4 Page 8 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, April 1, 1987 rtEN The University of Michigan 1987 Student Recognition Awards On behalf of the entire University Community, I wish to congratulate and thank the winners of the 1987 Student recognition Awards for their selfless dedication through cocurricular involve- ment. Their spirit of volunteerism and com- mitment to causes out- side of themselves is exemplary. Henry Johnson, Vice President for Student Services 'Therapy': a chaotic success By Sarah A. Van Tiem Okay, let's get this straight. Jeff Goldblum is Bruce, a bisexual in search of heterosexual romance. Julie Hagerty is Prudence, the neurotic, child-like object of this quest. Christopher Guest plays Bob, Bruce's co-habitating lover with a very French, over-protective, she-bear mamam. Tom Conti and Glenda Jackson are their therapists. Confused? You should be. Beyond Therapy, Robert Alt - man's newest film, is a ball of confusion. Very funny confusion, but confusion all the same. What is sanity? You may find yourself questioning your's while sitting through this film. So many differ - ent things seem to be happening simultaneously that the viewer has to struggle just to keep up with the movie's frantic pace. Luckily, its tangled, fragmented interrelation - ships tie the film together. Even more so, the key word here is therapy. Everything is either osten - sibly a therapy session or rapidly, unavoidably becomes one. Bruce wants to meet women. So he meets Prudence through the personals for a seemingly innocent lunch date. The couple is accidently overseen by the scandalized mother of Bruce's lover. Lunch quickly becomes a chaotic mess, setting the mood for the entire film, and everyone runs to their therapists, played with hilarious incompetence on both Glenda Jackson's and Tom Conti's parts. Prudence talks about Bruce; Bruce talks about Prudence; Bob's mother talks about Bruce and Bob; and Bob talks about Bruce. But who really are the therapists, and do they really do any good? The film's chaos effectively portrays the mental and emotional states of it's characters. But after a while, the chaos becomes over - whelming enough for you to question the film's cinematic value. Length aside, the film's only other defect is its characterization, espec- ially regarding Bob and his mother. Christopher Guest's portrayal of Bruce's unhappy lover is slightly amusing, but one dimensional. With his studied mannerisms and voice, he is Hollywood's stereo - typical homosexual. This cookie- cutter character even comes with a cookie-cutter mother, although she is much funnier than Bob: she is a dominating, overbearing, busybody. This film's title accurately reflects the mental healths of its characters. Each of them is truly Beyond Therapy. The film is resolved in the restaurant where Bruce and Prudence first met for lunch. None of the characters has changed in the least; they are still the imbalanced, confused souls they were when the film began. But a balance has been achieve between them and in that respect they can be happy. What is sanity? It doesn't really matter, just as long as you are as, insane as everyone else., 4 4 Student Achieve- ment Award Winners: For Outstanding Achievement in Cocurricular Involvement Individual Winners: Julia Biolchini Daniel Ginis Lannis Hall Ellen Jones Suzan Lumpkin Raphael Metzger Michael Nelson Kimberly Pouch James Speta Katherine Tate A. Douglas Thompson Christine Tuerk Ximena Zuniga Group Winners: Alpha Chapter, Phi Delta Chi Fraternity A2 MISTAD Black Business Student Association Minority Organization of Rackham Safewalk Student Recognition Award Winners For Significant Achievement in Cocurricular Involvement Individual Winners: Marilee Aronson Jeanne Besanceney Julia Biolchini Kristin Cabral Mercedes Castro John Corser John Wilfred Cwikiel Shell y Ebbert Neil Foley Richard Herman Freiburger Daniel Ginis Victoria E. Green Lannis Hall Ellen Jones Sewon Kang Suzan Lumpkin J. Nash May field Mary Lou McMillan Cynthia Mesh Raphael Metzger Michael Nelson Tamara Neubauer Bonnie Nevel Desmond Newton Lawrence Norris Ann-Christine Nyquist Melissa Okun Craig Outten Chris Pehrson Kimberly Pouch Michele Anne Roehl Yael Rubanenko Andy Rubinson Colin Schiller Tobin Smith James Speta Lynne Stallworth Peter Struck Mary Sturkey Dan Swanson Teik-Khoon Tan Katherine Tate A. Douglas Thompson Christine Tuerk Ximena Zuniga Group Winners: Alpha Chapter, Phi Delta Chi Fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Epsilon Chapter A2 MISTAD Arnold Air Society Records (continued from Page 7) serves little point, for they