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‘‘All the News
That’s Fit to Print’’
VOL.CXXXV .... No. 46,566
Copyright © 1985 The New York Times
N E W YO R K , S AT U R D AY, O C T O B E R 12, 1985
Heysel Tragedy: Stadium Wars
An unexplained stampede left 40
dead and 600 wounded in Europe
5 DOLLARS
5 dollars beyond 75 miles from New York City,
except on Long Island.
“Go ahead,
make my day!”
Rorschach’s political
position is as elusive as his
ever-changing mask
by MARK FRINTZ
Drawing analogies to the next
Dirty Harry film, our journalist and
film critic Mark Frintz reflects upon
the contemporary representations of
violence in the United States.
Summary
Si nce 1971’s Dir t y Har r y, t he
Inspector Callahan series has continued, at an average rate of one film every three years. While dirty Harry has
been criticized for his latent fascism,
the third installment, The Enforcer
(1976) featured a group patterned after the Symbionese Liberation Army,
advocating revolution through armed
struggle. These films reflect a fascination with violence arising from
isolated transgressors, as much as
from extreme left political organizations. Sudden Impact (1983), famous
for the line “Go ahead, make my day,”
was directed by Eastwood himself. It
is considered the best, and the darkest,
of the series, and continues its pessimistic tradition.
Today, American artists of every
stripe have a grim view of American
society, with its corrupt government,
incapable of providing protection or
ensuring justice. Violence has also
become a recurring theme in the columns of this newspaper. Yet, from 1980
to 1985, the crime rate has steadily
declined.
The existence of an art galler y
called “Nature Morte” and a nightclub
called “Pyramid” attest to the nostalgia
and disenchantment that inform New
York’s current underground scene.
In another realm—that of comic
art—Frank Miller released the first
installment of Daredevil in June.
Entitled “Badlands,” the episode is a
thinly veiled reference to the film by
Terrence Malick, which recounts the
life of notorious 1950s serial killer
Charles Starkweather. Miller, whose
Ronin series (no. 1, July 1983) featured
a lone vigilante, stated that his objective was to create a sort of naturalist,
dark, Batman-type character. Criminal
or vigilante, the American hero is decidedly lonely. Is America’s imagination captured by the theme of broken
social ties?
Will Clint Eastwood play Harry
Callahan again? Will he continue to
be as solitar y as ever? A nd what
threats will he now face?
Read article on page A6
The exhibition Immaterial Things curated by French philosopher
Jean-François Lyotard and Thierry Chaput at the MoMA
A Sunburn in November:
Immaterial Things Exhibition
By Boris Neufang
“This is an exhibition about the
world—the real world—which you
pass through in a fog, and where people are mere shadows,” commented an
enthusiastic audience member on last
night’s “People In The Know,” on ABC.
The show’s special guest was JeanFrançois Lyotard. Asked to answer live
questions from the public, the French
philosopher spoke at length about
his exhibition, entitled Immaterial
Things, which opened Tuesday night
at the MoMA: “Nowadays we drive
electric cars and travel comfortably in
non-polluting aircraft. This exhibition
aims to examine the technology that
Dr. Manhattan made possible and to
analyze how it changed our ways of
thinking, dressing, eating and traveling.” The exhibition is nothing like a
traditional museum event. Visitors are
challenged to distinguish between pigskin and collagen, a natural smell and
an artificial one, or to grasp the universal language of macromolecules.
They make their way through a gigantic labyrinth divided into five spaces
inspired by words beginning with M:
material, matrix, matter, motherhood.
In light of the scandals caused by
the exhibition’s first run, from March
28 to July 15 at the National Museum
of Modern Art in Paris, the organizers
had to appear before the Un-American
Activities Committee in order to obtain
permission to bring it to New York.
Without calling Dr. Manhattan’s absolute power into question, the exhibition grapples with the technological
excesses of a world in which total control of matter may be putting the very
concept of humanity at risk. Although
we have learned to live with the vision
of a disassembled rifle floating in the
air, it may be time to examine possible
repercussions for a society dominated
by a super-powerful being that can
pass through material things, reorder
reality by manipulating its basic structures, or rearrange the structure of objects just by looking at them.
At the entry to the exhibition, an
ancient Egyptian bas-relief shows a
goddess giving the sign of life to King
Nectanebo II. Next, visitors follow a
corridor where five dioramas by JeanClaude Fall depict the disappearance
of the body in Samuel Beckett’s plays.
In an excerpt from Joseph Losey’s
film Monsieur Klein (1976), a doctor
examines a woman’s face: rounded
gums, arched nose, fleshy lower lip,
narrow forehead. His diagnosis indicates that this animal is a Jew. The beginning of the exhibit is rather dry. “I
did not want it to start on a light note.
The world is poised on a precipice,
overlooking Hell. A nd ever yone —
from the liberals and intellectuals to
those who corrupt the public—is entirely speechless; no one has a single
thing to say. I wanted porous, opaque,
conflicting images verging on the invisible. I am not fooling around.” It is
difficult to imagine, in this opening
section dotted with samples of skin,
work clothes and texts by Antonin
Artaud, that Lyotard had initially envisioned visitors moving from room to
room on roller skates.
Continued on page A11
Dr Manhattan, a Family Affair
Dr. Manhattan has
disappeared from Earth.
Where has he gone?
Horrific scenes prior to the European Cup Final
By GERALD M. BOYD
BRUSSELS, Belgium, Oct. 11—One
year after the incredible pitched battle
in Rome’s Stadio Olimpico, which saw
hordes of AS Roma soccer fans rush
their Liverpool counterparts, newfangled “Stadium Wars,” as certain
specialists have dubbed them, have
apparently been declared in several
European countries. In the most recent
instance of this phenomenon, largescale clashes erupted last May during the European Cup soccer Final in
the Heysel Stadium in Brussels. After
having been (intentionally?) made to
wait an inordinately long time, and
subjected to strange conditions in the
hours before kick-off, fans turned the
stadium into a war zone. The exact
number of victims among the more
than 60,000 fans split evenly between
what could only be called “civilian militias”—Juventus Turin and Liverpool—
remains unknown. It would appear
that Liverpool fans, who already had
an active hand in the riot in Rome last
year, surrounded their Italian counterparts, forming a stranglehold that was
more deliberately planned than television images have been able to show. As
the outline that follows makes clear,
quasi-military tactics were employed.
Within a few seconds, a whole swathe
of fans rushed a section hemmed in by
fences and security officers. This ambush had irreversible consequences for
a large number of trapped fans, who
either suffocated or were trampled to
death.
Continued on page A2
Fighting the Enemy of the Future
By Bernard weinraub
Tiffany Weiner
What Lies Behind
the Masks?
By HUNTER S. THOMPSON
NEW YORK, Oct. 11—As part of
our series of interviews examining
the possibility of nuclear war, our correspondent Hunter S. Thompson traveled to Sing Sing Correctional Facility
to interview Dr. Malcolm Long, a psychiatrist, expert in criminology and
author of numerous books on masked
vigilantes.
Continued on page A5
NE W YOR K, Oct. 11—The A ir
Force’s Operation Paradise, which
ended yesterday on a resounding success, offered a glimpse of how wars
will be waged in the future. Though
it is still too early to carry out an exhaustive analysis, what follows is an
attempt to provide all the information
that is currently available.
Daniel Dreiberg is the man behind Operation Paradise. This revised long-term military strategy has
different objectives and targets new
enemies. Nobody knows exactly how
Mr. Dreiberg (Nite Owl II) got the government’s attention. It will soon be ten
years since he and his costumed associates were driven from the streets
and forced to return to civilian life.
Many people have criticized the sudden departure of Dr. Manhattan, which
no one could have predicted, even a
few months ago. Superman exists,
and what’s more, he is American, has
moved to Mars and doesn’t answer the
phone. Nixon has no more aces up his
sleeve, and the Cold War has heated
up. The President has realized that
without Dr. Manhattan’s protection,
he needs to find a different way out
of the conflict with the Soviet Union.
But why did our commander-in-chief
decide to try the Nite Owl’s plan? To
continue the battle against our traditional adversary? No! To get a jump on
a forthcoming one: an invisible, ruthless and powerful opponent, which has
not even declared war on us. It is the
enemy of the future.
Daniel Dreiberg’s plan completely
revises the geopolitical chessboard.
This is not a nuclear war, but an “economic war,” whose effects will not become evident for twenty years. That
is why it is important to be the first
player to move his pawns, to anticipate
events, to attack evil at its roots. We
must crush our adversary while it is
still defenseless. But first, let us examine the data at hand. This is the only
approach that will help us unravel the
secrets of this new scenario, which will
drive the next few decades of political
and military strategies. The ultimate
war has just begun.
The facts are easy to grasp: in the
last few hours, the Air Force has wiped
out six small areas of Planet Earth.
Some of them were not even countries.
Massive but highly targeted bombing
was used. It was a preventive, surgical
war against tomorrow’s enemies. Let us
examine what happened, step by step.
Virtus unita fortior
TV screens flickered with images
of sealed envelopes, the commotion of
battle, war planes, hundreds of bombers taking off from the military base
closest to each objective, and then blood
and fire, like we saw a few decades ago.
By Kathrin Slater
Pr. of Semiotics, McGill University, Montreal
MONTREAL, Oct. 11 — The Blue
Man’s farewell letter, which has just
been released to the public, summarizes the last three decades of mankind’s
history. Perhaps it also contains clues
to our future.
A dishonored superhero
Dr. Manhattan has disappeared
from Earth, in the wake of revelations from our colleagues at the Nova
Express. Where has he gone? On Friday
night, during a live interview before
the public on ABC television, the going got rough. Only a few minutes into
the broadcast, he was asked to respond
to charges by journalist Doug Roth that
cases of cancer have been reported
among his close associates. More than
25 years ago, Dr. Manhattan, then Jon
Osterman, survived exposure to nuclear radiation that took place during
a laboratory experiment. Since then,
he has remained radioactive. (This explains his remarkable sky blue color.)
He claims to have completely mastered
his unique condition, and has chosen
to use it to serve the Western powers,
supporting democratic governments
and preventing the spread of the communist scourge throughout the world.
But in the space of a few minutes, these
ghastly accusations that Manhattan involuntarily contaminated some of his
associates have seriously tarnished
the image of the man who was viewed,
since his first appearance in March,
1960, as the most admirable and most
powerful of all superheroes. He is now
suspected, in addition to desertion, of
spreading radioactivity. A few weeks
before the broadcast, his erstwhile
girlfriend Janey Slater, probably motivated by a sense of revenge, or perhaps by greed, asserted that the former
Dr. Osterman had cheated on her. But
now, it seems that our hero has chosen
to simply abandon the entire planet …
Since his departure, he has remained entirely out of contact. The
only exceptions are a letter, followed
by a short message specifically addressed to his recent girlfriend Laurie
Juspecz yk— none ot her t ha n t he
daughter of ex-superhero Sally Jupiter.
We have reproduced these messages in
their entirety on the front page of our
newspaper; after several days of confusion and silence, the Government finally agreed to make them public. While
the authorities hope to thereby contact
witnesses and gather additional clues
about the intentions of the Blue Man,
we have published these exceptional
documents with the aim of informing
the public. Let us try to understand Dr.
Manhattan’s feelings as he fled our
planet, to learn more about this charismatic and mysterious hero who aided
our nation for so many years.
Continued on page A4
Entertainment Events
Theater
THE ICE CAPADES ,
7 : 30.
Madison Square Garden,
Film
A.K., a Japanese documentary by Chris Marker ;
ULYSSE ,
a French film by Agnès Varda, at Film
Forum 1,57th Watts Street.
FOREVER YOUNG, directed by David Drury, at
Embassy 72d Street, at Broadway.
Music
METROPOLITAN OPERA ,
8.
Continued on page A2
Jonathan Osterman, aka Dr. Manhattan
RUDOLF SERKIN ,
FOCUS! , festival
Mozart’s « Idomeneo, »
piano Carregie Hall, 8.
of 20th-century music Juilliard
RUN-DMC , Apollo Theater, 253 West 125th Street
NATIONAL CHORAL SOLOISTS , Merkin Concert
Hall, 129 West 67th Street, 8.
JAMES BROWN , soul, Radio City Music Hall,
Rockefeller Center, 8.
GROUP FOR CONTEMPORARY MUSIC , Carnegie
Recital Hall, 8.
« ISLANDS ,» music by Steven Antonelli and
Perkin Barnes, La Mama E.T.C., 74A East
Fourth Street, 9.
CAECILIAN CHAMBER ENSEMBLE , Gerardo Levy,
conductor, Turtle Bay Music School, 244
East 52d Street, 8 :30.
SHELLY HIRSCH and TAZARTES GHEDAHLIA , avantgarde, the Kitchen, 512 Wst 19th Street, 8.
CHUCK FOLDS and AL HALL , jazz pianist and
bassist, St. Peter’s Church, Living Room Lex
Dance
NEW YORK CITY BALLET,
«Allegro Brillante,» «In
Memory of …,» «Grounod Symphony,»
New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, 8.
LUCINDA CHILDS, Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth
Avenue, at 19th Street, 8.
THEATER MASK ENSEMBLE , Theater of the
Riverside Church, 490 Riverside Dreive, at
120th Street, 8.
Cabaret
CHICAGO CITY LIMITS ,
351 East 74th Street.
«Current Jam,» comedy improvisation, 8.
FOLK CITY, 130 West Third Street, The Turbines,
Smithereens, new wave music, 9.
CAFE CARLYTE , Madison Avenue at 77th Street.
A2
T H E N E W YOR K T I M E S , W E DN E SDAY, O C T OBE R 12 , 198 5 Heysel Tragedy: Stadium Wars Left 40 Dead and 400 Wounded in Europe
been acting alongside the instigators
of these sudden stampedes, which are
now being dubbed “mini-holocausts.”
Continued from Page A1
What role might eugenics have
in this phenomenon?
European media ensured that this
event should not be publicized, in order
to maintain discretion during the ensuing investigation, a colossal achievement for the forces of censorship and
the willful suppression of information.
A remote-control massacre?
© D.R.
According to our correspondents
in Europe, this type of incident has
become ever more frequent in this
par t of the world where political
stakes are high and power struggles
play out in endless, insidious games
of hide-and-seek with ill-defined para meters. It would ap pear that infiltration of
the masses has become
New
more and more frequent.
Analysis
Fringe groups and organized killers such as the
MIGS of Luton, the Bushwackers of
Millwall, the ICFs of West Ham and
the Gremlins of Newcastle—to name
only the English groups—are said to
have been either infiltrated or even
created by certain political players
bent on waging a generalized war
which would turn stadiums into killing fields, using weapons such as
collective hysteria not to mention unidentifiable and quasi-extraterrestrial
forces. If the burden of responsibility
lies in countries with no particular political allegiance to America or Russia,
it might be time to ask some serious
questions about the existence of and
the role played by certain secret organizations. Our sources have reportedly
discovered a number of ex-Nazi leaders who have joined forces with scientists running experiments in mass
extermination. This theory calls to
mind the mysterious and practically
simultaneous disappearance of futurist architect Norman Leith and science
fiction writer James Trafford March.
Similar cases have been repor ted
worldwide. Questions are also being
asked about why police maintained the
fans in the fenced-off area, making it
impossible for victims to extricate
themselves from the trap they were
in. This technique, often put to use in
concentration camps, has given rise to
a number of conspiracy theories, according to which security forces have
During talks President Nixon has
recently held with his European counterparts concerning these secret associations, the name of wealthy, retired
superhero Adrian Veidt has come up
time and again. According to investigators, a man known as Ozymandias,
the most intelligent human being in
the world, never quite retired and in
fact may have for many years been
maneuvering behind the scenes with
the goal of restoring world order. He
is suspected of fomenting a third world
war of a type heretofore never seen,
and wanting to avoid the ultimate
nuclear conflict by “weeding out” a
portion of humanity he deems incompatible with a new non-threatening
world order. Grassroots movements
which are thought to be operating
above and beyond the political affiliations of this part of the world, divided
between American and Soviet powers,
are said to be active and linked to a
mysterious base on neutral ground in
Antarctica, where collective massacres predicated on psychology of the
masses are being prepared. Professor
Modigli di Ponte, a specialist in new
post-Hiroshima conflicts, confirmed in
a recent Italian newspaper interview
that his ex-colleague Adrian Veidt
was indeed interested in research of
this sort, and was quite open about it.
This research could also be the basis
of other exterminations of historical
proportions and at other venues such
as political rallies, places of worship
or large-scale festivals. FBI investigators are particularly interested in massacres that occurred during episodes
of mass hysteria in Vietnam, as well
as the Luzhniki Stadium in the USSR
in October of 1982, which was similar
to the case under current discussion,
and the toll of which is still unknown.
The Russians are also known for jealously guarding their information,
but according to certain sources, as
many as 300 deaths are thought to
have occurred. Though dr ug and
alcohol use have been mentioned
here and there as possible causes of
the disaster, this theory appears to
be nothing more than a red herring.
What certain authorities are blaming
on “hooliganism” might simply be the
result of experiments on how to provoke large human groups to kill each
other, and in the present case, to turn
civilians into armed militias. The most
alarmist of observers—and how could
one not be alarmed when faced with
the images of the savage stampede
and the catastrophe it caused?—see
tomorrow’s stadiums turning into ad
hoc, almost “intentional” concentration camps, as hidden as the players
currently planning the killings to
come. According to other previously
mentioned theories, deliberate political destabilization is being bankrolled
with the goal of igniting a European
The number of
victims among the
more than 60,000
fans split evenly
between what could
only be called
“civilian militias.”
war through nationalistic clashes in
various stadiums. Italy, with its historical attachment to communism, does
not really belong to the same Europe
as capitalistic England, which has
privileged ties to the US. This state of
affairs changes these countries’ relationships by destabilizing a part of the
world that, because of W WII and its
consequences, is directly responsible
for current tensions.
Be that as it may, political stakes
have thus far prevented a coordinated
investigation into the matter, and the
problem continues to grow unabated.
Will the countries involved be able to
identify the threat? To what extent are
they themselves implicated in it? These
questions remain unanswered.
Upcoming mass events will be
closely scrutinized. However, who
among civilians, police, superheroes
or States, is truly in charge of setting in
motion a potentially destructive wave
of violence?
