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Vol, XClll, No 105

Established 1894

Unwersrty of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

ifth-‘Dﬁtt‘ﬂt‘i'll since 191'] {.ti

.1 r/. l unwary 6,1990

Soviet leader tells Communists it’s time to loosen ‘iron

By MARK J. PORUBCANSKY

A:')L}i.i .llt‘t’i P'U‘S

.\tt tst (iyy' Mikhail S. Gorba-
cliey told the Communist Party
leadership yesterday that the time
has i our. to loosen the party's iron
grip oti power and compete with
others to: the right to rule the So-
\t ll ll:.lll,

iils laridtttark speech to the par-
ty s i ‘ writ (‘oinnuttee catne a day
alter perhaps the largest protest in
\losm'y am e the Bolshevik revo-
'ulioti

.\t i'-.t.sl 100,000 impassioned cit«
i/ens triarcherl to the Kremlin. de-
lltdlidlllﬂ that the party embrace re-
loiiii and end eyclustve control of
the not etniuetrt,

\t il‘i opening session ()le pit/0L

.‘.i'. t‘eiitral (‘ommittee

meeting, Gorbachev made essen—
tially the same proposal.

The party “intends to struggle for
the role of ruling party. biit do it
strictly in the framework of the
democratic process. l'CjL‘L‘llng any
kind of legal or political advan~
tage." Gorbachev told the policy
tnaking body.

The party wrll “present its own
program, put it out for discussion,
cooperate with other public-
political forces," the Soviet leader
said in remarks distributed by the
Tass news agency.

The meeting comes at a time of
growing dissatisfaction with the
Communist leadership by the popu—
lace plagued by chronic shortages
and ethnic unrest.

The Tass news agency reported
that Gorbachev urged the party to

move up the next (.‘omrnrrnrst l’arty
congress. theoretically the party‘s
highest-ranking body, to late June.

Presumably it would be to allow
him to choose a new Central Corti-
niittee and further ailyance radical
reforms tn the party.

The ZSI-member Central Corri-
mittee, despite extensive changes
tnade by (iorbachey in recent years,
is still regarded by reformers as a
bastion of party conseryanyes who
worry that (iorbacliev's reforms are
leading the country to economic
collapse and ethnic strife

The proposed changes by (iorba-
chev would meet some of the de-
mands of the reformers who rallied
an estimated 200,000 people iirst
outside the Kremlin on Sunday.

One of their leaders, Communist
reformer Boris N. Yeltsin, said the

Central Conitriittee's plenary ru~er
ing represented the party . ‘.asi
chance."

Tass said Yeltsin. who reruutr~ .1
Central Comrnrttee member tic‘sl'tllc‘
his populist campaign against p lily
privilege, was one ol those who
spoke after (iorbachey during the
opening session ot the (’i-iitr il
Committee meeting.

Gorbachev's statement to (‘eii
tral Committee meeting. w high had
been anticipated for \\L'K'i’\\ and
pected to turn into a bani: between
conservatives and
pushed the party toward elitiuira
tron of its constitutionally guaran
teed position as the "leading and
gtriding force" of Soviet socret.

The former Soviet satellitp oi
Eastern Europe and party is'cltir‘l a.
the Soviet Baltic l'c‘pllhilt's .li'.‘ i l:

l’c‘ft‘l’illi'l‘v.

| Radio station’s taller tower making waves

By niioim BOWLES

‘ ‘j VV'iol

‘ip're in Louisville are
l i eyrngton radio sta-
‘l added to their lis‘
\\‘l‘KY~91.3,UK‘s
:i- ;":-» radio station, re—
.i lied to a taller tower

v r .ised lls power from

“A l'll‘fllt) yy‘tttts‘.

'r at that your power has
_' a «d. enabling we here
- {evil ,oirntry to receive
Anni station." wrote
in a letter to the

I
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~ .ool type ﬁll, you
tat your station nicely
"it \Vl-‘l’l. Jan radio in

:iatton‘s oldest
university-

th-
l‘ -\'
Miro-ll.
have broadened
. s audience. its

l‘.yrl\s been able to

z a tire towards London
said Roger (‘hessen
general manager.

