Tuesday, October 6,1992
Texas A&M University A.RTS & ENTERTAINMENT The Battalion
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DESIGN YOUR CAREER
AT THE FALL 92 CO-OP FAIR
ATTEND BOTH DAYS
Learn about the following companies and their co-op jobs,
summer jobs, and permanent jobs
Monday, October 5
8:30-3:30
Zachry Lobby
Tuesday, October 6
8:30-3:30
Zachry Lobby
ABB Vetco Gray
Alcatel
Champion International
DSC
Eastman Chemical
Freese & Nichols
GPM Gas Corporation
Houston Lighting & Power
L.G. Balfour
McNeil Consumer Products
Miles
Mobil Chemical
NASA-Johnson Space Center
Occidental Chemical
Quantum
Rhone-Poulenc
Southwest Research Institute
Trane Company
United Parcel Service
Advanced Micro Devices
Arco Exploration
ARCO Chemical
Army Corps of Engineers
City of Houston
CompuServe
Cryovac
Dow
Dupont
Enron
Gulf Coast Chemical
I.B.M.
National Instruments
Natural Gas Pipeline
Texas Instruments
Learn more about your career options now.
Spring T 93
This time don't be left
in College Station.
Attend our
informational meeting:
Tues, Oct. 6 1:00 -2:00 p.m.
at 251 Bizzell Hall West
Or come by the Study Abroad Program Office
161 Bizzell Hall West 845-0544
Fine acting saves "Other People's Money'
By ANAS BEN-MUSA
Reviewer of THE BATTALION
"Other People's Money"
Written by Jerry Sterner
Starring John Flores, Paige
Griggs, Debby Gonzales, J.
Craig Headley, Christina Vela
O'Connor
Directed by Robert Wenck
Rudder Forum
Aggie Players opened their
season Thursday night with
"Other People's Money," a
drawn-out, irritating play about
a small wire and cable company
being bought out by a corporate
raider.
Thankfully, the fine perfor
mance by the actors makes this
play worthwhile.
The play contrasts small New
England town life and the evil
corruption and immorality of
urban life.
Andrew Jorgenson, played by
Paige Griggs, is the president
and majority owner of the New
England Wire and Cable Com
pany. A sentimental middle-
aged man, Jorgenson believes in
the strong family values of the
company.
Jorgenson is a pathetic charac
ter who spends the whole play
ious, corrupt man who love
only one thing— money, hi
hoping Larry would kicks®
reality into
Jorgenson.
Howev
er, the irri
tating char
acters and
sappy
script did
not over
whelm the
good per-
ROBERT /. REED/The Battalion
J. Craig Headley plays Lawrence ’The Liquidator” Garfinkle in
’’Other People's Money,” which showed Oct. 1-3 in Rudder Forum.
reminiscing about the "good old
times."
I thought I was going to get a
sugar rush after the first five
minutes of his storytelling.
After the first act, I was so irri
tated by Jorgenson that I began
to root for the corporate raider,
Lawrence Garfinkle (nicknamed
Larry the Liquidator), played by
J. Craig Headley. Headley's
Brooklyn accent and attitude
were enjoyable to see.
Larry is an immoral, obnox-
formances by the fine cast of at
tors.
Christina Vela O'Connoii
portrayal of Kate Sullivan,!
lawyer trying to stop Lam,
helped the play along. Shecreat
ed a feeling of balance with!
other characters, who are mosllt
either nerds or money-mongen
Larry's smart-ass disposita
and Kate's savvy attitude collidt
to create some of the bestscena
in the play. Their sexual innuen
does provide some lively iw
ments.
Jerry Sterner's play is
mediocre, but the Aggie Players
help to make the play better.
If you have time between Ort
7-10, go see "Other People's
Money," and root for Larry the
Liquidator. Tickets are on sals
in 146 Blocker.
The Magic Touch
Duo dazzles audiences with illusions
By JULIE POLSTON
Feature Writer of THE BATTALION
Have you ever had the urge to make a
loved one disappear, or maybe put a few
swords in somebody's side? For Kevin and
Cindy Spencer, a married couple/duo illu
sionist act, these urges are reality in their daily
world of magic.
The Spencers will perform at Texas A&M
tonight at 7:30 in Rudder Theater. Their per
formance is sponsored by the MSC All Night
Fair Committee.
Jennifer Cheng, public relations executive
for All Night Fair, said the Spencers are one of
the most requested entertainers on the college
circuit and have been nominated for College
Campus Entertainer of the Year several times.
The touring illusion team combines illu
sions with comedy, special effects and audi
ence participation for their performance enti
tled "The Spencers - Magic for the '90s."
"They do a lot of the old Houdini material.
but they are primarily a magic and illusion
show," Cheng said.
Cheng said she feels the show will be a suc
cess based on a survey taken by the committee
last year after Ronny Romm's extra-sensory
perception show.