Operation Paradise: Fighting the Enemy of the Future
Continued from Page A1
Yet the objec tive wa s not the
Soviets. And it was not a nuclear war.
Virtus unita Fortior … the motto
of A ndorra, means “ Vir tue unit y,
strength”.
Perhaps this time, fate is neither facetious nor misleading; perhaps it has
not acted with irony. Today, Andorra no
longer exists, and we must admit that
its disappearance has strictly followed
its motto: united it fell.
Three days and four nights
of nonstop bombing, with
New
thousands of tons of exploAnalysis
sives, did the job. Today,
only smoking cinders remain on the site of this small privileged
territory on the mountainous border
between Spain and France. 468 square
kilometers have been erased from the
map. This is precisely the concept behind Operation Paradise: a scorchedearth policy. Fortunately, based on
available data, casualties were minimal. All Andorrans, as we will explain
later, had adequate time and resources
to escape unharmed. While the country is gone, almost all of its former
residents are still alive. Only memories
remain of their currency, their flag and
their homes: their country has become
a fabled land.
Monte-Carlo cleverly avoided the
horrors of World War II by playing the
role of friendly host. But not this time.
There is a certain fellow in MonteCarlo with a talent for skiing. He practices his sport diligently. He was the
first one to leave his palace. The whole
country covers barely two square kilometers. It is now scorched ruins,
razed by a few dozen bombers in just
twenty-four hours. Nothing remains
of what was once a large blemish on
the south of France. Monte-Carlo is no
more. Just like Andorra. And just like
Liechtenstein, another country that
did not have any major worries in the
1940s. Because Liechtenstein has also
been bombed. Neither Switzerland nor
Austria will have to worry about their
pleasant but treacherous neighbor,
wedged between the two countries,
this cesspool of one hundred dollar
bills that is now 160 square kilometers
of fire and ashes.
The Isle of Man got the same treatment. Imagine quietly watering the
plants in your garden, when suddenly
the sky fills with combat aircraft. You
hear the first explosion, not knowing
if it is close or far; the second seems
closer; the third, fourth, fifth, and then
a thousand more follow; you feel a
powerful impulse that lifts you into the
air. You are burning, but that does not
seem to trouble you, you are floating,
everything goes white, you disappear.
That makes 572 fewer square kilometers of land between the Great Britain
and Ireland. The British crown has lost
its favorite dependency, located in the
middle of the Irish Sea. 572 square kilometers of flaming devastation. The
same goes for the Cook Islands, in the
South Pacific between Hawaii and New
Zealand. Fifteen islands, 240 square
kilometers, transformed into a sort
of apocalypse that will not show new
signs of financial life for many decades
to come.
And finally, Grand Cayman, Little
Cayman, and Cayman Brac all felt the
might of Air Force bombs. No matter
how hard you look, you will no longer
find these scenic reefs, famous for scuba diving. There is nothing left of the
Cayman Islands, Seven Mile Beach,
St. James Castle in Bodden Town or
Stingray City. Just south of Cuba, 260
square kilometers of islands no longer
exist. Another empty spot on the world
map of the future.
Virtue, unity, strength. Virtue is
white.
A total of about 1,700 square kilo­
meters were eliminated. For now, we
hero. It is common knowledge that his
father, Mr. Dreiberg, worked for an investment bank, and was familiar with
the world of finance, tax subterfuges
and other secrets of “creative finance.”
This enabled him to become a multimillionaire in a few short years. And
it helped his son Daniel to afford the
technological toys that he still hides in
his basement, with which he patrolled
New York’s skies in the 1970s (for
example, Archimedes, a rocket plane
with the eyes of an owl, or his sophisticated night vision goggles). “Nuclear
war is the onus of Dr. Manhattan,” he
pointed out yesterday during a press
conference. “The world’s salvation is
no longer dependent on any human
beings. So, logically, we are considering the most optimistic hypothesis,
since the pessimistic hypothesis would
mean the end of life as we know it. If
the Earth survives this decade, our
obligation is to continue working for
a better future, and a secure world.
Regarding the details of Operation
Paradise,” continued Dreiberg, “one
not a war against people but against
countries, and specifically against
their financial misdeeds.” The six attacks were apparently planned over a
month ago. And about twenty days ago,
the governments of Andorra, MonteCarlo, Liechtenstein, the Isle of Man,
the Cook Islands and Cayman Islands
were warned: “For strategic reasons,
your country will be reconfigured to
conform to a new world order. Alert
your citizens: they have two weeks to
take their things and leave. Each of
your citizens will receive a U.S. passport and a loan of two million dollars
to start his life anew.” The intention
was to avoid any casualties. Residents
of Andorra, Liechtenstein, the Isle of
Man, the Cook Islands, the Cayman
Islands and even Monte-Carlo, had
ample time to pack their belongings
and move, comfortably and without
expense, to a neighboring country.
They kept their property and did not
sustain any injuries. It was necessary
to annihilate these countries to avoid
their potential collaboration early in
the next century. Several of them had
already done precisely that during the
Third Reich—the biggest killing machine ever created—although, in this
case, the evil mechanism, that of the
tax haven, is quite different. Thus, it
was done. The first phase of Operation
Paradise officially ended yesterday at
8 PM.
According to government sources,
these six attacks are only the beginning. The second phase of Operation
Paradise will take place within two
months, targeting current and future
tax havens. A third and last phase will
follow. Their governments have already
been warned: their economies, at fault
for a lack of transparency, will soon be
eliminated. Their residents will have
even more time than those targeted in
phase 1 to begin a new life. The locales
are the Marshall Islands, Vanuatu, Saint
Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the
Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Gibraltar, the
British Virgin Islands, San Marino and
Tonga. We will certainly keep you informed as this situation develops.
“The world’s salvation is no longer
dependent on any human beings.
So, logically, we are considering the
most optimistic hypothesis, since the
pessimistic hypothesis would mean
the end of life as we know it.”
—Daniel Dreiberg
have no data on how many tons of
bombs were needed for this operation;
we will try to get that information for
future editions. Six massive, simultaneous air attacks wiped out 1,700 square
kilometers in a few days—not very
much, in the end. 1,700 square kilometers is more or less the area of metropolitan London. A figure that is entirely
acceptable, according to government
sources. Strategically, the operation
was successful.
Details of Operation Paradise
What is Operation Paradise? How
did the Nite Owl II manage to draft
this new international scenario? What
was the purpose of targeting these six
particular enclaves, spread around the
world? And most importantly, what
was the cost in human lives of this simultaneous attack that destroyed six
apparently unrelated regions in just
96 hours?
To answer these questions, we must
delve into the biography of our masked
thing is certain: the Cold War that we
have carried out against the Soviets
for so many years will be followed by
another, subtler war, incredibly deadly,
cruel and perverse: humanity has never seen a horror similar to what ‘economic war’ will unleash. That’s why we
decided on a preemptive attack. The
six tax havens we neutralized in the
last few hours constituted the nucleus
of evil, veritable black holes, ready to
swallow the dignity of our civilization,
to reduce it to its simplest form: piles
of one hundred dollar bills. Addressing
the press, his eyes narrowed to slits,
and he concluded, “I know that this
concept remains difficult to grasp, but
the economic balance of our future is
at stake, and that means our children’s
lives are in the balance. Should they
end up as slaves?”
To complete the picture, the government has issued a statement that details the protocols used by Operation
Paradise. The most important point,
boldly underlined, states: “This is
TOM WICKER
HAS A PRACTICED
EYE
Audrey Wiseman
Final report from the Cayman Islands, one of the six tax havens
to be wiped out in the operation.
What he sees when he looks at national politics
and policies can open your eyes. Watch for his
column, in The Nation, every Monday and Friday
on the Op-Ed page.
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T H E N E W YOR K T I M E S , W E DN E SDAY, O C T OBE R 12 , 198 5 Dr. Mayak Versus Dr. Manhattan
NEW YORK, Oct. 11—In this exclusive interview with The Nova Express,
recently exiled Russian physicist
Yevgeny Yurlov reveals surprising
information about Chelyabinsk 69, a
secret research center situated near
Lake Karachay, where top Soviet particle physicists have for the past two
decades attempted to create a superhero capable of holding his own with
Dr. Manhattan.
Don’t you think you’re exaggerating
a little bit?
I don’t think so. Really, I don’t, given
the scale of this … problem.
Alright then, let’s talk about it. You
are a particle physicist specialized in
the intrinsic field. Could you give us a
brief rundown of what you do?
I can try … Atoms exist in several energy fields: the gravitational field, the
electromagnetic field, and the intrinsic field. You could describe it as a sort
of membrane containing a vibrating
energy. An intrinsic field experiment
gave birth to your Dr. Manhattan. Since
every experiment can be reproduced,
so can the accidental one that Jon
Osterman was involved in …
And yet, the transformation of Dr.
Manhattan is widely believed have
been random …
As random as divine intervention. In
any case, that is what we thought in
1972, after the American victory in
Vietnam, when we launched a project
called “Terminal Man.” Our goal was
to create the Soviet equivalent of Dr.
Manhattan. The experimental conditions put into place by Professor Glass
at the tail end of the fifties were not that
difficult to replicate, but …
You had to find volunteers, is that it?
Or did you simply select guinea pigs
from prisons or psychiatric hospitals?
That is ridiculous. If one of these “tests”
had succeeded, what would we have
ended up with? A psychotic superhero, or in the best-case scenario, one
who was opposed to the regime. This
was unthinkable! Not to mention useless. Many people were ready to risk
their lives in the hope of becoming a
superhero. We were turning people
away. And that was the problem …
Mikhail Gorbachev
Rumored To Be Dead
reconstitute his body one atom and one
cell at a time. And Jon Osterman was
patient, precise, thorough, almost maniacal, and it was that “frame of mind”
if you will that we had to find. That is
when we began searching for travelers
who had those very characteristics.
By JAMES BLAKE
New York Times: To begin with, why
give this interview? Why not share this
information directly with American
researchers or the State Department?
Pr. Yevgeny Yurlov: As a precautionary
measure. I am not very fond of journalists and their unquenchable thirst
for sensationalism. However, once this
information becomes public, the worm
will be in the fruit. And simply rubbing
me out wouldn’t suffice to squelch the
story.
Late Breaking News
The National Security
Council assert that
Mr. Gorbachev died today
from polonium poisoning
And what happened?
The results were immediately beyond
our wildest expectations—in any case,
from a scientific point of view. I am not
sure one could say the same from the
travelers’ perspectives.
Professor Yevgeny Yurlov
What specific factor had allowed Jon
Osterman to reconstruct himself, and
how were we going to obtain it? What
physiological or genetic parameter
came into play to make this miracle
happen? It was impossible to say.
So what did you do?
Well, all of the volunteers, or “travelers” as we decided to call them early on,
were made to sign an airtight release
that was drawn up by a host of lawyers. And the disintegrations began,
one after the other. We threw atoms to
the winds if you will, without the slightest cellular reconstruction, that is until
traveler 77, on September 11, 1981.
Did he come back?
You could say that.
What do you mean?
Three days later, around a dozen
brownish steaks—forgive the expression but I don’t know how else to describe them—appeared in one of the
halls of the lab. These different fragments then stuck together to form a
meat face straight out of Francis Bacon.
Then the whole thing exploded.
That’s horrible!
Quite. However, we had just witnessed
for the first time an attempted reconstruction. And traveler 77 had one
characteristic that had nothing to do
with his genetic code or his hormonal
makeup. He was a chess master.
I’m afraid I don’t follow you …
It’s quite simple … Up until then we had
thought that the specific characteristic
that had allowed Dr. Manhattan to reconstruct his atoms was either genetic
or physiological. But this last test led
us on another path: Jon Osterman had
in fact managed to conserve a certain
awareness of the intrinsic field at the
moment of disintegration, a form of
consciousness that allowed him to
By ROMAN PAYNES
Special to The New York Times
What do you mean?
Well … the first traveler, Ivan Ivanovski,
reappeared two weeks after his disintegration in a rather disconcerting
guise: a ball of nerves and veins, which
bounced on the floor like an enormous
tennis ball, leaving in its wake steaming pools of a muddy substance similar to freshly poured asphalt. It quickly
disappeared. When it reappeared one
week later, it had doubled in size. The
nerves and veins were wrapped around
a bony chassis-like structure the endings of which were twitching in the
air like the tentacles of some deep-sea
creature washed up on the shore. It
didn’t undergo any other kind of transformation, and didn’t disappear again.
Its reconstruction was complete.
That’s horrible!
Tell me about it. Researchers attempted
unsuccessfully to communicate with
it. Currently, we still don’t know what
this … this … traveler feels, or what he
is capable of.
Presumably, after this event, the project was discontinued?
Absolutely not. A nother traveler,
Vladimir Petrov, was disintegrated
soon after.
And …
The results were fantastic.
For whom?
I see you are beginning to catch on. In
a month’s time, Vladimir Petrov had
reconstituted nervous and respiratory
systems that were in working order.
Which is to say?
Almost complete.
But …
There was a catch. Vladimir Petrov
didn’t go any further in his transformation. No skeleton to hold everything together and no skin to contain the whole.
Which of course was more than a little
problematic. We did however manage
to establish telepathic contact. But
Vladimir Petrov simply repeated one
sentence over and over again.
What sentence was that?
“Disintegrate me, I beg of you!”
(Long silence)
Dave Ridley
Irina Petry, Travelers n°7, Terminal Man project,
Chelyabinsk 69, USSR
If everything you have told us thus far
is true, and I’m sure you’ll understand
my being skeptical about this, I take
it that you decided to give up on this
experiment and to defect from the Soviet Union …
No, not at all. You obviously have not
grasped what I am telling you. A scientist cannot allow himself to be dominated by base feelings such as disgust,
revulsion, or even compassion. It takes
more than a few chunks of meat to get
to me.
never wanted to become a superhero.
It happened by accident. Jon Osterman
was a normal man—or at least within
the norm. He did not have a single major defect, and most of all his ego was
not out of control. Here, we are calling upon people who are willing to die
because of their desire to become Dr.
Mayak, Dr. Manhattan’s Soviet counterpart. That is the entire problem.
They will never equal Dr. Manhattan.
And the reason why is because they
dreamed of and desired power—absolute power—and when they get it,
when they will be able to create havoc
and mayhem by simply snapping their
fingers, what will happen then?
(Long silence)
Well then, why …
At Chelyabinsk 69 the experiments in
disintegration are still being carried
out, and I couldn’t care less how many
men are going to be turned into hamburger. But the project will soon bear
fruit. The ideal profile will end up being
found. This is inevitable … And that is
what is truly catastrophic.
What you are saying is truly frightening, but … have you thought of the
color?
I’m not sure I follow you …
And yet, that is what you were after
from the beginning!
Yes, but during all those years we
hadn’t understood the most important
aspect of all: Jonathan Osterman had
Well, if Dr. Mayak could emit a red
color, that would be perfect, don’t you
think?
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THEY’RE
FIGHTING A
NUCLEAR WAR
ON
LONG
ISLAND.
MOSCOW, Oct. 6 —For the past
four days, this newspaper’s correspondents behind the Iron Curtain
have been detecting relentless rumors
to the effect that the General Secretary
of the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union, Mikhail Gorbachev—the man
that Americans have learned to identify by the winsome “port-wine stain”
bi r t h ma rk on h is forehead — ha s
been removed from power by a classic Soviet-style palace coup (Editor’s
Note: Mikhail Gorbachev was appointed General Secretary of the Party
on March 11 this year, replacing Yuri
Andropov, who died on February 9,
1984). Some of these rumors, from
sources close to the National Security
C ou nc i l (ch a i r e d by for mer US
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger),
assert that Mr. Gorbachev died today
from polonium poisoning after being
taken two days ago to a presidential dacha on the banks of the Caspian Sea by
a special KGB unit nominally responsible for his protection. The rumors, remarkable for their persistence, do not
indicate whether he was taken there by
force or by deception. Although, given
the opaque and totalitarian nature of
the communist regime, it is currently
difficult to confirm or repudiate this information, it does seem rather likely
that Gorbachev has been sidelined,
or even eliminated, in an operation
orchestrated by hard-line elements of
the Communist Party, nostalgic for the
era of Leonid Brezhnev and primarily concerned with the Soviet Union’s
prestige and military supremacy. This
inconspicuous yet extremely powerful
hard-line fringe, whose ranks include
prominent members of the Politburo
and the Supreme Soviet, generals and
senior officers of the KGB, are opposed
to the policies of “glasnost” (Editor’s
Note: transparency), “perestroika”
(Editor’s Note: restructuring) and unilateral disarmament instigated by “the
man with the birthmark” only a few
weeks after he took office.
For the time being, the Nixon administration officially refuses to give
too much credence to these rumors.
White House Press Secretary Jerry
Bruckheimer emphasized that “the
United States cannot in any case interfere with the internal affairs of the
USSR by commenting on unconfirmed
information.” Behind the scenes, and
unofficially, this information is taken
very seriously, because a much-feared
takeover by hard-line conservatives
in the USSR would drastically disrupt current East-West relations and
force the US to rethink its foreign
and militar y policy. A special adviser to the White House confided to
our Washington correspondent that
President Nixon and his team of strategy experts are apparently already
working on post-Gorbachev scenarios
that are “very worrisome for the security of the free world.” No matter who is
chosen as the next General Secretary
of the USSR, it is quite likely that
he will be no more than “the official
spokesmen for an oligarchic regime
that isolates itself from the world,
haunted by the economic and, above
all, militar y collapse of the Soviet
Union.” Moreover, Nixon’s adviser continued, “if this news is confirmed, we
must expect an escalation of the arms
race and immediate increases in both
countries’ military budgets.” While
none of these things has yet to take
place, this relatively confidential information is already making the rounds
of radical student groups in various
East and West Coast universities,
such as UC Berkeley, where students
interviewed by our San Francisco correspondent were quick to associate
this probable change of regime in the
USSR with “an operation that serves
the interests of President Nixon’s
fascist administration,” or even with
“involvement by the CIA, which does
not want an open-minded leader at
the head of a new Russia.” The United
States could do without this kind of
leftist, anti-American paranoia as we
approach an historic crossroads that
appears both decisive and dangerous
for the future of our nation.