' non ot the outskirts of
' rm and the outskirts
-‘l - and the fact that our
reaching up farther
lsz'rittrtky ts wonder»

it‘l' srt'y s ll has received

.ilts trotii the region
‘llt‘i's

‘i' Iirdttits went ski

v: M in Indiana. He satd

-:_~.:nali all the way

“CHAEL CLEVENGER’ “We \'

WUKY General Manager Roger Chesser says one of the benetits ot a new tower lS more “93“" rr

tip to Florence. Kentucky." (‘hes~
ser said.

Larry Blerberg of lili/abcth~
town. Kyu. who recently was able
to ttrne the station in for the first
time, said the station offers rtiore
choice to listeners lll his area

“lilt/abcthtoyyn is art area that‘s
irtidersery'ed" iii the type of pro
graniming \‘y'l KY otters. he said.

“1 can get two (public radioi sta-
tions. so this makes a third."

In addition to the expanding the
listening area. the station now can
provide better service to the Les
ington area. as mangers say.

"The benefits of the power in
crease include better quality
sound tor listeners in i'il\\‘lls‘
County and the ability to reach

new listeners outside of lay xii.
(‘liesser said.

The protect. which was i:i ' .~
planning for over four a c‘rrl‘
i|lllde securing a leilerai t
and finding another \lilllwll
would share tower

'yVl KY,

\l'rtci

See 514 I I().\‘.\. Hack 1, .i r

grip’

.‘tratru Morbachcy
'tttr'i :iis‘ .i'llnll')
power
party
1 'tlll‘vc‘ iltltilt‘s
'r.i'.ors on \irnday
. a er mytrr iti political piiirair-ti ,: . ' . _ .._ll‘.ll:.' t orrirtiutrrst
‘ltlll‘th‘. said. ‘lhisptoc . . ' .. " .t.f 'Rc»

i (‘ortintir

:Ll‘-t'll 'l',‘ their my. illslyl i: "‘

thrivir,‘ -"l iii.t’lil:’

p»i'itr_.il f‘c'itllllt»
mitt. it it.’ iltts sitc'ltﬁlilr'llt'il :ih 'i I ' .' if iii rlt lll‘c'
.thitzietrt at the expense ot the pat‘
,t;‘;‘.tl.tl‘.l hate beutr acci‘rripanr
.itr.'c to
.t .iliwti L“ pitii
. ‘- l . \ Ll V» d\
.dc'. tired llru' tr. ', "li‘t’l rey

‘.rir‘y ‘i_t\.'. !

.. ... .. party

~tanri yioirri: . . tin;

.tll:i iii“

til it..
(rltri‘rtci-

yil’si report .

on ( entral
'r rutl at pop-r
t.tl‘.'_‘\'s 'lhe
:i'i; dismal
stinh has
.rvltslll’vt‘r

.tllslrl1rliyilirtr

Former cheerleader
may run for SGA head

By GREGORY A HALL

,u w, .

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ltalc Baldwin. .1 g. .;.
t rs cheerleader .«li

partially paraly/ed low: . .1
routine more than three ~-

l .

aso. ~-ald h: is can

tanning tor §tird'tit t-w‘.

l l or \ "octritton pram? tit
italil-srn. a t

i‘lli to (M .

ll‘tl .L'illll‘yl
t- '

‘rolitirati

'.:‘ilit‘l ll

L:l‘liit:

3 'rl!‘ utl'i ii. 1‘5 'is' Kilil

ti ls.
dl probably take a '

" don't want to to t":-e to .lo the rob

rid ’tdidn‘t ~tari tlti- it: - . '.: til‘lli l.t.sl week."
lltc lrlllV‘t‘rsll:-'~ ~rri= u attire the StiA president
;.i.- a ftrll»ttme «idler: , i .f-‘f‘i! italdwin would be re
aimed to take tut. rzoirrs "train it. lortirne. an asso-
trilt‘ iic‘rlll tn Iilt‘l t‘ll i-T

{would encora l.'c‘ hair ;
lint l ohtnan s ll l 1' win.“
till. .otnbrne law .
"zii surprised '3 a' ‘»‘l‘l.
'itt’s in graduate \ it“. : . .. c ‘. snotty; tt;t..~ to spend 5‘
fiat: :irst int»

“ i‘sl

,‘ .ti, i La‘lk‘ ht.‘ Lit‘Cs.”

t. r Baldwin to success»
l‘iihvi E ‘ ,
:one i'l tt‘.‘ busiest

irrzsata titties l

r .

-:" ic‘ think '.

