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EPs generate sales
despite high prices
By Matt Van Hosen
Staff Reporter
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single. Mini-LP. What are they?
What's the difference between them
and an LP? How much do they cost?
Are they worth it?
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experts. . .
because EPs ere often reared
before LPs, so they five a taste of
.what the LP will be like" sdd
Michael Black, employee tX Pickle's
Records and Tepes downtown. There
are other reasons why people buy
EPs, and a quick lock at what sells
explains why,
"The biggest sellers are those
with dance mixes. . . .pretty much
soul and R & B," said John Cell,
employee of Dirt Cheap Records and
Gifts downtown. The soul and R & B
EPs are usually domestic (that means
the record is made right here in the
good ol' U.S. of A.) top-40 hits. What
atwut import EPs?The biggest sellers
of import EPs are Joy Division,
Caberet Voltaire and the Sisters of
Mercy, said both Black and Cell.
Why do import EPs appeal to record
'Golden Girls'
brings home
four Emmys
By The Associated Press
The following were the winners at
Sunday evening's 38th annual Emmy
Awards in Hollywood.
CBS' "Cagney & Lacey" won four
awards at the 38th annual Emmy Awards
Sunday, including one as best drama
series for the second year in a row.
"Cagney" star Sharon Gless won her
first Emmy as best actress in a drama
series, John Karlen as best supporting
actor for his role as Tyne Daly's screen
husband and Georg Stanford Brown,
Daly's real-life husband, as best director.
NBC's "Golden Girls" eased past
"The Cosby Show" collecting four
Emmys including best comedy series.
Cosby finished first in the ratings last
season, while "Golden Girls," a rookie
hit, was seventh. Betty White won as
best lead actress in a comedy series,
and it also won for writing and techni
cal direction.
NBC's "Peter the Great" and "Love
Is Never Silent," were selected as best
miniseries and best drama special.
Another winner, NBC's "St. Else
where," was only 46th last year. It
picked up a second Emmy for William
Daniels as best actor in a drama series,
Plus an Emmy as best supporting
actress for Bonnie Bartlett, Daniels'
wife both on the show and in private
life. It also got a writing award.
Michael J. Fox won as best lead
actor in a comedy series for NBC's
'Family Ties." Rhea Perlman of NBC's
Cheers" and John Larroquette of NBC's
Night Court" were repeat winners as
best supporting performers in comedy.
buyers? In additon to advance tracks
and dance mixes, EPs often contain
songs or versions of songs that are
otherwise unavailable, especially live
versions, instrumental, outtakes
(songs recorded at the same time as
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varyfreni U to $6. A new import CP
usually costs $5 or $8. A new domes
tic is about $4 or $5, cut-out (factory
overstock) and used EPs are cheaper,
costing $1 to $4. Both Pickles and
Dirt Cheap have wide selections of
domestic, import, and cut-out EPs.
Dirt Cheap also has a wide selection
of used EPs. Gell said he thinks that
Dirt Cheap's used EPs provide a
"better selection and probably sell
just as well as new EPs."
A word of advice to all who buy
EPs: buy now. "They have a short
life span. They only hang around a
couple of months," Gell .said. So
... buy them now or forever hold
your LP.
Rare Silk
By Kim E. Karloff
Staff Reporter
Lionel Richie may have 'em dancing
on the ceiling, but Rare Silk had 'em
dancing in the aisles Sunday night at
Kimball Hall.
Yes, people were dancing at the
UNL Performance Series season opener
clapping and singing a bit, too.
Perhaps it was the jazz trio's vocal
pyrotechnics. This group could sing.
And scat. And croon. And improvise.
Concert Review
Their presentation of pure fusion jazz
was downright entertaining.
Fusing voices with instruments, in
struments with voices, voices with jazz,
jazz with blues, blues with classical,
pop tunes and rhythm, the Grammy
Award nominees diplayed a barrage of
skills and a style energized by jazz
ranging from the romantic ballads of
the '30s to the spontaneity of scat.
Frequently compared to Manhattan
Art contest
The Nebraska Wesleyan Art Coun
cil is sponsoring its third annual
Nebraska Young Artists competi
tion. The contest is open to any
artist under 39 years of age as of
Dec. 31, 1986, who has lived in
Nebraska for the past five years and
is no longer a student.
The winner, to be announced Jan.