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Continued from Page A1
This long series of rather disjointed
statements is the last trace left behind
by Dr. Manhattan. They are all the
more valuable since he has always
been uncommunicative, both orally
and in writing. This gives the text a
strong potential for analysis.
At a time when the past seems to
have caught up with this elusive personality, he expresses a profound insensitivity for the human race and the
future of the world. His repudiation of
any positive feelings of empathy is in
strong contradiction with how normal
people function, with our subtle blend
of reason and emotion concerning
events that affect us. Only the final
paragraphs, addressed to his girlfriend
Laurie, for whom he had left Janey
Slater, hint at a latent passion. But
even Janey might wonder about these
rather nervous and brief declarations.
The Doctor admits it himself: he did
not hesitate to leave Earth (I have not
spent much time contemplating / My
head is full of contradictions and I have
trouble deliberating, / But suddenly, I
saw illusion disappear.)
His defection, while we are on the
brink of a world war, reveals an indifference to humankind. Clearly, the
Blue Man is bereft of compassion and
conscience. But this is not the only
conclusion we can draw from the letter. Incredibly, our investigation led us
to conclude that it frequently echoes
other documents. The destinies of their
diverse authors have apparently been
transformed, directly or indirectly,
by the intervention of Dr. Manhattan.
Moreover, these texts tend to use the
same expressions. How are such coincidences possible? Is the Doctor mocking us by concocting his letter from bits
of other peoples’ writings? In view of
the multiple links between last Friday’s
letter and older texts, we must suspect
that, at one time or another, this super-powerful being has deceived us.
Perhaps this has been going on since
his initial appearance.
Such a serious accusation requires
evidence. Which we will now provide.
Persuasion or Manipulation?
Let us go back a few years. Here
is a short article from the October
1979 issue of the USA Investigator,
several months after then-president
Jimmy Carter’s famous “Happiness
Speech,” in which he congratulated
the American people for the positive
direction that our American way of
life was taking, to the point of becoming the “ultimate model for all free
countries or for countries that aspire
to become free.” For our proud nation,
this article in the USA Investigator
was quite controversial. It was a blow
to the nation’s optimistic mood, which
finally proved to be fragile. In the face
of conventional wisdom, which was
celebrating the success of capitalism,
the article stated that civilization was
taking a disastrous turn. However, no
one perceived the extent to which the
Blue Man influenced and incited these
changes and the public’s awareness of
them. As evidence, we will examine
certain passages of the November 1979
article, accompanied by parts of the
Doctor’s letter, shown in parentheses.
We have selected key passages, but the
entire article is reprinted elsewhere in
this issue.
What madness has affected modern
man? (What madness has affected me /
in the time of a breath, a flash in the history of the universe?) The same strange
attitude is everywhere, and it is getting
worse. (Since I became Dr. Manhattan,
/ My entire being feels / this hunger for
justice / growing ever stronger)
While attempting to comprehend
the public’s state of mind in these troubled times, we ran across the same
obstinate silence everywhere (the only
rule is that of obstinate silence).
The figures bear it out: ( Yes, tonight, everything is clear) men and
women continue to put on a brave face.
However, the demand for iodine, sugar,
water and flour in stores has increased
by almost 75% in a few months. And
unfortunately, while people continue
to talk and laugh they appear to have
become inveterate liars. (People speak,
laugh and teach the art of lying / to
their offspring)
Today, Americans care only about
their professional life: (Getting back in
touch with Humanity has become my
/ sole priority) entrepreneurship runs
rampant, and the will to succeed has become a primary guide, rule and purpose.
There is certainly no threat of economic collapse, but perhaps the real
danger lies where we don’t expect it.
(There is no real nuclear threat. Real
danger is always where you do not expect it.)
Our tenets are sharing and mutual
respect. Also, we want to emphasize
that no one is forced to be alone, (before that loss / that was my fate, condemning me / to be alone.) regardless
of the seriousness of the situation.
When comparing the two texts,
despite their very different styles, one
is immediately struck by their repetitive nature, both in content and form.
It is as if Dr. Manhattan used the article as a model for his farewell letter.
However, accusations of plagiarism
are not credible, considering the conditions under which the Blue Man wrote
his letter, and the low likelihood that
he had seen the article. Finally, it is
hard to imagine why he would have
used “cut and paste” techniques to create his message.
Perhaps another explanation is that
the two thought processes (i.e. the human and the “superhuman”) slowly
converged over the years? Could our
Western society have been affected
by the Blue Man to the extent of assimilating his style and tone? Does Dr.
Manhattan absorb our thoughts? If so,
does he do it consciously? Or—and this
idea is more unsettling still—were all
these words written in advance?
Our inquiry is just beginning. It is
shocking and scary to discover how
many newspaper articles are influenced by the Blue Man’s thoughts. Our
analysis shows that the superhero’s intellectual influence has been predominant in Western media. We encourage
everyone to do their own research by
consulting newspaper and magazine
archives. We also urge our fellow journalists to join us in this investigation.
When benevolence becomes
tragic irony
This interconnectedness continues
up to the present time. It is even more
disturbing because it has no rational
explanation. Of course, times have
changed: our fellow citizens have reacted violently to the disappearance
of Dr. Manhattan and protest marches are growing more numerous in all
democratic countries. This has spelled
the end of indifference, as well as
on my side; everything is still possible)
Our Russian enemy seeks to kill our
brothers. He wants to slaughter the
good men of the West, though he shares
the same blood, the same cells, and
moreover, the same desires and hopes
as the American people (I do not wish
to slaughter your brothers and their
families / every human is composed of
the same blood and atoms).
Again, the similarities found in
these passages confirm the hypothesis
that a form of imitation has developed
over the years; plagiarism seems unlikely, since Dr. Manhattan’s letter is
as yet unpublished. Even if its contents
have been filtered, we wonder why
someone would want to plagiarize it.
On the contrary, the governor would
have risked the wrath of superheroes
Today, Americans care only about their
professional life: entrepreneurship
runs rampant, and the will to
succeed has become a primary guide,
rule and purpose.—Dr. Manhattan
false anxiety and resignation. In this
new context, official silence speaks
volumes to governmental fear at the
highest levels to take any diplomatic
risk, thus eliminating any hope of seeing this key figure again. Our leaders
have surely been cautious in order to
avoid worsening the situation. Only
the Governor of Illinois, Barry Lexton,
risked a confrontation with the Doctor,
sending him a message last Tuesday
via the media. To salute the courage
of the Governor, among other reasons,
we have chosen to reprint his letter, but
we still suggest that you read the full
text and compare it with ones written
by the Blue Man. Following are some
similar passages.
Yes, somewhere between the nobility of a well-run investigation and the
indignity of slander, there is one thing
that we cannot accept without comment. (My rightful place, / between
nobility and waste, and I tell you, there
is plenty of it) Even though you do everything to maintain the confidence
of our good citizens, looking as good
as possible, even changing your color
to be more appealing on television …
(But when I am among you / I hold my
tongue / to avoid frightening those who
love me / I make my color more appealing for the good citizens)
However, without any intention of
provoking you, we quickly see the illusion you have created. (So I have not
spent much time contemplating / My
head is full of contradictions and I have
trouble deliberating, / But suddenly, I
saw illusion disappear.)
I am also here to remind you that,
here on Earth, you have the right to use
various mechanisms to obtain justice,
including pressing charges (I call out
for justice / by pressing charges).
Your name itself is proof: you are
a man, although you are blue (Am I a
man, though I am blue?)
Also, it is a shame how your personal atomic drama was used on Friday
for crass political purposes (I see how
my energy / from my atomic drama /
was diverted for shameful purposes).
Dr. Manhattan, you’re not alone (my
fate, condemning me / to be alone).
Man is a prideful being. In some circumstances, he easily becomes unjustly suspicious, vain and arrogant (vain,
ungrateful and arrogant structures /
perverse like our instinct).
Yes, Dr. Osterman, if we remain
partners, anything is possible. (Time is
by doing this. Again, the presence of
similarities from one text to another
can only be explained by supernatural
activity, an unconscious sharing of visions and ways of thinking.
Now what?
We have only chosen two examples to bear out our theory. They were
published in different places and at
different times, providing excellent
proof of the extent of the manipulative force that has acted on what 16thcentury French philosopher Michel de
Montaigne called our “human condition.” Since he appeared on earth, the
Blue Man has contaminated not only
his close associates, but also, all the
other minds he possibly could. We
were entrapped by his reassuring façade. He was thereby able to control
and permanently alter the widest possible range of human thought. How far
has his poison reached? This would
require a critical reading of texts,
speeches and even literary works dating from the last quarter century … a
mammoth undertaking, if ever there
was one. But each of us can become
aware of this characteristic “blue” sonority in texts that he has influenced,
in order to eventually help all citizens
perceive what is going on.
For once we admit the extraordinary influence of Dr. Manhattan on
the way we think and talk about the
modern world, can we really take offense? Consider, for example, that in
1937, when Raoul Dufy painted his
masterpiece, La Fée électricité, he was
simply interpreting the fascination the
public had for a then-recent discovery.
More anecdotally, some contemporary
expressions, such as “being wired” or
“blowing a fuse”, show how technological progress constantly influences our
subjective interpretation of the world.
But upon reflection, is Dr. Manhattan
anything more than a product of that
same technological progress?
Therein lies the rub: when we evoke
a historical event or study a sociological phenomenon, moral assessment
becomes difficult or inappropriate.
Thus, it would be in bad faith to deny
the immediate positive impact that Dr.
Manhattan’s presence has had for our
nation, leaving our former enemies
in Vietnam in awe and with a genuine sense of humility. He also helped
put our economy back on track. In the
wake of the war and its traumas, he
rebuilt our fellow citizens’ desire to
work hard and undertake new projects, without rejecting competitiveness and individualism, the lifeblood
of early 80’s liberalism.
On the other hand, should we be
proud of reducing an entire people to
fear and superstition? Have we finally
grown out of our domestic and foreign
policy choices? It appears difficult to
say. And now that the Blue Man has
disappeared over the horizon, what
path shall we choose? We consider it
reasonable to build on our knowledge
to better control our destiny. We have
not dissected and analyzed this message from every angle just to come to
the sad conclusion that we are helpless
playthings for an amoral demigod. On
the contrary, we believe that a better
understanding of what makes modern
men tick will enable us to better design
our future. We are up against the wall;
we respond appropriately to the threat
of a new armed conflict. The human
race may be living its last hours. We
can certainly still avoid this disaster,
and the fact that the poison seems to
have penetrated our spirits might become the antidote.
Because, naturally, Dr. Manhattan’s
farewell letter once again holds the
answers to all our questions.
Reasons for hope
It was not surprising for us to feel
betrayed when we heard about the departure of our last remaining superhero, who left us on our own after years
A Year of Music, a Year of Anger
Tina Turner’s Protest Song Against Richard Nixon
By Roberto suro
PASADENA, Calif., Oct. 11 — Music
lovers and clubgoers will undoubtedly
remember 1985 as the year dissident,
antiestablishment sounds took over the
pop charts, blasting from every radio in
the country. A quick look at the top 100
songs on North American radio clearly
indicates musicians’ contempt for the
Nixon administration. This recently
led one of MTV’s top VJs to remark,
“it seems like the major commercial
radio networks have turned into college radio stations.” If “Video Killed
the Radio Star” marked the end of the
last decade, 1985’s musical tastes are
symbolized by the punks dancing at
New York’s CBGB: the better they like
the song, the more violently they pogo.
One of the first to have drawn attention to this new phenomenon is Tina
Turner, long associated with the New
York hardcore punk scene. Last spring,
she brought a dissonant and caustic
note to the charts with her socially
conscious hit, “We Don’t Need Another
Hero,” a no-holds-barred criticism of
Republican voters. The song confronts
the problem of the so-called heroism of
self-defense, typified by the exploits of
masked vigilantes like Rorschach. In
contrast to fawning articles in the official press, providing limited information and scanty criticism, Turner took
the side of alternative media like Nova
Express magazine, forcefully attacking
Fred R. Conrad
Barry Lexton, Governor of Illinois
the militarization of public life, while
paying tribute to the participants in the
Los Angeles Anti-Watchmen Revolt,
with lines beginning “Out of the ruins / Out of the wreckage.” In a twist
reminiscent of protest songs, she takes
a stand against the upcoming Senate
vote on Amendment 46, which aims to
restore immunity for secret operatives
employed by the government: “Can’t
make the same mistake this time.”
While Turner has directed her anger
toward the most visible part of society,
condemnation of Nixon’s anti-minority
policies has become the theme for a
cult band well known in underground
circles for its activism: Wham! President
Nixon’s famous statement that “these
under his protection, frightened by the
sudden and inevitable escalation of
tensions between Eastern and Western
powers. How could the Blue Man have
abandoned us like this? So many texts,
speeches, articles and stories bear witness to our long alliance! The Governor
is right: Dr. Manhattan is a member of
our family. But today, we are tempted
to say that he played with us like toys.
If he can predict the future, why has
expresses his disgust with our species,
doomed to repeat the same mistakes. It
is now our turn to prove to ourselves,
and to a skeptical universe, that we are
able to reckon with the disasters we are
facing. Dr. Manhattan, in a last burst
of generosity, has asked us to take on
this responsibility. And, we should say,
it’s about time. His words are full of
meaning, and surprisingly, they simultaneously warn and reassure us.
In a century punctuated by tragedies,
Dr. Manhattan fed on our tears and
our blood, like an indifferent, lonely
vampire
he never done anything to prevent
this misfortune from occurring? He
watches us tear each other apart, yet
he only intervenes when we ask him
to, never using his real, hidden power:
the ability to prevent conflicts. This
aloofness allowed him to consolidate
his authority and manipulate us, while
probably making fun of our stupidity.
In a century punctuated by tragedies,
Dr. Manhattan fed on our tears and
our blood, like an indifferent, lonely
vampire. His last message clearly
people I met at Bohemian Grove in San
Francisco are the biggest fags I’ve ever
seen,” and its follow-up, “I never shake
hands with anybody who lives in San
Francisco,” were quickly and roundly criticized in their song “Careless
W hisper,” in which the combative
anarcho-gay techno-pop duo vividly
expressed the gay community’s stigmatization (“I feel so unsure as I take
your hand”) and guilt from non-heteronormative subjectivities (“guilty feet
have got no rhythm”) that force many
people, including public figures, to live
a double life, simulating a phony sexual
identity (“though it’s easy to pretend”).
The song also manifests the strategy of
“forced outing,” as practiced by Wham!
Other songs by the group have exposed
members of the Republican Party who
had remained “in the closet.” Digging
a little deeper, the words of this popular anti-hit also expose the conflict of
masculinities related to the Watchmen
phenomenon. It exacerbates homophobic attitudes, since homosexuality is
often viewed as a moral shortcoming,
as was shown in the still-unresolved
Moloch affair.
Ultra-punk trends in today’s mainstream society have focused the public’s attention on radical leftwing rock
groups. A prominent example is the
Bad Brains, who made it to the top of
the charts with their anti-Christmas
tirade, “Why the Fuck Should They
Care It’s Christmas.” The lyrics are a
biting and effective parody of a song
by a little-known local Christian rock
group called Band Aid. Their song
is a sort of apology for the corporate
Christianization of former African
colonies. Organized religion is truly
under attack on all fronts. Many people
are comparing this situation with the
late 1940s, when, in the words of the infamous Senator McCarthy, Hollywood
was “in the hands of Communists and
anti-Americans.” The difference is
that, today, there is a widening gap
between the political establishment
and the cultural mainstream, dissident artists are making it big and anger is becoming widespread. To quote
another Top 10 hit, “You Can’t Fight
This Feeling.”
Reading this melancholy, poetic and visionary farewell message, a summary
of these eventful decades where man
turned against nature and toward the
atom, we are able to learn a lot about
ourselves.
In many respects, by his extreme
impassivity, amorality and strength,
the Blue Man has contributed to this
decline. However, we have learned the
hard way that we would be lost without him and his judicious guidance. We
must now pay attention to his message.
Foreign
Affairs
The dateline
may be Paris
or London,
Belfast or
Beirut.
The issue is sure
to be
fascinating.
Flora Lewis
keeps on the
move to help
you keep up
with the ideas
that make
what’s happening over
there important
to your life
right here.
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Flora Lewis
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Friday on the
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T H E N E W YOR K T I M E S , W E DN E SDAY, O C T OBE R 12 , 198 5 Philip K. Dick Lives!
by Harry Hell
Special to the New York Times
NEW YORK, Oct. 11—In a video
recently released by the Congregation
of Antiheroes, a group claiming to have
5 million members, Philip K. Dick—
who is supposed to have died over 3 ½
years ago—has predicted an imminent
apocalypse in New York. Is the science
fiction writer still alive? Following is an
interview with a representative of the
Congregation.
Her name is Donna. She has black
hair and an ice-cold stare. Wearing a
gray dress held together with patches,
sporting a button marked “A Scanner
Darkly,” she is the latest “Less than
Not h i ng ” of t he Cong regat ion of
Antiheroes. Her title indicates that she
is the temporary spokesperson for this
rapidly growing and reportedly violent
group. She made a surprise appearance on America’s television screens
two days ago, when her gang of second-class citizens managed to hack a
satellite channel and broadcast their
strange message to everyone who was
watching. We met on the 2nd floor of a
crumbling building located on a blind
alley just off of 39th Street, in a storage
room so disgusting that it made the
garbage cans in the entrance look like
artistic masterpieces. In a bar three
hundred yards from the meeting place,
we were greeted by our first contact:
a grubby, nervous man in clownishly
striped pajamas. He introduced himself as Joe Chip (Oddly enough, Joe
Chip is the name of the central character in Philip K. Dick’s 1969 novel,
Ubik), a “Less than Nothing” of the
Congregation of Antiheroes, and asked
us to stand still for two minutes while
he examined us slowly with his widely
dilated pupils. “I have a special talent,”
he said. “I am able to sense whether
or not people have superpowers. We
don’t want to be infiltrated by Nixon’s
thugs.” Next, Chip guided us to the
squalid building where we waited for
Donna Haraway. Surprisingly, she
insisted that we call her by her first
name. The interview began …
The New York Times: You claim that
the bearded kook in your video, who
announced that the Apocalypse would
take place this month (October 1985),
is none other than science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. According to our
sources, he died on March 2, 1982.
