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NEEDS VOUR HELP! If you or your organization is interested in volunteering for this year's Spring Games on April 24th and 25th, please Contact Jeff at (409)696-2281. JHk The Battalion Aggielife lesday • uesday‘Api ‘Teletubbies’ makes series premiere on PBS this week Oscar noiri k 'H NEW YORK (AP) — It hasn’t been so long since warn ings were received from across the sea: A group of quirky English performers was poised to invade America with its frolicsome act, otherworldly appearance and bewitching effect on fans. All too soon, the dread forecast proved true. The Spice Girls were here. Now another invasion is taking place. You have noth ing to dread from “Teletubbies,” the wildly popular British children’s TV series that premieres on PBS this week (check local listings for daily airtime). Oh, sure, early reports have sown fear among parents of the “Teletubbies” target audience: tykes just a year old, or even younger. Moms and dads are wondering if this is the media version of robbing the cradle. “Teletubbies" is as soothing and whimsical as "Bar ney" is manic and calculating. A gentle, trippy interlude, “Teletubbies” not only seems to mirror the dreamscape frequented by tots, but also offers up a trace of that bliss ful never-never land for any caregiver who might choose to sneak a glimpse. The four Teletubbies are toddlers who seem to be a hybrid of a Roswell alien and a favorite teddy bear; a blend of Gene Roddenberry and Gund. is gfji jupp WSA Wwfcn VAUO FROM ; gXFSRAWK OATS 0a/96 01/31/9,9, V' m.wMVA Q A ■ ■ '• ' I THINK AHEAD. APPLY TODAY. " CALL l•800•CITIBANK citibank.com/us/campus remains si LONDON (AP) - Dench is going to let the talking from now The Oscar-nominal Brown used the terview in this week's magazine to announce her last. “It was better in tv when the public dir much about actors," “One journalist the public eye is note- private life and Icoulfl' more." she said. “Wei entitled to a private • battening down." Dench lost the Acace- last month to Helen Hr. Brooks rece.- bad receptli NEW YORK (AP) - ^ shouldn't look for Mere:, anytime soon. The singer said in My.. Today that she was i thing from rocks to 1 minutes when she Rolling Stones on 70.000 people in "At one point, a bigc my guitar and expiate: into my left eye. It got to and swollen. I think shock, but I comefromft ‘the show must go on.' set and then totally brote: The crowd was to hear the Stones. E Subsequent public o oTt &RlN(r suaded her to try the ne *(^ put on an Argentine soc and returned to the stage assaulted again. Afters hit, "Bitch," shethrewrj the ground and walked/ Sobbing, she told N she was leaving the tour “Mick put his arms and said. Tm so sorry.' Lollapalooza not tour in 1 NEW YORK (AP) —Lot* 5 is taking the surnmerofi Promoters could ncjP headline act, so thetratp festival that began inl^P roll this year. “We ran out of time,"el ner, coowner of LollapaK Monday’s USA Today. Marilyn Manson, Gre Garbage, Nine Inch Jane’s Addiction all rejecs: to headline. Lollapalooza had a I* year last summer, overste] the womenonly Lilith Fair? by the marketplace fadec tive rock, the music style ill Seinfeld looj towards full NEW YORK (AP) be too surprising that JerryS] is ending his show afteri ninth season. Nine is his favorite nui “People said, ‘10,\ Seinfeld told Vanity Fair. 1 lame. Nine is my number.^ I found out that nine in mfl means completion." Seinfeld plans a longn the summer, when he tapes!] special that will mark thee standup act. A talk shown his future — and he maye ads like his “Superman’ cials for American Express.' “In a 12-month period 1 ! ended a four-year relations ! '| girlfriend Shoshanna L'j ended the show, and re; - act,” he said. “I’ve stripped myself of everyth') ever meant anything to me.' B&okllol Summer’s com TicAH Vic< PtobU. London $5! Paris Madrid $7! Tares are round trip and do noi M fAXES. RESTRICTIONS APPIT. Council Travel GEE: Council on International P Educational Exchange 2000 Guadalupe St. AustT' n ( 512 ^ 472 . (University Center .Room 32- University of Houston 4800 Calboun (713) 743-2V 1-800-2-COUNCL © I 998 Citibank (South Dakota), N.A.