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Page 4 The Battalion Tuesday, April7,1 'Tues- IM10, ii, iz vm Smiles south of College Station on Hwy. 6 Automobile Racing Club of America Super Car Series & Texas International Drivers Association ARCA TIDA The Automobile Racing Club of America sanctioned its first race in 1953. Thirty-eight years later ARCA is bringing their thundering stock cars to the high banked oval of Texas World Speedway. It is hard to stay in your seat as these 3400-pound, full-bodied stock cars roar down the main straight-a-way in their quest for victory. ARCA develops drivers for the superspeedways at speeds up to 200 mph. The best of the drivers usually step up to Winston Cup and NASCAR. The Texas International Drivers Association (TIDA) is based in San Antonio and has been sanctioning races in the southwest since 1976. The TIDA Late Model Series Stock Cars are fabricated chassis, replica body stock cars equipped with V-8, or V-6 racing engines, and are capable of speeds up to 175 mph R.C. Slocum Celebrity Starter for * Sundays Race Red Adair § Grand Marshall s TICKETS NOW ON SALE 1-800-299-TEXAS Tvcj<i=V//7>A srrtEF9 ~ ~ ^■P r lFTlCKETRDN Foley's • Texas A&M MSC Box Office i-oiey s • lexas acovi ivibc. box cjirice Call-For-Tix 1 -800-275-1000 Convenience & Other Charges added and are non-refundable TICKET PRICES Infield Grandstand Fri. $5 $5 Sat. $10 $15 Sun. $15 $25 Speedway Club $60 (3 Days) Individual Pit Row Suite Tickets are Available for $125 including Sunday Lunch. Section 7 has been designated as a non-alcohol section. If you would like tickets in this section, please request them at the time of purchase. Infield Parking for cars is $5/day. Outside parking is $3/day for cars, $5/day for VIP parking, and $10/day for motorhomes. DISCOUNT COUPON To the Texas A&M Students and Faculty we are offering a special discount. If you take this coupon or a current I.D. to the TEXAS WORLD SPEEDWAY TICKET OFFICE or the TICKETMASTER OFFICE you will receive $5 OFF a Sunday Infield ticket or $10 OFF a Sunday Grandstand ticket. This offer is limited to 4 tickets per person. Body Count disappoints, falls short of potential By Kevin Robinson The Battalion Body Count "Body Count' Sire Records When Ice-T unveiled his new hardcore metal outfit. Body Count, at the Lollapallooza festi val last summer, a lot of people didn't know what hit them. It's not often that black musicians are interested in forming hard rock bands, although it's been done well before. Fishbone and Bad Brains have been blowing amps for years, and both 24-7 Spyz and Living Color have gained recent popularity. Body Count, howev er, came out with the kind of sonic punch that usually isn't heard out side of hardcore punk. After the onslaught that Ice-T gave with his rap group, the Rhyme Syndicate, Body Count knocked the audience for a loop. Eight months after Lolla- palooza, the band's debut, "Body Count" has finally been released. The energy that was so impressive at Lollapallooza, however, is com pletely missing. On their debut album, Ice T’s hardcore project, Body Count,! the energy they showed at Lollapalooza. "Body Count" tries to shock rather than show any kind of real intensity, and some of the songs use metal cliches that would make Spinal Tap cringe. What hap pened? Admittedly, the album isn't all bad. At their best, the band takes the mix of streetwise bragging and humor of Ice-T's rap material and translates it into classic thrash. The opening single, "There Goes the Neighborhood" isn't the hard est song on the album, but it con tains more power than many of the others. "Bowels of the Devil" shows how well Body Count can rock when they want to. And fi nally, "Voodoo" makes fun of all those early eighties "occult" metal groups. At least, I hope they didn't mean it to be taken serious ly. These songs are all just as hard hitting and exciting as anything from their live shows. The rest of the album, though, is a letdown. The rest of "Body Count" isn't all that offensive or shocking, just tired, boring, and a little silly. Ice- T will say that all these lyrics are reflections of the street, and are just trying to show how screwed up a lot of real life problems are. That may be true, but all of these problems have been addressed far more effectively by groups like Public Enemy , Paris, and X-Clan. For example, N.W.A.'s "Fuck the Police" made a better point than Body Count's "Smoked Pork" or "Cop Killer." "The Win ner Looses" tries to make a state ment about cocaine, but the song falls apart into a cheesy ballad that Wilson Phillips would probably reject. And the song, "Mama's Gonna Die Tonight," in which a man lights his mother on fire, hits her in the head with a baseball bat, and cuts her up with a carving knife, doesn't seem to be about much of anything butanes for some mindless blood and Sorry guys. This song is sup] to be "tongue in cheek,"' seems like an attempt to give album a token controversial Yawn. For those people who like! T for his sex raps, there's ii same kind of songs on "Bo; Count." "KKK Bitch" and'6 Dick" are on a par withsim; songs that Ice-T has hadonhiss albums since he started. H* things are pretty monotonous!! but if you're the type thatgoel this sort of tune, these are pink bly as good as any. The