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University Press
Wednesday, April 10, 1991
Donating brings smiles
Photo by Jonna Smiti
Mark Maglitto, Bay City senior, gives blood at Lamar's blood drive, sponsored
by the health education department. A representative of the Louisiana Blood
Center of Southeast Texas inserts a needle in his arm, smiling all the while.
Maglitto survived. The drive will continue through Thursday.
Reagan
Continued from page 2
Kennedy Onassis, reportedly
received a $3.5 million advance pay-
ment from Simon & Schuster. In a
weekend television interview she
said she felt her book proved that
Nancy Reagan “was our presiden-
teight years — a petticoat president”
“If you ask me what’s the best
thing I can say about Mrs. Reagan,
I’d say ‘She was a good president.’ “
The official publication date of
April 17 broke down under pressure
to get copies of the book into book-
stores Monday, the same day review
copies were delivered to the press.
“They are clamoring for it,” said
Jocelyn Ford at the Rockefeller
Center B. Dalton’s. “I can’t remem-
ber anything like this ever before.”
According to Kelley, Nancy
Reagan virtually invented herself,
rising above lower middle-class
beginnings to become the nation’s
first lady. Her strongest traits were
self-centered ness, vanity, avaricious-
ness, penury, contentiousness and a
wide stripe of hypocrisy.
She was a failure as an actress, but
life with Reagan led to the California
governor’s mansion where she began
an affair with Sinatra that “continued
for years,” the book says. Her hus-
band also had been promiscuous but
had pretty much settled down after
their marriage.
In the White House years, Nancy
Reagan often entertained the crooner
for lunch when the president was
away from Washington, arranging for
him to slip in through the back door.
Kelley notes that this was not out of
character for Sinatra, who was accus-
tomed “to taking the wives of his
friends for his own pleasure.”
In that sense, Sinatra acted like a dog
marking his territory,” Kelley said.
The lunches in the Reagan’s pri-
vate quarters often lasted until 4
p.m. and the first lady left strict
orders not to be disturbed.
“The family quarters were off
limits to everyone during that time,”
the book says. “You could feel the air
charge when Sinatra was around. She
played the music low, all his songs, of
course, which she played in her bed-
room day and night.
“When the first lady was with
Sinatra, she was not to be disturbed,
for anything. And that included a call
from the president himself,” the
book reportedly asserts.
I
R.E.M. - 'Out of Time
Groundbreakers cross charted territory
By David Barras
UP managing editor
After what seems like a long
time, R.E.M. has returned to
record stores. Unfortunately, this
latest release, “Out of Time,” is
not as inspired as previous R.E.M,
alburns.
R.E.M. has dug deeper into its
folk and country music roots than
ever before. That in itself is not
the problem. Past rootsy songs
such as “Driver 8" and “So.
Central Rain” are among the
band’s finest songs.
On the new album, there’s no
soul. There’s no life. There’s not
that essence of creativity behind
the album that immediately
announces, "This is an album from
R.E.M.”
Even “Radio Song," featuring
rapper KRS-1, fails to produce any
emotion from the listener. The
song is almost confusing, as if the
band couldn’t decide on what type
of song they wanted to write. KRS-
1 ’s rapping at the end of the song
provides the only juice on the
track.
The brightest dark spot on “Out
of Time” is the single “Losing My
Religion." At times, the lyrics, not
the music or singing style, are almost
like Morrissy’s whinings of misun-
derstood youth.
“Oh no I said too much
1 said enough
That’s me in the comer
That’s me in the spotlight
Losing my religion.”
“Losing My Religion," showcas-
ing R.E.M. at their broodingest best,
could be the best R.E.M. song on
the worst R.E.M. album The band
has made the best use of additional
instruments that it ever has.
“Me in Honey” and “Shiny
Happy People," featuring Kate
Pierson of the B-52s, are two rest
stops on this stretch of musical high-
way to hell. “Me in Honey” is a
country-sounding, rootsy track show-
ing off Stipe’s voice. "Shiny Happy
People” isn’t a bad song, but it is a
bit repetitive of their previous sin-
gles.
“Near Wild Heaven,” is weak,
bad. The music is plain, blah; the
lyrics inane. I don’t know what else
to say.
“Endgame” is an instrumental. '
It’s pretty nice. There’s not fancy ,
playing. Just some fingerpicking of
chords, some winds and strings and 1
some “La, la, la”-ing. It’s a classical, *
slow motion, country road trip.
If “Losing My Religion” exceeds *
the quality listeners expect from
R.E.M., “Belong” at least approach-
es it. The song is really an instru-
mental with vocal interruptions.
While there arc some good songs
on this latest offering, the album as a
whole is uninspired, with the bad
songs almost being worse than the
good songs are good. There’s no
direction to the album or to the
band’s evolution. There is no evolu-
tion on this album On this album,
R.E.M. is trampling over the same
ground they’re famous for breaking.
Record Review
R.E.M.,
MV IF TIME
Poets' Prize recipient to appear at Lame
Miller Williams, winner of the
national 1990 Poets' Prize, will read
from his book "Living on the Surface:
New and Selected Poems" on April
25 at the Spring Literary Festival,
jointly sponsored by the department
of English and foreign languages, the
Texas Reading Circuit and Mrs.
Eleanor Weinbaum.
The event will held at 7:30 p.m.
on the eighth floor of Gray Library,
Mark Bankston, spokesperson, said.
The Poets' Prize is awarded by a
group of two dozen poets who nomi-
nate and vote on a recipient.
Williams is a professor of English
at the University of Arkansas. He has
received international recognition for
his works including the Prix de
Rome for literature from the
American Academy of Arts and
Letters and the New York Arts Fund
Award for Distinguished
Contribution to American Letters.
He has been at the University of
Arkansas since 1977, after a profes-
sorship at the University of Chile and
a stint as a Fulbright professor at the
University of Mexico. He is also &
fellow of the American Academy iu
Rome.
He helped found the UA Press
and has acted as its director since its
inception in 1980. M
Williams lives in Fayetteville with
his wife, Jorden Williand, director of
the Washington County AIDS Task
Force.
His daughter, Lucinda Williams,
is an accomplished recording artist
and songwriter on the RCA label. -4
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2nd ANNUAL
A Celebration of Cultures from Around the World
Thurs., Apr. 18
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Wtrldfest ’91
Come join Worldfest.
All organizations &
individuals interested
are invited to come to
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Experience Internationalism at Lamar -
listen to the tempo of world music, see the
beauty of cultural dress, watch the charm of
folk dancing and make new friends.
Mark Your Calendar'.
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Joining in the celebration
are the following:
♦Russian Club
*Spanish Circle of Lamar
♦Vietnamese Student Assoc.
♦ Malaysian Students Assoc.
♦Panamanian Students
♦Scottish Soc. of SE Texas
♦Mexican Heritage Soc.
of Port Arthur
♦Wesley Foundation
♦English & Foreign
Language Dept.
♦Lamar R.O.T.C.
♦Chile, South America
♦Baptist Student Union
♦Afro-Caribbean Dancers
♦Friends of India
♦Muslim Student Assoc.
♦Cajun Culture,
Omega Theta Alpha
♦P.E.A.C.E Org.
♦United Nations Assoc./USA
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Reeves, Lou. University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 44, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 10, 1991, newspaper, April 10, 1991; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth500387/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.