The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, March 08, 1982, Page Page 10, Image 10
Monday, March 8, 1982 Page 10 Daily Nebraskan Arts & Entertainment Michael Show reveals By David Wood "Iceberg? I was born with the name. I guess it fits," Michael Iceberg answer ed, when asked Friday in a phone inter view if Michael Iceberg & the Iceberg Machine was a stage name. He and his machine, a bank of synth esizers, computers and devices electroni cally engineered by Disney World's best technicians will perform tomorrow night in the Nebraska East Union. The name Iceberg is apt not because of any affinity to the "cold wave" movement in Britain of heavy-synthesizer bands like the Human League and Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark. "They sound like something I would be interested in," he said. "I. am very open to different styles. I like the Police and Devo. But 1 am affected by Lerner and Loewe, too. My influences vary from Prokotiev to Led Zeppelin." The reason the name Iceberg does fit is because the Iceberg Machine is en cased in a 12-foot copper pyramid and because what one sees on stage is only Valet parking service proves a tough By David Wood Tuition refund was Nash Rambler's reason for living; grants and loans were the prime movers behind his existence in school. And now to refigure him as a nine hour student - well, it devastated his big plans. For dropping one measley class, he was fined his expected income and condemned to an austere lifestyle. He survived day -by-day on a ration of bean burrito - muy frijoles, por favor. Routinely camped at Taco Inn was a joker Rambler recognized from parties, Duncan Drumm. The two downon-their luck hombres soon were sharing muchos nachos together. They also shared a taste for rough wit and ready wisdom and, before long, were thick as thieves, holding summit at a back table, often for hours. Drumm was an inspiration. He somehow feasted on meager times. Zero cash was not a problem for him, but a state of freedom. He fit a niche - the lovable buffoon on the dole, the blotto prince. And his spunk was awesome. He was an innocent desperado, forever pulling some scam, hatching some plot, brain-storming some new fast-buck enterprise. When his over-staffed Rent-A-Drunk ser vice failed, he handily moved operations into his Dail-A-Party venture. For a flat fee, a subscriber could call x times a month and get all the latest on parties that Drumm's savvy scouts could dig up - who, what, when, where, plus a one to five star rating. But when his best clients were arrested at a gala, five-star blowout, Drumm had losses to buffer - and that was where Rambler came in. Duncan Drumm Industr ies were opening new jobs and looking foi a few good men. Bean-smeared hands were shaken. Nash Rambler became Vice Diplomat for We-Park-It. The meteoric success of the valet park ing service's first day of business could never be repeated. One ought not to ex- Photo courtesy of UPC East Iceberg tip of Iceberg the tip of the iceberg. Some of the sounds are characteristic of synthesized music. Other sounds are produced from recorded notes of orchestr al instruments in computer memory, he said. Iceberg said he knows top men in three electronic instruments companies and they keep him abreast of the latest technology. Traveling with him arc his wife, a light man and a chief electrician from Disney World, where Iceberg performed regularly for the last five years. iceberg will be taking the pyramid-shaped system on an up-coming tour with Kool and the Gang. "The only similarities I see in the acts is in their names," Iceberg said, and his show will be in Nashville for the World's Fair. Before 1969, he was in the retail bus iness for 10 years, he said, and then moved to Aspen "to be a ski bum, playing bars at night." "Calling it the Iceberg Macliing, I said. I had no thought in my head of what it would one day be built into," he said. pect to get away with illegal practices daily, not in broad daylight - but for one day, it made for a grand opening. Rambler's pockets bulged as he took people's money and keys and gave out numbers. Drumm parked the cars and was so busy he lured a punk kid named Val Paraiso on the spot. Drumm had had the forethought to barricade a metered parking lot at dawn. VALET PARKING ONLY, the hanging placards read. The gullible motorists bought it, gladly; cars queued at the entrance for a chance to save time parking. For hours, Drumm flirted with the meter maid who noticed nothing while Paraiso parked cars like he was in Hazzard County. When a cruiser stopped, Drumm, acting bilious, spoke to the officer only in Spanish. Pretending to comprendo, he smoothed things out - but new plans need ed to be drafted for day two. He hastily lured his two prettiest job applicants, Tracy Lines and Anne Archy, to be stationed high in Love Library and Oldfather Hall with binoculars. TheJr job Complexity of captures and By David Thompson Henrick Ibsen's stark, disquieting play lledda Gabler w& be presented by the Uni versity Theater March 4 through March 13. The play is a difficult one to perform be cause it teeters all too precariously on the characterization of Hedda, the one charact er in the play through whom Ibsen makes his point. It is Hedda who determines whether the play will succeed or tip into tedium. In this production the balance is delicately maintained for some people and not for others. The story is, of course, centered around Hedda, played by Kate Burke. When the play