERS (rock), Nectar's, 9 p.m.

No cover. OPEN MIKE, Burlington Coffeehouse, City Market, 8 p.m. No cover. NATO (unplugged pop), Cactus Cafe, 8 p.m. No cover. WOMEN'S NIGHT, Last Elm Cafe, 6 p.m. Donations. OPEN MIKE ACOUSTIC JAM, Java Love, 8 p.m. No cover. BL00Z0T0MY (blues), Alley-Cats, .

9:30 p.m. No cover. TABOO (rock), Patches, Holiday Inn, 9 p.m. No cover.

THE MANDOLINQUENTS (bluegrass), Sneaker's, Winooski, 9 p.m. $2. TODD FITCH (acoustic), Thrush Tavern, Montpelier, 9 pm. No cover.

GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER? You are, to check out a new quintet called Out to Lunch. Headed up by bassist Andrew Cotton and trumpeter Brian Boyes, the gang of five performs originals in a down-and-dirty groove — not to mention eclectic covers from Led Zeppelin to Miles Davis. Debut's at Sneakers this Thursday.

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BELIZBEHA, M0E (groove rock, acid jazz), Club Toast, 9 p.m. $6/8. THE UNKNOWN BLUES BAND, Club Metronome, 9 p.m. $4. DANA ROBINSON (folk), Burlington Coffeehouse, City Market, 9 p.m. $6. DESIRED EFFECT (jazz), Samsara, 9 p.m. No cover. DAVID K A M M (acoustic), Last Elm Cafe, 9 p.m. Donations. RYTHMO LOCO (rock), Nectar's, 9 p.m. No cover. TABLE WINE (folk, jazz), Java Love, 1 0 p.m. No cover. NERBAK BROTHERS (rock), Alley Cats, 9 p.m. No cover. TABOO (rock), Patches, Holiday Inn, 9 p.m. No cover. WALT ELMORE & ALL THAT JAZZ, Tuckaway's, Sheraton, 8:30 p.m. No cover. CLYDE STATS TRIO (jazz), Windjammer, 5 p.m. No cover. EAST COAST MUSCLE (rock, blues), Wolf's Lair, Colchester, 9 p.m. $2. POOF (jazz, r&b, blues), Williston Coffeehouse, 8 p.m. $5.

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BLUES BAND, Club Metronome, 9 p.m. $4. BELIZBEHA, PRIMORDIAL SOURCE (acid jazz, alt rock), Club Toast, 9 p.m. $6/8. WENDY BECKERMAN (folk), Burlington Coffeehouse, City Market, 9 p.m. $6. CLOUD PEOPLE (groove rock), Last Elm Cafe, 9 p.m. Donations. RYTHMO LOCO (rock), Nectar's, 9 p.m. No cover. SAM ARMSTRONG (jazz), Tuckaway's, Sheraton, 8:30 p.m. No cover. TABOO (rock), Patches, Holiday Inn, 9 p.m.

No cover. OUTER MONGOLIA (avant acoustic), Java Love, 9 p.m. No cover. EAST COAST MUSCLE (rock, blues), Wolf's Lair, Colchester, 9 p.m. $2. SEVENS, METAC0M, SEVEN YEARS WAR (hardcore, dub), Pyralisk, Montpelier, 3 p.m. $5. BOB YELLIN & THE JOINT CHIEFS OF BLUEGRASS, Pyralisk, Montpelier, 8 p.m. $5.

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POI DOG PONDERING, KATHY MCCARDY (alt pop), Club Metronome, 8 p.m. $10. WIDE WAIL, SKIRT, MAUL GIRLS (hardcore, alt rock), Club Toast, 9 p.m. $3/5. PATTI CASEY, BOB GAGNON, MATT MCGIBNEY (folk), City Market, 11 a.m. No cover. ABAIR BROTHERS (rock), Alley Cats, 9 p.m. No cover. RUSS FLANIGAN (rock), Nectar's, 9 p.m. No cover. ERIC ANDERSEN (folk), Pyralisk, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. $10.

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FREEDY JOHNSTON , WALTER SALAS-HUMARA (rock), Club Metronome, 7 p..m. $10. EENIE MAN, SPANNER BANNER (reggae, dancehall), Club Toast, 9 p.m. $6. DISCO INFERNO (disco, funk), Java Love, 9 p.m. No cover. STRUNG OUT (groove rock), Nectar's, 9 p.m. No cover. OPEN MIKE WITH JIM INFANTINO, Java Blues, 7 p.m. No cover. WOMEN'S NIGHT, Last Elm Cafe, 8 p.m. Donations. DAVE & THE ALLEY CATS (rock), Alley Cats, 9:30 p.m. No cover.

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IRIS DEMENT, GROOVELINE (new folk, acid jazz/funk), Club Metronome, 7 p.m. $15. PARIMA JAZZ BAND, ParimaThai Restaurant, 8 p.m. No cover. DAVE KELLER (blues), Cactus Cafe, 7:30 p.m. No cover. STRUNG OUT (groove rock), Nectar's, 9 p.m. No cover. FOLK JAM, Last Elm Cafe, 8 p.m. Donations.

LAURIE MOORE (folk), Java Love, 8 p.m. No cover. VIBROKINGS (rock), Patches, Holiday Inn, 9 p.m. No cover. SNEAKERS JAZZ BAND, Sneakers, Winooski, 9 p.m. $2. ^

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SHOOTYZ GROOVE, DYSFUNKSHUN, RED BELLY, KLOVER (hardcore, funk, rap), Club Toast, 9 p.m. $5. COMEDY, ANNE'S BAND (soul, funk), Club Metronome, 10 p.m. No cover. GREAT RED SHARK (rock), Nectar's, 9 p.m.

No cover. OPEN MIKE, Burlington Coffeehouse, City Market, 8 p.m. No cover. THE PANTS, GUPPYBOY (alt rock), Last Elm Cafe, 6 p.m. Donations. OPEN MIKE ACOUSTIC JAM, Java Love, 8 p.m. No cover. NATO (unplugged rock), Cactus Cafe, 8 p.m. No cover. B L 0 0 Z 0 T 0 M Y (blues), Alley Cats, 9:30 p.m. No cover.

THE ADAMS (rock), Patches, Holiday Inn, 9 p.m. No cover. LOST POSSE (bluegrass), Sneakers, Winooski, 9 p.m. $2. TIM CAIRA (acoustic), Thrush Tavern, Montpelier, 9 pm. No cover.

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Instead, it's poor, appalled Lenny who does the cringing — at her sleazy apartment decor, such as the pig-copulating clock, and at her aspirations to be a big-time" porn queen. By the time the hour is up, Lenny has decided not to sleep with Linda, but to "save" her from her sordid life — presumably for the sake of his son.

Meanwhile, Amanda has accepted the romantic advances of her boss, played by Peter Weller, and decides to leave her husband for a more attentive man. Lenny wines and dines Linda, negotiates her release from her pimp and tries to set her up with a nice, comparably stupid mate — a boxer/onion farmer played with hilarious stupor by Michael Rapaport. And though Lenny quips to Linda, "At my age, if I made love with you, they'd have to put me on a resuscitator," he ends up getting by just fine.

But instead of letting these adventurous love affairs take their course, Woody Allen abruptly reshapes them into an over-the-top, Prozac-pumped, family-values happy ending — and one ironically opposite from the choices he's made in his own life. As the chorus duly notes, "Isn't life ironic?"