Are you really serious?
Congregation of Antiheroes: You are
free to believe whatever you want. If
you compare the man in our video
with photos, tape recordings or videos
of Philip K. Dick, you will see that it is
clearly him, or else a dead ringer. You
are of course aware that he was the
primary inspiration of our congregation, our shabby, omniscient prophet,
who understood even the tiniest part
of everything and every being. So it’s
not surprising that he contacted us six
months ago. He explained that he has
been kept in a state of partial animation in the Good Friars Moratorium,
and that the seriousness of the current situation prompted him to intervene publicly. With his guidance, we
hacked a television satellite and used
it for our purposes, which are to fight
against these superheroes who continue
to serve in violation of the law enacted
in 1977, and to promote ourselves, the
true antiheroes.
Why can’t we meet him?
Since he is only partially alive, he
doesn’t want to see anyone. But I assure you that he is much more than a
“ghost in the shell …” I’m warning you:
if you continue to insist on seeing him
in person, I’ll have you removed from
the premises. However, I can show you
other recent footage of him, which is
longer than the video you saw …
That’s fine, but you can understand
that we have nagging doubts. We also
find it difficult to understand why and
how a science fiction writer like Philip
K. Dick was able to become the God
of your congregation …
We have no God, with or without a capital G. We are the fools, the destitute and
the lost: just like those we look up to.
Dick was the most important source of
enlightenment in this gloomy world,
a spiritual man in every sense of the
word. His antiheroes come from the
street and the gutter. They are the literary expression of Kurt Schwitters’
Merzbau: a haphazard sculpture composed of a thousand grottoes rising
to infinity and filled with waste, from
dirty towels to hairpins, cigarette butts
and broken combs. Philip K. Dick’s losers, like those in neo-Dadaist works,
are free of preconceived notions,
and perfectly indifferent to political
or economic powers, bourgeois institutions, and social and artistic hierarchies. Their filthiness and their
pariah status have freed them from
these impediments. And because they
are indifferent to status, rank or fame,
they inadvertently arrive at universal
truths. Dick’s antiheroes are therefore
the exact opposite of those infamous
costumed vigilantes who, in the name
of good, murder our children and are
preparing to unleash the Apocalypse.
But why do you so despise these masked vigilantes?
Dr. Manhattan is a cold-blooded monster who thinks nothing of teleporting a
boy to Mars and killing him in the name
of science. This blue nuclear-powered
abomination is a caricature of the complex and tortured Silver Surfer. The
Comedian is a fascist thug—in fact, he
reminds me of Captain America. As for
Ozymandias, he is the most repulsive
sort of capitalist speculator, pretending
to be a charitable leader. These arrogant machines—they certainly aren’t
human beings—are worse than the
criminals they claim to pursue. And I
won’t even mention the policemen they
put out of work! These superheroes
have no empathy.
Here again, your views are in harmony
with Philip K. Dick’s.
Yes, because you must be a nobody to
feel empathy, that uncommon ability to
really get into someone else’s shoes, to
put your ego in the existential corpse
of the radically different being in front
of you. In a society defined by the apathy of television viewers, that kind of
empathy seems increasingly difficult
to achieve. Because, when experienced
from within, empathy has nothing to
do with handing out spare change to
bums in the subway in order to have a
so-called “clear conscience.” An act of
kindness is the spontaneous, unpredictable gesture of an unremarkable
person devoid of status or pretense. It’s
that moment when you feel you have
a relationship with another person.
This truth is probably the only one
that Philip K. Dick—who was nothing if
not critical of absolute certainty—ever
pursued. He uses the words Caritas
or Agapé for this quality of empathy,
in reference to St. Paul and Leibniz.
Naturally, he considers this empathy
to be timeless, but he attributes it to
what initially appears to be the opposite of a human being: an alien, or
worse, a robot—the true antiheroes.
Our congregation has established a
unique ritual allowing us to experience
this truth. We have hooked computers
together, creating an “empathy box”
as described by Dick in Do Androids
Dream of Electric Sheep?, the novel that
the film Blade Runner was based on.
Each member of our group takes hold
of the two handles of the empathy box
to personally experience the ordeal of
Wilbur Mercer, a miserable, alcoholic
reincarnation of another marginal
wacko known as Christ; too bad that
he too didn’t remain a “nobody”.
What are you trying to say?
That resurrection is exactly the kind of
trick you would expect from a superhero—don’t you think?
No Woman’s Land
By LAURA PIETZ
NEW YORK, Oct. 11—Yesterday,
the death of former whiz kid Orson
Welles was splashed across the front
pages of the world press. His radio
adaptation of H.G. Wells’ War of the
Worlds, broadcast on October 30,
1938, which simulated live coverage
of a landing of hostile aliens, seems
more relevant than ever. Welles’ hoax
created chaos in New York, or in his
own words, an “extraordinary act of
collective schizophrenia.” This episode
seems prophetic nowadays, in view of
the rise of Dr. Manhattan, who has
extended his influence to the sphere
of international politics. Welles’s little
green men have now been replaced by
a solitary blue man. Comparable appeals to flee the Apocalypse have been
heard in recent weeks, but these are
neither a hoax nor a daring radio play
with ghostly voices. The public’s initial admiration for Dr. Manhattan has
given way to an outburst of hatred and
suspicion. He has been held responsible for what some journalists have
called “the ten plagues of America,”
leading inevitably to a Third World
War. For many, the only solution is an
exodus!
Rather than flee, many community
groups, political organizations and individuals have preferred to take action,
and have not hesitated to express themselves vehemently on the matter. The
omnipresent poster campaign waged
by the feminist collective WatchGirls
has been one of the most intriguing
enterprises of this type. Several examples of their work are reproduced
here. Welles would undoubtedly have
been pleased by the landscape that
greeted New Yorkers this morning in
the street. Posters were plastered in
every nook and cranny of Manhattan
this morning, tangible evidence of
a considerable organization hidden
within this forest of ink and paper.
Banners replaced American flags and
flapped in the wind in front of the New
York Stock Exchange, the American
Museum of Natural History, the World
Trade Center and the Metropolitan
Opera; king-size stickers and fluorescent tags covered the ground, parking meters, street lamps, staircases,
railings and walls. A mosaic of paper
littered the footpaths of Central Park,
covering sculptures and statues like a
second skin. Fountains full of runny
ink spurted soggy messages. Even
more surprising were the modifications made to famous statues, such as
Alice in Wonderland, Mother Goose,
Hans Christian Anderson and the Ugly
Duckling, as well as the Sophie Irene
Loeb Fountain. Andersen has been
transformed into Dr. Manhattan, the
bronze hidden by a coating of electric
blue. He wears black briefs, a hydrogen
atom is tattooed on his forehead and
the pages of the book he holds in his
metallic hands are covered with stickers. The ground at Alice’s feet swarms
with graffiti and her face is covered
with black paint; her blue eyes cry red
tears. The huge mushroom that serves
as a base for the statue bears the following inscription (in French): “Alice
a des yeux bleus. Et rouges. Elle s’est
ouvert les yeux en traversant le miroir”
(“Alice’s eyes are blue. And red. She
cut them open during her trip through
the looking-glass”), the first lines of a
book by Luce Irigaray, Ce sexe qui n’en
est pas un, published in 1977. (Irigaray
advocated the advent of a female sexuality “other than that defined in and
by the dominant phallic economy”).
The Lewis Carroll characters appearing on the fountain, dedicated to “The
Godmother of American Children,”
have also been painted black. Mother
Nino Caprioglio
What Lies Behind the Masks?
Continued from Page A1
I arrived at Sing Sing at 9 a.m. For the inmates, the day had already begun. They were
strolling around the courtyard. However, the
most famous inmates, constantly guarded under high security conditions, were nowhere to
be seen. The hallways were filthy, the lighting
dim. Finally, I arrived at Dr. Long’s office. He
opened the door with a smile, shook my hand,
looked me straight in the eye, and then seated
me in the chair facing his desk. I suddenly had
the strange feeling that I was in a psychiatric
consultation. But my objective here was not to
analyze my own mind. Neither had I come here
to analyze the world, the country or this city and
its inhabitants who never sleep. Rather, I wanted
to analyze the superheroes, the masked ones,
the Watchmen—call them what you will. Since
the passage of the Keene Act, nearly all of them
have disappeared from everyday life. But with
the Doomsday Clock indicating five minutes to
midnight, wouldn’t it be about time to revoke that
law? How would they react if we suddenly asked
them for help again? And are they the only ones
who can save us? I tried to read the look in the
eyes of my interlocutor. He glanced downward,
and the interview began.
Doctor, in these troubled times, can we count
on the masked vigilantes?
Your question perfectly expresses why humanity
has reached the point of no return: our reliance
on others to dispel our own doubts and fears.
What are our observations, as psychologists?
During the first years of our lives, we form an
essential part of our neural network, or our brain,
if you prefer. We learn to think, live and love,
while the circuits that emerge carry the electrical currents allowing thought. At this time, we
are constantly dominated by two key figures: our
father and mother. Those who do not have these
figures will always—without exception—find
substitutes for them, even if they are imaginary.
Later, we have to face life alone, confronting
failures, sorrows, difficulties and fears. What
is our first reaction? We ask daddy to punish
the wicked, or, perhaps, we take refuge under
mommy’s skirt. And so, throughout our lives,
we lurch back and forth between the desire for
revenge and the need for comfort. But neither
desire can ever be fulfilled. We want a savior:
be it Dr. Manhattan or Che Guevara, our entire
being longs to find an external figure with the
all-powerful nature that we associate with our
parents. But it is a fantasy, of course. A nice story
for our own benefit. The important thing is not
that Œdipus slept with his mother, but that his
destiny was to blind himself. Like him, in order
to hide the childish feelings that are considered
intolerable by an adult with a mature morality,
we live with blinders on, with our own sort of
internal masks, our fictional stories and personal
myths, which continue to separate us from others. Psychoanalytic work often consists of realizing that our parents are not omnipotent. They
simply did what it was within their power to do; a
power that, in reality, is no greater than our own
is today. In 1977 (Editor’s note: date of the Keene
Act), we tried to kill the father. Just like we tried to
kill God, as the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche
would have said. And since then, we have asked
him repeatedly and insistently to come back.
War in two sentences: “Your mother is a whore!
No, your mother is a whore!” Yet they are certainly more than just onlookers.
This difference is what interests me: are they
crazy?
“I am the strongest! No, I’m the strongest!” These
are the kind of thoughts that truly seem to guide
them. Be they super-villains or superheroes, all
they can do is to enter a power struggle to remain
undefeated—invincible. And, rather than feeling
like we need their protection, we feel like judging them. They believe we are victims in need
of assistance. But, at the same time, they need
us to validate the morality of their actions. They
are guided by their instinct and not by free will.
This is especially true of Rorschach … He is the
only one operating outside the law. I think this
is their driving force, not the fear of death or the
need for recognition, which inhabit most of us.
But then, what is left to do except wait for the
bombs to fall?
Unfortunately, I do not know which will prevail,
the death drive or the life drive, or in what form.
Our destiny is our responsibility, as the inevitable Adrian Veidt pointed out. His laboratories
invented MRI (Editor’s note: Magnetic Resonance
Imaging) in 1980. This is a fabulous tool that has
proven, with hard science, the existence of the
unconscious: the millions of brain processes that
are constantly active in our deep brain without
making it to the cortex, the center of our consciousness. They are simply too numerous. They
control our breath and our posture, affect our
reflexes, our gesticulations, govern our attention, and determine how we react to everything
that is concerned by our desires. In reality, these
processes make us tick. They also, unbeknownst
to us, give meaning to our existence. Formerly, it
was called instinct. The backdrop, if you will, of
the spirit. Thus, my unconscious does not lie deep
in my spirit, it is rather a sum of imperceptible
processes that do not perceive the world and can
only react to the present: it is our present. This is
the only way we can exist. In fact, what is called
the ID is simply a reaction to the world and a
way of adapting to its constraints. I know that my
scientific answer means little, because at the end
of the day, people do as they please, don’t they?
What drives the spirit of a costumed adventurer is
paranoia, megalomania, madness and the desire
for omnipotence. It is therefore likely that they
feel capable—not all, but most of them—of correcting our follies. But we’ve driven them away:
we attacked them directly, and in doing so we
denied their capacity for empathy, humility and
generosity—their human side. Also, I think that
they are eager to let us deal with our own destiny,
guided by the non-masked pseudo-vigilantes who
govern us, as well the ideologies we embrace.
And otherwise, what would they do? They would
continue to subscribe to their own personal myth
in which we play only supporting roles. I think
they would continue to hunt down criminals in
the rubble that we would have left them.
The Comedian and Dr. Manhattan are two costumed adventurers who remain operative, working exclusively for the US Government. Can we
hope they are at work as we speak, sabotaging
Russian nuclear facilities?
Yes, most likely. Yet, apparently, the Russians do
not feel that they are in a weak position.
How can we understand the mentality of a masked individual?
Well … simply by looking in the mirror. Take
the example of Rorschach. He lives in a binary
world. Everyone is either a criminal who must
be punished, or an honest citizen. There are
no shades of gray. But when he makes a mask,
how does he choose it? Or, more precisely, from
behind his mask, what does he see? Inevitably,
Rorschach sees the world in black and white. This
is an important point, because his mask controls
and shapes his psyche. But that does not make
him a unique individual: how are we different?
Are our blinders any different? I don’t think so.
We live our lives according to our desires and
our aversions. All of that is filtered through our
memories; they guide our ego. They determine
our perceptions of what we see … or don’t see.
Only two masked adventurers, Nite Owl II and
Silk Spectre II, have finally ceased their operations. Shouldn’t we therefore consider the
Keene Act a failure?
Yes, like all decisions made by people who don’t
have a say in the matter. However, it was worth
a try.
Back to the point: can we rely on the Watchmen
to protect us against the risks of nuclear war?
This is precisely the kind of risk that can only
be eliminated through diplomacy, dialog, and
a desire to make concessions in order to live in
harmony. But they are not very skilled at diplomacy … including Dr. Manhattan, who projects
such a powerful image. He masters all the forces
of nature except one: language. Because he is
too distant from us to know how to speak to us.
This is surely why he grants so few interviews.
Moreover, we consider him more as a tactical
weapon than as a conscious being. But in the
East as in the West, we continue to fight like little
children to prove the superiority of our ideology
and our way of life. I will summarize the Cold
I switched off the tape recorder and rubbed
my temples. The doctor looked at me in sympathy. Will the Watchmen save us? And isn’t it really
our job to save ourselves? Wouldn’t it make more
sense to rely on them rather than on the good
faith of Nixon and Gorbachev? Without daring to
believe all of Dr. Long’s theories, I left the interview disturbed by these questions. I don’t know
about you, but I have no hankering for these
Minutemen, these vigilantes, these guardians.
Back in the street, I was glad we and not these
schizos controlled it. I headed for the first burger
joint I saw, surprised by my appetite. Leaving a
prison, when you haven’t spent 30 years there,
tends to abate your desires, other than that of
wanting to hang yourself. In any case, that’s
what always happens to me. The waiters rushed
around among waiting customers. Nothing ever
changes in New York City. However, that may not
last much longer. We eat hurriedly, the clock is
ticking. The future depends on us, not on those
guys in tights. Sing Sing is a thing of the past and
the sun will rise again tomorrow.
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CULTURE! CULTURE! READ ALL ABOUT IT.
Find your world in ours.
Goose, renamed “Dr. Harlem,” has a
new look with her trendy cape and ebony mask. The statues in the park now
all bear the signature “W.Grl”.
The message is clear: a system
of archaic values ​​( family, country,
In God We Trust, etc.), which like so
many cards in a deck should have
been reshuffled by the blue hands of
a certain blue monster of technology,
is still in effect. While the presence of
Dr. Manhattan has engendered genetic
and scientific revolutions, he has not
shaken people’s faith in old-fashioned
family and social concepts. These interventions by the WatchGirls are like
a million Post-It Notes, serving as reminders and calling for awareness.
They are strongly inspired by the
artistic actions of the Guerrilla Girls
and the event they initiated last April,
which denounced contemporary art
galleries in which less than 10% of
art on display is created by women,
and sometimes none at all. Another
inspiration is the activism of graphic
artist Barbara Kruger: the WatchGirls
question the all-powerful status accorded to Dr. Manhattan’s western,
heterocentric and phallocentric figure. In response to this suffocating
supremacy, they have erected the figure of Dr. Harlem, heroine of “masked
avengers of the political world”, in the
image of a powerful black woman, reminding us that in “Manhattan”, there
is “MAN.” What would happen if the
Manhattan Project were countered by
a Harlem Project, with a Little Girl and
a Fat Lady against Little Boy and Fat
Man? Are weapons of mass destruction
necessarily male?
Dr. Harlem is also a rebuke to
President Nixon, who in 1973 (according to the Oval Office recordings made
in January and February of that year)
advocated abortion in special cases
such as rape or interracial intercourse,
even if he otherwise considered it a
factor in the destruction of the family.
The revision of Central Park’s statues as black figures also denounces a
lily-white America, and a government
which while considering the breakup
of the typically WASP family out of
the question, finds it perfectly normal
to exterminate a racially-mixed child.
To be perfectly aligned with contemporary society’s new sexual attitudes,
it is best to establish one’s heteronormality with utmost exactitude, on the
dotted line.
The WatchGirls were awakened
by the glimmers of cohesive nuclear
force from the cyborg shadow of Dr.
Manhattan, a man “spawned by machines.” Their action is directly linked
to the Jupiter Space concept, developed
by Zoë Sofoulis last year (Zoë Sofia
(Sofoulis) “Exterminating Fetuses:
A bor tion, Disa r ma ment, a nd the
Sexosemiotics of Extraterrestrialism”,
Diacritics 14, n°2, 1984, pp. 47-59). In
Sofoulis’ article, Strauss’ Blue Danube
Waltz (again, the color blue) serves as
a backdrop for a Jupiter-bound spaceship just as the embryonic imagery of
Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey becomes the impetus for a “cannibalized
extraterrestrial and hyper-masculine
excremental rebirth.” Jupiter Space
may also refer to the controversial
Sally Jupiter, former resident female
of the Watchmen clan, who has since
become the trophy wife of hegemonic
Dr. Manhattan. Today she has melded
into the Andersen statue, in a far cry
from fairy tales. American women are
all princesses who wake up because
they felt the peas that had stealthily
been slipped under their mattresses:
technological triumph is of necessity,
that of masculinity.