.tlc‘ :'\t>y‘clt'd li‘ Ltlt

\"c' S“ \. tints {Wage

UK faculty trying to incorporate ‘civie virtue’ into classes

at, .lllt.l[ ESSELMAN

y'l/i'ritl.‘

‘ that the lilanSll)’ ts

.. . enough to promote stir-
.t ' .ti issues of ptrbltc

i. 1...:ilty and stall are

to incorporate the
in the class

\_[.

xirttrc”

\ ulty and staff mem-
rl iltal sitllcc‘l‘tt Ill Ll rare
..pirii.it‘y conference on
J last 1s t'c‘k til lhc‘ Cama-
liaii ili-.. . .lirting which they at-
ttuipitd i. il-‘illly‘ ‘ civic virtue" and
doth-std was s they cart raise stu»
.ti itl- ir-Hrtii iiess ot civic responsi-
i‘li.ly .l.‘ ihi academic arena.
l l: ~rs an tftort to explore ways
we ..;ii iuake students more con-
uioa or the public good." said
l an. sat at ting dean of under—
:‘ladtral: sillril‘yW and former direc‘
lot it ‘il‘ l rayersiry Studies Pro—
itraii. .y iltc li sponsored the
ionivi llcr' last Thursday. “l'm
ital.» rotation-d that the students‘
llilt’lic'c not growth and their con-
cern h-i :li. .onrtiion good are tied

i‘il
”litti. .l

(h. tti‘i

closely together.”

Interest iii this iopit among Ia-
cttlty' and stall is so .y idcsptcad. iri
fact. that conference oigani/ers
originally had to tutti down about
12 appltcaiits lot the cunlcrence.
Syyilt said. After a keynote address
by Jean ltethkc i’isillltlll. a noted
scholar arid writer on matters of et-
vic responsibility , the group partici—
pated in small group til\tlts.\'ltlll>i
about the idea of cry ic y irtire. tech»
niques lll which to raise students"
interest in public issues; and specif-
rc issues of concern to dtlferent dis-
ciplines.

“It was obyiotrsly a case where
this was something that needed to
be talked about and was an issue of
common concern." Swift said. “A
lot of good ideas were tossed
around."

Ernie Yanarella. a political
science professor. said he came
away from the conference "on a
real emotional high.”

“There was a fairly deep concern
that it ts a part of our iob as ta-
crrlty members to instill a sense of
civic responsibility iti oirr slu‘

"There was a fairly deep concern that it is a par: ..:
otit‘job as faculty ttienibers to itistill a sense or cry it
responsibility in our students.”

dents." he said. “i think the cooler;
crice has seryed as a lightning rod
for very widespread concern on the
campus.”

James Applegate, a cotritiiunrca-
trons professor. acknowledged that
the concept ol civic yirttie 'does
sound a little dil'licult to set a
handle on." but he pirt ii iii the .on-
text of a person's use of the indi»
vidual freedom that comes iii a dc;
mocracy.

The tnarn question. he said. is
“how can I think about wliai to do
with that freedom and power" to
benefit the common good. not iirst
personal goals

“People want to do things. the
question is inst how.” he said.
stressing that it should be tlirotrgh
voluntary coniiiiitments. not yyith

lirnie tartan-Ila.
political science professor

guilt-pressured obligata ii

.-\nd tnarry pr‘ote sots at... Lii. .
thianhe classroom
enyirontiient iii
awareness of the need
commitments and otter strg‘g'c‘slli‘lis
of ways for students to bctotii; i.
yolved, no matter what thi ll .ii..i oi
study.

“I think really you can Iiiid way s
to involve students in arty ri|\\l
pltne." said iotrrnalistn professor
Marta Braden. “I think it‘s dettnite
Iy important that it be taught i'l the
classroom. and more than that. that
it be a peryasrye force on . .lilll‘lls

Braden said she easily can ::.coi
porate the idea of cry ic rt‘\[‘y‘ll‘-ii‘li
ity in her classes simply be il.t-.li.l
students read newspapers yy htit hi
they gain a civic education

~ill‘illyi ”c
t l .
‘~\f‘l\if il‘ mils.

litl lilt‘

.l iii it liiii s

l‘llll .iti
ls ii iciilifIJ‘ V |..
:.i.iipthtir.:\1ltitis .

iilcl iysty\ l t We

illccli'i ﬂit" t‘l\

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it l‘i.ltri. \ . .v‘ _. ;‘\\

tin. . I. lirdc‘tns

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.a :x ;'ls\‘\ aili rst‘iip. .ita