Amanda and Lenny reconcile to the words of, "We have to put things right no matter what it takes;" Linda finds true love when a helicopter pilot makes an emergency landing near her car. When, in the final scene, the couples smooch and the chorus breaks into an absurd, choreographed rendition of "When You're Smiling, the Whole World Smiles With You," the effect is flat and bittersweet. Perhaps it's Allen's self-indulgent way of saying that only in the movies can people's best intentions find fruition. But here, saddest of all, he didn't bother to make happiness believable even on the big screen. •

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By next month, however, the only partners with access to the building could be business ones.

Charlotte-based Country Home Products is looking to buy the Old Lantern and its surrounding acreage, including the land currently leased by the flea market on Route 7. A zoning variance would allow transformation of the historic function hall into

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"If somebody hadn't mentioned it, I would never know about it," says Danny Coane, whose band played a benefit gig for the Waldorf School at the Old Lantern last weekend. "At the end of the night somebody came up to us and said, 'Hey, you guys will probabjy be the last

band to play in here.' It is such a great hall. I was almost in tears.

That building has seen a lot."

No one knows the history better than Earl Burns, who designed and built the Old Lantern from blueprints he drew up himself. Burns and his wife,

Mary, went into the dancehall business after they, lost their dairy barn — and business — in a fire.

He used building materials from a PARTY HEARTY Revelers of yesteryear yuck it up at the Old Lantern. barn dismantled in Jericho to craft a structure that Charlotte resident Allen 70s, he and Mary are anxious to looks like a cross between a Lombard. "We had some awful retire. Burns has been paying post-and-beam barn and an good times." In particular he "close to $20,000" in annual Adirondack lodge. remembers Mary's home-cooked property taxes on land assessed at "The guy I bought it meals, and a brush with the cops $1,097,900.

"They are taxing me to death from didn't think it over some beer smuggled in from would hold cattle," New York State. Burns recalls the in this town," he complains, Burns says. "I said it building hosted some pretty big echoing the voices of many of his will hold heifers — acts — Tommy Dorsey, Glenn neighbors. He wants "a million two-legged heifers, Miller, Duke Ellington, The and a half" for the whole parcel, and they can dance Shirelles — until unions, he says, including the landmark ffe now on that beautiful drove up the cost of traveling sums up without sentimentality as a "goldarn building with a floor." It took Burns shows.

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URBAN BUSH W O M E N : This troupe of wild women blends dance, words and music rooted in folklore and traditional African-American culture. Their new work, Bones and Ash: A Gilcla Story, is based on a novel by Jewelle Gomez.

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t h e a t e r ' T H E VAMPIRE DRACULA': The College Players play tribute to the year of the vampire with a stage adaptation of the novel by Bram Stoker. See preview, this issue. Alumni Auditorium, Champlain College, Burlington, 8 p.m. $6. Info, 860-2707. ' T H E M E N A E C H I M I ' : Shakespeare found this ancient farce by Plautus so funny he based his Comedy oj Errors on it. Catch the ancient original — described as "Laurel and Hardy meets Lucy and Ethel" — at the Royali Tyler Theatre, UVM, Burlington, 8 p.m. $8.

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DRAWING SESSION: Artists get inspiration from model at this weekly drawing

outspoken club. Ramada Inn, S. Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 862-6142.

C A N C E R S U P P O R T G R O U P : People dealing with cancer get support based on the work of the National Wellness Communities. Cancer Wellness Center, Chacg Mill, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

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Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Register, 860-8344. " PASTORS FOR PEACE: Local groups with Central American connections host this fundraiser to raise money for humanitarian aid to Chiapas, Mexico and Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua. Look for music, dancing and political action at Billings Student Center, UVM, 6:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 223-4901.

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MILLION MAN MARCH REPORT: Among the million who marched on Washington were Haskell Garrett, Dolores Sandoval and 16-year-old Francis Chanel. Blacks from Vermont offer personal perspectives in Room 101, Cheray Science Hall, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2663.

ARTS C O U N C I L M E E T I N G : The Onion River Arts Council hands out awards and refreshments at their annual meeting. Come prepared to line dance at Montpelier City Hall, 5-7 p.m. Free.

Reservations, 800-639-1383.

WHO'S DOING G O O D SCIENCE?': Philosophy anu zoology professor Jane Maeinschein looks at a century of changes in biology.

McCarthy Arts Center, St. % Michael's College, Colchester, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2535.

W O M E N SCIENTISTS PANEL: Torn between family, career and community? A panel of female scientists ponders the stresses of modern day life. 501 Waterman, A runaway slave girl takes refuge in a bordello UVM, Burlington, noon 1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656residence are not the sort she expected. The Urban Bush Women 0706.

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BREAST C A N C E R PANEL: Breast cancer experts talk risk factors and screening techniques at day survival kit. Burnham Library, session. Artspace, 171 St. Paul St., Burgess Hall, UVM, Burling-ton, 7 p.m Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Register, Burlington, 6:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, Free. Register, 865-2278.

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Civil War. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

DAVID BUDBILL TALK: The author of Judevine talks about editing the work of turn-of-the-century writer Rowland Robinson, who also chronicled the lives of Vermonters. Starr Library, Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-3467.

ENSEMBLE REBEL: The baroque ensemble plays Couperin, Rebel, D'Anglebert and Martin Marais in a concert of chamber music from the Court of Louis XIV. UVM Rccital Hall, Burlington, 8 p.m. SI5. Info, 656-4455.

SITAR C O N C E R T : Sitar master Shahid Parvez joins tabla player Shri Vijay Ghate for a concert of Indian music. Concert Hall, Mlddlebury allege, 8 p.m. $8.

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DANCE CONCERT: Penny Campbell and Peter Schmitz — the Giants of Sciants and the Midgets of Metaphysics — share their latest choreography and improvisation. Dance Theatre, Middlebury College Center for the Arts, 8 p.m. $3. Info, 388-MIDD.

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'DRACULA': Students perform a freely adapted Broadway version of the classic

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'THYMUS VULGARIS': This Landord Wilson play shows a mother and daughter looking for love in all the wrong places.

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'QUILTS': Shelburne Museum curator Bob Shaw signs his colorful book documenting a living tradition. Chapters, Shelburne, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 9859719.

ART LECTURE: Known for his cityscape sculptures, elegant teapots and other ceramic works, potter Michael Barsanti discusses his work after a 6 p.m. potluck. Vermont Clay Studio, Montpelier, 7 p.m. $3. Info, 223-4220.

k i d s STAR SHOW: Children and adults learn enough about celestial mythology to identify a few fall constellations.

Discovery Museum, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. $3.50/4.50. Register, 878-8687.

NATURE WALK: Folks ages eight to 13 "walk softly" on a hike and nature observation. Community Center in Jericho, 2:30 p.m. Donations. Register, 8994717.

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Marsh Dining Flail, UVM, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. $7. Info. 656-3131.

SKI & SKATE SALE: Get broken-in bargains at the Waitsfield Elementary School, 3-8 p.m. Free. Info, 496-2473.

©Saturday m u s i c TEREZIN PROJECT: See November 10, Barre Opera House, $10-18. Info, 800-639-1383. A pre-show lecture starts at Barre City Hall, 7 p.m.

BARBARY COAST JAZZ ENSEMBLE: A tribute to Julius Hemphill honors one of the most original jazz composers since Ellington, Mingus and Monk. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H. 2 p.m. $10.50. Info, 603-646-2422.

d a n c e CONTRA DANCE: Pete Sutherland calls for Les Freres Btunet. Dancers of all levels kick up their heels at Holly Hall, Bristol, 8 p.m. $5. Info, 453-4461.

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T H E MENAECHIMI': See November 8, $8.50.

'HAMLET': See November 8.

'DRACULA': See November 10.

'BLITHE SPIRIT': See November 9.