For the WatchGirls, rethinking
these man-machine couplings by releasing them from their gender contexts is a way of opening the door to
new social configurations, and repositioning women at the heart of the debate. They present a feminist economy
as a contrast to the political-military
outcomes generated by the US possession of the ultimate weapon, the
H-bomb, that is the human bomb: Dr.
Manhattan.
The recent article by Donna Haraway, “Cyborg Manifesto: Science,
Technology and Socialist Feminism in
the Late Twentieth Century”, published
in Socialist Review 80, (vol. 15, No. 2,
March-April 1985) seems to suggest
an alternate interpretation of cyborgs,
in more of a bilateral than a unilateral
light. Although Haraway cites Sofoulis,
she makes a case for parallel consideration of blurred boundaries between
nature and culture in a strategic manner. “There remains the overarching
problem of cyborgs: they are the illegitimate offspring of militaristic and
patriarchal capitalism, not to mention
state socialism. But illegitimate children often prove exceedingly unfaithful to their origins. Their fathers are,
after all, out of the loop.” If we are to
believe Haraway, the solution is in the
hands of Dr. Manhattan himself: if he
would only turn against the state and
impose his own law, thus proving his
infidelity, hope may still loom behind
the gloomy and particularly threatening opaque polynuclear clouds that
now cast their shadows on our country.
A6 T H E N E W YOR K T I M E S , W E DN E SDAY, O C T OBE R 12 , 198 5 A Mysterious “Blue Movement” Plans Fire Against Geographic, National,
Racial and Sexual Borderlines
to Create Other Dr. Manhattans
By STAN H. WASS
Special to The New York Times
The Bronx — Oct. 12, 1985. Jon
Osterman (aka Dr. Manhattan)’s sudden departure for Mars, while causing panic in the
entire Western world, has strangely enough
been seen as good news by a certain press.
The cover of the “Blue Book,” a comic book
which hit newsstands a few months ago,
featured a drawing of the mutant floating in
space, a benevolent smile on his lips, hand
raised as if to say goodbye, with the caption, “The Long-Awaited Event Has Finally
Occurred.”
The Blue Book cover
The drawings are simple, almost naïve,
and the publisher—Blue Press—unknown. Its
address—a post office box in New Jersey—
and phone number are listed, though no one
ever picks up. Proprietors of bookstores and
newsstands which carry the “Blue Book” all
tell the same tale: a little over a year ago,
clients began asking for the item, which none
had ever heard of before. A few weeks later,
two men came with a dozen or so copies.
Since that time, several reprints have been
issued.
The “Blue Book” recounts the various
stages of Dr. Manhattan’s life, with one notable disparity regarding the official history:
the transformation of the young researcher
into a quantum creature is not presented as
a laboratory accident, but rather as a kind of
inevitable self-awareness. According to the
“Blue Book” Dr. Manhattan is the first man
in the history of humanity to understand that
we are able to manipulate time and matter
as we please. And, the comic strip insists
repeatedly, with enough ascetic detachment
and willpower we can all transform ourselves
into Dr. Manhattans.
Readers of the “Blue Book” tend to fall
into three categories: fans of the Silver Surfer,
a character sharing many of Dr. Manhattan’s
physical and psychological characteristics,
whose adventures were discontinued by
Marvel Comics in 1982; children and young
adults to whom the “Blue Book” represents
a contemporary alternative to the Pirate
Comics so prevalent these days on newsstands around the city; and the fanatical collectors who come to pick up their copy on the
day of each new release, reverently placing
the periodical in a plastic sleeve.
The wonders of
the world are in
Science
Times
Tuesday in
A team of New York Times reporters
attempted to enter into contact with these
passionate devotees. However, our reporters’ attempts were rebuffed with indifference and/or hostility as the readers hastily
repaired to their homes, from which they
emerged at night, their faces hidden behind
hats, scarves, and glasses. While our reporters tailed them, they threaded their way in
small groups toward an abandoned hangar,
in front of which two bouncers screened all
arrivals. One of our journalists managed to
enter. Inside a group of individuals were waiting in silence. In the back of the space, a small
stage was set up beneath a gigantic picture
of Dr. Manhattan, crowned by Dr. Milton
Glass’s famous quote: “God exists and He is
American.” After a half-hour spent waiting
in total silence, an entirely nude individual,
head shaven and covered in blue body paint,
appeared on stage. Addressing the crowd as
his “brothers and sisters” he explained that
the quantum mutant’s departure for Mars
heralded a new era: “By leaving us alone, he
has given us no other choice but to reshape
ourselves in his image.” While the man was
speaking, members of the audience began
disrobing, removing shirts, skirts, t-shirts
and underwear, thus revealing skin that had
been painted blue. Beards and hair turned out
to be fake, as all sported shaved heads. Our
reporter’s skin color made him easily identifiable as an intruder, and he was summarily expelled from the meeting, nude. Luckily
enough, cabdriver Jack Exelberg, a faithful
and understanding reader of this newspaper
took him in, saving him from a worse scrape,
and we would like to take this opportunity to
thank him here.
Now that we no longer have direct access to those whom one can only refer to as
“followers,” we have pursued our investigation through secondary channels and sources
both fragmented and less viable. However,
through cross-checking, we have been able
to piece together the following facts: the
“Blue Movement” is a sect whose belief system incorporates Buddhism (much like the
Enlightened One, Dr. Manhattan has achieved
a superior state of humanity through his own
willpower), the latest discoveries in nuclear
physics as well as a mythological hodgepodge of ideas stemming for the most part
from science fiction narratives. The group,
similar in many ways to the Raelien movement, finds most of its recruits among financially independent hippies, who are attracted
to the pseudo mystical, scientific discourse
and the psychedelic ceremonials. The “Blue
Movement” is said to have a retreat in the
Arizona desert, where the faithful practice
nudism and attempt, through intensive meditation, to reconstruct the atoms of boulders.
We have been unable to locate this retreat
with any degree of precision.
And what of the links between the “Blue
Movement” and Dr. Manhattan? Since the
latter is currently on Mars, we have naturally been unable to broach the subject with
him. Ex-members of the group have revealed
that the sect’s “priests” are “ordained” by Dr.
Manhattan himself, who is said to have entrusted to them the task of spreading his teachings. The same sources allege that the famed
mutant has on occasion graced the Arizona
campus with secret visits; however neither of
these assertions has been confirmed at the
present time. People close to Dr. Manhattan
have categorically denied his having had any
contact whatsoever with the “Blue Movement,”
whose very existence they claim he had no
knowledge of. “He’s an army unto himself.
Why in the world would he need soldiers?”
Dr. Manhattan’s girlfriend, Laurie Jupiter said.
Be that as it may, certain facts would
seem to confirm that contact between the blue
mutant and this eponymous movement exists.
Besides the mysterious camp in Arizona, the
sect appears to be in possession of a number of hideouts in various locations across
the country. On the very few photos New
York Times reporters have been able to see,
deep caves with innumerable galleries and
mountains as hollow as Halloween pumpkins
are clearly visible. These colossal technical
achievements are all minutely executed (despite the hardness of the stone, the walls are
all perfectly straight) and can only have been
achieved with considerable means, and one
cannot help but imagine—though this theory
is not borne out by facts—Dr. Manhattan’s
sweeping powers having contributed to the
construction of these shelters.
Might not Dr. Manhattan have grown
weary of working for the government and
bearing the responsibility of the nation’s nuclear defense, and encouraged the forming of
the “Blue Movement” in order to have at his
disposal a contingent of devoted foot soldiers?
If so, to what ends? Is he preparing, from his
Martian exile, a triumphant return to Earth?
Are his followers now supposed to help him
put an end to East-West tensions and set up an
exclusive domination of the planet? Without
Dr. Manhattan’s powers it is impossible to
answer these questions, and despite having
followed to the letter the meditation instructions found in the “Blue Book,” this reporter
must confess that he has yet to succeed in his
mission to master matter and time.
By Zachary Sheep
BROOKLYN, Oct. 10 — We want
better films! has probably been one
of the most controversial—as well as
one of the shortest—art exhibitions of
the last twenty years. Named after a
key motto of Close Up, an avant-garde
film journal, the show contained a wide
range of works, historical documents
and films from the thirties up to the
present, with a cross-section of underground and experimental movies, including sections devoted to alternative
distribution methods and networks,
censorship, Soviet film-making, racism, as well as gay, lesbian, bisexual
and transgender rights.
Around 4 a.m. following opening
night, less than an hour after the end
of the event, a fire broke out in a new
(and as yet unnamed) bookshop in
Williamsburg. The fire, which police
suggest may have been caused by arson, devastated the whole exhibition
space and first floor of the former
storage building in which the show
had been held for a few hours. Only
a handful of lucky guests in the know
had a chance to attend the opening and
enjoy such a rare and mostly unpublished selection of artistic and literary
works, as well as unreleased or new
short and full-length features.
We want better films! also affor­
ded the opportunity to sit comfortably
and read the collection of Close Up
issues. This publication, co-founded
by the Pool Group, was published
between 1927 and 1933. The editorial threesome of Close Up—Kenneth
Macpherson, Br yher and the poet
H.D—set up the magazine as a medium for intellectual discussion about
cinema while actively pursuing a
ménage à trois in Kenwin, a modernist villa located in La Tour-dePeilz on the shores of lake Geneva in
Switzerland. Their writing demonstrates how cinema, going against the
grain of traditional commercial interests, transformed psychic, gendered
and racialized experience, while exploring radical outlets.
In parallel to the Pool Group’s writings and films, the exhibition includes
Charles Henri Ford’s surrealist publication View, some of his later works
such as the poem posters series from
his 1964 Mexico exhibition, some
Danny Lyon, Memories of the Southern Civil Rights
camouflage portraits (photomontages) of Robert Mapplethorpe and Indra
Tamang from the mid-1970s, and last
but not least the 1933 experimental
and queergender novel The Young
and Evil.
As an extension of this corpus,
a screening program was held in an
ironically curtained-off back room
featuring Macpherson’s Borderline
(1930, re-discovered by chance in
Switzerland two years ago), and Maya
Deren’s newly edited documentary
film Divine Horsemen, The Living
Gods of Haiti, produced by Teiji and
Cherel Ito. Photographer and filmmaker Danny Lyon—well-known for
his work about bikers, prison inmates,
abandoned children, and tattoo artists—was supposed to present Willie,
a film he made this year in New Mexico
about a twenty-seven-year-old man
who is in and out of, but mostly in, the
state penitentiary. A special screening of Arthur Bressan’s unreleased
Buddies had been scheduled for next
week. This dramatic film deals with
the AIDS pandemic and responds to
the long-standing Hollywood taboo
against depicting homosexuality.
Last night’s incident hearkens
back to certain form of censorship,
as it echoes a similar case from the
1960s, when Jonas Mekas smuggled
Jean Genet’s Song of Love into the
US, showed it in New York and was
arrested.
Police are currently interviewing
the organizers and artists, who also
stand accused of subversive acts liable to cause a breach of the peace,
as a number of pornographic images
were visible through the paint-covered windows. Neighbors told the police they saw one of the vigilantes—
Rorschach? The Comedian?—pass
by the corner of the street on several
occasions on the night of the fire.
However, investigators have refused
to corroborate those remarks and
have yet to confirm their suspicions of
arson. In a comment, President Nixon
said that although he respects freedom of expression, he does not consider it to be absolute. While publicly
condemning the destruction of this
cultural heritage, the government has
also deplored the fact that the organizers didn’t make better-informed
decisions before carrying out their
project. W hile calling to mind the
1977 Keene Act, which outlaws nongovernm ental organizations or individuals from taking the law into their
own hands, this episode also highlights the belief that such illicit content should never have been allowed
to enter the US.
“Go Ahead, Make My Day!” But What
Is a Typical Day for Harry Callahan?
By Mark Frintz
Dirty Harry (1971) is remembered
as the first film in a series whose ambiguous, high-caliber hero, Inspector
Callahan (Clint Eastwood) does not
hesitate to pull the trigger to make people respect the law. Violent persuasion
and deception are among the methods
he considers justified and appropriate within a chaotic, corrupt society.
Pointing his gun at a delinquent caught
red-handed in a robbery, he imparts
his subtle conceptions of instruction
and civic responsibility: “You’ve got
to ask yourself one question: Do I feel
lucky? Well do ya, punk?” The script,
originally entitled Dead Right, was
set in New York. However, Director
Don Siegel preferred to shoot it in
San Francisco. The film is notable
for its blurring of established social
values ​​and functions, which are alternately inverted and substituted. The
“straight” cop—gray suit, red V-neck
sweater and tie—against the robber,
the “punk”. The origin of the word
“punk” is unknown, but its appearance
dates back to the sixteenth century.
The archaic meaning is prostitute;
today, it has come to mean hoodlum.
Both definitions designate an outcast.
It is important to note that the film predates the musical “punk” movement,
which is therefore not a concern here.
Otherwise, Callahan would be a cop
with “punk” methods in a “hippie” city:
San Francisco.
Callahan is as isolated a figure
within his police administration, much
as Rorschach remains confined to his
own mind. The Keene Act, prohibiting vigilantism by costumed adventurers, prompted The Comedian and
Dr. Manhattan to join forces with the
government. Rorschach’s political position is as elusive as his ever-changing
mask, an inkblot which one is tempted
to interpret in the worst possible manner. Rorschach’s isolation appears to
have been aggravated by his paranoia.
However, one wonders if this thought
process didn’t already have a hold on
him during the golden age of masked
vigilantes.
In 1971, Dirty Harry pits inspector Callahan against a serial killer.
Five years later, in The Enforcer, he
is confronted with a hippie movement advocating revolution by way of
armed struggle, patterned after the
Symbionese Liberation Army. These
films reflect a fascination with violence
The Mars Bar, East Village, New York
arising from all sides, whether in the
form of isolated criminality or the extreme left. Clint Eastwood himself directed Sudden Impact, from 1983, in
which the inspector is on the trail of a
serial killer who turns out to be a neurotic, traumatized artist for whom the
boundaries of catharsis and personal
revenge are more than a little hazy.
This blurring of apparently incompatible values—justice and vengeance—
impels the cop to cover up for the killer.
Today, public fascination w ith
violence has grown to the point that
copies of Life magazine with Charles
Manson on the cover (subtitled “The
Love and Terror Cult”) fetch very high
prices. Violence is also a recurring
theme in the columns of this newspaper. Earlier this year, New York State
allocated funding for security guards
in elementary schools (The New York
Times, January 22, 1985). Scientists
have proved the correlation between
media coverage of violence and the
homicide rate (The New York Times,
January 8, 1985). A few months ago,
my colleague Nadine Brozan raised
the question of protecting children
from violence on television (New York
Times, June 5, 1985). Figures show that
the crime rate rose steadily in the sixties and seventies. Today, American
artists of every stripe have a grim view
of American society. Yet, from 1980
to 1985, the crime rate has steadily
declined. Have these artists and journalists abandoned their easels and
desks to drink with Rorschach at the
Mars Bar?
The existence of an art gallery
called “Nature Morte” and a nightclub
called “Pyramid” attest to the nostalgia that informs New York’s current
underground scene. At a recent art
opening, the bohemians in attendance
manifested their disenchantment by
parodying 60s Mafia attire: tight-fitting suits, white shirts and black ties.
These outfits remind me of a series of
drawings by Robert Longo depicting
bankers being gunned down. In another realm—that of comic art—Frank
Miller released the first installment of
Daredevil in June. Entitled “Badlands,”
the episode is a thinly veiled reference
to the film by Terrence Malick, which
recounts the life of notorious 1950s
serial killer Charles Starkweather.
Frank Miller, whose Ronin series (no.
1, July 1983) featured a lone vigilante,
stated that his objective was to create
a sort of naturalist, dark, Batmantype character. Criminal or vigilante,
the American hero certainly seems as
lonely as Rorschach. With the imagination of America seemingly captured
by the theme of broken social ties, the
question remains: will Clint Eastwood
play Harry Callahan again? Will he
continue to be as solitary as ever? And
what threats will he now face?
Sports Page
Morris has Giants on the run
When the Giants drafted George Adams on the first round
this year, it seemed inevitable that he would soon become their
starting halfback. But not yet. For now, the job belongs to Joe
Morris, and he could tell Adams about the often-rocky path
from college star to pro starter.
At Syracuse University, everything seemed to come easily
for Morris. He was a 5-foot-7-inch powerhouse who ran for
more yards than Jim Brown, Larry Csonka, Floyd Little, Ernie
Davis and every other Syracuse running back in history.
Then, in 1982, the Giants, desperate for a running game,
drafted Butch Woolfolk on the first round and Morris on the
second. Both were running backs. Woolfolk became a rookie
starter, Morris a disaster area.
Almost everything Morris did seemed to go wrong. He
would run in motion in one direction when he should have
gone the other way. He would drop a pass. He would reject an
off-tackle hole, try to run outside and lose 4 yards. He would
fail to block a blitzing linebacker.
That season, he carried only 15 times for 48 yards. The next
year, he carried 35 times for 145 yards. These were questionable contributions from such a high draft choice.
‘’Those two years were very difficult for me,’’ Morris says
now. ‘’I was trying as hard as I could, but I think I was too tense.
You do well in preseason and you think you’re going to get the
opportunity to play. It doesn’t happen. I started to think I was
here only in case someone got hurt. I went from optimism to
doubt.’’ In the 1983 season, a 3-12-1 nightmare for the Giants,
the final game provided hope for Morris. In a 31-22 loss to the
Washington Redskins, he carried 13 times for 69 yards and
caught a touchdown pass. He was sure his fortunes would
turn around in 1984.
But in the first half of the 1984 season he played little and
achieved little. Early in a game, he would stand on the sideline
and try to be mentally alert. After the first quarter, he would
kneel on the sideline and think what he would be doing if he
were on the field.
‘’The mind was working,’’ he said. ‘’The body was not.’’
