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Friday, February 10,1989 The Battalion Pages R-E-S-P-E-C-T-ed McEntire opens tour tonight in G.Rollie MSC th Center in l it* MSC in conjurt: IGNA's conferenti is open from9a.: lion belongs toi nllas Texas. y is coordinatedfe lei ation oi Farb By Keith Spera REVIEWER >mg to talk burdenJ id, “weshouldal»J r.” ohnson, vicecliait it Council, said a i >l this type with a ring the costs be beneficial to I md U.S. militan crests are interim d the United St or decline togeit- • both require freei countries must ustrialize in ordei .els, he added, s to base its owiii crests of itself atii , be said, but feds Ik \ making. sion was sponsored cut Comnuttee„ as part of a fond solving students 1 old. ed story Page 5 icstn illian One of the biggest stars in the mu sic industry has chosen College Sta tion to be the starting place for her latest concert tour. Reba McEntire, who has been the Country Music Association’s Female Vocalist of the Year for a record- breaking four consecutive years, performs tonight at 8 in G. Rollie White Coliseum. She is bringing along what just might be the next big thing in country music — Ricky Van Shelton — to open the show. How big a deal is this concert? It’s national news. The nationally-tele- vised show Entertainment Tonight has filmed some of Reba’s rehearsals this week, and is scheduled to air a segment about her tonight. The show also is supposed to mention College Station as the starting point of the tour, Jenny Boler, McEntire’s publicist, says. Both McEntire and Shelton have left their mark on the music indus try. McEntire has had five albums go gold in the last three years, including her latest release, Reba. Shelton has released two albums, both of which have gone gold. Both artists’ latest albums are listed in the Billboard Country T op 10, and both have singles in the Top 20. McEntire has received the Top Female Vocalist of the Year Award (1985-1988) and the Video of the Year Award in 1987 from the Aca demy of Country Music. Music City News has chosen her Female Artist of the Year for three years. The Country Music Associa tion named her the 1986 Entertainer of the Year, as well as Female Vocal ist of the Year. TNN Viewer’s Choice Awards dubbed her I988’s Favorite Female Vocalist. She received a Grammy in 1987 for Best Country Vocal Perfor mance. She was listed in a 1988 Gal lup Poll Youth Survey as one of the Top 10 Female Vocalists. Not a bad track record for some one who at one point was a quar- terhorse barrel-racer on the rodeo circuit. McEntire was raised on an Oklahoma ranch and apparently de veloped the riding skills of her fa ther and grandfather. Her involvement with the rodeo world proved to be a the start of her professional singing career, for she received her first big show biz break at a rodeo. A Nashville songwriter heard her sing the national anthem at the 1975 National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City, and she was on her way. A year later, she was signed to Polygram Records, and released her sell-titled debut album in 1978. In 1984, she teamed up with MCA’s Jimmy Bowen, and her climb to the top took off. Now, her fame has reached the point that she sold out her debut performance at New York’s Carnegie Hall and was in vited to do a TV special with Bob Hope. Steve Tunnell of KORA-FM, the local country and western station that is promoting the show with A&M’s MSC Town Hall, says that “When you talk about superstars, there’s only three or four. There’s Randy Travis, the Judds, George Strait, and Reba.” And what about Ricky Van Shel ton? “Ricky is on his way to superstar status,” Tunnell said. “Both of these artists are extremely popular at KORA from a request standpoint.” Tunnell ain’t just whistlin’ Dixie when he’s talking about local popu larity. More than 3,000 tickets to the Reba McEntire concert were sold less than two hours after they went on sale. About 200 tickets are left. Laura Croteau, Town Hall’s fac ulty adviser, said, “I think the double bill (of Shelton and McEntire) is the reason we’re at the sell-out point. I think that if Reba had come by her self, the show would not have sold as well. It’s a good package.” Shelton will perform songs from his long (and growing) list of hits. Probable choices include his first number one hit, “Crime of Passion,” from the Wild-Eyed Dream album, and his current charting single, Photo courtesy of MCA Records ‘From a Jack to a King,” from Lov ing Proof. McEntire’s repertoire is even longer, with a string of hits from the 15 albums she has released. Almost certain to be included are “Sunday Kind of Love,” “New Fool at an Old Game,” and her sassy version of ‘Respect,” both from Reba. She has been known to perform in concert songs she hasn’t