'THYMUS VULGARIS': See November 10, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m.

f i l m 'BITTER MOON': Hugh Grant, Peter Coyote, Emmaneulle Seigner and Kristin Scott-Thomas are featured in this Roman Polanski film. Twilight Hall, Middlebury College, 4 6c 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388MIDD.

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BEACH CONGER SIGNING: The author of Bag Balm and Duct Tape signs his latest book of humor, It's Not My Fault: Tales of a Vermont Doctor. Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, 10:30 a.m. noon. Free. Info, 223-0774.

BENEFIT ART AUCTION: Richard Hathaway auctions off donations from performing, craft, design and culinary artists to benefit the Flynn Theatre.

Previewing Thursday and Friday. 29 Church Street, Burlington. 6 p.m. $12.

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SCIENCE PROGRAM: Can a boat actually glide in the water without ever touching it? Find out how a hovercraft works at the Discovery Museum, Essex Junction, 1 I a.m. - 1 p.m. $1. Register, 878-8687.

STORY TIME: Kids over three listen up at the Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, . 1 1 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

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'DROPS FOR CROPS AUCTION': Bid on a truckload of compost, sleigh, wagon or sailboat rides to help raise money for irrigation equipment in the Intervale. Wheeler School, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-2919.

HOLIDAY BAZAAR: Dried flowers, baked goods and handmade items ^re offered at the Community Lutheran Church, S. Burlington, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

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CRAFT FAIR: Stoke up on lunch, then cruise the craft selections at Founders Memorial School, Essex Center, 9 a.m. 4 p.m. Free. Info, 878-5285. .

CHURCH BAZAAR: White elephants, plants and crafts abound at Faith United Methodist Church, S. Burlington, 9 a.m.

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HOLIDAY MARKET: Artists and artisans sell handmade objects. Community Center in Jericho, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Free.

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TRINITY OPEN HOUSE: Female junior and senior high school students tour the campus and learn about programs at Trinity College, Burlington, 9:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Free. Register, 658-0337x 218.

ROAD HIKE: Avoid the mud. Walk seven miles of pavement along Hill Street in Berlin. Meet in Montpelier, 1 p.m.

Free. Register, 223-3550.

'EMPTY BOWL' DINNER: Choose a bowl donated by a local potter — to • keep — and fill it with soup. Salad, bread and dessert are served on the side.

Your admission buys natural foods for emergency food shelves. Ross Lounge, Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m. $20.

Reservations, 388-7276.

'REVOLUTIONARY WAR' VETERANS PROGRAM: What really happened at Mt. Independence in 1776? Veteran actors read from their diaries and letters.

St. Stephens Church, Middle-bury, 10 a.m. - noon. Free. Info, 878-2522.

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TEREZIN PROJECT: See November 10, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H. 2 p.m. $16.50. Info, 603-6462422. The lecture begins at 1 p.m. in the faculty lounge.

PIANO RECITAL: Pianist-composer Barbara Wells performs her debut recital on the new Roland electronic keyboard and sound system at All Saints Church, S. Burlington, 4 p.m. Donations. Info, 658-4682.

t h e a t e r 'HAMLET': See November 8, 2 p.m.

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SKI & SKATE SALE: See November 10, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

HOLIDAY MARKET: See November 11,11 a.m. - 5 p.m.

ALBUM SALES: Vinyl lovers will find records to flip through at a music sale hosted by Yesterday and Today Records.

Tapes and compact discs will also be offered. Ramada Inn, S. Burlington, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. $2. Info, 862-5323.

VEGETARIAN POTLUCK: Bring a dish for eight with no eggs, dairy, honey or meat. Williston Coffeehouse, 5 p.m.

Free. Info, 453-3945.

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m u s i c OPEN REHEARSAL: Women bring their vocal chords to a harmonious rehearsal of the Champlain Echoes.

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

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CAN DIALECTICS BREAK BRICKS?': Believe it or not, this Kung Fu film was redubbed into a political satire. In French, with English subtitles.

Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-3361.

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STORYTIMES: Three-and-a-half- to five-year-olds hear stories at the South Burlington Library at 9:30 a.m. Those four through six listen up at 3:30 p.m.

Free. Register, 658-9010. '

e t c 'MANHATTAN PROJECT': Robert Oppenheimer and the physicists of the Manhattan Project made the A-bomb a reality. Their science is the subject of a panel discussion moderated by Louis Varicchio. See story, this issue. Mann Hall Auditorium, Trinity College, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-0337.

FEMINIST TALK: Burundian feminism is the topic of discussion at the Last Elm Cafe, Burlington, 8 p.m. Donations.

Info, 658-7458.

'MAKING PEACE' SERIES: Hank Lambert offers examples of Vermonters and other Americans committing themselves to non-violertce through vegetarianism, tax resistance and other modes.

Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Register, 863-2345.

MAGIC CARPET LUNCHEON': Go on an African safari. Stories, slides and food await you at a progam offered by adventurous locals. Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, 11 a.m. $12.

Reservations, 649-3928.

ADAPTED SWIM: Disabled folks are invited to swim with one-on-one instruction at Ross Sports Center, St. Michael's

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C FOR YOURSELF: Steve Rfiich tuned in for the world premiere of In C — the ground-breaking work that made way for composers like himself and Philip Glass. Those with minimal interest in trance-like music can look forward to more accessible fare — like one called "Help Me Rondo" — in a Friday night concert at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul.

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BACK T O T H E GARDEN: The Intervale Community farm learned all about irrigation this summer. The dry spell that took a toll on the pumpkin crop also put extra pressure on farm hands and backs. Now in search of sprinklers, the farm is holding a benefit auction Saturday at the Wheeler School. Ante up for a lifetime supply of zucchini.

FATHER KNOWS BEST? The man who wrote the definitive expose on Coca-Cola is onto a much more explosive topic. Victims of Memory, by Stowe writer Mark A Pendergast, is a literary response to incest charges brought against him by a daughter. He discusses the book, and "false memory syndrome," Tuesday at Trinity College.

• WAR GAMES: Do super-soakers lead to Saturday Night Specials?

Child's play can be dangerous in a culture that invented the roadrunner.

Robert Thiefels, social worker and father of two, talks toys in a Tuesday lecture at the Peace & Justice Center.

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O P E N H O U S E : "Non-traditional" candidates for graduate or undergraduate degrees check out the Prevel School.

Jeanmarie Hall, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 6542535.

CHRISTIAN WOMEN'S MEETING: Christian women talk about "gift ideas for men" at the Lincoln Inn, Essex Junction, 6:30 p.m. $12. Reservations, 864-7631.

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Register, 229-9811.

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JAPANESE FILM: With English subtitles, Black Rain finds humanity after atomic annihilation. Bailey-Howe Library, UVM, Burlington, 6:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 656-4477.

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Barbara Wells attributes her

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talents to spiritual channeling. She plays "healing music" on a new electronic keyboard at All Saints Church Sunday in O South

Burlington. as an accused abuser. McAuley Fine Arts Center, Trinity College, Burlington, 45:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-0337 x 204.

College, Colchester, 6:45-7:30 p.m. Free.

Register, 654-2674.

T E E N HEALTH CLINIC: Teens get information, supplies, screening and treatment for sexually-related problems.

Planned Parenthood, Burlington, 4-7 p.m. Pregnancy testing is free. Info, 8636326.

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k i d s M A G I C T O U R N A M E N T : Win "big prizes" playing a mystical card game in the Montpelier City Hall basement, 6:30 p.m. $3. Info, 229-9151.

W A L D O R F I N T R O : Parents learn about the educational philosophy of Rudolf Steiner at the Lake Champlain Waldorf School, Shelburne, 7:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 985-2827.