‘iic‘sti‘lllllg a outstioa t 'l ' .. .. into .i cunt-tent

‘clsiis'
\.tlli suit a little bit tin-it- .i. .uaseil on tl\|c \rrtirc,

"Etc iilca til i l'ylc 1 izt‘a » Iti l‘irs thought. l‘\ttthia
’i sitiiic‘i‘ll ilsl|\lllt s. l'a-
and

programs lot

tssc‘litiali‘» it \

r‘l

.\ .‘,‘ C‘t'

i‘liE:

n liirs how ._ ictai' ’éot’i'_.'_1ll_tli‘.liic‘l

‘..' i .trirt

ilssii lli
halts li‘ iit‘\c'iy)[l lilt'il
She said

watrt to tittd ttrcati

itllevc ol i‘lldlllldcy‘ ‘oni ‘i't Pslii\ she
l’lcci‘iﬁ .t.d it ls ilirtitirlt to add .i .‘ {its
ya responsibility to typical trittiirs

l- \('I try , Back page

try and pliaitiiacoloey claw. s.

Viewpoint

Cartoons not as

bad as they look.
Column, Page 6.

Sports

Rupp fever

contagious.
Column, Page 5.

Weather

Today: Cloudy. warm
High 55°

Tomorrow: Rainy
High 45°

2 — Kentucky Kernel, Tuesday, February 6, 1990

10 Gaines fellowships to be awarded soon

By KYM VOORHEES
t' :vit'iouung Writer

'l‘eii (laines Fellowships will be
.i.\.tl’tlt‘tl to eligible students begin-
iiiiig with the Fall 1090 semester.

I he program. fttnded by John R.
and loan it. Gaines, was established
to turther the study of humanities.
lhe l'tiiversity then matched the
initial funds to pay for the current
tellow ship program.

.»\ny student at UK or in the
Li‘lllllltlllli)‘ college system is en-
.ouraged to apply. Students must
have two years of undergraduate
study eompleted and at least two
years of study remaining. Fellows
will receive $3,000 their junior
\ear and 53.000 their senior year.
Students lll a live-year program

will be eligible tor the fellowship
in the last two years of study.

As a junior fellow. students take
a two-semester seminar to the hit
mantties for six credit hours. They
also attend a OllL‘AL'R‘tlll—llttllf thesis
workshop leading to their thesis
prospectus.

“They have as matty as twelve
different professors (in the semiA
narsl," Howard said. “They have a
high level of expertise lll their field
and are able to relate their specialty
to the humanities."

“Continuation in the second year
is contingent on meeting the re—
quirements for the first year and art
honors grade point average," said
Howard,

As a senior fellow, students write
an undergraduate thesis. usually a

UK students explored

By KYM VOORHEES
‘jntributing Writer

lit an effort to strengthen ties be-
»een countries. five UK students
‘ ere selected to visa the Soviet
‘. iiion over Christmas break.

the students, along with 43 oth-
.-.- college and university students
l.. ..i the l]nited States visited Le-
l‘ mead. Moscow, and Vilnius.
1 t'it..ini.i. as part of a student lead-
e: lop conference.

the purpose of the visit was a
g vutetenee. cosponsored by the
i Li/eii l-‘xehange Council (CEC)
.i'id ll e .~\.mei.ean Association of
i lll\t‘l\ll_\ Students (AAUS), held
at Vilnius State University where
student leaders from both countries
met to discuss political and social
i~sllt'.\.

“\\ e discussed Soviet and Ameri-
..iit e‘tllledlltlll. culture. and the po-
:.:i at and social changes going on
:. the '~-torld and especially in the
{idllle region," said Kim Fowler,
widen: Government Association

t'etliih‘ director of special con-

cerns. “We had discussions with
Soviet students. administrators, po-
litical leaders, and members of the
SOviet and American press."

The emphasis of the trip was on
meetings between Soviet and
American student leaders to discuss
student govemment and leadership
and exchange information about
each system, said Jennifer Howard,
president of the l'ls' chapter of Am-
nesty lntemational.

In addition to seminars and meet-
ings, American students made vis-
its to the homes ot their hosts.
They watched Soviet television. ate
dinner, and introduced their hosts to
iced tea.

The students spent three days ttt
both Moscow and Leningtad. and
six days in Vilnius, Lllhtldlllﬂ.

Lithuania was selected .l~ a possi-
ble site for the cotil‘cretttt by the
CEC and then chosen by the
AAUS.

