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By Hiram Brinagar and EiMia Grcanlaaf
Spectacular lighting and special effects,
beautiful costumes and slick choreography
I played a big part in Prince's efforts to outdo
one of his warm-up bands during Sunday's
concert at Carolina Coliseum.
But there were some in the packed coliseum
who remained more "in tune" with
the enthusiastic performance of The Tyme
I than with the showmanship of the headlining
act.
Prince opened his concert with his funky
hit, "Controversy." Surrounded with steam
and bright lights, the young singer toyed
with his audience through a provocative
delivery, looking for reaction - and winning
it - as a bright search light scanned the coliomim
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FROM THIS beginning, Prince structured
his show around his new hit single, "1999,"
accenting special effects and lights. The
theme was carried with smooth professinnnlicm
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I came to hear recent favorites were in for a
let-down.
Prince focused strongly on material from
his new album, much of it still unfamiliar .
"1999" has received a good deal of national
radio airplay, but other tunes from the LP
have remained obscure to all but the most
dedicated fans.
Admittedly, Prince's showmanship was
as effective as ever. During one slow
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ensembles performing this month.
I Author's story
I By Vichi Jinnatte .
Readers will find no deep underlying
themes, no twisted plots, no mysteries to
solve, no characters to analvze. But in
I Danielle Steel's latest novel, "Crossings,"
they will find a heartwarming drama of love
and romance.
Steel's fine tradition of romance novels
has proven her to be a master storyteller
with a flair for warmth and personal
courage. Buried in Steel's pages are
heroines to whom the reader would like to
be compared.
Each story has a rich, beautiful young
woman who striicrffles with life's nroblems
I only to come out more triumphant in the
end. The women are all princesses,
debutantes, daughters of millionaires, bom
with silver spoons in their mouths, crowns
on their heads and unselfish love in their
hearts. There are i*j rich snobs in Steel's
I stories ? just ordinary women like
ourselves who we grow to admire.
ONE WOULD believe, with characters
such as those, that the story would be too
unrealistic, so why bother reading it? This is
where Steel's art shines.
Despite the advantages borne to the
i heroines, they ail face problems normal
women do in their everyday lives: they lose
their husbands to war, their children suffer
with handicaps, they are disowned by their
families.
Steel makes one believe in the heroines.
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along with the heroines. But in the end as
true love is finally discovered, the reader
can rejoice with the heroine as if she had
. found her own love.
In "Crossings," Steel's typical pattern
comes through on the first page. One knows
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number, for example, he left the stage only
to return rising up in the rear of the stage on
a brass bed. Prince's overt sexual connotations
were amusing, and he and his band
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uupiayeu uieir laienis ior dancing as well
as for playing instruments.
But by the end of the night, with only one
encore, it was apparent that Prince had
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the show-stealing members of The Tyme.
WITH SONGS such as "Walk Your Body,"
"Cool" and "777-9311," The Tyme brought
the audience to its feet to stay. Against a
backdrop suggesting an old house, the group
delivered an enthusiastic and "classy" per
forma nee.
The group offered a solid dance show and
involved the audience throughout the concert,
earning enough applause to bring the
group back for an encore prior to Prince's
performance.
The Tyme actually was sandwiched between
the main event and the first warm-up,
a group of showy women called Vanity 6.
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ty Girls," and its performance Sunday did
not shy from that description.
Vanity 6 appeared in provocative body
suits and high heels, relating a slinky, Las
Vegas showgirl image. With a purple fishnet
over a pink backdrop, the group proved to
be a fun opening act, with many of its
dances verging on vulgarity.
sembles prepare
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larazs (I), it one of several university
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book review
exactly what to expect from beginning to
end.
All Steel's novels are the same. Man
meets woman. Man and woman fall in love.
Man loses woman. Man finds woman and
they live happily ever after. The only thing
that can't be guessed (which makes it so intriguing)
is how or when the heroine will
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"CROSSINGS" ' HEROINE is Laine
Crockett, daughter of a shipping magnate
who, at 20, marries an old family friend, Armand
de Villiers, Ambassador of France.
Armand was 30 years older than Laine,
which only served to make their love more
fnrhirirfon and enthralling.
On page 36 enters Nick Burnham ?
young, handsome, rich and tied up in a marriage
that only holds misery. At that exact
moment the reader knows Nick and Laine
were meant for each other, hut how they'll
arrive at that blissful end can only be
discovered by reading the rest of the book.
The story is set during World War II as
Laine travels back and forth from San Francisco,
New York and Paris to avoid war-torn
Europe, which eventually claims the life of
her husband, Armand.
Steel combines history and culture to
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novel. One feels the pain brought on by the
war. While in San Francisco, the reader can
feel herself climbing the many hills. In
Paris, the Champe-Elysees is drawn out for
readers like a pictured map. Every last
detail in Steele's descriptions is picture
perfect.
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Prince performed the title cut from his album "C
on new material Sunday.
for busy performii
:rom Staff Reports TY
,
USC'8 annual Christinas concert program .
will begin Dec. 3 when the University Or- , <
chestra and University Chorus, under the
direction of Robert Jesselson and Arpad T1
Darazs, respectively, perform at 8 p.m. at the
Asbury Memorial United Methodist Church. end
On Dec. 5. the Concert Choir will present a Chu
7 p.m. concert at St. Andrews Baptist A1
Church, with the performance repeated the mai
following evening at 7 p.m. at Eastminster cho
Presbyterian Church. . will
These Christmas performances are normally
given at First Presbyterian Church,
but fire damage to that facility forced
relocation of the concerts this year, Darazs 8
said. "We are grateful that these churches
are going to host us this year," he said. wv<
The featured guest ensemble at these concerts
will be the Palmetto Mastersingers, a
70-yoice male chorus comprised of USC us:
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suiaems, iacuicy ana administrators, plus ?
"excellent singers from the community," F
Darazs said. forr
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ng season
lese concerts' major work will be the
stmas Cantata. Traditional American
foreign carols will be sung and special
ists will be featured.
le Christmas season performances of
university Chorus and Orchestra will
Dec. 12 at 7 p.m. at Mt. Tabor Lutheran
rch.
long with these Columbia church perforlces,
the Concert Choir, University
rus ana oiner use; musical ensembles
perform selections at the 10th annual
istmas Music Festival Dec. 7 at Carolina
seum. .The festival will begin at 8 p.m.
free parking is available in Coliseum
tie Concert Choir will also present
sral private performances for Columbia
anizations, including the Kiwanis Club
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1 choral student), the USC Women's Club
the Columbia Evening Music Club.
or more information on any of the pernances,
call 777-4106.
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