will undoubtedly accrue most of or all of these songs in time. For the casual jazz fan, whose taste has stagnated, this album might be a wise maneuver. Maybe there's a little Louie Armstrong missing from your collection ("I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby And My Baby's Crazy 'Bout Me" and "Beale Street Blues"), or perhaps you always wanted something from the time Count Basie and Duke Ellington got together back in '61 ("Until I Met You"). If so, then nothing could be finer. In any event, I'm not going to comment on this record's quality; hey, who can argue with Lady Day and Satchmo? Just a word to the wise: if you don't need it, don't buy it. If you do buy it, have a real cool time, and just, "Sing Sing Sing (with a swing)." - Akim D. Reinhardt Adrian Belew Desire Caught By the Tail Island Belew's third LP, a completely solo project, is his most bizarre and rewarding effort to date. All the fun remains, as does the eccentricity. The primitive is put in the same studio with the techno-pop mage. We are offered audio collage, sound paintings, and yes, animals, too. "Tango Zebra" begins with an acoustic flourish before admitting By Rebecca Chung It's unfortunate but true; great concerts happen only when everything works at the same time. The most regrettable situation is that of a polished artist who cannot deliver an energetic, expressive performance. For the young profes - sionals of the National Arts Chamber Orchestra, the opposite was true, and therefore the faults correctable. The opening piece, Beethoven's Ouverture zu Collins Traverspiel C o r io lo n, Op.62 held great promise, as conductor Kevin Mac - Mahon and the orchestra launched into the work with unabashed gusto. The tempo was good and the dynamics surprisingly effective. But the flaws appeared early on in this piece and became more obvious as the evening wore on. Pitch slipped. Members missed attacks. The strings rasped at times, and could not hold their runs together. The horns and trumpets needed to control their volume, particularly in Satie's Gymnopedies 1 and 2. The clarinets simply needed to do some serious woodshedding in the practice room; there was no excuse for the poor intonation and glitches they NA CO gives a faulty concert 4 presented to a paying audience. In sum, the concert failed because the members of the orchestra lacked the control of their instruments one grows to expect after hearing professional concerts and recordings. In addition, the. ensemble did not haves the endurance required for a two-hour program, not to mention that required to get through a very long Brahms Piano Concerto No.2. Of course, there were exceptions; the most notable being flutist Irene Boruszko, who played with excel lent projection, expression, and intonation, especially during Cheru bini's Sinfonia in Re Maggiore:. Cellist Cora Kuyvenhoven als- gave a strong solo performance: during the "Andante" movement of the Brahms, her intensity and expression overcoming the pitch problems. In addition, McMahon deserves a hand for his adept, directed handling-, of the respective scores. The ensemble knew what to do and where to go, even if they didn't always get there. Adrian Belew's "Desire Caught By the Tail" a strange success. Belew's lovably familiar squeeks and whines. It is a wondrous pagan dance, and full ofvitality. "The Gypsy Zurna" is a spellbinding portrait in sound that treads the lycanthropic ground you might expect. Approach with caution when the moon is full. The guitarist's curious wit is in evidence in "Laughing Man" with its bozotronics. And the animals emerge in bright new plumage on "Beach Creatures Dancing Like Cranes." Belew's local fans will relish this new batch of tunes; it is the best yet. If you have never heard Adrian Belew play guitar, and you are the curious sort, take a giant leap forward into the Elephant Zone. Have fun, and watch your step. -Marc S. Taras Shape it up! with the 76-GUIDE Informal Workshop ON SUICIDE "Lending a Helping Hand" Informal discussion and handouts on suicide, the feelings brought up by recent campus events and skills for helping a suicidal friend. April 2nd, 7-9 pm, 3100 Mich. Union Call 76-GUIDE for info He Passover Meals Passover runs from Tuesday, April 14 to Tuesday, April 21. The first Seder is Monday, April 13 and the second Seder is Tuesday, April 14. Hillel will serve lunch and dinner each day of Passover. Reservations and payment for Passover Meals are due by noon Thursday, April 2 at Hillel, 1429 Hill Street. For more information, call Hillel at 663-3336. 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