main problem withfe Count is that it seems like!: band's just holding back.Ki: rapper today could crossover successful metal career,itm: probably be Ice-T. Thaftogels with the potential thatthebar: early gigs had, should havem: for a breakthrough album.; stead, "Body Count" hasoi few tracks that show whatce have been. The rest of the ale is just filler. AGGI 12:30 AGGI year! break Cal! S BIOC medic Last r refresl 693-5! ORTH oso from v 5:15 p 847-4< Theater \^)^/ Review K ■ ’ 1 By Timm Dbolen The Batthtidn 'American Vaudeville' only scratches the surface HOUSTON - "American Vaudeville," which had its world premiere last week in Houston, is a musical play about the art of vaudeville, a collection of live variety acts that lasted from the late 1800's to the early 1930's. Many talented performers are remembered in the retro spective revue, including Fanny Brice, Bert Williams, Harpo Marx, George Jessel, Will Rogers, Buster Keaton and Mae West, and more than a dozen others. Many of those names are recognizable not from their prominence in vaudeville, but from their performances in film, which along with radio, helped bring about the demise of vaudeville. At the beginning of the mu sical, we are introduced to the 20 performers that were some of the biggest names in the heyday of vaudeville. They try to explain what the spirit of vaudeville is all about - entertaining the audience through whatever means possi ble, be it dancing, singing, come dy, magic or even acting. Soon the vaudevillians per form some of their famous acts - the magic show of Harry Houdi- ni, the singing comedy of Eva Tanguay, the minstrel show (done in blackface) of A1 Jolson, and the song and dance of George Cohan. There are three main facets of this play: a history of Ameri can Vaudeville, brief biogra phies of some of the biggest headliners, and performances from some of those acts. And they try to squeeze it all into a two-and-a-half hour perfor mance. The performances are gener ally pretty good, with standouts from Tom Cayler as Cohan and Adam Heller as Jolson. But the other two facets of the play - the historical and bio graphical parts - although nec essary, really detracted from the delightful performances. The writers, Anne Bogart and Tina Landau, did a lot of re search while creating this play, but covering 45 years and 20 performers in under three hours ( requires a trick evenHoudmi couldn't pull off. The writers have the per formers use a method o(deliv ery that is both unique and dis tracting. One performer starts a story, and then another starts his story, and then the first contin ues from where he left off. It made it extremely difficult to follow the individual stories. The biographical and histori cal parts of the play would have made for an interesting, in- depth series of PBS documen taries, in which they could have put in the time to give a truly in formative look at the art oi vaudeville. But what we're left within this play is a tip - a samplineof the performers and perfor mances of vaudeville. Aftei leaving the theater, you still might wonder what vaudeville is really all about. The play runs Tuesday to Sunday through April 26 at the Alley Theater in hlouston with matinees on Saturday and Sun day. Call 228-8421 for ticket in formation. AGGII Toasti organi speed 4512 c WILDI will be manai spotte Everyt Call E STUDI meetin over th 8:30 p. for mor CIRCL motivai will tell Clubbe p.m. in for mor MEDIC behind raininc informa AMNE5 5:30 p. Buildint more in SCAR: p.m. in Call Syi CAREE Analysi offer e> benefit; 9:10 a.i 110. Senior TVeetcend '92 'Continuing the Tradition..." Senior‘Bash Senior Banquet • Thursday, SlprifS • @ The T'eycgs OdadofTame • Live 'Band • Lotsoflfun • Tarty THes • Tickets $2.00 per person ‘King (Dance MhlRT? T-SHIRTS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE MSC. PRICES ARE ONE FOR $12.00 OR TWO FOR $20.00. Limited quantities avail able, so buy soon. (Large and Extra- large Beefy-Tees) EtifilQS Pre-purchase your pictures In the MSC starting Tuesday. March 31. Packages available for S9.00 and $14.00. Special Bonuses If photographed by a specified time. ..see table In MSC...(across from new art gallery). Party Pics will be at all three events. • Saturday, April 11 9:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.nu • @ fMSC andfRiidder Complex • Live Band - The Change • The Ld Cjcrhach Orchestra • Tiano 'Bar • 'Refreshments • ‘Jonrudpictures start at 11:00 a.m, - come early to avoid tines • Tarty Tics • Tickets $ SO.00 per coup fe * Saturday, April 11 6:00 p • @ The dldton • Tred9dcClnre..Speaier * Limited Seating...buy tkkiti soon • Tarty Tics * Tickets $35.00per cm\ tut< M/ MON econ REVI 10:30.- TUE- SSUVEfURS Purchase either the Senior Weekend Pod' age or Ring Dance Tickets and gel a (im souvenir champagne glass with the 92 Rtg Crest Imprinted on It (one per ticket), fid them up In Room 139 MSC at these tlrw and dates: Monday, April 6 7pm to 9pm Tuesday, April 7 12pm to 3pm Wednesday, April 8—12pm to 3pm YOU MUST BRING YOUR RING DANCEIICK' ETS WHEN YOU PICK THEM UP. A RECIIH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Senior ‘Weekend ‘Padfage (indudes 2 tidkets to ad ofabove) $75.00 Save ‘Money when you huy tickets to cdtthree 'TicGgts avadabCe at 'J\udder ‘Bo,\ Office J&RYAl