"The majority of the people there wanted to
see a magical, illusionist show," she said.
Keith Swinarsky, chair of All Night Fair,
said he saw the Spencers in Huntsville last
year and decided to try to get the act to come
to A&M.
"Most pther colleges do not have this type
of entertainment opportunity concerning nov
elty and variety shows," he said.
The Spencers also perform in theaters and
resorts and for cable and network television
and provide special entertainment for corpo
rate events.
The couple were chosen to entertain at the
World Youth Congress ift Mexico and at the
National Junior Wheelchair competitions, and
performed before 17,000 leaders and scouts at
the National Boy Scout Jamboree in Chicago.
Recently, the Spencers won the Ham
Chapin Award for Contributions to Humaiii
ty. In 1984, they began a program called l
Healing of Magic" to help people whoafi
physically challenged.
Kevin said learning how to performil-
sions can help people improve basic skills.
"If you can learn how to float a wand,!
you're going to learn how to butter bread
cut a cake," he said. "And if a stroke victim
can learn three or four steps needed to '[*!,
form a trick, he. can remember Jhow to fry;
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dorsed by the American Occupational Then
py Association, is used by hospitals and reliJ'
bilitation centers across the United States anil
in nine other countries.
"Magic wands don't always belong will
black hats and rabbits," Kevin said. "Some
times they belong in hospitals where frail
hands learn tricks and the magic - the real
magic - is in the healing."
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110 College Main (409) 846-0017
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Association of A&LM
GUITARISTS
Top 5 most requested songs
1. "Hunger Strike"—
Temple of the Dog
2. "Sent By Angels"—
Arcangels
3. "What God Wants"—
Roger Waters
4. "Jeremy"— Pearl Jam
5. "November Rain"—
Guns 'N' Roses
1. "End of The Road"—
Boyz II Men
2. "Barbie"— Meryn
Cadell
3. "Sesame Street"— Smart
E's
4. "I'd Die Without You"—
P.M. Dawn
1. "No One Else On
Earth"— Wynonna Judd
2. "If I Didn't Have You'
Randy Travis
3. "We Shall Be Free"-
Garth Brooks
4. "Shake The Sugar
Tree"— Pam Til I is
5. "Bubba Shot The
5. "Erotica"— Madonna
Jukebox"— Mark Chesnutf
Look Out World! I Have Extra Money
Life! I never thought I would be counting nickels and
pennies-fuzve to be counting them! Did you ever have to go
for fast food and pay for it with nickels and dimes rolled up in
plastic wrap and some quarters taped together? You look the
cashier straight in the eyes and say something like "this is my
little nephew's."
Now wipe that picture of me out of your mind. Everything
is a lot better. I get good additional money for doing a good
deed-about one thousand five hundred dollars a year! Cash,
on the spot. Nothing taken out. All mine.
Think of what you could do with a guaranteed $120 extra a
month. If there were two of me...as in husband and wife...boy
friend - girl friend, we would have $240...car payment?
vacation? some dynamite clothes? You see how it works. It's
not that I am idling away the long sunny hours between birth
and rheumatism but-things are clicking!
Like I said, it's a good deal for a good deed. I donate blood
plasma. This takes about an hour and a half each time, at the
Westgate Plasma Center. It's not complicated like giving
blood and you don't feel tired or stressed. You sit and talk or
read (the students study) during the procedure. It is decorated
like a place serving movie stars. Thick leather couches, soft
colors, and every magazine in the world! The staff is very
nice, friendly and no one is a stranger for more than 5 minutes.
If you look around you, you will see your neighbors & friends
donating. Seven hundred local people a week volunteer their
plasma, so you are in good company. (It has become an A&M
tradition.)
You do get a pin prick and the rest is automatically done by >
little machine pulled up beside your lounging chair, ft
machine is very "high tech" with funny little beeps. While
you’re reclining there you can read, as I said, or talk to you
friends or meet some new ones. It is all gentle. Who kno«
'who' you will meet there-two engagements have already
happened.
On your first visit a doctor will give you a complete
physical-free! The plasma center looks for donors in the best el
health.
I can't tell you everything technical about plasma, but 1 kno#
it is vital in a number of areas. Vital to the point that a person
with hemophilia (the hereditary bleeding disease) depends onil
to live. It takes about 40 gallons a year to supply one padent
Plasma is also the base for a variety of medical tests and
treatments. In this world tens of thousands depend on the stuff
if they are going to have a tomorrow.
You get the picture. Plasma only comes from humans, so
only a human can save another human.
I feel just fine about doing that. This is what's happening in
my life now: I have cold cash put in my hand each time. No
more saran-wrapped, scotch-taped coins for me and livin' on
little. And I’m doing good.
Look out world. I have extra money-regularly!
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