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Best basketball player Roy Tarpley The 6-10, 195-pound center adopted a more positive attitude this year and Went on to become a dominant post- player. Next year's resolution: Add 15- 25 pounds to his slight frame. Best hockey team Ann Arbor Pioneer High School Who says there wasn't any exciting hockey in Ann Arbor this season? The Pioneers won the class 'A' state cham- pionship. Best baseball player Barry Larkin The sophomore shortstop could make the Olympic team. He's already made Michigan baseball fans glad he passed up a fat pro baseball contract and numerous football scholarships. Best athlete Bruce Kimball The sophomore diver repeats as Ann Arbor's best athlete. If he repeats last Fun'9s fun Eurythmics Touch RCA IV summer's performance on the 10-meter platform in the Pan-American games, he could bring an Olympic medal back home. Best dressed athlete Antoine Joubert The Judge's fur coat was just enough to overtake last year's slickster, Eric Turner. Teams most needing improvement Women's basketball and hockey teams Both teams repeated sorry 1983 cam- paigns with equally dismal '84 showings. Biggest pre-game choke Pam Wallace Miss Wallace sang a beautiful ren- dition of the national anthem before the Michigan-Illinois basketball game. Un- fortunately she forgot the words. Most sarcastic cheer The "silent" wave Take a bow, Michigan football fans. When the public addess announcer asked them not to cheer when the ball was in play during the Purdue game (an effort, we are told, to squelch the noise of "the wave"), the wise-guy fans devised a "silent" wave, with everything but the noise. Take that, party-poopers. Worst football game Illinois 16, Michigan 6 Best defensive effort Auburn 9, Michigan 7 Best football game Michigan 16, Iowa 13 Bob Bergeron's last-second, 45-yard boot will be a lasting memory in the minds of Michigan football fans. Most intimidating athlete Lynn Morozko The women's basketball team's 6-7 Goliath struck fear in the hearts of the opposition. Unfortunately for Gloria Soluk's hoopsters, Morozko was struck down by bad grades and sat out most of the season. Most versatile athlete Dave Hall Hall tried his hand at football, basketball and track while at Michigan. The 1983 Rose Bowl quarterback isn't one to sit still. He's passing up a final year on the football team to concentrate on the decathlon. By Jim Boyd W HAT DID Annie Lennox do to her hair? It's all orange. This must be where pop-punk has come to-all orange hair, black masks, and contor- ted arms. But all of these "avant-garde" cosmetic trappings just aren't cool anymore. Sure you can still use it to scare your parents ("Look Ma, I think I'm in love with her") but it is time to look for more substantive thrills out of the synth-pop genre. Funny hair and bizarre sound effects are not enough to overcome the obvious artificiality of this music. Well, have the Eurythmics done it, have they found a way to justify all of the pre-programmed synthesizers? For the most part, no. Two thirds of Touch is nothing more than technological masturbation-the robot plays with itself in the dark. Odd noises whizz and pop and beat their way into one's aural field just like they did for Kraftwerk. Apparently Dave and An- nie are still amazed by the products of modern science, but above all else, this kind of pre-packaged tripe is boring. The album succeeds the minute they stop taking themselves seriously. Orange hair is weird and mod enough to satisfy the most self-conscious rebel, but it's only valuable quality is that it is fun. When the Eurythmics have fun, the music works. The album's most en- joyable tunes are "Here Comes the Rain Again" and' 'Right By Your Side," both of which provide a nice dose of hedonism. "Here Comes the Rain Again" is a piece of unpretentious, quality pop that is just alien enough to make things in- teresting. The melodic content is en- joyable, if not original, and doesn't rely on the technological gimmickry of most of the album's other songs. Similar is "By Your Side," a sum- mery, Caribbean, roll-down-the- windows kind of tune that is doing very well in Europe and should be popular on the airwaves here soon. There's nothing to fear when love gets into town quoth Annie as synthesized steel drums play in the background. This isn't serious, trend-setting music, but the Eurythmics should try to do more of it. These two songs stand out from the rest of the album because they are genuinely enjoyable and honest in their lack of serious content. "No Fear, No Hate, No Pain" exhibits particularly well Lennox's im- pressive vocal ability. The song features some representative synth-pop lyrics (When the day begins it feels like cold, cold steel) and some nice blen- ding of her voice with Stewart's syn- thetic tones. From there on out it's all downhill. "Regrets" sums up the rest of the album They tried to give the song a OUR Touch: Two thirds technical masturbatio really alien sound with a sinister bass line and words like I've got a razor- blade smile. When Lennox intones I'm an electric wire and I'm stuck inside your head we know thatswe're in for the heebie- geebies. Yikes! This kind of self-conscious'weirdo stuff is putrid. At one point on the album a voi touch mea out. And yo are these tw honest abou produce? R and eerie th works. Stew Art. 4-' look, son--just try to keep up with the flock, and ifso get confused, just wing it.... For reproductive health care services, sexuality education, sterilization, abortion, pre-marital exams: Parea VJ0Planned Parenthood of Mi 912 N.Main, Ann Arbor 996-4000 567N. Hewil Rent acar from Econz OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK -,' c1 0 Best Celebration Michigan 's NIT party An inspired team effort lead the Wolverines to the National Invitation crown. They won the final at New York's Madison Square Garden against Notre Dame, 83-63. Needless to say, the Wolverines had little trouble finding a place to celebrate in the Big Apple. wE RENT TO 19 YR.SOLD Si ----Choose from small economic to fine luxury cars. - -Special weekend rates. -Pick up services upon reques -We accept cash deposits. Worst Celebration Michigan's win over Ohio State It was just plain ugly. Fans crowded on the field before the game was over, rowdies threw missiles on the field and back into the stands, and of course the south end goal post came crashing down. Michigan did beat the Buckeyes, 24-21, but while over-exuberant patrons were preoccupied with their celebrating, Ohio State scored a late touchdown and nearly stole the victory. ECONO-CAR 43 j 12 Weekend/Friday, April 13, 1984 9 k 29 Weekend