1, 1987, will receive a $300 award in
honor of the late Helen Haggie,
former cultural affairs editor of the
Lincoln Journal and member of the
Nebraska Wesleyan Art Council. The
King's 'It':
By Chris McCubbin
Senior Reporter
"It," Stephen King (Viking)
Fair warning: If I wasn't getting paid
to read "It," 1 never would have made it
past the first 200 pages. By the end of
the book 1 was loving it. "It" is one of
King's most rewarding books if you
can get past the long haul at the start.
This is a big, big book. At 1,138
pages, "It" is even longer than "The
Stand." In "The Stand," King took
Book Review
what could have been three or even
four pretty good novels and strung
them together to create a giant, incho
ate mess. "It" tells one, fairly simple
story, but King goes into microscopic
detail about each character and event.
It's this detail that makes the first
a class act
Transfer, Rare Silk is made up of Todd
Buffa and singing sisters Gaile and
Marylyn Gillaspie.
Dressed in a backless black dress
and shiny silver pumps, Gaile could
belt out most any note given to her. Her
smooth intonations and balanced range
breathed sophistication.
Marylynn, Gaile's vampy sibling,
added a touch of vivaciousness even
her dance actions said, "Let's have
some fun."
Buffa provided a solid sense of style
and control. When speaking to the
audience, he embodied a sort of "We're-all-here-at-the-nightclub
enjoy" atti
tude. (And he could ba-ba-ba-boom
with the best.of them.)
Indeed, the back-up instrumenta
tion, Lester Mendez on keyboard, Ted
Kumpet on guitar, Rick Seirabracci on
bass and Rob Echelmen on percussion,
gave a sense of watching a nightclub
act.
Intensity, inteimacy and plain good
showmanship were all there.
Maybe that's why the audience
danced and clapped and sang.
underway
artist also will be featured at a one
person show at the University Place
Art Center Wesleyan Laboratory
Gallery, 48th and Baldwin streets,
Feb. 13 through Mar. 11, 1987.
Last year's recipient was Michael
Fowler of York. Applications are due
Dec. 1. For more information and an
application form, contact the Ne
braska Wesleyan Art Council, Ne
braska Wesleyan University, 50th
and St. Paul streets, Lincoln, Ne
68504.
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Fear and
quarter of the novel such a trial. Three
pages pass between the time a charac
ter enters a bar and the time he orders
his drink. Half a page is devoted to
describing the contents of a charac
ter's medicine chest.
W ho cares?
If you can st ick it out for a few more
pages you come to care, your mind
adjusts to King's ultra-slow pacing, and
you discover that all that trivia you
found out about the characters early on
really is vital to the plot King is
developing.
"It" is the story of a small Maine
town which is haunted by a nasty, slimy
monster that wakes up every 27 years
and goes on a killing spree for the next
18 months or so. Seven 11-year-old
children each run into the creature and
narrowly escape, so they team up to
chase It to Its lair and kill It. But they
don't finish the job, so they have to
come back 27 years later when the
cycle starts once more and try again.
King very neatly develops the 1958 and
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It, the monster, is a classic creepy
King critter. It can take any form and
appears as whatever you most fear. In a
typical bit of King perversity the mons
ter, when for some reason it doesn't
want to be scary, appears as a down, a
cross between Ronald McDonald and
Bozo, red, yellow and green balloons in
hand.
So far this sounds like typical King
scare-fare, but there's more to it than
that for the devoted King follower. As
horror, "It" is pretty typical King, as
fantasy, it's his most significant work
so far.
King's earlier efforts to create an
imaginary world have been, at best,
qualified successes. Most of his best
works have offered no explanation at
all for their supernatural goings-on;
some of the others used H.P. Love
craft's cosmology. King has tried to
create an imaginary world before, but
the fantasy universe he designed with
Peter Straub in "The Talisman," was
contrived and a little too cliched. The
cosmos he created in "The Dark Tower"
was nicely surrealistic, but seemed to
lack a center.
In "It," King has finally created a
coherent and original imaginary uni
verse, and the fact that the imaginary
universe could very well be, to all out
ward appearances, the "real" world
only adds to its power. The cosmos of
"It" is a beautifully simple thing with a
good helping of King's uniquely warped
humor.
"I'm the Turtle, son. I made the uni
verse, but please don't blame me for it;
I had a bellyache," the Creator intro
duces himself.
Another big asset of the book is that
most of King's characters are children
for most of the book. King is unequaled
at creating portraits of American
childhood that are real, moving, but
not at all sentimental.
Nobody in their right minds would
pay $22.95 for this book, but watch the
libraries or wait for the paperback. If
you have some time to kill, "It" will
reward the patient.
Review copy courtesy of the
University Bookstore.
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