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Singing swor be key to det By SCOTT PRUDEN Staff writer I just saw Who Framed Roger - m Rabbit? for about the umpteenth time, but still not as many times as some girls I know have seen Dirty Dancing. ties ai Since I've memorized most of ways the dialogue by now (a story of destru sex, greed and murder), I've gotten Firs to the point where I've started to then t look for little details I seem to Bing have missed the first 20 or 30 only r times I saw the movie. an av. Where some of the Dirty Dane- natra : ing girls have taken to counting move, how many times Patrick Swayze King flexes his right pectoral, I like pay- blow I ing attention to more pivotal little The things. no w Things like singing swords. match You remember. Eddie Valiant nolog; whips it out of a box during his would climactic battle with the evil and called very bald Judge Doom. Personally, place I think this guy's name should be lot have tipped someone off in the both s first place, but then we wouldn't the st< have had a movie, now would we? ap sor Anyway, Valiant grabs the The sword, animated like everything the v else in the movie, and of course it scale siaris singing. /\nucmy, u turns stOCkf into a young Frank Sinatra head such ; and cuts into a croon. Xhe S The only problem is I'm usually mid-n the only person that ever thinks the U. this is funny. aid ci Actually, some of the other peo- NATC pie I know that have seen the mo- Fin vie about 9,000 times think it's a power bit amusing, but no one thinks it's to aln as funny as I do. rence I think it's rolling-on-the-floor low ki funny. That kind of funny when dink you laugh so hard that it ceases be- would ing a laugh and becomes more of a awful convulsive motion, punctuated ev- fare bi ery once in a while by a snort or a But heave. sword That's probably because I can't prize ] help thinking about a sudden sing- _____ ing sword proliferation between the United States and the Soviet $ee ^ Union. After all, this was the for Foreign audie By The Associated Press MALA LUMPUR, Malaysia ? Bob H< the road to Malaysia a bit bumpy. After arriving here, the 86-year-old com reporters Sunday night his Far East tour g( rough start in Taipei, Taiwan. "They didn't understand English as n thought," he said. "Later in Tokyo, things were better as t more English-speaking people. It is very c tell a joke, get 50 percent of laughs, hav rupted and then do it again. It kind of ruins ing. But the people there were friendly." # NEW YORK ? Actress Loni And learned to overcome some of the hari motherhood. "One morning I was thinking, 'How I lo1 ware A 11 | vW flf 11111 * JI | A IV J VI w^ 111 V I Ord^^our colle^ JOSTE AMERICA S COLLE ; Date: Nov. 2,3, 6,7 1989 Time:9 to 4:00 D< Place- University Bookstorc-Russ Meet with your Jostens representative (or full details. See our complete ri ds may errence 'ott Prudent festyles | nd those Commies were alstealing our neato death and ction ideas anyway. ;t comes the Sinatra sword, he Soviets come out with a Crosby sword, which can natch the crooning power of /esome weapon like the Sisword. Then, in a bold power , the U.S. introduces a Nat Cole sword to completely the Soviets away. ;n, recognizing that there is ay the nasty Soviets can the superior weapons techy of the United States, there be a singing sword summit in some terminally neutral like Geneva, and there would s of whining and griping on >ides about how deep to cut xkpiles and verification and ts of messy things like that. ;n it would be decided that wo sides would gradually down their singing sword >iles to less powerful forms, as singing swords that scat, oviets would downgrade to a inge Mel Torme sword and S. would cut to Ella Fitzgerruise missiles only in the ) countries. ally, when the two supernations agree to scale down nrvof borm loco tnb An Hat/ar iiudi uai iiuvdd, ivjivvn uvivi" weapons, like Barry Manilives and Englebert Humperletter openers, the world once again be safe from the threat of singing sword wareaking out at any time, of course by then, singing technology would become property for the Third World .IFESTYLES p 5 mces can t 3pe found rcUL edian told * ,loff,oa in the i iuch as I ? : mom,' and that day 1 here were me, pooped on me, a lifficult to ous,"' Anderson sai e it inter- son, Quinlon. your tim- "I've definitely cl in this week's PeopU erson has # DETROIT ? dships of David Ruffin has cc program and deck ve being a narcotics. -FM: Id e ring NOW ;ns G E RING,"* eposit Required: $15.00 P?yn?n> Www M JUfcle Z2S?3 tell House -ng selection on display in your college bookstore. 