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COVER
6 Letter from the co-editors An examination of the art of
writing, the heart of writing, what it means to us and to the
creative writers who contributed to this week’s issue.
7 Creative drive gives varied resuhs A varied group of
writers were winners and finalists in the 1985 Texas A&=M
Writing Contest. The authors of the first place poem and the
first place story talk about their work.
7 Kabul, 1974 In the first place poem, written by Therese
Norris, she paints a picture of Afghanistan as seen through
her eyes at age 16.
8 “Taking his position....” Collected here are eight poems
that were finalists in the 1985 Texas A&>M Writing Conest.
Our contributors range from English majors to petroleum
jengineers. So apparently the writer in general can now take
the madness of the world and do only one thing — write.
11 I Can Still Count In the first place short stoiy^, Kimberly
Trant writes about an elderly woman caught in the short
ness of time available to her from her family and from her
life. But, Emalina is well aware of the time that passes.
FEATURES
4 Red Cushion’s clan is true maroon Red Cashion, a lo
cal businessman and former student tells his stoiy and offers
advice for the young whipper-snappers.
4 Litmus to be a literary tool for students The new lit
erary magazine, in the limelight because of a mini-scandal,
is going full swing and is expected to be available soon.
5 Pickin’ Cotton Saturday The 57th Annual Cotton
Queen Pageant is this weekend. The festivities start tonight.
5 Arts run is tomorrow MSC OPAS and TAMU Roadrun-
ners are sponsoring the third annual Run for the Arts. The
5K race begins tomorrow morning at 8:30.
ENTERTAINMENT
3 This ‘Baby’ Came a long way Marcy Basile looks at a
movie reminiscent of the good old days of Godzilla.
3 Album reviews ‘Tears for Fears’ new album is sure to be
a hit. Review by Walter Smith.
3 Basile bashes Behlen The suspense was killing us all —
but Marcv picked ’em right and Shawn’s buying.
16 At the movies Maw, in her own special way, tells us
what’s where and what it’s about.