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BARGAIN BOOKS: THREE FOR THE PRICE OF ONES
'iNew Orleans
Unasked' h
trestory ofpop
cuture trash
By Chis Kula
ljnly rts Editoir
As I paged through MTV's newv "The Real World New
Orleans Utitmaskei,"' I kept ssaitintg to be
: swept up in a storm of fire and brim-
stone because if this book actually
The Ra World exists, surely the apocalypse is upont us.
New Orleans ibis bchitid-thie-scetnes account of life
Unmasked ini the New Orleans mansion, conve-
niently released iin conjunctioti with
w:Alison Pullet tonight's seasont finale, isan aih'oni to all
Grade: D+ thing.s good and holy. Alison Pollet, the
Pocket Bunks author of such acclaimiedl works as "Thie
Real World lianaii," commtits the carnal
sin of dredging up even more irisvial
itnfotmatiotn about the seven housemates
thati the show provided.
Eachi photogenic residetnt of the
Belfort mansion is profiled to ridiculous
lengths, viai theit oswt wsords, conimen-
taiy from their housenmies anid true itnsight from the shows'
OvBeli~an producers ("When we met Julie itt castitng, sse could
tell that she was ready to expand Iter horiotns clichied pro-
ducer Andrew Hoeglf
.Thanks to "hiniasked," the Amnetican publtc can finally
leamtwho Kelley thought was the best dancer amotig the cast,
or how Jarnie allegedly
became a Buddhist or- the
identity of Datnny's favsote
''4 a'tress (it's freaking Whoopi
Goldberg, icidentally). ln
not a religious man, bitt I
y must saiv "iTtnk Godt" hot all
of this valunable infor matiomn
//, Ican nows die tn peace.
What's more, the book
includes etch member's 'Real
World" application, lust to
j'fitlic batifle von as to wshat
criteriai the pioducecrs used to
select the cast. Is it sitarnmy
cus '. sif Sie tusks self-Inudulgence? IBecauise
Jule, the stormin' Mormon. there's no shiortage of it ]i1
Reeve's 'September' an
outsider's view of 1972
Munich OlympI ics tragedy ,
these apps.
(flie slicer amtittiOf timte antd lTtirmt ilsecd in putting this
bootk togeilher is the tinig that ceall' sla~ys mie. Ts imagine that
Pollet spent six monthli itg andclbreathinig all hitmus''Real
\\ot hI' is 11ustre distirbitig thtan "Danttcer inite Dar-k.'' I limb of
all lie sways this yotug wsiomant could lhave been bettefittitug
andey' tinkoalehitoese ol haoho cnn-1adte ae all youur notionis of social responsibility
destroyed sshenu yuuopent the book to the section titled
"Melissa antd Jamrue: iTle Crush."
lBnt, if ysousve esver ssonderecd abotut Daitsd's "Play on, play-
ci" usa'ss (ansI I know sysiu hase). lien "CUnmaskecd" is the boouk
for yon.l't'he folloistg excerpt is hits take tut the sexual habits
tif the hotuse:
"I lcrc's the crawslthige about lie hlutse: Melissa dicn'ti hase
sex. Julie ditln't hasve sex. Mlatuudidntitsve sex. Jatmite, lie ssas
dtoswn switswhatesver. Danny anid Kellcy. they did it. Butt I swas
the tonly tite ssho's dultiss tt hinliiti. Itssould almost pain umy
roommaltes to see me hivitigit sit goods. I waus doing wshat they
ssanted to cli:((asvtng sex ands losving i.
here ssere plety of titles I ittd sex ini the roomtinthtl
stomiebotdy or somtiebodeies (yseahi, I had a cuttie it a timue):
Anduc housali sissthat romauce is dead.'
Biasically the ontly intiguitig aspect tsf'..Utnmaskedl" is the
pit ini swhicht ushite-breacd Julie details hosh ~e got the boot
fromliBrighiamisYuntgUtsversit's for ireasonis iticluiditng ''cutub-
itatttg uswituembters if teoppoitei sex." Shte essentially
becamte a moduxern-d'ay martyri igitr1e (tsr every rebellitous putik
teetiagetriin she Prophet I IuIenklev-usotslippittg stte tif (Utal,
atnd tat's gost to lie ssorthtsothi nttg.
Ifite behiind-the-sceiies Ness Orleaii ns oerage isilt enoLgh
ts quech your sick, sick "'Real Woirldf' desires, sou'uil appreci-
ate the lhcartvvarirntg "Real Wor l Reiui'' phtosalbitatli
iltcuitsstle Coils citittit tf the Botstosn, Miamtti, Seattle antd
Ilissait casts. It's got lPulitzer wistnstall oves ci -- that is, if
''puituer is (iCtIitit fousesl#=lilctcilhead ssiitndt.