STORY T I M E : Listen at Children's Pages, Winooski, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 6551537.

STORY H O U R : Kids between three and five engage in artful educational activities.

Milton Public Library, 10:30 a.m. & 1 p.m. Free. Info, 893-4644.

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W O R L D M U S I C PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE: Latin American conga drums. Marimbas. West African stringed instruments. Electronic meets traditional in a performance of rhythm makers.

Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N . H . 8 p.m. $7. Info, 603-646-2422.

C O M M U N I T Y BAND PRACTICE: Musicians of all levels rehearse with the Waterbury Community Band. Waterbury Congregational Church, 7 p.m. Free, g n f o , 244-6352.

e t c WAR TOY TALK: Does acting out mass murder qualify as child's play? Parents and teachers talk politics, gender and popular culture at the Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, 6-9 p.m. Free.

Register, 863-2345.

G O O D C I T I Z E N PARTY: Celebrate the photo calendar to the video to the soundtrack to the zine. Magic Hat Brewery, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 864-0093.

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE W O R K S H O P : Adults considering college learn about funding options at 7 p.m. An open house runs from 3 to 6 p.m. Trinity College. Free. Info, 800-639-8885.

NON-TRADITIONAL STUDENT

d a n c e SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING: Celtic wannabes kick up their heels at Champlain Senior Center, Burlington, 8 p.m. $1.50. Info, 862-3638.

t h e a t e r 'DRACULA': See November 10.

w o r d s MARK PENDERGAST: The author of Victims of Memory: Incest Accusations and Shattered Lives talks about his experience

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Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, 8 p.m.

Free. Register, 635-2727.

w o r d s W O M E N W R I T E R S SERIES: Read and discuss Bastard Out of Carolina or Stone Butch-Blues. Peace be Justice Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Register, 8632345-

e t c ALZHFJMERS ANNUAL M E E T I N G : Janis Peyser offers a keynote address entitled, "Behavior Changes in Alzheimer's."

Hampton Inn, Colchester, 5:30 p.m. $20. Register, 800-698-1022.

A S T R O N O M Y PROGRAM: The Springfield Telescope Makers expand your horizons with slides and, weather permitting, a look at the real thing.

Vermont Institute of Natural Science, Woodstock, 7-8:30 p.m. $6. Register, 457-2779.

REPTILE PROGRAM: "Skins of Scales" teaches adults and kids about Vermont reptiles. Vermont Institute of Natural Science, Woodstock, 3-4 p.m. $4.

Register, 457-2779.

SENIOR G A T H E R I N G : Elders meet for coffee and conversation. Wheeler School, Burlington, 8:15-10:15 a.m.

Free. Info, 865-0360.

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ART AFTER S C H O O L : Mondays, November 13 - December 4, work with fibers. Wednesdays, November 15 December 6, bookmaking. 3-5:30 p.m.

Above Daily Bread, Richmond. $45.

Register, 434-6395. Kids aged eight to 12 work on projects.

INTRO T O SPINNING WOOL: Thursday, November 9, 6-9 p.m.

Singing Spindle Spinnery, Duxbury. $31.

Register, 229-6202. Card wash, dye, ply, make a skein and have a ball.

HERBAL GIFTS: Sunday, November 12, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Purple Shutter Herbs, Burlington. $50. Register, 8654372. Make botanical bookmarks, lip soothers and eye pillows.

COMPUTERS W R I T I N G W I N D O W S HELP': Wednesday, November 15, 7 p.m. IDX, S. Burlington. $10. Info, 864-1758 x 6201. Technical writers hear a talk.

I N T E R M E D I A T E W O R D PROCESSING: Thursday, November 9, 7:20 p.m.

Burlington College. Free to Old North End residents. Register, 860-4057.

BASIC SPREADSHEET: Wednesday, November 15, 5-7 p.m. Department of Training & Employment, Burlington.

Free to Old North End residents.

Register, 860-4057.

M O D E R N - J A Z Z D A N C E : Slow/intermediate adults, Tuesdays 7-8:30 p.m.

Intermediate/advanced adults, Wednesdays 6:30 p.m. Olympiad, S. Burlington, $9. Info, 985-5216. Jane Selzer leads an ongoing class.

HEALTH & FITHESS FERTILITY AWARENESS: Thursday, November 9, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Purple Shutter Herbs, Burlington. $13. Register, 865-4372. Robin Running Wolf talks to women about their bodies.

T H E SOLUTIONS WITHIN': Thurdays, November 9 & 16, 7-9 p.m.

Williston Coffeehouse. $16. Register, 878-7122. Anxious, negative, disorganized? Paul Sabha teaches powerfitl techniques used by many therapists.

T R A N S I T I O N T O A HEALTHY D I E T ' : Thursday, November 9, 7 p.m.

Peoples Health & Wellness Clinic, Barre. Donations. Info, 479-1229.

Massage therapist Edward Kentish offers dietary tips.

MUSIC CARIBBEAN S T E E L D R U M S : Saturdays, 10:30 a.m. - noon. PanAshe Cultural Center, Montpelier. $12. Info, 223-9560. Share in community musicmaking with Camomilla.

SPIRIT

DAHCE M O V E M E N T IMPROVISATION: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 5:45-7:45 p.m.

Room A-404, Burlington High School. $6. Info, 864-4705. Hannah Dennison and the Working Ground dance-theater company invite the community to join in their classes.

INTERDYNAMIC DRUM & DANCE: Wednesdays, PanAshe Cultural Center, Montpelier. 6-8 p.m. $8. Info, 223-9560. Explore the relationship between dance and drumming.

'KIDS O N T H E M O V E : Wednesdays, PanAshe Cultural Center, Montpelier.

Thursdays, Wheeler School, Burlington.

3-3:45 p.m. $8. Info, 223-9560.

Camomilla teaches dance and drumming.

C H I L D R E N ' S BASIC T E C H N I Q U E : Saturdays. Ages 4-9, 12:15-1 p.m. Ages 10-14, 1:15-2:15 p.m. Olympiad, S. Burlington, $9. Register, 865-7884.

Dance for fun with Patti and Deb Tursi.

AFRO-CUBAN DANCE: Thursdays, 10 a.m. - noon. Capitol City Grange, Montpelier. Fridays 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Chace Mill, Burlington. $8. Info, 9853665. Carla Kevorkian teaches traditional dances of Cuba, Haiti and Brazil.

AFRICAN DANCE: Mondays &C Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m. Memorial Auditorium Loft, Burlington. $8. Info, 862-6727. Padma Gordon teaches the moves with help from the Jeh Kulu Drum Ensemble.

ENERGY HEALING & C H A N N E L ING: Friday, November 10, 7:30 p.m.

Chace Mill, Burlington. $2. Saturday & Sunday, November 11 & 12, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Essex. $ 110. Register, 860-1206. .

Kate Lanxner and Larry Rice introduce "your higher self" through spirit guides.

SKILLS 'COMMUNICATION UNDER DURESS': Monday, November 13, 6-8 p.m. Montpelier. $20. Register, 2296202. Learn to access internal resources in times of stt*ip. * '' ** '' ' '

VIDEO P R O D U C T I O N SKILLS: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 6:30 p.m. Channel 17, Burlington. Free. Info, 862-3966. Learn basic field production on November 9 and editing on the 14th.

YOGA KRIPALU: Six Thursdays, 6:45-8 a.m. & 8:30-9:45 a.m. Congregational Church, Burlington. $54. Register, 8602814. Martha Whitney leads a class in stress-reducing yoga.