opens she has just returned from her honeymoon with her new husband, George Tesman, played by Mark Magill. Hedda feels no affection for George whatsoever. She is the child of a wealthy general and feels no attraction for George and his bourgeois family. She married him because she thought he could make her comfort able. George says he took her on the six month honeymoon because "Hedda had to have this ... It was the fashionable thing to do." This conventionality is one of Hedda's main characteristics. She is a complex character, though, because not only is she conventional, but she finds her convention ality most uninteresting. So she is caught in a kind of self-deprecation. Whether Burke succeeds at bringing out all of Hedda's complexity is another story. It is difficult to do because Ibsen's script is sparse and dry, everything in it pointing toward Hedda. The other characters arc was to patrol the movements of the meter maids. When one was seen approaching, they sprinted down and fed the meters pennies. Sometime a stalled car was altered to be a decoy. Stall, Lines would tell Drumm be fore she dashed to the bank for change. Drumm and Paraiso who no longer could chain the parking lot's entrance - mean wliile adopted bulldog tactics to protect the spaces in the lot. They employed a reign of terror. They were crazy enough to look capable of everything they might have threatened and some token violence got it straight that this was no nickel-and-dime outfit. Business boomed. But profits attract competition like a stench attracts vermin. The sleazy firm Central Parking was no problem at first; it was into permit parking lots and counter feiting. But after a police crackdown, Central Parking took up poaching on We-Park-It's latest meter lots. It was classic free enterprise until Park ing, Inc., a mega-corporation with vast manpower and package rates, blited the Review 'Hedda Gabler' bores audience f annate V fl cted considering that Ibsen has not painted them very deeply. He classifies them as either those that Hedda likes or those that Hedda dislikes, and doesn't go much beyond that. Even the ones Hedda likes arc little more than instruments for her complete egocentricity. Early in the play she is visit ed by an old friend of hers, Ejlcrt Ixvborg, who has recently reformed himself from a life of debauchery and become a member of society. She takes pleasure in pushing him back into depravity because she likes to see him as free from convention as she wants to be. She is excited by freedom but she will not have it for herself because, she says, "I have such fear of scandal." This conflict within Hedda between slavery to convention and longing for free dom is the focus of the play. All of the action aids in pushing the play to its in evitable end. For those people who do not wish to consider Hedda's complexity the play will seem long and tedious, except for the occasional humor arising from Hedda's sarcasm. But for people who want to ex amine her and imagine that people like her really exist, the play will be interesting. Ibsen wrote Hedda Gabler n 1890 after he ended a relationship with a woman that was interrupting his art and disturbing his creativity. He drew away from the emot ional involvement because it was too en grossing, too intense. Hedda Gabler is the result of his drawing away from emotion. He created a woman completely self centered and without caring for anything that did not satisfy her. Kate Burke does a good job at bringing this character to life, and the other actors present well the more friendly world in which Hedda does not fit. It is intriguing to penetrate this charact er, but there is no warmth in her soul for the audience to warm itself by. business market. The limited resource of parking space became very dear. Territories were clung to tooth and nail, gangland style. Dialectically speaking, the battle for the union lot was inevitable. Central Parking gave promotional T-shirts to its customers. Parking, Inc. washed its cars. We-Park-It had 2-fers. But the gimmicks only intensified the essential shortage. Paraiso, who absent-mindedly had gotten a sight snickered in the sales frenzy, was locked head-on with some moustachio ed biker mama from Parking, Inc. Both had been going for the same spot and somehow became bumper-to-bumper, nose-to-nose, each trying to plow the other out of the way. Rubbery smoke and the squeals of tortured tires filled the air about the union lot. Drivers instantly swarmed - even Action Cam 6 showed up. The forces took their sides, lining up behind each other, adding to the unified trust, the crunch, the cause. The unstoppable Anne Archy, saying most unfeminine things, was opening hoods along the competition's revved motorcade and yanking wires - just when the Parking Violations Bureau called in its SWAT team. The area was cordoned with Cushmans. A traffic helicopter hovered overhead. An army of meter maids stormed the riot and sternly jammed tickets under every wiper The businesses were effectively defunct Pending a court decision, parking lots again will be uncivilized jungles . Tae..a defense fund- Dru, has started 24-Hour-Delivery. For cost plus freight, anytime, for any reason, he will pick up and deliver last-call beers, late night cigarettes, early-morning aspirin, unimpressed dates, whatever. Business is healthy - but Drumm looks wasted by the hours and freebies. Nash Rambler,on the other hand, keeps his affairs at a low p,ofie having moved 'n with covetahlc Tracy I jnes