8s-r7CA(CP-e(n^0) * ^fL H^Hp ^j, jJ * * W ^0mmtKj j||r 'ii|t Broadcasting sophomore Deena Alford perfi game. By STEVE FLOYD C Staff Writer 1; USC feature twirler Deena Alford has been twirling batons for about 16 years and recently li won three national titles in a competition at the q University of Notre Dame. Alford, a broadcast journalism sophomore, s; learned to twirl a baton at the age of three. To- j( day she is on a band scholarship and is prepar- jj ing to compete in the international twirling contest in Holland next April. Alford's mother, a baton teacher, introduced ^ her to twirling. Alford's two younger sisters are also twirlers. She and her sister Stacy won the Ms. Majorette competition in their respec- ^ tive age divisions in 1981. Deena has gone on { to win other Ms. Majorette titles, the most recent of which was held this summer. L Alford's titles include the National Collegi- jc ate Twirling Champion, the Woild Strutting tl Champion and Ms. Majorette of America. Her victory in the National Collegiate Twirling u uin timing, com | But the 48-; 11 mmk return today f( * at the Areba C "I'm clean,' WWS (cocaine) was date." On Sept. 2 he baby peed on me, threw up on Court for viol nd I thought, 'This is not glamor- possession con id of her 14-month-old adopted Judge John drug treatment langed," she said in an interview ^ ; magazine. * B^RL Former Temptations lead singer a7c tmpletcd a 28 day drug treatment rama aboul he ired he no longer uses illegal judge the whe said. ? ? > Sign l The OOPS! Coi I jfa* Of v * i arms at a football Championship qualified her to compete in Holmd next April. "I represented the University of South Carona . . . I won for USC," Alford said about the Collegiate Championship. However, the school has not offered to ponsor Alford in the Holland competition. Al3rd said she may get a loan to pay for the trip : she can't find a sponsor. According to Marching Band Director James openhaver, the lunds are not available to lonsor Alford. "We have never done that," Copenhaver lid, adding, "We were extremely proud of ;r." In Copenhaver's 14 years as band director, fSC has had two Collegiate Division Ms. Mairette winners. Alford won the senior division lis year. Alford was offered scholarships to several niversitics, but chose USC because of the edian Bob Hop year-old Ruffin also said he planned to Th< )r 30 to 60 days of voluntary treatment with asriel Institute in New York. movie ' he said Friday. "The last time I used said S Wednesday, the day after my court deal f Mo 7, Ruffin was in Detroit Recorder's Eric I ating probation imposed for a cocaine- child, viction. Foi Patrick O'Brien ordered Ruffin into the Mo center for the probation violation. court Y HILLS, Calif. ? Dr. Elizabeth Mor- pute. "absolute control" over a TV docud- dered r two years in jail for refusing to tell a reabouts of her daughter, an attorney will a name Jo at G 5?) 953 mpany, 610 Hardei ? riving for fection SC student epares for lernational twirling impetition warm weather and because it's fairly close to her home in Maryland. "I love it (USC). Southern people are cool," she said. In addition to her national title victories, she performed at the White House for Vice President Dan Quayle in an attempt to promote twirling as an Olympic event. Alford said it was very important to her to twirl at the White House. "That was my dream, and I did it this summer," she said. Alford performs at all home football games as one of two featured twirlers. She spends much of her time practicing with the band and preparing for the Holland competition. Alford said she thinks she has a good chance of winning in Holland, but she's not thinking much of that right now. "I just want to go, and I want to do an awesome job and if I lose, I lose . . . but if I did an awesome job, then I'm happy," Alford said. w says of tour i Washington, D.C.-area plastic surgeon signed Lansburg Co., makers of "Adam," a television > about a boy who was kidnapped and murdered Ihelley Browning, an attorney who negotiated the or Morgan. irgan has alleged that her former husband, Dr. 7oretich, an oral surgeon, sexually molested their Hilary, now 7. etich vehemently denies the charges, irgan was jailed in 1987 for civil contempt of by the judge presiding over their custody disMorgan refused to comply when the judge orher to allow Foretich unsupervised visits. len informed of the movie deal, Foretich said: "I bsolutely sue them if my name or my daughter's is used without my consent." iAnn i 'uro: : Classic : ^ "P"V^ (K IVHji-1 ^ n St. 15 Points ; *