By Neal Pais
For Ite(Daily
As his latest investigative exer-
cise, author atid journsalist Simntt
Reese chose toi explore antd dissect
carefully tite of
ite most niedia-
/coisered antd
traigic acts of
One Day in terrorism ever to
occur. It his
September most recent
Siuon Reese botik "Onte[Day
Grade: A- in September,"
Arcade Osbi shing Reesve resveals
the facts Stir-
roundtcing te
September 1 972
O~lymtpic tragedy
extremist group
murdered eleven Israeli athletes on
(Germant soil. The book also meticu-
lously chrotticles ite(isiory of
Arab-Israeli confllict itt the Middle
aJst, the Israeli couter-operatioits
against the Palestiniaits follossing
ite Muntichinictident and the Israeli
tantilies' struggle to come to termts
svithltihe deaths of their losed ones.,
('he book was wriittnitt conjutnction
wsith an Oscar-winning docuntentary
by the sante name.
Larly ott in the book, Reese focus-
cs pimarily ott the aims of ite
Palestinianis ini laying siege to the
Olympics aitd the enlsuing tragedy
that aroise chic to the poor hantdlintg
of the situatioin. Prior to the hotrrifle
eventis that took place in 1972,
Palestiniant terrorism seas confined
isi the small area surrounmdintg Israel
ansI interniationtal ausareness of the
situation usas limited. Leaders sasv
itt the Olymiipcs tin oppotunity ts
strike harsh againtst their fotes atid
hits irintg their 'light four freedomt"
utitder lie iternatioinal spoil ighit. It
wshat (te calls a "perverse irony,"
Reeves explains Itosw "the event
made people around the world aware
of Palestittian terrorism and perhaps
degraded ite valise of the Palestinian
cautse."
Assuminmg his position as ait "out-
sider," Reese teittackled te most
agontizinug aspect of te' tragedy:
Discussimug the legacy of loss antd
pain emdured by the families of
those svhto lost their lives itt the
botched rescue opertion.It's not
easy but ite posimise (aspeet) is that
itere is a hope for psace.(Thaiti
ilimes of te mtartyrcd still voidcmit
rage and sorross at te heinous cimie
as wsll is gross mishan'ihng ofthm~e
sitiuatiomi. Manty relaivscinitimally
adittiech contmli pitfot thed
their wsant for peace betseccn the two
groups. To a certain degree, the fain-
lies of ihe terrorists also regret the
deathts of the athletes but ultimately
"lautnch into attempts ito justify xsh(at
itey (thle terrorists) did," accordinug
to the athor.
The Palestinians weete not tie only
guilty party itt 1972; altough the
Germntsswere genulitely horrified
at the spillittg of Jewish blood ott
their on soil, little was done by the
local officials to effectively rescue
the Israelis, Uncharacteristic ineffi-
ciency plagued the rescue operation
as Germnteiamls staged a remark-
ably imept attenipt at saving the
hiostages' ives.
As te entire siring of events went
assry, mtedia cresws also displatyed a
showing of disgustimig insensitivity
by encouragimng the spectatotrship of
thte debacle by thousands of Muttichi
sightiseers and milliomns of iesevision
siewersusworldwuside.
Sadly, tetifficials in charge tif
ihie Olympics alsos exhibited a dis-
turbing degree tif calloussness bty
allosrimg the gatmes to conminue amid
CoutesyuofiArcade Pui'isil
conutde despite the atrocity tz
hadis matrredl he sancityhx'of ith
Olysmpic spirt i.
inaully, Reeve dettils the reveq
osperatonis that the smite of Israel iii:
terrorists," Ini uhat Israelis call
"morally justifiable" camipaign, th'
Mossatd (the nationi's secret servies
ssent usmi to assassinate all but one 1
the terroists directly involved in tI'
Muntich massacre anth seseral high,
ranikingmaPlestiniian leasders intt i
tippet echielonusoftiCmhe PLO. iThes
actioss sass Reeve, usere "very to
cssativ in te eves osf the Israeli go~
ermntsi and stemmiled front a sortc
biblical Itogic."'.
Speakintia Shaman Drum ha!
Samudy, Rceeeamenteth on th
paimnish dutes of his job as a jon
stalust inesigating terrorism; thea
lug sedhi the families of the victin=
was alusays a harrosing exper int
nexer made easy by the insensitisvit
antd lack of cooperattion by vata
gosercmnents involved.
While firmly sutbscribinig to t1
temiet "violenice begets violence;"71=
jurnattlistcouldh ontly rondtemnnt (
terrorusm tpaigtsns unted by hot
sides. COf course, sue as "outsider:
may nesver unidersanuch hecayf
"there (te Micddle East), they p-It
bs a differet iiset sit nile.
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personal, global exploitation at Drum.