“Most students tin Lithuanial are
proficient in English and it was in-
teresting for us because of all that
is going on in that region now,“

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subject close to their major, Ho
ward said. The student chooses the
subject with no restriction other
than relating it to the humanities.

Senior fellows are supervised by
a three member faculty advisory
committee selected by the student.

While conducting research lor the
thesis, students may receive funds
to cover travel expenses related to
their stttdv frotn the Gaines Fellow ,
ship.

Fellowships are given on a com-
petitive basis to students with out
standing academic standing, ability
to complete independent research
and study. and written and oral abil-
ity.

“There is no minimum grade
point average. but we do look for a
strong student,” said Nancy llo-

ward. the administrative assistant
with the Gaines Center for the Hit-
manities.

To apply, students must be inter
ested in the humanities, submit an
application form, a college tran~
script, a statement describing the
student's academic and community
achievements. two letters of recom-
mendation from two instructors de~
scribing the applicant's ability and
qualities, and an essay explaining
the benefits advanced study in the
humanities will have in their life.

Three faculty members on the
Gaines Center Advisory Commit-
tee read the applications and choose
the fellows.

The deadline for applying for the
fellowship is tomorrow.

USSR as part of trip

said Fowler, a communications
senior.

The conference was the first of
its kind to be held in the Soviet
Union.

“When we went to Lithuania. it
was the first time they’d ever had a
group of students (from the US,)
visit," said Howard, a Russian and
Eastern European studies senior.

The changes occurring within
this region are having a great im-
pact on student govemmcnts.

“Previously. student govemment
was linked with the communist
party: there wasn't a real choice."
said Howartl. “There is much more
of a choice as to how student lead~
ers are selected."

According to Howard, the struc-
ture of student government has
changed. The student leaders are
more representative of the entire
student body. They feel they have
more control and a greater voice in
campus operations.

The idea for the program came tn
1987 when Mikhail Gorbachev
spoke to the AAUS board and they

discussed the idea for an exchange.
Fowler said.

This trip was the first for the
program, but the AAUS plans to
make it an annual event.

“This will definitely be an annu-
al exchange, and discussions are be-
ing made right now to bring stu-
dents to the U.S.,” Howard said.
“An attempt to possibly do this in
South Africa is being discussed."

“The Third World countries are a
real big issue with the AAUS,"
Fowler said. “Right now the
AAUS is really concentrating on
an annual program with the Soviet
L'niort."

These first 48 students have
opened the world to the other stu-
dents who follow them in this pro-
gram.

“Hopefully, we set a precedent
for more kinds of things (exchang-
es) like this," Howard said.

AAUS received a wide range of
applications, according to Fowler.
Forty-seven states were represented,
and students with varied majors ap-
plied.

Trial of local activist
gets underway today

By MICHAEL L. JONES
Editorial Editor

The trial of UK student Chris
Bush, a local social activist, is
scheduled to begin this morning
in Fayette County District
Court.

Bush, an accounting sopho-
more, faces charges of criminal
trespassing and disorderly con-
duct stemming from two inci-
dents on campus last semester.

Bush was arrested on Sept.
26 and charged with criminal
trespassing after refusing to
leave the office of Student Cen~
ter Director Frank Harris. Bush
was released on bail the next day
but was arrested again for disor-
derly conduct for refusing to
leave the office of then-UK Pres-
ident David Roselle.

Bush said he was protesting
efforts by administrators to get
him kicked off campus.

Bush, who was not enrolled in
school at the time, was involved
in a number of campus activist
groups, including Socially Cori.
cerned Students and Democratic
Socialists of America. He said
those activities made him un-
popular with the administration.

“They get their way most of
the time and they can't stand it
when someone stands up to
them,” Bush said. “I feel that
what they have done is wrong. I

hope the jury will see the light
arid side with me."

Bush will represent himself in
court because presiding Judge
Lewis Paisley has ruled him in-
eligible for free council.

Bush said that an attorney
would cost $500 and can't afford
to hire one. Bush said he makes
only “pocket money" teaching
chess and has no time to work
between classes and political ac-
tivities.

“I‘m at a great disadvantage
without an attorney," Bush said.
“It’s outrageous what (Paisley)
did”

Bush said he will appeal for
that reason in the event he
should lose the case.

“I can’t get a fair trial by any-
one in this state,“ Bush said.
“They (University officials) are
so intoxicated by their power
and their arrogance. It’s incredi-
ble the way that they are act—
ing."