Then Woolfolk was slowed by nagging injuries, Morris got
a chance and never looked back. He became the starter, and
after the season Woolfolk was traded to the Houston Oilers.
Morris ran for 425 yards in the second half of the season
and finished 1984 with 133 carries for 510 yards. In 5 games
Drug Seller Loses Bid
for Freedom
Philadelphia—A Federal appeals court panel today refused to release Curtis Strong from jail while he
awaits sentencing for selling cocaine to
major league baseball players.
Three judges of the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third
Circuit said that Strong, who was convicted Sept. 20 of 11 counts of cocaine
distribution, failed to meet the burden
of proving he would not be a danger to
the community if freed.
The 39-year-old Strong, a caterer
who at one time provided food to the
Philadelphia Phillies’ clubhouse, is appealing the conviction.
. . . Walker Russell, who was cut by
the Atlanta Hawks after 21 games last
season and again during training camp
this year, signed a multiyear contract
with the Detroit Pistons, the club that
cut him after 16 games in 1983.
The 24-year-old Russell is a brother
of the former Knick Campy Russell. .
. . Alexis Arguello will be fighting Pat
Jefferson instead of Andy Nance in his
comeback bout in Anchorage Oct. 25.
Nance had to bow out when he suffered
a severe cut. . . . Marvin Johnson, a former light-heavyweight champion, and
Prince Mama Muhammed of Ghana
have been chosen to fight for the World
Boxing Council light-heav y weight
title taken from Michael Spinks after
Spinks won the International Boxing
Federation heavyweight crown.
Sports People: Comings
and Goings
Brett Sparkles as Royals
Triumph Over Blue Jays
John McEnroe has withdrawn from
the Australian indoor tennis championships next week, saying he aggravated a shoulder injury during an exhibition match against Ivan Lendl in East
Rutherford, N.J., Wednesday night.
He missed the 1984 event because of
shoulder and elbow injuries. . . . Jackie
Moore, the Oakland A’s manager, has
been rehired for next season. . . . Ken
Oberkfell, the Atlanta infielder, signed
a four-year contract with the Braves.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—George Brett,
the heart, soul, breath and blood of
the Royals, singlehandedly resuscitated the withering Western Division
champions tonight in the American
League pennant playoff.
Lashing two home runs, a double
and a single in a record-shattering
performance, Brett drove in three
runs and scored four as Kansas City
By George Abravanel
N.B.A
N.H.L
Standings
Monday Night
Min
Williams..... 33
King.......... 39
Giminski.... 25
Birdsong.... 15
Cook.......... 39
Dawkins..... 32
Mk.Jhnsn... 12
Richdsn...... 30
Ransey....... 7
O’Koren..... 7
Totals........ 240
AT LOS ANGELES
NETS (98)
FG
FT Reb
M-A M-A O-T A
2-14 5-6 7-13 2
7-16 3-4 1-8 1
5-11 4-4 2-5 1
3-6 0-0 1-1 6
4-10 0-0 0-3 9
9-15 4-6 2-5 5
2-4 0-2 0-3 2
8-15 0-0 4-6 3
0-2 0-0 0-1 0
1-2 0-0 0-0 1
41-95 16-22 17-4530
PF
5
2
1
2
4
6
3
4
0
2
29
Pts
9
17
14
6
8
22
4
16
0
2
98
Percentages: FG .432, FT .727. 3-Point Goals: 0-2, .000
(King 0-1, Cook 0-1). Team Rebounds: 10. Blocked shots:
5 (Gminski 2, Birdsong, Dawkins, Williams). Turnovers:
16 (Williams 4, Richardson 4, King 3, Dawkins 2,
Birdsong, M.E Johnson, Ransey). Steals: 8 (Cook 5,
Williams, King, Richardson). Technical fouls: None.
Illegal defense: One.
Min
White........ 36
Nimphius... 33
Benjamin... 32
Mq.Johnsn.36
Nixon......... 26
Maxwell..... 31
Bridgemn... 20
Valentine... 26
Totals........ 240
L.A. CLIPPERS (103)
FG
FT Reb
M-A M-A O-T A
12-18 5-7 3-5 2
4-8 3-6 0-10 1
4-9 3-4 0-4 0
3-9 2-3 0-5 5
2-8 2-2 0-2 10
3-5 10-10 3-7 3
4-8 0-0 0-4 1
4-9 6-8 1-3 3
36-74 31-40 7-40 25
edged Toronto, 6-5, for Manager Dick
Howser’s first victory in 12 postseason
games. Steve Balboni, who had been
hitless in 11 times at bat in the series,
drove in Brett with the winning run in
the eighth inning with a two-out bloop
single to short center field against Jim
Clancy.
“If we had lost the game,” Brett said,
“we would have been six feet under.”
The Brett-inspired and delivered
victory was the Royals’ first after the
Blue Jays had won the first two games
in the four-of-seven league championship series. The Royals, who had lost
10 consecutive postseason games dating to the 1980 World Series, will try
to even the series Saturday night when
Charlie Leibrandt, the first-game loser,
pitches against Dave Stieb, the firstgame winner.
Brett, whose dazzling defensive
play prevented a Toronto run in the
third inning, caught the final out in
the ninth inning, a foul pop by Lloyd
Moseby near third base. As soon as the
ball settled in his glove, Frank White,
the veteran second baseman, raced
to Brett and embraced him. The rest
of the Royals followed. ‘Hall of Fame
Performance’
‘’That’s an M VP performance,’’
Howser said later. ‘’That’s a Hall of
Fame performance.’’
It was, according to Jesse Barfield,
the disappointed but appreciative
Toronto right fielder, ‘’a phenomenal’’
performance. ‘’We just have to figure
PF
2
5
5
0
2
2
0
1
17
Pts
29
11
11
8
6
16
8
14
103
Percentages: FG .432, FT .727. 3-Point Goals: 0-2, .000
(King 0-1, Cook 0-1). Team Rebounds: 10. Blocked shots:
5 (Gminski 2, Birdsong, Dawkins, Williams). Turnovers:
16 (Williams 4, Richardson 4, King 3, Dawkins 2,
Birdsong, M.E Johnson, Ransey). Steals: 8 (Cook 5,
Williams, King, Richardson). Technical fouls: None.
Illegal defense: One.
Monday Night
AT DALLAS
CHICAGO (116)
Woolridge 7-17 0-0 14, Green 6-14 4-4 16, Oldham
4-5 0-0 8, Gervin 15-29 15-16 45, Macy 5-9 0-0 10,
Corzine 5-11 3-3 13, Oakley 0-0 0-0 0, Banks 4-9 0-0
8, Paxson 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 47-96 22-23 116
DALLAS (116)
Aguirre 5-11 10-16 20, Perkins 9-19 0-0 18, Donaldson
4-4 1-2 9, Harper 6-6 0-0 12, Blackman 9-15 15-17
33, Vincent 6-16 0-1 12, Davis 5-6 4-4 15, Ellis 2-4
1-2 5, Keeling 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 46-81 31-42 124.
Chicago.............................26 35 29 26 —116
Dallas................................32 31 31 30 —124
Three-point goals—Davis. Fouled out—None.
Rebounds—Chicago 55 (Corzine 9), Dallas 41 (Perkins
8). Assists—Chicago 28 (Macy 7), Dallas 27 (Aguirre
8). Total fouls—Chicago 31, Dallas 17. Technicals—
Chicago 2 I-illegal defense, Dallas 2 illegal defense,
Harper. A—16,498.
Tennis
Monday Night
AT Philadelphia
U.S. PRO INDOOR
CHAMPIONSHIPS
First Round
Matt Anger, Pleasanton, Calif., d. Larry Stefanki,
Menlo Park, Calif., 6-3, 6-7, 7-6, 6-2; Tim Wilkison,
Ashville, N.C., d. Tom Warneke, Lakeland, Fla., 7-6, 7-6.
Donald Agenor, Haiti, d. Glenn Michibatta, Toronto,
7-5, 6-3; Ricardo Acuna, Chile, d. Bud Schulz, Boston,
6-4, 6-2; Dan Goldie, McLean, Va., d. Balazs Taroczy,
Hungary, 6-2, 7-6.
Andy Kohlberg, Dallas, d. John Sadri, Charlotte, N.
C., 3-6, 6-1, 6-4; Slobodan Zivolinic, Yugoslavia, d.
Ken Flach, Prarie Oaks, Fla., 5-7, 6-3, 6-3; Leonardo
Lavalle, Mexico, d Ramesh Krishnan, India, 5-7, 7-6,
7-6.
Vince Van Patten, Newport, Calif., d. Shahar Perkiss,
Israel, 7-6, 6-4; Ben Testerman, Fort Lauderdale, d.
Aaron Krickston, Grosse Pointe, Mich., 6-4 6-4; Robert
Seguso, Prairie Oaks, Fla., d. Sergio Casal, Spain, 6-4
6-4.
Monday Night
LAST NIGHT’S GAMES
Chicago at Knicks.
Nets at Golden State.
Cleveland at Houston.
Denver at Sacramento.
Indiana at Atlanta.
Milwaukee at L.A. Lakers.
Philadelphia at Seattle.
Portland at Phoenix.
MONDAY NIGHT’S GAMES
L.A. Clippers 103, Nets 98.
Dallas 124, Chicago 116.
Denver 124, Cleveland.
Detroit 118, San Antonio 117.
Milwaukee 127, Utah 103.
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
W
L
Pct.
Boston.........................33
8
.805
Philadelphia.................29
15
.659
Nets............................26
20
.565
Washington..................23
21
.523
Knicks..........................15
29
.341
Central Division
Milwaukee................... 31
15
.674
Atlanta.........................24
18
.571
Detroit.........................22
23
.489
Cleveland.....................18
26
.409
Chicago....................... 16
29
.356
Indiana........................ 12
31
.279
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Midwest Division
W
L
Pct.
Houston.......................30
14
.682
Denver.........................26
19
.578
San Antonio..................24
22
.522
Dallas..........................21
21
.500
Utah............................22
25
.468
Sacramento.................. 16
28
.378
Pacific Division
L.A. Lakers...................32
10
.762
Portland......................28
20
.583
L.A. Clippers................18
29
.383
Seattle......................... 16
28
.364
Phoenix.......................15
27
.357
Golden State................. 14
34
.292
(Last night’s games not included)
GB
–
5½
9½
11½
19½
–
5
8½
12
14½
17½
Monday Night
GB
–
4½
7
8
9½
17½
–
7
16½
17
17
21
TONIGHT’S GAMES
Atlanta at Detroit.
Philadelphia at Utah.
Phoenix at L.A. Clippers.
San Antonio at Dallas.
Washington at Indiana.
The Leaders
SCORING
Viannay, Utah............. 42 440 353 1233
Zoffoli, Denver............ 44 495 293 1284
Wilkins, Atlanta.......... 42 452 259 1171
Short, Golden St.......... 42 425 208 1066
Bird, Boston................41 386 203 1007
Santini, Chicago.......... 44 406 262 1078
Vandeweghe, Port....... 45 384 315 1083
Free, Cleveland.......... 40 344 233 1029
Malone, Phila............. 44 323 387 1033
Olajuwon, Houston...... 44 398 233 1029
Aguirre, Dallas........... 35 321 166 809
Abdul-Jabbar, Lakers.. 42 390 175 955
Bizzarri, Boston........... 39 334 208 876
Nance, Phoenix.......... 40 341 201 883
Rodriguez, S. Antonio.. 45 405 169 979
Johnson, Clippers........ 42 364 178 907
Prudhomme, Wash...... 44 391 164 949
Ewing, Knicks............. 39 320 187 827
Thomas, Detroit.......... 43 339 194 888
Garnier, Lakers........... 42 360 144 864
FIELD GOAL PERCENTAGE
FG FGA
Dawkins, Nets................................ 252 395
Johnson, San Antonio..................... 227 358
Thorpe, Sacramento........................165 267
Gilmore, San Antonio...................... 264 447
Worthy, Lakers.............................. 360 616
REBOUNDING
G Off Def Tot
Laimbeer, Detroit.......44 161 391 552
Williams, Nets...........45 167 371 538
Malone, Phila. ..........44 199 319 518
Olajuwon, Houston.....44 218 280 498
Sampson, Houston......44 131 367 498
Barkley, Phila. ..........43 177 289 466
AT BLOOMINGTON, MINN.
Devils............................................... 0 0 2—2
Minnesota......................................... 2 2 2—6
FIRST PERIOD—1, Minnesota, Habscheid 1
(McCarthy, Ciccarelli), 8:20 (pp). 2, Minnesota,
Habscheid 2 (Ciccarelli, McCarthy), 16:57.
Penaltiesderson, Devils (tripping), 7:03; Rouse, Min
(hooking), 9:10.
SECOND PERIOD—3, Minnesota, Blugstad 28
(Bellows), 1:23. 4, Minnesota, Roberts 2 (Nilsson,
Acton), 18:03. Penalties—Stewart, Min (holding),
19:34.
THIRD PERIOD—5, Minnesota, Acton 17 (Nilsson,
Viveiros), 3:52. 6, Devils, Verbeek 12(Bridgman,
McNab), 7:03. 7, Devils, Gagne 15 (Higgins, Adams),
8:19. 8, Minnesota, Broten 20 (Bjugstad, Bellows),
17:41. Penalties—Daneyko, Devils, major (fighting),
7:27; Stewart, Min, major (fighting), 7:27; Anderson,
Devils, (misconduct) 11:04; Coulis, Min (misconduct),
11:04.
Shots on goal—Devils 7-10-17—34. Minnesota
11-13-6—30.
Power-play Opportunities—Devils 0 of 1; Minnesota
1 of 1.
Goalies—Devils, Chevrier (30 shots-24 saves).
Minnesota, Beaupre (34-32)
A—10,013.
Referee—Terry Gregson. Linesmen—Wayne Forsey,
Leon Stickle.
29,4
29,2
27,9
25,4
24,6
24,5
24,1
23,8
23,5
23,4
23,1
22,7
22,5
22,1
21,8
21,6
21,6
21,2
20,7
20,6
Pct
.638
.634
.618
.591
.584
Avg
12,5
12,0
11,8
11,3
11,3
10,8
AT QUEBEC
Rangers............................................ 1 2 0—6
Quebec............................................. 2 2 0—6
FIRST PERIOD—1, Minnesota, Habscheid 1
(McCarthy, Ciccarelli), 8:20 (pp). 2, Minnesota,
Habscheid 2 (Ciccarelli, McCarthy), 16:57.
Penaltiesderson, Devils (tripping), 7:03; Rouse, Min
(hooking), 9:10.
SECOND PERIOD—3, Minnesota, Blugstad 28
(Bellows), 1:23. 4, Minnesota, Roberts 2 (Nilsson,
Acton), 18:03. Penalties—Stewart, Min (holding),
19:34.
THIRD PERIOD—5, Minnesota, Acton 17 (Nilsson,
Viveiros), 3:52. 6, Devils, Verbeek 12(Bridgman,
McNab), 7:03. 7, Devils, Gagne 15 (Higgins, Adams),
8:19. 8, Minnesota, Broten 20 (Bjugstad, Bellows),
17:41. Penalties—Daneyko, Devils, major (fighting),
7:27; Stewart, Min, major (fighting), 7:27; Anderson,
Devils, (misconduct) 11:04; Coulis, Min (misconduct),
11:04.
Shots on goal—Devils 7-10-17—34. Minnesota
11-13-6—30.
Power-play Opportunities—Devils 0 of 1; Minnesota
1 of 1.
Goalies—Devils, Chevrier (30 shots-24 saves).
Minnesota, Beaupre (34-32)
A—10,013.
Referee—Terry Gregson. Linesmen—Wayne Forsey,
Leon Stickle.
Three-point goals—Davis. Fouled out—None.
Rebounds—Chicago 55 (Corzine 9), Dallas 41 (Perkins
8). Assists—Chicago 28 (Macy 7), Dallas 27 (Aguirre
8). Total fouls—Chicago 31, Dallas 17. Technicals—
Monday Night
AT CHICAGO
Edmonton......................................... 2 1 1—4
Chicago............................................ 2 0 1—3
FIRST PERIOD—1, Edmonton, Messier 21 (Anderson),
11:37. 2, Chicago, Secord 26 (Savard, B. Murray), 16:24
(pp). 3, Edmonton, Anderson 33 (Messier, Gregg),
18:20. 4, Chicago, Sutter 4 (Lysiak, Olczyk), 18:48.
Penalties—O’Callahan, Chi (holding), 9:15; Lowe,
Edm, (interference), 12:55; Kurri, Edm (tripping).,
16:55; Huddy, Edm (hooking), 19:00.
SECOND PERIOD—5, Edmonton, Napier 15 (Messier),
14:42. Penalty—Savard, Chi (holding), 7:50.
THIRD PERIOD—6, Edmonton, Anderson 34
(Napier), 16:58. 7, Chicago, B. Murray 6 (D. Wilson,
Fraser), 17:15. Penalties—None.
Shots on goal—Edmonton 10-11-00—29. Chicago
11-11-13—34.
Power-play Opportunities—Edmonton 0 of 1;
Chicago 1 of 3.
Goalies—Edmonton , Fuhr (34 shots-31 saves).
Chicago, Suave (29-25).
A—17,568
Referee—Dave Newell.
Linesmen—Kevin Collins, Jerry Pateman.
Standings
LAST NIGHT’S GAMES
Toronto at Islanders.
Philadelphia at Pittsburgh.
Washington at Detroit.
MONDAY NIGHT’S GAMES
Rangers 6, Quebec 6 (overtime).
Minnesota 6, Devil 2.
Boston 6, Hartford 3.
Calgary 6, Los Angeles 3.
Montreal 4, Buffalo 1.
WALES CONFERENCE
Patrick Division
W L T Pts
Philadelphia.........35 14
0 70
Washington..........29 14
4 62
Islanders..............21 17 10 52
Pittsburgh............22 22
5 49
Rangers...............22 23
4 48
Devils..................15 31
2 32
GF
215
193
194
189
171
180
GA
147
159
176
182
170
232
Adams Division
Montreal..............28 17
5
Quebec................28 18
3
Boston.................24 18
7
Hartford...............26 21
1
Buffalo................22 22
5
61
59
55
53
49
223
205
196
202
182
171
168
176
180
173
CAMPBELL CONFERENCE
Norris Division
W
L
Chicago...............23 19
6 52
Minnesota............19 22
8 46
St. Louis...............20 20
6 46
Toronto................12 30
5 29
Detroit.................10 34
5 25
Pct.