By Caitlin Fiedemann
'sir slur Dtilt
"Why us ut thatt some of us listeni and sonic of its
dthii''?" Dierrick Jemuseni asks mliis in his environmienmtally
ihiloissuphical. autmobiogramphilcal novel, "A Lanigutage
Omhier iThiattWorcds." With a deceptively simple style, he
addresses thme complex problems of
silencing utnd explitamionminbh tl he
macrocoisnm of culture andmte rmicro-
cossmt of his own physically asndsx
Derrickx-twtlly abusive childhood. 'This finial
Jensen conmbiniationi is acitally someihimig
Shaman Drum qute ditferent thian Jensenminittended.
"Originally it nuts supposed to be
monugetmatl85pmm. about interspecies communicatioti,"
he states, but that did tnt "question
the deeper things that needed no be
questioned."
Usng the sexual amid physical
assaul t iflicted upon (im by his
father to parallel human beings'
attack on the earth, Jensen shows
that to exploit or destroy someone or something, one
nust silence it first. He goes ott to illustrate (ow this is
as true or humans who deny the existence of earth's
soice as mt is for t father wsho denies thiat he abuses hiss
child. '('le atrociies perpetrated by modern culture atre
brought chose ts house by the vixid descriptioni of his
Muistreammentm. Icludinig these details was necesstry fosr
Jensseni. Alhoughi le thought "it was hard to go through
usimml ... tercief, the change, (ins beeti itiraculouss, amid
I dosnit use the sword miraculous lightly,"
Jenisen writes tot only for emotional catharsis, but also
to sake a tdifference. He writes "out of a sense of
urgency ... for the creatures, women, and children,"
wvhtose voces are silenced everyday by their abusers. lie
bielieses that writing is his way to chatuge the world; if
sot. he uwoul be tdosng somethinug else. No one person tsr
hiing inspires Jenisent, bitt he finds msotivationm ftomnis-
tenig mts everythinug arounudhimmi frotm stars to chicekes
tIlls ht iluem.
(Jue usf tmemes iti irgulig chuapers, titled "'Thme Plantis
Resposncd." describes his itierview with Cleve Backstet'.
Biackster dexeloped the polygraph test (more comnluoiy
kniosw as lie lie detector test). This measures the aussist
tif electric energy that ans organismt gives uoff. He hooked
it up toi platus andilfound that the eleciric signtls they
gase ofsil changedidrst sicatlly uswitm teationustsr evenm
thossuhtso(f tither lute crtmssinthle rosuim. For exammple.
whe Itm ahuckster shnsisglof tu'nisssmg a platl eatf, mte elec-
tsrtety emsitted Jiumiped.
(his thuought alonue usas enocughi t toft'ect the planutt. hiss
Jenseni, this ev idence us paramtountm. It supports smany of
his theories amid gives scientific evidence of the bond lie
feels with the world around hits. ihe more he "gets in
tusne wiht that (connectiont), the more those things hap-
pen."
Whuen asked hosethme aserage University studetnt could
expeintce tliis type oif relationshi, Jenisent replied that.
''is ulshIstart simtply by pa'silg atteniusisctioones sims-
rusumiusus. 'ihinmg thumgs mccclacknowls edtgesimnt us usll
as help iii the curremit culture of destriuction. lHe knox
that the earth is in dire straits, but gives at tiessage
lope. "With everything beinug so scewued up, i's easyf
people to do somethiung to stsri so fix thitigs." This me
mal ty thiatieven usmiy sine personi canmsai~ke at uiferet
usa luuseparaiestint fromitisher ensiromuouenaists.
Jensen himmtself amempts to hielpievecry dauy by gis mm
bick tithle hltdinsosmie wus itranosthuer. humtnmuchi sf
tusse hats recentmslibeeinudev otedutlitin g. lie is Cussret
ly usosrkinug issi asbooskuabutIsse its sups iniishichi I
addresses aspectsIssf nl heinesurucst uidiciatlsy'steni
raspe toi sltsery.
((sis avce or tsr mIscapurmig actisvists asm withesris
strasighut tthe pinti. "lsillIonw(yiur)heluasrt-mmmclrind su
poivpeople.Trusm yougs sis mu xpeseuce mitchjust sty
uski updestionis."NCmWithinutetsiecicesis tmutictuims
us liepi mimimug supine, hue c lt uumcsesh ltli's 1. skcc
I otu ce, hue tdd olet I nyoneis way ss s ut11i111s1
insteusesmtut so iproswhisspintsu. Is ''NLIntuageitid Jith
Iha lut oNruds'"hue discs sit l the sfmrmueush' beutulm shpmros
personualnsrratimses, facts asndhmsshisloinnsbsoutd
destruction of the earths.
is ideas are outsanding, although disturbing at imi
With evidence to buick up histsheories, one cannot hc
but to agree with him that it is enitirely possible to cot
sumuicate nitb trees, antimnals smi thcler elements of t
earmhi.'(hits boiok muss te potmentialus chane tine's esuslul
tilth m Wmosuimdsh.bust usguun issue mustss ask Jesiseul 5c
lusesuisuit.."Is anvonkss'lusneluus sup