Gary Payne, the judge who
originally banned Bush from
campus, is a law professor at
UK.

Judge Julia Tackett, who we
sided over Bush’s first pretrial
hearing, upheld the ban on Bush
and then took herself off the
case, citing a potential conﬂict
of interest. Tackett is a member
of the UK Board of Trustees.

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Writer seeks anonymity

By TOM LACEKY
Associated Press

BIG TIMBER, Mont. ~— The
gravel road to Tom McGuane’s
ranch runs by snow-dusted pastures
aswarm with browsing mule deer
and antelope, the Absaroka Moun—
tains looming over all.

It isn’t painted on velvet:
McGuane the rancher really lives in
the pastoral Montana splendor that
McGuane the novelist writes about
so lovingly.

McGuane the man, however,
seems to have achieved some of the
serenity that the angst-ridden,
quirky characters of his seven nov-
els only long for.

He takes no credit for it. The rage
that drove him in his emly career,
he says, has simply run its course.

The rage flared and guttered in the
"/0s, when McGuane became a ce-
lebrity in the worst sense — he
says “sociopath” —— with drugs,
booze, actresses, fast cars and fa-
mous friends.

The change has made his latest
novel, Keep the Change, his most
humane yet, he said.

It has been selling better than
any of his earlier books, and nearly
all the reviews are good. It has
made several regional best-seller
lists, including those of Denver,
Seattle and the Village Voice in
New York. It's being sold in trans—
lation in [0 foreign countries.

"The reader response is what has
been best," McGuane said, citing
letters and personal comments.

McGuane was not yet 30 when
The Sporting Club burst onto the
scene in I969 and introduced him
as a tlamboyzuit, satirical writer to
watch. The Bushwhacked Piano in
I071 and Ninety-two in the Shade
in l‘)73 proved he was no llash in
the part, but disappointment came
with fame.

His fourth novel, Panama, in
1077, was widely vilified as a self-
indulgent. autobiographical howl of
despair. But now, sitting in his
ranch house, McGuane says it was
mostly funny

“I remember laughing a lot while
I was writing it. at least," he said.

.Vohody'.r Angel (1982) marked
a slight turn toward a kinder, gen-
tlcr McGuane, and Something To
Be Desired (1984‘) continued that
shift. Keep the Change closes on a
typically ambiguous note, but. the
ambiguity is hopeful.

McGuane, 50, deals with familiar
themes in Keep the Change, hUl he
spins them out in unexpected ways.

Ioe Starling Jr. is a successful
btit alienated young New York
painter struggling with his memo-
ries of an overpowering, alcoholic

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father and vacillating between two
beautiful women, one the wife of
another man.

When an emotional block sty-
mies his art career, he flees to the
family owned Montana ranch where
he worked as a teen-ager and where
he first bedded one of his two
loves, Ellen.

The eventual defeats that
McGuane inﬂicts on Joe are typical
McGuane, but relieved this time by
elements of forgiveness and hope,
at least, for reconciliation.

The fact that all of his books are
still in print shows that he has a
loyal following of serious fiction
devotees, McGuane said.

He added that some of them may
not get around to buying his books
for two years after they come out,
but they do read them.

A lot of writers can do one thing
amazingly well but fail to put to-
gether all the elements necessary to
sustain readers‘ interest, he said.

“The trick is to stay alive, really,
not to knock one out of the park."

Despite his admiration for the
Montana landscape, McGuane‘s
novels have a recurrent theme of
decadence in the culture of the
American West.

He noted that many so-called
“Montana" writers, such as Norman
Maclcan arid Wallace Stegner, have
been gorte froth the state for dec~
ades.

“There is a kind of ironic gap be-
tween the landscape and the civili-
zation of the West," he said.

McGuane does not dispute a re-
cent magazine article that included
him among a “new breed" of writer
showing a darker side of the West.
It‘s high time that side was exam-
ined, he said.

“There was a time when cowboys
around here would cotne to town to
see Gene Autry movies," he said.
“This sort of seltladulatory view
needs revising."

His friends and neighbors in the
Boulder River Valley know little
about his novels, and most would
not care for them anyway,
McGuane said without complaint.
He described his novels as “almost,
experimental fiction" with little ap-
peal for the average reader.

If they ask about his writing, he
gives them An Outside Chance, his
1984 book of essays on sports.