218
198
174
180
163
GB
214
190
182
230
266
Smythe Division
Edmonton............35 11
4 74 263
Calgary................23 21
4 50 206
Los Angeles..........15 27
6 36 174
Vancouver............15 27
6 36 173
Winnipeg.............15 31
5 35 181
(Last night’s games not included)
202
188
182
201
237
this year, he has 74 carries for 278 yards. At that rate, he will
finish the year with 885 yards, a respectable figure for anyone
short of an Eric Dickerson or a Walter Payton.
Why is Morris running well? Because, he says, he is getting more opportunities to run.
Why did he not run well earlier in his career? Because, he
says, he did not carry often enough.
‘’He was getting yanked in and out of the game,’’ said
Rob Carpenter, the Giants’ fullback. ‘’You’ve got to get into a
rhythm, not only physical but mental. If you get enough repetitions, you’ll miss some cuts, but you’ll get some, too.’’
‘’Our running game is better this year,’’ said Morris, ‘’because we’re having success with it, so we’re staying with it
a little longer. Last year, if we ran and the play didn’t work,
we’d go to a pass. Now we may try the run again.
‘’You try to make every play succeed because if you do
you will run it again and get better at it. The more success
you have, the more the coaches will say, ‘Let’s run again.’ So
one good run means we get a chance for another good run.’’
That success comes down to this: The Giants are rushing
for 126.6 yards a game, or 22 percent better than for all last
year. They are running more often than passing, something
coaches treasure, and they are averaging 36 carries a game,
enough to win most games.
Morris is averaging 15 carries a game. He is doing it with
a slashing style that uses his great speed to get to the hole.
He has also come to peace with the knowledge that a
first-round draft choice is challenging for his job. When the
Giants drafted Adams on the first round, people said it was
because the Giants had no confidence in Morris.
But the week before training camp started, Coach Bill
Parcells and Morris had a long talk. Morris said Parcells told
him that Adams would be a good pass receiver and thirddown runner, so Morris could concentrate on the things
Morris did best. It has worked out that way.
Much of the Giants’ revitalized running game is a result
of Morris’s perspective and maturity. Even he was surprised
by one incident.
‘’One day in camp this year,’’ he recalled, ‘’a coach said,
‘All veterans stay out of this drill.’ I realized that meant me.
You go from being a rookie to being a young guy to being a
veteran. Here I am, an old guy of 25, a veteran, and I’m having some success running the ball. So I’m enjoying it all, at
least when we win.’’
out a different way to handle him tomorrow night,’’ Barfield said.
Brett, who hit three home runs
against Catfish Hunter in a 1978 playoff game against the Yankees and
clinched the 1980 playoff against the
Yankees with a three-run homer off
Rich Gossage, devastated a former
Yankee pitcher, Doyle A lexander,
with his onslaught tonight. He hit a
bases-empty home run in the first inning, doubled and scored in the fourth
and tied the game, 5-5, with a two-run
homer in the sixth after the Blue Jays
had erupted for five runs against Bret
Saberhagen, the Royals’ 20-game winner, in the fifth. Barfield and Rance
Mulliniks each hit a two-run homer
against Saberhagen.
Brett Saberhagen
‘’When we tied it in the sixth,’’ Dan
Quisenberry, Kansas City’s relief chief
said, ‘’the guys in the bullpen talked
about how we had a chance to win because George had another at-bat.’’
With the game still tied, 5-5, Brett
opened the eighth by grounding a single between first and second on a 1-1
forkball from Jim Clancy.
‘’Everybody said the Blue Jays were
going to pitch around me,’’ Brett said,
‘’but if you’re pitching around a guy,
you don’t throw fastballs down the
middle. That’s what they had been doing. But then Clancy fooled me with
a forkball and it must have been my
worst swing of the bat. I hit a routine
ground ball that everybody dived for
and nobody caught.’’
Balboni Comes Through
Hal McRae sacrificed Brett to second, and he moved to third as White
grounded out to short. Clancy walked
the left-handed Pat Sheridan purposely, bringing up the right-handed
Balboni, who not only was hitless in
this series but also had not had a hit
in 16 consecutive postseason attempts
going back to last year’s three-game
loss to Detroit.
TONIGHT’S GAMES
Pittsburgh at Devil, 7 : 35 P.M.
Rangers at Chicago.
Boston at Hartford.
Buffalo at Winnipeg.
Calgary at Vancouver.
Edmonton at St. Louis.
Minnesota at Los Angeles.
Quebec at Montreal.
Washington at Toronto.
Monday Night
AT CALGARY, ALBERTA
Los Angeles....................................... 0 3 0—3
Calgary............................................. 3 2 1—6
FIRST PERIOD—1, Calgary, Macoun 5 (Quinn,
McDonald), :5. 2, Calgary, Loob 13 (Risebrough,
Bozek), 2:56. 3, Calgary, Bourgeois 5 (Otto), 3: 29.
Penalties—Sykes, LA (roughing), 7:53; Macinnis, Cal
(slashing), 7:53 Williams, LA (roughing), 8:09; Kromm,
Cal (roughing), 8:09 Bourgeois, Cal (roughing), 8:09
Suter, Cal (roughing), Ledyard, LA (roughing), 10:46;
Bourgeois, Cal double minor (roughing), 13:09; Hardy,
LA, double minor(roughing-unsportsmanlike conduct),.
SECOND PERIOD—3, Calgary, Hunter 4 (Beers),
2:31. 5, Los Angeles, Wilks 3 (Sykes, Erickson), 3:15.
6, Los Angeles, Dionne 27 (Paterson, Engblom), 4:32.
7, Calgary, Beers 11 (Bozek, Macinnis), 6:23 (pp). 8,
Los Angeles, Erickson LA (hooking), 7:03; Macinnis, Cal
(hooking, 10:24; Redmond, LA (interference), 11:42;
Bourgeois, Cal (double minor)..
THIRD PERIOD—9, Calgary, McDonald 19 (Quinn,
Kromm), 14:43. Penalties—Sheehy, Cal (roughing),
1:39; Paterson, LA (holding), 6:52; Otto, Cal (misconduct), 15:55; Macinnis, Cal (cross-checking), 15:55;
Hardy LA, major (spearing, game misconduct), 15:55;
Wells, LA (high-sticking, roughing), 16:15.
Shots on goal—Los Angeles 8-11-7—26. Calgary
14-12-11—37.
Pwer-play Opportunities—Los Angeles 1 of 8;
Calgary 1 of 5.
Goalies—Los Angeles, Janecyk (3 shots-1 saves),
Eliot (3:21 first, 23-19). Calgary, Lemelin (26-23)
A—16,760
Referee— Mike Noeth Linesmen—Swede Knox,
Randy Mitton
Steve Balboni
The burly Balboni blooped the ball
to short center, and it eluded the lunging reach of Tony Fernandez, the shortstop, who raced futilely for the ball
with Damaso Garcia, the second baseman, and Moseby, the center fielder.
Steve Farr, the unheralded relief
pitcher who joined the Royals Aug.
8, then sealed the victory - he pitched
four and one-third innings of two-hit,
scoreless relief—by retiring three Blue
Jays in the ninth, Moseby the last on
the foul to Brett.
Saberhagen, the 21-year-old righthander, had faltered in the fifth inning, giving up five runs that wiped
out Kansas Cit y’s 2- 0 lead. Ernie
Whitt singled, and Barfield hit the first
home run of the inning. One out later,
Garcia doubled and Moseby smashed
a wicked one-hopper off Saberhagen’s
left heel, the ball caroming all the way
into left field, enabling Garcia to score
the lead run.
Saberhagen writhed in pain on the
ground but returned to the mound after having the heel treated, and pitched
to one more batter. That batter was
Mulliniks and he hit another two-run
homer.
But Jim Sundberg hit a home run in
the fifth inning, and Brett connected
again in the sixth after Willie Wilson
singled, tying the game, 5-5.
‘’Blacky,’’ Brett said, referring to Bud
Black, the pitcher, ‘’told me I jumped 10
feet in the air. I said you’re crazy; there’s
no way. I don’t show my emotions on
the field. I’ll have to see a tape of it.’’
He might also want to look at a tape
of the play he made in the third inning. With Garcia at third, Moseby hit
a bouncer that seemed headed for left
field. But Brett made a lunging, backhand stop, his momentum carried him
another five steps and, in foul territory,
he made a leaping throw to the plate,
where he easily nailed Garcia.
Brett’s hitting enabled him to set
two overall league championship series records, tie another and break
two American League championship
series records. The two home runs,
the double and the single gave him 71
total bases, shattering Pete Rose’s playoff record of 63, and the four runs he
scored gave him a playoff total of 20,
eclipsing Rose’s record of 17.
The home runs were Brett’s seventh and eighth in playoff games,
breaking Reggie Jackson’s American
League championship series record of
seven and tying Steve Garvey’s overall
championship series mark of eight. His
four hits vaulted him past Jackson’s
American League playoff record of 32
by two.
Balboni, Howser End
O-For-11 Streaks
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—The ball just
kept fading away, its trajectory carrying it farther from the outstretched
gloves of the three fielders who frantically pursued it. When it fell, Steve
Balboni and Dick Howser must have
felt some kind of personal relief, perhaps even vindication. They had waited too long for this moment.
It was Balboni, hitless in 11 times at
bat during the American League championship series, who deposited a bloop
single into shallow center field tonight,
scoring George Brett from third base
in the eighth with the run that gave the
Kansas City Royals a 6-5 victory over
Toronto. And it was Howser who was
given the ball by Brett when the game
ended, in appreciation for the manager’s first triumph after 11 consecutive
postseason defeats.
‘’I don’t keep mementos,’’ Howser
said later. ‘’The only balls I’ve kept
have been from my first win as the
Yankee manager and my first win as
the Royal manager. That’s number
three right there—the one sitting in
my locker.’’
The victory was the first in the series for the Royals, who lost the first
two games to the Blue Jays in the fourof-seven-game playoff. They were contests of frustration for Balboni, who set
a club record with 36 home runs during
the season but had become a liability in
the Royals’ lineup during the playoff.
He came to bat with Brett at third
and with Pat Sheridan, a left-handed hitter, having been intentionally
walked by Jim Clancy, the Blue Jays’
reliever.
‘Everything Still Worked Out’
‘’I wasn’t thinking about anything,’’
Balboni said, ‘’except about what I
wanted to do. And I didn’t do it, but
everything still worked out.’’
Balboni swung at a 2-0 fastball
from Clancy that was on his fists. He
hit the ball just beyond the reach of
the converging fielders - the shortstop
Tony Fernandez, the second baseman
Damaso Garcia and the center fielder
Lloyd Moseby.
‘’I shouldn’t have even swung at
that pitch,’’ Balboni conceded. ‘’It was
a bad pitch. I don’t even know if it was
a strike.’’
Balboni’s eagerness to swing at
anything even remotely close to the
plate has been his major problem in
the playoff. He has huddled with Lee
May, the Royals’ hitting coach, and
with Hal McRae, the designated hitter, to discuss solutions.
‘’All I’ve tried to do is get him to
relax a little,’’ May said. ‘’He’s been
tight. He’s been trying to hit too many
pitches out of the ball park. It’s only
human nature for him to try to do what
he does best - hit home runs -but he has
to realize he can’t carry the team on his
shoulders all the time.’’
Still Batting .083
Balboni, who is still batting just
.083 in the series, said he did not think
the hit would help solve his problems.
He had struck out on three pitches in
the sixth with two outs and a runner
at third, and in the fifth he lined out to
the warning track in left.
‘’I don’t think it’ll make a difference,’’ he said. ‘’I’m still struggling.
All I want to do is try and help us win.
I wouldn’t care if I didn’t get a hit and
we won. I wouldn’t care if I didn’t get
a hit in the whole series as long as we
won. I’d still be happy.’’
Howser’s torment had gone back
to 1980, when the Yankees were swept
in three games by Kansas City in the
A merican Leag ue playoff. But he
downplayed his poor playoff record
while the Royals were in Toronto, and
he downplayed it again tonight.
‘’That’s nice,’’ he said when someone asked about the victory, ‘’but this
puts us right back in the picture. I’m
not concerned about my record. I don’t
have to defend my record.’’
He even admitted surprise when
Brett caught a pop fly in foul territory
and then handed the manager the ball
as the Royals celebrated on the field.
‘’That was the last thing on my
mind,’’ Howser said. ‘’I just didn’t
want to get stepped on out there. Then
George just about stuck the ball in my
chest. But it was nice. That’s the kind
of player he is—unselfish.’’
Cards Back
on Magic Carpet
By George Abravanel
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 11—To the St.
Louis Cardinals, it is home, and it has
all the comforts of home: the carpet,
the pool-table green, the true bounce,
the high hop, the fast lane.
It is where they won 54 games and
lost 27 this season: two of every three.
It is where they swept nine straight
from the Pittsburgh Pirates, and took
six of nine from the Mets. It is where
they were the most successful team in
the business.
But the team with the best record
in baseball came home today with the
worst record in the National League
playoff, two games down to the Los
Angeles Dodgers and needing to win
four of the next five to capture the
pennant.
The team that stole 314 bases and
scored 747 runs in 162 games stole just
one base and scored three runs in two
games in Dodger Stadium. It lost the
first game, 4-1, and the second game,
8-2. But then, Dodger Stadium has
grass and red clay and palm trees, and
it isn’t home to the Cardinals. Palatial,
maybe, but not fast, and not home.
‘’It’s good we’re going home,’’ said
Cesar Cedeno, who has made his home
at Busch Stadium since only Aug. 29.
‘’Being home should make the difference. It’s not a home-run hitter’s park.
Turf and singles, that’s our game.’’
‘’W hitey Herzog is a master at
building teams to fit stadiums,’’ said
Darrell Porter. ‘’And that is what he
has done with this team. The stadium
plays to our game.’’
Even Tommy Lasorda, the manager of the Dodgers, conceded that the
Cardinals were homebodies. ‘’Yes,’’ he
said, with a touch of envy, ‘’they like
the carpet.’’
And Orel Hershiser, who won Game
No. 2 on natural grass, said: ‘’Hold a
ball shoulder high and drop it on the
St. Louis turf, and it bounces to your
knee. There are rules on bats and balls.
There ought to be a rule on elasticity.’’
He r z o g , t h e m a n a ge r of t h e
Cardinals, admits that the synthetic
surface gives his team a natural advantage, so to speak. But he doesn’t like to
encourage the notion that his team has
been tailored to a carpet.
‘’We had the best home record in
baseball,’’ he said. ‘’But then, we had
the best road record in baseball, too.
We just didn’t play very well in Los
Angeles.’’
Ozzie Smith also doesn’t like to admit that the Cardinals are beholden to
the carpet.
‘’I like sleeping in my own bed,’’
Smith said, discussing the comforts
of home, ‘’but that’s as far as it goes.
You’ve got to play someplace, on all
fields.’’
Still, the Cardinals left Los Angeles
eagerly, almost fervently. They played
six games there during the regular season, and lost four. They played two more
there this week, and lost both. Even
John Tudor lost there, and he hadn’t
lost anywhere since July 20. For that
matter, the teams have played six times
in St. Louis, and won three apiece.
W hen t hey resume t he ser ies
Saturday afternoon in Busch Stadium,
the Cardinals will be pitching Danny
Cox against Bob Welch. And they will
be running on their own express carpet.
Still, the Cardinals acknowledged
that they might have been stopped
more by the Dodger pitching than by
the Dodger park. In two games, Vince
Coleman had two singles and no stolen bases. Willie McGee, the league’s
leading hitter, had one single and no
stolen bases.
Worse, in the first inning Thursday
night, both sprinters got on base
-and both were thrown out trying to
get to second. The catcher was Mike
Scioscia, who at the time was 1 for 13
in throwing out Cardinal runners.
‘’I won’t even count McGee, because that was on a broken hit-andrun,’’ Scioscia said. ‘’But getting them
gives the team confidence that we’re
able to slow down their running game.’’
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SA N DIEGO, Ca lif.—T he new
American high-speed train developed
in part by General Electric, Boeing and
the national railway company AmTrak
yesterday established a new speed record in California, breaking that of its
predecessor, Speedrail3, which was
clocked at 408 miles an hour. Speedrail
4 traveled more than 450 miles an hour
during a trial run in California yesterday. Future connections between
Washington and New York, and New
York and Detroit as well as Chicago
and Boston could top 380 miles an hour.
The American consortium which
bought out its Canadian competitor
Bombardier, is confident it will be
able to land the contract for the 2006
construction of high-speed trains in
Germany, seeing as the national leader
Seimens seems to be lagging behind
with its Bahn 2, whose maximum
speed is 200 m.p.h.
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*Energy production (MTOE : Million Tonnes of Oil Equivalent)
1970
sources : IEA, Energy stats, 1985 BP Statistical Review, 1984
David Suter
US Energy Consumption Follows Dr Manhattan’s Production
economic authorities are obviously
attempting to reassure the markets in
order to ensure that the public continues consuming and investing. They do
have a point, for the American economy is in good objective health, and
we are still worldwide leaders in the
industrial sector.
The markets’ current panic is a
direct consequence of the worry that
Dr. Manhattan’s health issues have
spawned. Indeed, he has appeared to
be suffering from severe fatigue and/or
depression since his ex-wife’s cancer
was made public, and investors have
become painfully conscious of the
consequences his disappearance from
the scene would have on an American
economy commonly referred to as
“Manhattan-dependant.”
Flashback: the unprecedented expansion of the American economy
since the end of the Vietnam War is
intimately linked to the use of Dr.
Manhattan’s powers during that conflict, since America’s largest electrical companies, such as Duke and
Excelon, not to mention the economic
leaders, became keenly interested in
his becoming an extremely cheap—if
not free—source of energy, on a scale
never seen in this country.