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So imagine D o n Rowe's predicament. Ever since the novel Dracula terrified him as a child, he.longed to adapt it for the stage. But when Rowe, Champlain College's director of theater, finally put pen to paper last April, he found himself smack in the middle of what The New York Times dubbed

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"Mine is a very unique stage production," he said during a rehearsal break last week. "Not one of the stage and film versions of Dracula has been faithful to Stoker's remarkable novel," he added. "Not one has attempted to capture the jigsawpuzzle-like complexity of its epistolary structure or the truly satanic grandeur of its eponymous character.

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It's the kind of artistic control that Rowe could only dream of as a regional actor or while on the drama faculties at Cleveland State and the University of Maine. But with Champlain's $l600-per-show budget, and a facility with no backstage, wings, fly space or dressing rooms, the dream can , turn nightmarish. And with no official theater department or majors, Rowe often finds himself in what he calls "the very ! touchy situation" of choosing 1 staff and community talent over Champlain students in order to ; get a full cast.

"I was writing this during the depths of the crisis in Bosnia," explains Rowe, who read of atrocities and determined that "evil does exist. If it doesn't, why do we keep having wars? If we admitted that evil exists, it would make our policy toward things like Bosnia more realistic."

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Dracula "the year of the vampire."

Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula was on the big screen, and Anne Rice's Interview With the Vampire had just come out on video.

Impending vampire projects were everywhere, including two musicals, a Mel Brooks spoof and a new film vehicle for Eddie Murphy, Vampire in Brooklyn.

And little did Rowe know that this week, when his The Vampire Dracula premieres at Champlain College, blood lust would be the rage on Vermont stages. Johnson State opens its own "freely adapted Broadway

to Stoker —- he calls Coppola's cinematic version "a randy, middle-aged man's coke dream" — he doesn't entirely mind being a part of the vampire craze. "I'm right in with the Zeitgeist," Rowe laughs. "That's not a bad feeling. Usually I'm doing what nobody else is doing."

What he usually does is direct modern classics — Pinter, Shaw, Miller, Chekhov — for the Champlain College Players. It's not a surprising focus for a classically trained thespian — Rowe holds a Ph.D. in literature and drama from New York University.

Rowe's resulting Dracula is "the embodiment of evil" — a direct challenge to what he views as today's "softened" tales of the Count. Aiming to create the most frightening Dracula yet, Rowe realizes today's viewer is accustomed to "serio-comic spoofs of the novel and the vampire genre in general." But even if the images on the Champlain stage are familiar — the coffin, creepy candelabras and Victorian costumes — Rowe is confident he'll convince the most jaded Rocky Horror fans in his audiences that "we take our vampires seriously here."a The^ Vampire dracula, Champlain C o l l e g e P l a y e r s , w r i t t e n ,an£l d i r e c t e d by D o n j f c w e ' ; , J Alumni A u d i t o r i u m , - ^ : Champlain C o l l e „ g e , | > Burlington,v M^vemberlMkt

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ONE-NIGHT RETROSPECTIVE, 100 pieces of art by Shannon Palmer. Old Red Schoolhouse, Moscow, 8772760. November 11,6-10 p.m.

SIGNALS, From Inside and Out, new work by Linda Jones. Living/Learning Gallery, University of Vermont, Burlington, 656-4200. Reception November 13, 5-7 p.m.

HERE COMES THE BRIDE, 19th-century wedding dresses from the permanent collection. Fleming Museum, University ofVermont, Burlington. Opens November 14.

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ART FURNITURE, honors thesis show by Jed Crystal. Colbum Gallery, University of Vermont, Burlington, 656-2014. Through November 21.

SEASON'S FLEETINGS, hand-pulled relief prints and monoprints showing seasonal changes in Vermont, by Roy Newton. Red Onion, Burlington, 8652563. Through December.

THE STORY OF A RELATIONSHIP, narrative paintings by Dug Nap, Studio, Burlington, 658-5123. Call for appointment.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY THROUGH THE SELF-PORTRAIT, student works. McAuley Dining Room, Trinity College, Burlington, 658-0337. Through December 8.

BEHIND THE SECRET WINDOW, paintings by Nelly Toll during the Holocaust.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 863-3403- November 14-December 10.

THE A N I M I S T ' S BOOK OF TREES . a series of paintings on muslin by Sam Kerson. Fletcher Free Library Atrium, Burlington, 863-3403. Through November.

NEW PAINTINGS, by Janet Fredericks. Merrill Lynch, Courthouse Plaza, ALTAR EGOS The Fleming Burlington, 660-1000. Through December.

Museu>n showcasesfivenuptial RECENT PAINTINGS , by Robert Klein. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery, Shelburne, ^Jooksfrom the 19th century in 985-3848. Through November 25. a netv exhibit, "Here Comes REMEMBRANCES, mixed media exhibit by Anne Adoian Nalbandian Bemis. the Bride,"opening Tuesday.

Rhombus Gallery, Burlington, 863-3360. Through November 20.

PEOPLE OF THE DAWN, Contemporary Native American Crafts by 15 Abenaki artists and crafters. Burlington College Community Room, Burlington, 862-9616. Through November 20.

RELIEF WORKS, wood blocks and prints by Bonnie Baxter. McAuley Fine Arts Center, Trinity College, Burlington, 658-0337. Through January 5.

COLLECTIVE HISTORIES, Installations by Suzanne Bocanegra and Michael Oatman focusing on collecting and cugenics. Also MARK WASKOW'S COLLECTION, 19th-and 20th-century objects from the eccentric collections of Vermonter Mark Waskow. Fleming Museum, University ofVermont, Burlington, 656-0750. Through December 15.

PICASSO: MULTIPLE STATE PRINTS, exhibition of lithographs by Pablo Picasso from the Ludwig Collection. Fleming Museum, University ofVermont, Burlington, 656-0750. Through December 10.

PAINTINGS IN PROGRESS by Karen Dawson, Lakeside Gallery and Art Studio, Burlington, 865-1208.

Through December 15.

CARPE DIEM, multi-media works by Vermont artists. Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, 860-4792. Through November 11. . > \ INSIDERS AND OUTSIDERS, work of prisoners and other self-taught artists, Webb & Parsons, Burlington, 658-5123. Through December 15, private showings only.

HOLDING THE CIRCLE, mandala drawings by Alison Granucci. Muddy Waters, Burlington, 862-5630.

Through December.

IMPRESSIONISTIC MONOTYPES; by Elizabeth IlifF. McAuley Arts Center, Trinity College, Burlington, 6580337. Through November.

SHAMANISM, MAGIC AND THE BUSY SPIDER, a touring exhibit of Abenaki history and culture. T.W. Wood Gallery, Vermont College, Montpelier, 828-8743. Through December 15.

GARDEN TERRACOTTA, by Carolyn Peduzzi. Clay Studio Gallery, Montpelier, 223-4220. Through November.

FIBER AND T E X T I L E S , by Elizabeth Billings. Vermont Council on the Arts, Montpelier, 828-3291. Through December 30.

PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS done in northern Vermont by artist Jo Morris. Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, 635-2727. Through November 15.

A QUIET PLACE, contemplative work by six artists and crafters. Vermont State Craft Center/Frog Hollow, Middlebury, 388-3177. Through November 13.

ART OF TOUCH, sculptures and collages by Rosalyn Driscoll meant to be experienced through all the senses.

Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, 388-3711. Through December 10.

THE ARTS OF JAPAN: KIMONOS AND BEYOND, silk clothing and other artifacts. Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, 253-8358. Through November 11.

FALL MEMBERS SHOW, mixed media. Artists Guild, Rochester, 767-4610. Through November.