“I have to be careful," he said. "I
don't want to start writing things
just so they can understand them."

Most of his friends now are
neighbors, not the glitterati who
cooperated in his early escapades,
and the McGuanes are genuinely in-
volved in the comm unity, he said.

“It would be unbearable to write
all the time," he said.

Kentucky Kernel, Tuesday, February 6, 1990 — 3

A reception was held Sunday for the opening of the Peruvi‘
an artifacts exhibit at the UK Art Museum.

By JAY SHARBUTT
Assoeiated Press

NEW YORK ~ Elvrs Presley.
42, is still dead. But try to tell that
to fans of the man who sang arias
with such lyrics as “You ain't no—
thin‘ but a hound dog.“ They‘ll just
boo you and maybe whomp you
upside the head.

They have a very big treat com-
ing up this week: ABC’s “Elvis," a
half-hour series about the early.
scuffling part of his career. the
show premieres tonight and begins
its regular run Sunday.

Created by Rick Husky, and
tilined iti Memphis, Tenn, this El-
yis is played by Michael St, (ier-
ard. He vaguely resembles Presley.
Alas, he just doesn‘t set-in as ac-
complished an actor.

But ElVlS fans Will be hard
pressed to find fault with the series,
which has three executiye producers

, one of them the Rings ex-wit'e.
Priscilla — and warns all that it is
a “dramatization" ol merits iii I’re~
sley’s life.

The show's tone is highly reye-
renttal, much in the manner ol a

KAREN BALLARD Kernel Sta"

Comic Relief presents
check for the homeless

Associated Press

NEW YORK - “This is tortilla
money from Man’uel Noriega."
Robin Williams told Mayor David
Dinkins as he presented the city
with a $227,000 check for the
homeless from Comic Relief.

“This is from Leona Helmsley's
legal fund," he said Sunday as he
signed over the check at St. \'in-
cent’s Medical Center.

"For once. a check that is not iii
the mail,“ [)inkins replied Sunday.

The money comes from the 8*)
million that have been raised by
Comic Relief, the HBO tclethon
that featured Williams, Whoopi
Goldberg, Billy Crystal anti other
top comedians.

Comic Relief has donated funds-
to help the homeless in 23 cities. It
has given New York $580,000,
which was administered through St.

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documentary about Abraham I to
coin or Gandhi.

llltisc‘ expecting good ol‘ bog.
litiitior .trc tidyiseil to rent a -.:t.'.i'.
llurt Reynolds flick, “\\'_\\', anti thu
l)l\lt‘ I,)ancekings.”

Although slow and dull, "Huts“
is rife with indications that the po~
lite. sometimes sullen-looking
young than iii the sideburns is tlc~
tined for greatness and might exert
become a major cultural lone iti
.'\lllL‘l’lC;l.

Iti one nightclub scene. for man:-
ple. he sings “Money Honey"

Vincent's and the l'nited Hospital
Fund to pay for the medical care of
more than H.000 homeless pet»
pie,

The charity‘s president, Bob
Amuda, said Comic Relief planned
to hold its next. telethon May II at
Radio (‘tty' Music Hall Titkets go
on sale Feb. 35.

”It's good to see that, hey.
maybe in a little way, its help
in Xiitutla sail.

HBO picks tip tl'; :elethon‘s opA
crating costs. ~. All the money
raisezl goes to thr pro-gram. 7.mutla
said,

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sets eyeryone to dancing, Iti Stin-
days show a disc jockey plays I'lv
yrs“ first record. causing much oi
Memphis to come down with ll.ll“
py feet.

The premiere opens w ith bluesy
harmonica music heard as

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Hunter Hayes
Arts Editor

Series about Elvis
well worth missing

rolls past a Mississippi cotton
iield. This is because ll \ against
the law in I\' to show a .ar rolling
past a Mississippi cotton held
without bluesy harmonica rnuoc.

The car contains one shertt't and
l:lvts' lather. Vernon iliilly (ireen
Bush, who does a line. lowrkcy lob
despite a bad script i.

It is gently established that l’r"»
sIt-y is seeing his wile and young
son before being taken to prison.

It's not .lear why he's L‘HIIIL' to
lltll lilll llt‘ lc‘lls l‘l'yls.
years old here, llial he s the man ot
the house tiow and to take care oi
his mother The l.i.l ll' under
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later scenes, with \errion iii-W
out oi prison but stitteting back
problems that lot. him to quit
work,