Pulitzer Prize winners named
The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, April 13, 1982-Page 7
presents
NEW YORK (AP)- The New York
Times and The Associated Press each
won two 1982 Pulitzer Prizes on Mon-
day. The Kansas City Star and the Kan-
sas City Times won the Pulitzer for
general local reporting and a Times
staffer was cited for national reporting.
The gold medal for public service
went to the Detroit News for a national
investigation that produced five dozen
stories on "a pattern of deception and
unresponsiveness" in the way the U.S.
*evy reported shipboard deaths of
sailors to their families.
In the arts and letters categories of
the 66th annual Pulitzer awards, Sylvia
Plath, a poet who became an idol of
feminists some years after her suicide
two decades ago, was awarded a Pulit-
zer for the posthumous volume, The
Collected Poems.
Novelist John Updike won the fiction
prize for his best-selling Rabbit is Rich;
and Charles Fuller's A Soldier's Play
received the drama prize.
The prizes, most of which carry $1,000
cash awards, were announced by
Michael I. Sovern, president of Colum-
bia University, which administers the
competition.
AP's Saul Pett received the feature-
writing prize for his encompassing por-
trait of American government, and Ron
Edmonds of the AP was honored in spot
news photography for his series of pic-
tures of President Reagan as he was hit
by a would-be assassin's bullet.
The prizes were the 32nd. and 33rd
won by the AP-17 for reporting and 16
for photos.
John Darnton's dispatches to The
New York Times from Poland won the
international reporting prize and the
Times' Jack Rosenthal was cited for
editorial writing..
The staffs of the two Kansas City
newspapers won general local repor-
ting prize for their coverage of the
Hyatt Hotel disaster and its causes. The
two papers produced more than 340
stories and hundreds of pictures in
tracing what went wrong with the
skywalks of the hotel that collapsed and
killed 114 dancers last July 17.
In addition to sharing that prize, the
Times won a second when its Rick
Atkinson was honored for national
reporting. Atkinson was cited for what
the Pulitzer Board called a memorable
series on "America's chaotic
management of its water resources"
and other national stories combining
"solid reporting and stylish writing."
Other prizes in the arts and letters
categories:
-Biography: Grant: A Biography,
by William S. McFeely;
-Music: "Concerto for ,Orchestra,"
by Roger Sessions.
A special Pulitzer citation in music
was awarded to Milton Babbitt "for his
life's work as a distinguished and
seminal American composer.
Journalism prizes also went to:
-Paul Henderson of the Seattle
Times for special local reporting;
-Ben Sargent of the Austin
American-Statesman of Texas for
editorial cartooning;
-John H. White of the Chicago Sun-
Times for feature photography;
-Art Buchwald of the Los Angeles
Times Syndicate for commentary.
Buchwald commented, "I'm going to
be a better person now and I'm only
going to write Pulitzer Prize-winning
articles."
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Modern Romance-'Adventures
iClubland' (Atlantic)
I suppose it's inevitable that KC & the
Sunshine Band, The Average White
Band, and Wild Cherry have to be men-
tioned in this review, but let it be known
that the similarities between those
groups and Modern Romance extend
only so far as blue eyes, flaxen hair,
and alabaster skin.
The beginning, and end of all those
other groups was that they relied ex-
clusively on successfully imitating the,
sounds of the popular black groups of
the day. Modern Romance wouldn't set-
tle for that.
If you believe- Modern Romance,
their chief claim to fame is being the
first modern dance band to incorporate
salsa as a rhythm base. I don't buy that,
frankly; their latin action is mostly
confined to just talk. Sure, they've got
more percussion than you could ever
hope to name and a positively hyper
horn section, but it's all put to the ser..
vice of a relatively straightforward disco
beat. Only at their busiest (i.e., the
climax of "Clubland. Mix") do they
sound anything like carnival. If
Modern Romance are salsa, then so
were Eruption's "I Can't Stand the
Rain" and Vicki Sue Robinson's "Turn
the Beat Around." Fat chance.