PORT 0' CALL During the most recent of his four dresses and bad moods; a gentlemanly piano teacher visits to Burlington's Nicaraguan Sister City, Winooski poised at his instrument. While the black and whites photographer Dan Higgins took numerous photos of are more evocative, the color shots reveal Central % W ^ f W M p * America's heat and penchant for Puerto Cabeza's citizenry. This month at the Fletcher Free ' ^ j p p i V ^ V ' T ' i ^ lively hues. Higgins'sojourns in 1 s fed "Port" earned him the familiariLibrary, 30 of his straightforward ' ' r r y> if not always the trust, of its portraits, in black-and-white or ! ' ' "% j <' ; * beleaguered denizens. Casually color, line the Fletcher Room like 1 . - lyijflK or ' formally posed, these are wallflowers at a dance. Not that - s J^MiWmi. his subjects seem shy — old or I • a \ < ^ children, students, workers, 5 young, male or female, most of Mp^^ ! "V shopkeepers, firemen, vendors them gaze steadily at the camera, " „ ^ s \ and aproned women — in and hence the viewer, with an f ? short, a community trying to intensity similar to that of Walker ! , , make the best of things in an Evans' Depression-era poor. / / uncompromising post-war era.

Some of the children and J.. ; One of his portraits features younger adults cooperate with :*•; ''"W "Tiger" Omier, a musician who gleaming smiles; others clearly \ ~ If visited Burlington last year % felt no obligation to do so, and it i fil M ' \ I courtesy of the Sister City is to Higgins' credit that their m %, .< ' Program. This spring the elderly responses seem natural. In his ^ ^ j troubadour was robbed and most Evans-esque portrait, a f"" 'iVt^ f murdered on the streets of thin, stubble-faced old man $' Puerto Cabezas. Higgins' exhibglares through rheumy eyes, , \ it opens with a reception and a mouth pinched and uncompro- > , , 'X raffle for the Tiger Fund mising. Others recall Irving Si4,^a ^ Wednesday, November 8.

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ing out a series of crude, erotic paintings on sheets of metal that he hoped to exhibit next spring.

But on October 19, Michael Tyburski died in his sleep of a cerebral hemorrhage — a passing that was far more peaceful than his life had ever been. This Thursday evening, friends, fellow artists, teachers and students will remember and honor him — and no doubt share many "Michael moments"

and dies in the unique heart of he who carries it.

Christensen says the passage will be read at the memorial — but she's also thinking about revealing Tyburski's film preferences: "Michael loved raunchy movies," she says. "The last movie he probably watched was Pornographic Priestess."

Asked to describe her boyfriend of two and a half years, Christensen doesn't hesitate: "He was not half-way. He could be incredibly charming, outgoing, gregarious — and the opposite. He referred to himself as 'His Majesty the Baby.' The fun half of him was really great."

"I keep thinking what a great debunker he was," says Burlington architect Martin Tierney. "He'd come up to me while I was talking to someone on Church Street and he'd say, 'You know, Martin, I really don't know Then 46, Tyburski whether I should be a was already infamous man or a woman.' locally for his gallant People would be efforts to run a gallery alarmed by Tyburski inion North Street, and tially, Tierney says, "but for causing a minihe always endeared furor with his clown himself to others. I THE G R E A T D E B U N K E R Michael Tyburski and crucifix sculptures think in a sense he kind that some found sacreligious. It of knew who we all were; he — at a memorial service orgaprobably was — Tyburski was made fun of all the things that nized by a committee of his nothing if not in-your-face — were really important to us." friends. but he was characteristically The daunting task of cataIfTyburski knew anyone, it wounded by the backlash. His loguing his artwork has fallen to was children, many of his intentions, say friends, were Tyburski's former girlfriend friends testify, because he was so always to provoke thought, not Tina Christensen and other much a kid himself. He could to hurt or insult people. committee members — his only make dolls "talk" endlessly for Tyburski simply had very amor- sibling, Mark, and mother want Christensen's seven-year-old phous boundaries between good the work to be seen, but are niece. His out-there personality and bad taste — and he preand dedication to art affected uncertain whether any of it ferred the latter. He was the students like no one else, says should be sold or given away. kind of guy who served sprayMaggie Conant, his former Christensen notes that on cheese with orange crackers teacher-supervisor at Burlington Tyburski's storage barn off at a party. If his first impression High School. Mark Tyburski North Street is crammed with was that of a total whacko — says his children "got along art, much of it falling apart. big red glasses sliding down his great" with his brother; they Surviving work will be organose partially obscured a devilwant to claim some of "Uncle nized into a show at the gallery ish, faux-stcm expression — Mike's" art, he says — but not space in the new Jager DiPaola but eventually most people the penis shrine.

Kemp building next January. found him a lovable, inner"He didn't see the value in [his Catherine Clark, Tyburski's child kind of whacko. And as work] himself because he was lawyer and friend, summarizes brilliant as he was uninhibited. too close to it," Christensen his emotional development as Last month, Tyburski was says. "But he was also a real follows: "In the years that I working on his second master's loner and didn't feel like he had knew him, he went from the thesis — in art education from very many friends. It's amazing crib to the playpen." That playSt. Michael's College. (His first when you see how many people ful nature could surface even in was in 18th-century literature were touched by him. the most humorless situations. and landscape cultural history When Clark once represented "Yesterday I was going from Clarke Art Institute.) He him in small claims court for a through some of his stuff, lookhad student-taught at suit against a former sub-tening for a passage," she adds, Burlington High School and ant, the presiding judge asked "and found a booLfilled with Burlington College, and was Tyburski what he wanted. She visual references for him and a employed as a gallery "interclipping from a New York Times repeated the message Tyburski preter" at the Shelburne whispered into her ear: "My Book Review. It was really Museum. Tyburski loved "the client wants the death penalty, appropriate, from Voicing Our discourse," as he called it, and Your Honor." Whereupon the Visions: Writings by Women would engage anyone game judge burst out laughing, Clark Artists. 'All art is in the individenough in debates that reports. "We ended up winning ual,"' she quotes. "'The greatest inevitably evoked Foucault. masterpieces are not the result Recently, he was feverishly turn- of the progress of art...Art lives Continued on page 20 novembe r

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/ Burlington!'" laughs Christensen. "He was proud that he'd fascinated made some kind of impact but couldn't really 'fess up to that. shared a studio for Michael had decided to stay half a year, "is that he would here after his thesis," she adds, always say he was an egomani"and make Burlington his comac with an inferiority complex.' munity." And so he did. • He was so into making art and being an artist, and at the same MichaeFTyburski's memorial time against the whole concept of what it means to be a service is Thursday\ November 9, celebrity or be famous from 7p.m. at the First Baptist Church, your art."

81 St. Paul St. in Burlington. It is "He didn't want to be worshipped," concurs artist Lindsey open to the public. Orange food Vezina. "He had this alcohol will be served at a reception afterand drug problem at one time wards. Donations are welcomed. and still managed to get a coupie of degrees in art. He really struggled to make himself a

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As producer of a public radio documentary on the birth of "The Bomb," Varricchio takes a generally neutral approach to this highly charged issue. But he may not find it easy to maintain scholarly decorum at Trinity's Mann Auditorium, since audience attitudes are likely to be especially edgy in this 50th anniversary year of the atomic incineration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The panel discussion — one of a series of events this year sponsored by the school's Waters Chair — features two speakers who may well stoke intellectual and emotional fires.

One of them is Dr. Roger Meade, an archivist and historian at Los Alamos nuclear laboratory in New Mexico. Meade wrote the official — that is, government-approved — version of the history of the Manhattan Project, which produced the first nuclear weapons.

