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We Service Imports Too! Page 6/The Battalion/Monday, April 25, 1988 V ER/, 111 Royal Biyan across S. College from Tom’s BBQ 846-5344 Auto Service This Ad is Good for $5 OFF any Service or Repair Reivers finds crowd appreciates Not valid with any other coupon or discount expires 5-15-88 PREMEDICAL/PREDENTAL SOCIETY MEETING TIME: 8:00 p.m. DATE: TUESDAY, APRIL 26 PLACE: 209HECC PROGRAM: SPEAKERS FROM TEXAS COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE AND OFFICER ELECTIONS Fiscal fitness. The best thing about Plantation Oaks isn’t the $10/month membership to Aerofit. Or the on-site facilities like jacuzzi, two pools, men’s and women’s weight rooms (each with a sauna), tennis courts, basketball and volleyball courts. The best thing about Plantation Oaks is that you get all this and more for as little as $170 a month this summer. That’s fiscal fitness. N Hwy b Bypath pfe ruummoN Post Onk Mall OAKS o t fi X Texas Ave m OAKS not tt.irvi-N Ko.kI <>'• \ 11IO .'■■■A A basketful of cash is better than a garage full of 'stuff' Have a garage or yard sale this week - Call 845-2611 Rre its showcase of progressive rock By Shane Hall .W n.sit Rt'vicu'cr The Reivers brought iheir pro gressive rock sounds to Eastgate Live Friday night in a 90-minute show that was well received by the large crowd on hand. The Austin quartet performed songs from their two al bums: “Saturday” and "Translate Slowly" (which the band recorded under the name Zeitgeist). “Secretariat” and "Wait For Time," both from die “Saturday” al lium, were two of the best songs of the night as guitarist John Croslin churned out some solid lead lines, accompanied by the rhythm guitar and lead vocals of Kim Longacre. Meanwhile, the rhythm section of drummer Garrett Williams and bas sist Cindy Toth (with right hand in a cast) kept, a frantic beat. Croslin and Longacre traded lead vocal chores throughout the night. Clearly, Longacre is the superior of the two. Her performance Friday night was spectacular as she demon strated dynamic vocal range. Cros- lin’s vocals, on the other hand, often were rendered inaudible by the in- strumentation. Not that it mattered, because Croslin suffers from a voice that is terminally Hat. The show’s best songs were usually those giving Longacre the lead vocal. Nevertheless, while not much of a vocalist, Croslin is a superb guitar player, capable of combining gutsy roots-rock with a progressive South ern sound. He stands as another ex ample of the wealth of six-string tal ent in Austin. The Reivers premiered several songs slated to appear on their next album. These received a decidedly positive response from the audience, but it was the material from “Satur day” that received the most enthu siastic response. Overall the crowd seemed to have a great time as it Hocked to the dance door for almost every song. John Croslin and Kim Longacre from the Austin quartet The Reivers, perform songs from their two albums: “Satu Friday night at F.a Photo bfjnjaf rday” and "Translate Slowh stgate Live. Review Friday night’s performance showed the Reivers to he anothet <»l Texas’ great rock bands. The band’s sound is in the vein of other Southern rock bands such as the DBs and Fetchin’ Bones, but it has a heavier guitar sound than its contemporaries. It definitely has moved beyond the esoteric, folk- rock sound that led to inevitable comparisons to REM back in 1985. While the Reivers put on an out standing show, opening ai t the hill billies did not fare so well. 1 he Col lege Station band (tot met is the Rain) performed SO minutes of 01 ig- inal material that was hampered hs a la« k of diversity. Manyulltit sounded too much alike. H all three members are taleit: eians, particularly guitarist 1 Ardoin. What the killhilliesneedi: is a vocalist. Ardoin is fairir songs, but bassist Mark Da® volt e Lit ks strength. One-woman show tells history of black experience in America By Lesa Smith Reporter Actress Vinie Burrows led a captivated autlience through a collage of voices on the history of the black experience in America with “Walk Together Children” Friday night in Rudder Forum. The one-woman show of poetry, prose and sting Filled the bare stage with more than 20 people, and it wa^ well deserving of the standing ovation it received. Burrows appeared from the depths of the stage in a vibrant red dress singing “Somebody’s Knocking on Your Door” and then began her transformation into many people. Burrows began with a painful narrative of an aged slave woman who recalled the beatings she received as a child who stole a biscuit from her slave master’s kitchen and who still carries the scars of the lashes on her back. Burrows transformed into a Dutch woman named Sojourner Truth, who spoke out against slavery and for women’s rights in “Ain’t I a Woman?” refused to change her name because a man from the Census Bureau thought her name was too shot t. Burroyvs then transformed into one of the most emo tionally moving people on the stage: Anita Eckford. “1 Walk Alone” dramatically detailed the young black girl’s attempt to attend Central High School in Little Rock, Ark. in 1957 only to be refused entrance by sol diers with guns and bayonets and a mob calling hei obscene names. Burrows closed her performance silhouetting the Statue of Liberty singing "I forgive you America" with Langston Hughes’“Let America Be America Again”. Burrows said she generated the idea of the one- woman show herself. “The idea grew out of my rage of acting companies not allowing me to do what 1 wanted to do," she said. She told the audience how she took her own money and Financed the show, which is intended to expose people to many black writers, poets and composers. Burrows then injected marvelous humor into the show yvith a rendition of folk poet Paul Laurence Dun bar’s “The Party” — which involved portrayals of many different people and the comical events that occurred at a party — and yvith Langston Hughes’ “Madam Al berta K. Johnson” where she portrayed a woman who But rows has seven dif ferent programs, has traveled throughout the world performing her one-yvoman show and has appeared on “The Today Show”. Burrows’ performance at A&M ended yvith the cur tains closing in Rudder Forum Friday night, but thanks to her talent and sensitivity, the doors of blac k history are kept open with the cries of black voices yearning to be heard. Six injured after truck! explodes pALL/ ceived on has trigge into whet! Attorney been cone their boss [ Mattox yea: term nounced < 99i Judv 11 Speuor gi and Hum lies are co SAN ANTONIO (API- tanker truck carryingS)" Ions of gasoline (lipped I swerving to avoid a wreckd pl<>ded in a giant iirebalLJ six people, authorities said I I he spectacular explod Interstate 35 at 3:40a.ni j day shook nearby homesa»| visible in the early-momiil lor miles around, witnessfil 1 he driver, Robert 1 1 lent v, 39, of NewBraunlAj in set tons conditionSund: I Bi ooke Army Medical 4 < >ffl< ials declined to disdfl injuries, but firefightert 1 1 scene said it appeared''® fered second and thirds burns from the waist up Witnesses said Henry® 3 to crawl to safety by smasfe the truck’s windshields chain-reaction wreck deH |B three vehicles and injuidj other people. No one* iu the accident. 0* graduating in May? t leave town without arranging to have your ftggieland forwarded to you. Come by the English Annex between 9 a.m. and 4:30 r Monday thru Friday - it only costs $3.50 p.m