Modern Romance's true import lies
efsewhere. Adventures in Clubland is a
seamless and endlessly ;clever
amalgam of just about everything
that's good in modern dance music.
Though the arrangements from song to
song get relatively formulaic after
awhile, there's no disguising that
within that format they're making
giant strides. How do they do that? Let
me count the ways.
First, and most obviously, they are
an important crossbreed of the current
British funk scene, bridging the
stylishly cool pop-funk of Linx and Cen-
tral Line to the aggressively brassy
Stax attack of Spandau Ballet, ABC,
Pigbag, Funkapolitan, et al. In doing
so, they carry the physical punch of the
latter groups without succumbing to the
histronics that can make a lengthy ex-
posure to their music trying. For
Modern Romance, it seems second
nature to be both smart and commer-
dial at the yery same time.
Secondly, and more importantly,
they have done for rap music what no
for-real rap artists have yet
done--namely, make it work within a
lbona fide song structure. Both Kurtis
Blow's and the Furious Five/Lover's
apts have been mixed, to put it
I dly.
irst of all, it's no small feat that
Qoffrey Deane should rap so
ll-most white rappers embarrass
Negmselves every chance they get (cf.,
ABC's "Alphabet Soup," if you want a
laugh)-but it is an undeniably major
4 ecomplishment that he works so well
within the context of this band. Daean-
ge can rap and sing and even vocalize
freely in between those categories.
But it wouldn't be half so impressive
if he didn't have some really fine songs
to rap against, songs that would sound
great from anyone, but benefit greatly
from Modern Romance's unique treat-
ment. "We've Got Them Running" is a
particularly excellent example, a soft
and subtle gem of a song, nicely con-
trasted with the steamroller assault of
"Can You Move." "Can You Move" is
in and of itself a song to be reckoned
with-not only commercially (as its
popularity on the disco charts will at-
test), but aesthetically; it's a simply
ingenious non-linear, dubbed-to-the-
gills approach to dance music, eviden-
cing just the sort of frantically struc-
tured chaos that should send Was (not
Was) running for the studios.
In fact, all of the songs have
something to recommend them (except
the forgettable "Bring on the
Funkateers" and the unforgivable
"Queen of the Rapping Scene"),
though, as I said, the arrangements
tend toward an occasional sameness of
sound. Still, you can't fault a young
band for overusing a sound when
they've so obviously 'hit on something
hot. I'm certainly not complaining.
-Mark Dighton
Eric Gale-'Blue Horizon'-
(Elektra /Musician)
Eric Gale is a man whose best-known
work is the guitar solo on Bob James
"Angela-Theme From Taxi." The
best thing about that solo is that it con-
jures up images of Merilu Henner. On
the new "serious jazz"
Elektra/Musician label, Gale has been
allowed to take his musical direction
where he pleases. Not much of a
traveler, Gale chooses West Orange, New
Jersey. Blue Horizon (a place where
George Benson went beyond years ago) is
Gale's exploration of reggae-jazz, and
it fails miserably.
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The compositions are endless and
directionless. Most are simply inter-
minable phrases repeated over and
over and over again. Gale gets stuck
between lightweight reggae and a less-
cheerful version of Bob James fusion;
the result is a waste of vinyl.
The band that backs Gale on Blue
Horizon is made up mostly of ex-Kid
Creole members; that makes them old
cocoanuts. They too get caught in the
swamp into which Gale has driven
them; they appear merely to be going
through the motions. .
The album's closing track, "97th &
Columbus," is referred to in the liner
notes as a collection of the "happy
music" Gale used to play. It isn't par-
ticularly good, but'it is better than the
other solemn cuts on the album. Gale
finally plays with a little bit of the
emotion he hopefully possesses. He
claims to be very proud of his band and
the album; regrettably, the pride
hasn't found it's way onto vinyl.
It is difficult to make excuses for Blue
Horizon. Possibly Gale got lost in the
transition between light fusion and
reggae, or it could have been the New
Jersey air. It is impossible to tell.
Whatever the answer, one can only
hope that Gale decides to move one way
or the other and stretch out on
whichever road he chooses.
-James Harris
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