The other panelist is Dr. Harold Agnew, a participant in the project and an unapologetic defender of the decision to drop the A-bomb on the Japanese. In fact, Agnew was flying in a B-29 alongside the Enola Gay on August 6, 1945 as it unleashed the device that destroyed Hiroshima and changed human history. Then a young physicist, he had personally autographed the bomb that killed an estimated 100,000 Japanese civilians. In a profile of Agnew published a couple of years ago in The New York Times, the retired nuclear energy executive said he was "aching" to go on the Hiroshima bombing run because so many of his friends had been killed in World War II. Besides reviewing the early history of the Atomic Age, the presenters will assess the future of fission and fusion, particularly in regard to nuclear power generation.

Although he was born almost a decade after Hiroshima, the 41-year-old Varricchio has come to know several of the surviving architects of the Manhattan Project.

He interviewed Edward Teller, "the father of the hydrogen bomb," for his half-hour documentary, "Atomic Dawn: 50

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"They were men of conscience," Varricchio says of Teller, Agnew and the other bomb-builders. "They made difficult decisions in a very different atmosphere. The world was at war, and there was the very real threat of freedom being overrun by fascism.

"From the American side," Varricchio continues, "I don't think it was a malicious decision" to drop the bomb.

"Whether it was moral or immoral — that's an individual judgment."

For Agnew, the judgment is unambiguously positive. He's a big booster of things nuclear,

N U C L E A R F R I C T I O N Lou Varricchio the pros and cons despite having received a radiation overdose in 1942 while working as an assistant to Manhattan Project co-director Enrico Fermi. Nor have Agnew's efforts in recent years to help reduce nuclear stockpiles led him to reconsider the bomb's moral meaning.

"We did pretty good," he told the Times in 1992. "We brought a quick end to a devastating war and maintained the peace, and eventually saw democracy prevail."

Agnew is just as convinced about the wisdom of choosing the atom as an energy option.

In his capacity as president of a nuclear reactor manufacturing company, he worked hard to revitalize the industry in the aftermath of the 1979 accident at the Three Mile Island plant in Pennsylvania.

That near-calamity had a direct effect on Varricchio as well. He was present at Three Mile Island as a reporter for a Quakertown, Pennsylvania newspaper. It was a somewhat frightening, "almost science-fiction experience," Varricchio

admits, especially since he was driving toward the crippled plant as thousands of local residents were fleeing in the opposite direction. At the reactor itself, the scene was one of "total chaos," he recalls.

It was Varricchio's coverage of the Three Mile Island disaster that "triggered my interest in both peaceful and military uses of nuclear energy," he explains.

Varricchio continued to cultivate that interest after moving to Vermont in 1989 and taking up his current post at Champlain College. He says he compensates for his lack of formal scientific training by reading voraciously and consulting experts. He has little trouble reaching science stars now that he's established his own reputation by writing, producing and narrating the radio program.

Prior to "Atomic Dawn," Varricchio did another radio documentary, the 1992 "Who's Out There?" speculating on the presence of intelligent life forms elsewhere in the universe.

His one-man company, Labyrinth Productions of Vermont, has also' 1"" " produced "Things That Go Bump in the Night," a scientific examination of supernatural phenomena.

Varricchio, a Middlebury resident, is now completing a documentary about the Viking spacecraft's journey to Mars. It's due to be carried by Public Radio International next July, the 20th anniversary of the Mars landing.

The bomb's chronicles are once again occupying Varricchio as well. He's planning a sequel to "Atomic Dawn" focusing on the initial round of post-World War II nuclear tests by the United States. Set for airing next year, this show will recount the 1946 above-ground explosions at Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific, where some U.S. sailors were exposed to radiation from the blasts. For Varricchio's chosen subject, it will mark another not-so-golden anniversary. • fields

The panel discussion, "The Manhattan Project and Beyond, " is Monday, November 13, 7:30 p.m. at Mann Hall Auditorium, Trinity College. The event is free and open to the public, but reservations are recommended. Call 658-0337, ext. 527.

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I'm not sure Its possible to convey how feebleminded this film is.

Let's just say that if Mel Brooks or the Zucker brothers had crafted it as a parody of the genre, it couldn't have been more hilarious.

Cindy Crawford somehow makes supermodels taking their clothes off" on a giant screen seem like a bad idea as she makes her feature-film debut in the role of a Miami lawyer chased by — who FAIR TO M I D D L I N ' Cindy and Billy act out else? — hit men from the KGB. Luckily, William Baldwins around as a cop who protects her from plausible plot developments.

You can pretty much take it from there: Crawford's penthouse gets blown up — yada yada. She takes a shower — slowmo shot of Baldwin firing at bad guys as he falls backwards into the ocean. Crawford takes another shower — Boris Badenov-styie villains kill everybody either of them ever knew. Car chase. Sex on a moving freight car. More explosions, bad accents, deadpan wisecracks, hokey stunts, more car chases. Another shower. In fact, if not for Cindy Crawford's breasts, the audience would be hard-pressed to be sure it wasn't watching any of a hundred other interchangeable bits of celluloid nonsense.

But it's not Cindy's fault the filmmakers cast an actress with neither experience nor talent. Likewise with first-time director Andy Sipes — this is what you wind up with when you take an 'earn while you learn" approach to big-budget filmmaking. And poor Billy Baldwin cannot be blamed for genetics: he's the least adept of the four actor brothers. No, the blame belongs to the man who has bored the beans out of audiences worldwide, and single-handedly lowered the moviegoing expectations of an entire generation: Joel Silver. If there's such a thing as justice, this film may put a much-needed nail in the coffin of the genre he created. Silver made his bed; its only fair that, along with the rest of us, he fall asleep in it.

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M I G H T Y A P H R O D I T E "Starring and directed by Woody Allen." Don't you just love seeing under a new movie title? T h e latest from one of our all-time greatest filmmakers is a bittersweet meditation on romance and marriage. Something tells me he didn't spend a penny on technical consultants. (See story page 7 this issue.)

ACE V E N T U R A : WHEN NATURE C A L L S Everybody's favorite pompadoured pet detective's back in what will surely prove to be the season's most lucrative bit of lunacy. Ian McNeice and Sophie Okonedo join Jim Carrey as he bungles in the jungle.

A M E R I C A N P R E S I D E N T Rob Reiner directs this comedy concerning a widowed chief executive and the romantic challenges he faces right in front of the nation. With Annette Bening. Written by Aaron (A Few Good Men) Sorkin.

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P E R S U A S I O N ( N R ) This widely-praised adaptation of Jane Austens posthumous novel stars Amanda Root as a young 19th-century woman trapped in one of those maddening star-crossed love affairs. Ciaran Hinds plays the guy who's always just out of reach.

HOME FOR T H E H O L I D A Y S * * * * Jodie Foster directs this ensemble piece about a middle-class Baltimore family that regroups for Thanksgiving. T h e film features Holly Hunter, Robert Downey Jr., Anne Bancroft, Charles Durning and Steve Guttenberg, among others, and is anything but a turkey.

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C O P Y C A T * * * * Imitation is the sincerest form of slaughter for the psycho at the center of Jon (Sommersby) Amiel's latest. Holly Hunter and Sigourney Weaver team up to track a sociopath responsible for a series of slayings done in the distinctive styles of the worids most famous mass murderers.

GET SHORTY * * * * John Travolta stars in Barry {Addams Family) Sonnenfeld's adaptation of Elmore Leonard's comic best-seller about a Miami mobster who goes to Hollywood and gets mixed up in a really unsavory business — the movies.

NOW AND T H E N * * It may sound like the scary sci-fi story of a hare-brained experiment gone awry: four perfecdy normal young girls transformed into Demi Moore, Rosie O'Donnell, Rita Wilson and Melanie Griffith! What we have here, however, is an only so-so, frequendy cornball, character study about friends coming of age in the South.