recorded, ncluding Elton John’s “Candle in he Wind,” which she has performed n the past as a tribute to Patsy Cline. Tickets are still on sale at Ruddei Box Office for $15.50. )to h) Kathy Havem mber Orchestra s the multi-gold fhursday night in aother classical uartet m D-minot. md the Maiden vever, performed(< string orchestra tliis piece. Mahlet nt in t he late 19lli u rangeniem is te ansion of Schuk Mahler’s addition the double bassp , handling the nit lightly tapped the piece a distift ole, the Academ) * performance tl st show in the )l ;eries so far this veJ Iweets theart a romantic stir* ‘ssina Flof 1 zos Valley Che* s, and silk roses tic! deliver your I or at work. lace your order the romance e Cellars s on hwy 21 les to Winer' Watching TV gave youths plan for thefts HOUSTON (AP) Six high school boys facing charges in two armed robberies ol a Houston savings and loans say they got the idea for the holdups from watch ing television, investigators said. In both incidents the youths went into the thrift wearing ski masks and carrying several weap ons, including a .22-caliber semi automatic rifle, robbery division Sgt. Ron Alsbrooks said. The teens, all students at Al- dine High School, were taken into custody over the weekend and Monday in connection with two robberies Jan. 20 and Feb. 2 at Farm and Home Savings in North Houston. The young bandits, Alsbrooks said, “turned the place upside down.” Expert: Japanese consumption, imports up By Sherri Roberts STAFF WRITER Geographically Japan is an island nation. However, it is an island in more ways than one. From an eco nomic standpoint, Japan has fol lowed few r of the trends adopted by many industrialized nations, said Edward Lincoln, research associate in the foreign policy studies pro gram at the Brookings Institution. In a speech sponsored by the MSC Student Conference on National Af fairs Thursday Lincoln said'Japan, unlike a majority of industrialized nations, has engaged in the same level of intra-industry trading for the last 25 years. With the exception of Japan and Australia, most countries with simi lar levels of economic development have increased their trade with each other, he said. As a result of Japan’s large ex- port-to-import ratio, it had an ac count surplus in 1987 of $87 billion, the largest in the world, Lincoln said. Though economically it is diverg ing from the United States, Japan is slowly responding to pressure from other countries to save less and con sume more, he said. The recent increase in the value of the Japanese yen partly is respon sible for rhacroeconomic changes within the country, Lincoln said. While the dollar has depreciated 150 percent since 1985, the yen appre ciated 100 percent, from 260 to 130 yen per dollar in 1989. Through moral persuasion, the Japanese government is attempting to stimulate consumption levels in the country, Lincoln said. He re called seeing government-sponsored billboards at airports with the mes sage, “Join hands with the w'orld and import.” In addition, Japanese companies have increased their levels of invest ment abroad, he said. Because of the risk involved, Japanese companies have been slow to invest resources overseas, he said. However, the two countries are \aggi Bull Durham INEMA/ r: MM Starring Kevin Costner Susan Sarandon 7:30 pm &9:45 pm wmmgm liir’" p ■MW' § mm %s§§t M ll*. Wig;} Starring Matthew Broderick Rutger Hauer Michelle Pfeiffer Midnight Friday/Saturday February 10/11 Rudder Theatre $2.00 w/TAMU ID Gineplex Odeon THEATRES POST OAK THREE HER ALIBI (PG) 7:05 9:25 NAKED GUN (PG-13) 7:20 9:30 WORKING GIRL (R) 7:00 9:20 CINEMA THREE \Harry Crumb (PG-13) 7:25 9:25 Fly II (R) 7:00 9:10 Tap (PG-13) 7:15 9:20 engaging in more joint-ownership ventures, he said. One example is an auto company jointly owned by Gen eral Motors and Toyota in Califor nia. Joint ownership has allowed Toyota to break into the American industry cautiously, he said. An additional factor accounting for the increases of Japanese con sumption levels is the fact that more Japanese are traveling abroad, Lin coln said. Prompted by the increased value of the yen, about seven million of the country’s 30 million people traveled abroad in 1988, he said. This increased level of travel rep resents a loosening of the rigid work standards ingrained within the country’s culture. This rigid work ethic is largely a result of attitudes held by Japanese over the age of 50, who grew up in the country as it was economically developing, he said. They saw hard work as a means to a better life, he said. To them, leisure time is wasted time, he said. SCHULMAN 1 2.50 ADMISSION 1. Any Show Bafora 6 PM 2. Tuesday - All Seats 3. Mon.-Wed. - Local Students With Current ID’s *. 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