w w w w w w w wr w mw w qwI COVER MOVIES BOOKS Abortion controversy Pages 3-4 Across the country pro-life and pro-choice groups are battling over the issue of abortion. In Ann Arbor the feelings are just as intense. Daily managing editor Jackie Young presents a number of local facets of the issue in Weekend's cover story. The cover photos were taken by photographers Dan Habib and Matt Petrie. Better late than P...Page 9 Weekend movie editor Byron L. Bull lists his choices of the best films of 1984. Sure, it's February already, but many of these films are still current. This list is more complete and explanatory than many you'll see, and it's well worth comparing with your opinions. Life for beginners Page 11 Weekend book reviewer P. Robertson writes on Fisher's Hornpipe, a recent novel by Todd McEwen. Written in an easy-to-read manner, the touching and humorous novel has a great deal of depth. It is recommended as quality reading. ENTERTAINMENTS RELEASES Ann Arbor happenings Pages 5 - 8 The latest; the greatest Page 10 This is a handy guide to this weekend's events. From current and second-run films to music to eateries, the Happenings section features everything you need to know for everything you'd want to do. Weekend Friday, February 1, 1985 Volume III, Issue 15 Magazine Editors .... . ............... Paula Dohring Randall Stone Associate Magazine Editors .......... Julie Jurrjens John Logie Magazine Staff:J Joshua Bilmes, Neil Galanter, Debbie Gesmundo Diane Melnick, Sarah Rosenberg, Joyce Welsh Arts Editors ........................ Mike Fisch Andrew Porter Various staff members offer brief critiques on some of the latest albums. these albums range in category from Heavy Metal to Funk to Classical. Although the opinions are mixed, they give readers a chance to hear about a number of new releases. Associate Arts Editors ..........Michael Drongowski Movies .......................... .Byron L. Bull Music ............................. Dennis Harvey Books ..............................Andy Weine Weekend Marketing Coordinator......Miriam Adler Sales Manager ..................... Dawn Willacker Sales Representatives: Steve Friedlander, Debby Kaminetsky, Cynthia Nixon, Leslie Purcell, Jenny Matz, Kathleen O'Brian, Meg Margulies, Mary Anne Hogan, Sheryl Biesman, Mark Bookman, Leigh Schlang, Peter Giangreco Comments and contributions to Weekend are welcome and should be directed to the Weekend Magazine Editors (call 764-0379). Weekend is edited and managed by students on the staff of the Michigan Daily at 420 Maynard, Ann Ar- bor, Michigan Daily 48109. Weekend, (313) 763-0379 and 763-0371; Michigan Daily, 764-0552; Circulation, 764-0558; Display Adver- tising, 764-0554. Copyright 1985, The Michigan Daily. Is liIfe too much? Fisher's Hornpipe by Todd McEwen Bantam, 256 pages, $5.95 By P Robertson IS REAL LIFE really too much for most of us? After reading Fisher's Hornpipe I began to wonder. Fisher, the delightful, if somewhat paranoid and hostile, narrator of the story leads us through a segment of his life in which everything seems to be conspiring against him. Leading among the con- spiritors is his own mind. The story opens on Walden's Pond with a goose flying overhead. Great care is given to make the reader feel every flap of the wing, the brush of air all around, and the ground far below. It is very hard work to fly, the goose is using all her energy to fly. You're right up there next to her, she's frightened but flying, sighting with each downstroke of her great wings. We are brought sharply back to earth when Fisher sees a dead Thoreau under the ice. Fisher then falls on the ice and cuts open hishead. One wonders if author Todd McEwen is insinuating that we, as humans who have all played and fallen on the ice, suffer the same results: psychological instability. Of course, trouble always seems worse af- ter a period in which everything has been sharp and beautiful. McEwen shows us through Fisher those terrible and not so terrible things which happen to us inta way which makes them funny. We laugh when Jillian, Fisher's girl, leaves him this note: Even without this absurd episode our relationship is shitty. You can't treat me like this anymore. Don't you realize I'm in law school? We have to talk. You've changed. This is ridiculous. Why don't you get a good job?--. Sure, its funny. It's also everything ever said during a break up in one let- ter. We laugh until we realize how per- sonal it is, then we abruptly stop laughing and keep reading. What next of our private lives will McEwen spread across the printed page covering it so superficially under the guise of bor- derline.insanity and humour? He goes on to dissect our favorite social pastime: Drinking. Imbibing is not something we discuss in an intellec- tual manner, but rather, we remember it with smiles and jibes. It serves as our weekly escape from reality. McEwen lays it out for us, he even numbers it: The Seven Stages of Drunkenness I All topics found humorous II Linguistic play III Overcompensated daintiness IV Shouting sadness V Out of body experiences VI Severe inert reverie VII Passage into the epiphanic stream Now we are able to chart our progress to depression. Thanks, McEwen. Not by any means does it end there; it goes on and on. We become more con- fused and frustrated by rhetoric as well as content. The lack of punctuation and incohesive paragraphs cause our minds to whirl...This device makes us dig for the meaning; it does not come easily. After struggling with Fisher through bars, fights, gutters, and stares, it is calming to find him alone on a beach by the sea, kicking at sand and listening to gulls. Fisher has endured the almost unendurable: life. He's made it from the pond to the sea and realized that he is not alone in his struggles. But during the process he's stopped being the goose and has become someone who only hears the gulls in the distance. Critics say it has "comic timing" and that it is "like Thoreau on laughing gas." It was these things, but it was also much more. Underneath the sharp humour I found a similarity to life that could not be ignored. The pain of problems changes us. We can't expect to be the goose forever, but we can laugh at ourselves and, like Fisher, sur vine. A NOVEL BY TODD Mc Fisher's paranoia: painfully true to life LiKE ALL PREVWUS MI I MV KID$S HAVE 10kERC COME JOIN OUR STAFF The University of Michigan Housing Division RESIDENCE HALL POSITIONS 1985-86 The Housing Division is looking for well-qualified candidates to serve as resident staff members in Residence Halls. We specifically are looking for students interested in: -Serving as positive academic and group living role models -Fostering a spirit of community -Developing and strengthening leadership, communication and group skills and -Developing programs for a diverse student population. THERE WILL BE TWO INFORMATION MEETINGS: Sunday, February 3, 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, February 5, 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. IN AUDITORIUM 3 - MODERN LANGUAGE BUILDING Representatives from the Housing Division will be there to provide information on the different buildings and answer questions regarding candidate qualifications, selection processes and job expectations. Applications are available only at these meetings. ALL NEW APPLICANTS ARE REQUIRED TO ATTEND ONE OF THESE MEETINGS An Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer \\ r wty« c . BEA CON ST. 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