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The Big Green (Sat & Sun) 10:25, 12:25, 2:05.

Seven 12:45, 3:45, 6:35, 9:30.

Morning shows weekend only.

SHOWCASE CINEMAS 5 Williston Road, S. Burlington, 863-4494.

Ace Ventura: Nature Calls* 12:15, 2:35, 5, 7:15, 9:45. Now and Then 12, 2:25, 4:30, 6:50, 9:35.

Fair Game 12:50, 3:50, 7:10, 9:40. Vampire in Brooklyn 10. Powder 12:45, 3:30, 7:05, 9:25.

American Quilt 1, 3:40, 7.

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Persuasion 1:40, 4:20, 6:50, 9:10. Get Shorty 1, 3:10, 5:20, 7:40, 10. Seven 1:20, 4, 6:40, 9:20.

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A Month By the Lake 6:30, 8:30.

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BY ROB BULIMY (Mar. 21 -Apr. 19): The definition of magic, according to Brezsny's Unabridged Dictionary, is as follows: creating changes to accomplish the desires of one's higher self. The Four Laws of Magic, as formulated by mystery schools thousands of years ago, are as follows: to know, to will, to dare, to keep silent. I'm bringing these matters up for two reasons: 1) to make sure the magic you attempt this week isn't dedicated to the desires of your lower self, and 2) to urge you not to underestimate the importance of the fourth Law of Magic It s crucial that you don't'gab and chat about the Big Transformation to those who aren't going to help you with it and who dont need to know about it.

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): Your secret weapons this week are beauty and truth. The less nasty and manipulative you are in the way you express your aggression, the more likely it is you'll win (or at least neutralize) every struggle. Take a cue from the convenience stores that chase away drug dealers loitering outside by blasting Mozart and Beethoven on loudspeakers. This is not, by the way, the same as a tum-the-other-cheek policy. The object is not to be nice and polite and passive, "but to be disarmingly candid and forcefully graceful and righteously commanding.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If you're an athlete, I predict you're about to discover how to make a tiny adjustment in your technique that markedly improves your game. If you're a pilot on a trans-oceanic flight, I'll take a wild guess and say that it's probably time to initiate a midcourse correction so as to avoid a brewing storm. And if you're just a normal person with a car, body or relationship that hasn't had a check-up lately, 1 urge you to fix what ain't broke.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Metaphorically speaking, you're now in labor and due to give birth very soon. It's as if you're dilated nine centimeters and the contractions are coming two minutes apart. This is the hardest part. In the extremity of your discomfort you might start demanding something to knock you out. But I implore you to stay awake and alert right through till the end. I promise that the ordeal is almost over — and that it will be followed by a shimmering

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If I were producing a school play right now, I'd want you to play the part of a tree. How would you feel about that? Would you be willing to throw yourself into the part with all your passion and intelligence? Outwardly, of course, it might not look like you'd be doing much, but to create the right effect youd have to summon an incredibly rich inner experience of what it means to be silent and rooted and steady and very much in sync with the rhythms of the seasons. By the way, would you also be willing to be the understudy for the part of the well?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Holding a sheaf of papers covered with notes, the young student goes up to the older woman at the blackboard. "But teacher!" she opines with exasperation. "There could be a hundred different correct answers to this question!" The teacher smiles with satisfaction, sensing the student is on the verge of a lesson that'll nourish her for years. "That's right, dear." The student presses further. "But which answer do I give if I want to get full credit?" Pausing only a moment, the teacher almost whispers her reply in a conspiratorial tone: "Whichever answer reminds you of a rose blooming in the snow."

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Welcome to the third session of our project to make you richer quicker. Here's this weeks timely wealth-building tip: There is a valuable resource right under your nose. No one sees it for what it is. This asset may even be dormant or hidden within a place or situation or person that is generally considered nearly worthless. As you meditate on this puzzle, take your cue from the yew tree, which for decades has been regarded as garbage by the timber industry. Only recendy have researchers found that its bark and needles contain a natural drug effective in treating some forms of cancer.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Your new vocabulary word for the week is pyrokleptomania. It describes the syndrome of someone who has a compulsion to steal fire — like that Prometheus dude in Greek mythology who pilfered a glowing coal from the gods and gave it as a gift to humankind. The gods were pissed about it and ended up chaining him fo a rock, where a vulture chewed on his liver for all eternity. Pyrokleptomania is your special term for the week because I sense you may be experiencing an urge very much like it. Alas, the "fire" you're eyeing isn't quite as spectacular as Prometheus's. But then your punishment will be nowhere near as severe as his — even if

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• so who ,.„„ . „ . „ . „ _ . . . . ..... in order to make lots of y like to expand the definition to include any act in which you trade authenticity for popularity; any behavior i« which you seek power or praise at the expense of t r u _ _ heart. Why am I bringing this up now? To sell out or not to sell out is one of the core issues of every Sagittarians life. Its a challenge that'll just keep testing you and testing you till the end of your"days. But maybe none of those tests will be as tricky and fun and difficult as the one that's approaching.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Playtime. Even if you're a parent, this week you'll feel like one of the kids playing without mom and dad nosing around. Even if you're a boss, you'll feel like some big bad authority has gone on sabbatical. It'll be as if you've suddenly shaken a spy you didn't know was tailing you. A Freudian might say that your superego is out to lunch. A Jungian might say that your Inner Critic has taken a pratfall. I'll just note that you're free at last, free at last, good God almighty, free at last — at least for a couple weeks.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In a few months the world's foremost whacked-out but brilliant maniacs are scheduled to convene for history's First International Conference on Mad Science. I'd be willing to bet that Aquarians will constitute far more than one-12th of the mad scientists in attendance. The hosts are already accepting papers for the conference, and I thought all you nutty geniuses should know, since you're not only at the height of your crazy wisdom right now — you're also at a point in your astrological cycle when you're most likely to be able to get people to believe in your weird brainstorms.

Take your inspiration from Robert Anton Wilsons formulation: "Reality is what you can get away with."

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar 20): So you want me to tell you how to run your life, eh? You're in one of those moods when you're ready to throw up your hands and surrender all your authority to some smart or nice or magnetic know-it-all? Sorry. I don't do that type of thing. I'm here for one reason, and that's to get you better acquainted with your inner genius. And besides, it's exactly at a moment like this, when you're tempted to give up, that its most crucial to stop listening to anyone who pretends he knows what's best for you. • © Copyright! 199^

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buyer was having second thoughts. Bill Lockwood of Country Home Products declined to comment.

Burns has other reasons to be concerned. With proper warning, but not a whole lot of public attention, the first set of zoning board hearings closed without a hitch. But concerns have since been raised about the septic system, which is not adequate for the volume of activity proposed.

And traffic is a hot issue due to a confluence of projects that impact the old-fashioned intersection at the Old Brick Store: ferry upgrades, the lowering of the Bostwick Road underpass, and a potential train station on Ferry Road. "There are going to be more hearings," says James Taggart of the Charlotte Zoning Board. The town is looking to the Regional Planning Commission to help

administer a traffic study.

As yet, no one has publically raised any issues around the historic or community function of the building. But Jim Dickerson has been thinking about both for the past year. Last November the local antiques dealer leased the Old Lantern for his own business because he "couldn't bear to see it go away." When he wasn't sorting antiques or running auctions, he rented the room out for weddings, conventions and retirement parties. He lost about $10,000 on the deal, but "it was worth it," Dickerson says. "Thisis not just a building, it's an asset. To lose it is to lose something that can never be replaced." •

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