American industrial lobbyists did
the rest, and the government went all
out to persuade Dr. Manhattan to give
freely of himself for several hours each
day, in order to benefit our industrial
competitiveness. And so it came to
pass that our industrialists were able
to access a free and abundant energy
source. Better yet, this gave them a
competitive edge against European
companies, and even the industries
of developing nations whose cost of
labor is much cheaper than ours, such
as Mexico.
This has also had the result of
making American researchers concentrate their efforts on areas associated with electricity in order to develop
advanced technology which will be a
determining factor in heretofore unimagined mastery of electric energy.
All American automobiles currently
have electric motors, and the problems
linked to stocking electricity have now
been partially solved.
Another consequence of this state
of affairs is that unlike its European
allies, the United States is not dependant on hydrocarbons. In a centralizing spirit not unlike that of the communist block countries, the government
and Am Track trains have supplanted
planes as a principal source of travel
and shipping. SpeedRail 4’s recent
world speed record is a perfect illustration of the dominance of the
American railway system compared to
its Russian, Chinese or even European
counterparts.
However, this state of affairs is a
double-edged sword, since the uninterrupted growth of the American economy being so linked to Dr. Manhattan’s
energy supply—which he also shared
with Canada—has had the effect of
monopolizing ever bigger portions of
the superhero’s days. It seems obvious
that he will not be able to permanently
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for The New York Times
TECHNOLOGY
Faster, Better, Cheaper
With great fanfare, Commodore
introduced its new Amiga computer on July 23. A spectacular public
demonstration at Lincoln Center included artist Andy Warhol creating
a portrait of Debbie Harr y (singer
of the group Blondie) on the computer as she modeled live. The rest of
the demo was carried out by Robert
Pariseau, an Amiga engineer. As reported at that time, it spotlighted the
Amiga’s impressive capabilities: display of 4,096 colors simultaneously;
exceptional resolution (640 × 400);
remarkable computing speed due to
the use of co-processors rather than
a single processor; emulation of an
IBM PC running DOS; speech synthesis. The Amiga is multitasking and
Speedrail 4 Breaks
a New Speed
Record
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Special to The New York Times
Forecast of energy consumption
in the United States
1985
HOW TO
MAKE IT IN
NEW YORK.
By MARK D. WEISER
TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 6—Despite the
efforts of the liberal Democratic party
in power since the end of W WII to
modernize the Japanese economy and
implicate it in international business,
Japan has yet to diversify its production. If the Land of the Rising Sun excels in textile industries, its steel companies have been unable to get back on
their feet since the tall of the empire
in 1945, and its famous historical conglomerates (the “Keiretsus”) have not
been rebuilt.
Japan’s industrial balance sheet
show a heavy deficit, which has once
again caused the US to make a loan to
help the development contribute to the
development of resources which have
been set in place by our nation for its
allies.
2000
By STEVEN V. ROBERTS
The numerous restaurants around
the New York Stock Exchange are
dramatically empty, and if it weren’t
for the skyscrapers, the area might be
easily mistaken for one of the many deserted Midwestern towns along Route
66. The entire neighborhood from the
World Trade Center to the Brooklyn
Bridge is eerily calm. However, the
world’s financial center is a pressure
cooker, awash with market orders
while the grid remains desperately
empty. The S&P 500 fell 20% yesterday
while the Dow Jones was down 25.52%
at closing. Major market players talk
openly about Bloody Monday, in reference to the Irish group U2’s megahit
recounting Bloody Sunday in Northern
Ireland. The collapse of market shares
seemed to continue this morning,
though at a less dizzying rate (-8%).
Is all this, in the words of Central
Bank governor Paul Volcker, nothing
more than a sneeze and not a harbinger of a terrible cold to come, or the
sign of a future economic collapse of
the United tates, following unprecedented and continuous growth since
the American Army’s brilliant victory
over communist Vietnamese forces?
Secretar y of the Treasur y Milton
Friedman and his cabinet colleagues
continue to insist that the fundamentals of the economy remain excellent—
estimated growth for 1985 and 1986 is
at around 4.5%—and that the dramatic
fall of market shares is nothing more
than a logical downswing after market excesses of the past. Democratic
leaders are suspicious of this line of
thought and have said so, but the dominant ideological and historical position the Republicans have held for the
past fifteen years has rendered their
protests all but inaudible.
On the other side of the Berlin Wall,
Soviet leaders have been trumpeting
the beginning of the end of Capitalism,
which Marx predicted in his theory of
the tendency of the rate of profit to
fall. Soviet Economy Secretary and
Secretary General of the Communist
party in charge of economic affairs,
Andrei Syrkin made a tongue-in-cheek
comment about President Nixon’s
Ch ief E conom ic Cou n selor Joh n
Sharpe’s insistence on the fact that
Wall Street has long road ahead of it.
According to Syrkin, “the road in question is just around the corner,” referring in reference to President Hoover’s
ill-timed and infamous comment from
1929: “prosperity is just around the
corner.”
And what about the man in the
street? Confidence in the future is a
key element of economic growth, and
the United States governmental and
Japan Still
Dependant on
American Help
multimedia: it can be transformed
into a musical instrument, or used
to produce digital graphics! The session ended with the famous Boing
Ball demo, already displayed last
year, which is poised to become the
geometric symbol of Amiga productions. Tr iv ia item: the desig ners’
names are stamped into the case of
the computer!But the real advantage
of this marvelous new machine may
be its price, which makes it the first
computer truly aimed at the consumer
market. Commodore assures us that
it will revolutionize the world of business, but also graphic production and
entertainment. Imagine a future in
which everyone has their own computer, both at home and at the office!
Even if this smacks of science fiction,
it appears that the rapid advances in
technology may one day make com-
puters significantly more accessible.
The Commodore Amiga has undergone f ur ther improvements since
July, and will be presented tonight
in its final version at the Los Angeles
Convention Center, with Jay Miner
and Larr y Kaplan, co-founders of
Amiga Corporation, in attendance.
For this second launch event, they
have pushed the envelope still further, with an even more famous guest
than Andy Warhol: none other than
businessman Adrian Veidt, who was
invited to challenge the machine in
a series of computing tests, designed
especially for the occasion. Who will
be smartest and quickest, man or machine? Many are betting on Veidt to
win. But human brainpower may not
eternally retain this superiority, as
computer technology continues to advance. The future is now!
solve the energy problem, and in the
current geopolitical state of affairs, the
Pentagon would like to be able to keep
him at hand.
This is why doubts about Dr. Manhattan’s health have sent shockwaves
through financial markets, which have
suddenly become aware of the American economy’s growing weaknesses,
and the necessity of finding a new
balance in the country’s energy policies, with greater use being made of
alternative sources of energy such as
oil and gas. Also, the United States is
increasingly behind its European allies
in service-oriented markets, since the
latter have been forced to give up their
own heavy industries in the face of Dr.
Manhattan’s decisive advantage. Despite current diplomatic pleas regarding renegotiations of the 1947 GATT
agreements, Europe has decided to bet
on service-oriented industries, such as
telecommunications. France’s recent
invention of the minitel is a cruel indicator of our allies’ advantage in this
area.
America’s economy must be “deManhattanized,” and the federal government is now conscious of this state
of affairs. Saudi Arabia and Iran have
recently signed Enhanced Cooperation
agreements with the Soviet enemy—
a truly negative signal. The United
States must now integrate the energy
problem into its diplomatic endeavors. President Nixon’s upcoming trips
to Norway, along with intensive drilling in Alaska, are steps in the right
direction.
Europe Threatens
to Withdraw
from the Gatt
Agreements
PA R I S , F r a n c e , O c t . 6 —T h e
European Union has once again solemnly requested that the American
government cease the production of
the free electricity furnished by Dr.
Manhattan. According to them, this
state of affairs is tantamount to a hidden subsidy, violating the terms the
spirit and of the GATT agreements.
According to German Chancellor
Helmut Kohl, the free electricity generated by Dr. Manhattan is a “disloyal
advantage to American steel and automotive manufacturers to the detriment
of their European competitors.” French
president Mitterrand has declared that
“American perseverance of the status
quo regarding these matters of international business would imperil the
global balance of power in the postWWII free world structure.”
The federal government has not had
an official reaction to these attacks,
but Democratic leader Jimmy Carter
has solemnly exhorted Washington to
placate its historical European allies.
Cozying Up to
the Soviet Block
T EHR A N, Ira n — Saudi A rabia
and Iran have joined Qatar and the
United Arab Emirates in a growing
list of Gulf States that have become
strategic partners of the USSR and its
Eastern European and Asian satellites.
Much like its American counterpart,
the USSR, which has been the leading
world producer of energy since the early fifties, is now on the brink of a total
and definitive depletion of the Siberian
oil reserves that have been operated
by Petrolprom, a sister company of
Gazprom. In the present context, the
implementation of long-term energy
partnerships are key to the survival of
the enemy block.
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223/4 33 Energen .32b 3.7 1.8
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183/8 83/4 EnsEx
1a 8.0 15 39x5
761/2 321/8 Entera
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13 29 281/4
425/8 605/8EntexE
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1.84 11.0 191 261/8
281/2 151/8 EssBus 2.40 13.2
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551/2 81/8 Estrine
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101/4 291/4 ExCelo 4.7 15 3909
58 271/4 Excelsr 1.20 9.6
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41/2 21/2 Exxon … 20
87
171/2 467/8 FMC
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25
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291/4 25 Facet
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333/8 27 Fairchd 3.92 … 13
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521/2 69 Fansfel 13.8 187113/7 111/8
271/2 803/4 Farah 11.00 10.1 15 271/8
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263/8 521/2 Ferro
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28 16 FireFd 2.1 16 191
24
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353/8 97/8 FBost … … 1367
503/4 353/4 Ftcity
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101/2 321/4 FtWisc
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18 282 215/8
433/4 75/8 FleetEn
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25
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553/8 323/4 Fluor
2.00a 5.0 … 302
90 101/2 FooteC 2.3 …
75
671/8 20 FMOG 2.72 10.0 7x1174
23 48 Frigtrn
1.40 2.1 22
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467/8 27 Fruehr
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195/8 10 Fuqua
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323/4 33 GAF
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271/8 467/8 GPU
1.48 2.0 337 113/7
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29 18 15 − 2/3
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761/4 353/4 Gruntal 2.18 9.2 …
257/8 341/2 Guilth … 18
113/4 231/3 Gulton … 512
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553/8 183/4 Hallwd
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221/3 23 …
245/8 241/8 21 + 7/8
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321/8 661/4
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213/4 217/8 …
217/8 167/8 17
163/4 177/8
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26 261/8
+ …
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193/4 221/8 445/8− …
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433/4 461/4
− 1/8
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− 1/8
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1st to River
1st to River
1st TO 5th 90’s East
1st to River
1ST THRUOUT MANHATTAN
Rising
Rivergate WHEN YOU
401 E 34 St CAN’T TELL No Fee Higher
Renting
TO SUM IT THE
THE
Lower
ALL UP EAST SIDE
BARCLAY
FROM THE
WEST SIDE
IT’S TIME 2 BEDROOM
TO FLEE
EAGLE COURT
SOUTH! BEST VALUE &
WE BELIEVE
Immediate
Occupancy
NEW YORK REAL ESTATE
in complex & requires specialization. Our only market
in residential rentals.
RENTING a home is very
important to our clients and
we are privileged to serve
their needs.
INTEGRITY is the foundation
of success. Our reputation
is a major source of our business.
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493 RENTERS
CAN’T BE
WRONG
EXCLUSIVE
RESIDENCES ARE
STILL AVAILABLE
RENTAL AGENT ON-SITE
7 Days, 10-6
889-1850
Than Any Other
New Luxury Rental
1755 YORK AVENUE
at 91st Street
Presents The
BIGGEST,
BRIGHTEST
South Park Tower
Overlooking
Lincoln Center
And The
There is a new option to the
Yuppie, Puppy sameness of the
Upper East & West Sides just
minutes from Wall Street located on th Hudson River.
New parks, promenades &
convenient shopping (World
Trade Center, South Street
Seaport) are within walking
distance. This might be just
what you’re looking for and
you’ll get:
* Spectacular
river views
* Spacious &
Luxurious
* Brilliantly-designed
* Located on Rector
Park
* Walk to wall St
* 24-hr lobby attendant
* Large walk-in closet
* Most apts w/balconies
* Ideal for sharing
* Top-quality kitchens
(some w/windows)
* Individual air cond
& heat in each room
* Terrific health club
access
* Oak parquet floors
RIVER ROSE
RENTALS
BATTERY PARK CITY
(333 Rector Place)
RIVER VIEWS
YOU’LL FIND
ANYWHERE...
We Invite Your
Comparison:
A Superb, New
Building In the
BEST LOCATION
—In The Center Of
Everything, Yet
Away From It All
—River, Park, Shops,
Department Stores,
Restaurants - The
Best Of New York
Is On The Upper
East Side.
—Oversized one, two
three bedroom
layouts —perfect
for space lovers,
—Deluxe Kitchens
—Designer Baths
—Individual Apt
Security Systems
—Fabulous Skyline &
River Views
—Magnificent Lobby
—Lushly Landscaped
Roof Decks
—Greenhouse Solarium
—Private Membership
Health and
Leisure Club
—24 Hour Doorman
—24 Hr Attended Garage
—Wall St Express Bus
—Valet Services Avail
—Maid Service Avail
FULL 2 BR/2 BTH
DINING/GREAT VIEW
fr $ 1995
1 BR’s...................fr $1465
2 BR convertibles... fr $1940
3 BR convertible....fr $2650
831-8200
ENTIRE FLOOR OF
FURNISHED MODEL APTS
ENTIRE OFFICE OPEN
7 DAYS—10AM-6PM
TWO MONTHS
FREE RENT GLENWOOD
Free Parking While Viewing
Models at Garage On-site
J.I. SOPHER & CO, INC
Renting Consultant
(on 2 year lease)
(Limited offer,
construction abatement)
Studios Fr $1215
1 BR’s Fr $1365
2 BR’s Fr $2175
3 BR’s Fr $3150
912-0660
OPEN 7 DAYS
10-6 WEEKDAYS
11-6 WEEKENDS
NO FEE!
IMMEDIATE
OCCUPANCY
ROCKROSE
Development Corp
rents apartments to all persons
without regard to race, color,
religion or national origin.
MANAGEMENT CORP
OWNER/MANAGEMENT
“Your Assurance
Of Excellence”
1st to River
THE
MONTANA
BROADWAY AT 87 ST.
CONVERTIBLE
3 BEDROOM, 2 BTH
AND
CONVERTIBLE
4 BEDROOM, 3 BTH
Feathered
Nest
1st to River
RENT IN THE UPPER
WEST SIDE AT
(215 W 84th ST)
Spectacular views
overlooking Lincild
Center, Center Park,
The Hudson and the
City Skyline
Pool (45 feet),
saunas, whirlpools,
membership health &
leisure club and terrific rooftop sundeck.
Total convenience of
24 Hr doorman, an
on-premices garage,
valetservice and a
cash machine.
From $1,220
1 BEDROOMS
From $1,365
For Future Availabilities
KSB B’Way Associates
Owners/Builders
212-732-0123
1ST-STH TO WAE
935-8730
51-Beaut Studio-WBF-Hi Ceils-$850
Twnnhse-Newly Reno-Immed Move In!
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71st(COL)-Beaut 1BR-W+Terrace
$1200-20x16 Liv Rm-Townhouse
Charming Treelined St-Immed Move
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60s(PARK)-Spectac 1BR-2WBF’s
Firthru-S&N Expos-Mint Condition
Immd-Furn/Onfurn SENTER 935-8730
ONE MONTH
FREE
(on 2 years lease)
If you thought the West Side
has run out of rental space,
think again. Here in the
heart of the busy, bustling
and entirely pleasurable
West Side is a perfect place
to live—Eagle Court Apartments.
*Between Central Park
and Riverside Drive
*24-hr lobby attendant
*Deluxe kitchens
2 BDRM CONVERT
FULL 2 BR/2 BTH
17 St W Heart of Chelsea
BRAND NEW LUXURY BLDG
From $1,650
From $1,995
3 BDRM CONVERT
From $2,265
ALL WITH
GREAT VIEWS
IMMEDIATE
OCCUPANCY
SOUTH
PARK
TOWER
315-5555
Exclusive Marketing
And Rental Agents:
RASKIN, MATZA & COHEN
NO FEE
On Premises Mon-Sat, 10-6
Sunday 11-6
1st Ave/37th St Rentals
MANHATTAN PLACE
You can rent at Manhattan Place if you
act now! All amenities including pool!
1BRs fr $1500/mo, flex 2BRs fr $2400/
mo & 2BRs fr $2800/mo.
WE ARE NOW IN THE BUILDING!
Call or see concierge
630 1st Avenue at 36th St
CITY LIVING
683-5888
3 AVE/80’s-All new 3BR/2BTH, custom kit.
$1999; 80’s E-1 BR, EIK, $823. 70’s W-Elev
1Br. Sep kit, intercom, $915; 90’s E-1 BR,
sep kit, intercom, $671. JAYSON, 695-2030.
39 ST
Brand new ultra lux 1 BR. Concierge,
maid service, marble bth, jacuzzi,
gourmet kit, more. Sunny s.e. exposure. $1850/mo. Call sun. 9-4, 201746-2621, wkdays 10-4, 212-227-1980
New Lux Hi-Rise
Unusual selection of 1 & 2 BR apts
incl duplexes on 5th Ave in new 24-hr
drmm ultra lux bldg w/concierge. Dec.
occup From $1495. Agent on premises
7 days
J.I. SOPHER & CO. 683-0300
SAVE (off)-Finest new luxury apt, 2 lge
master BR, 21/2bth Ige LR, windwd
kit, hi firs, prestigious security bldg w/
drmn. No broker fee. $6000/mo. Days
212-226-2642; eves 718-271-1218
10th St East 255
One of Manhattan’s finest turn-ofthe-century landmark buildings.
Now being restored and transmormed into 128 ultra luxurious
simplex, duplex and triplex rental
apartments of outstanding charm,
individuality and character.
On The
Park
2 Bdrm Duplex, Wbf, 2bths w/gdn$1350 Also: Top flr, Elev 2 Bdrm duplex, wbf, 16’ hi ceils & skylites-$1475.
No Fee. Go directly to bldg Wed 5-7PM
Beautifully designed very unique
residence. Layout includes bilevel
duplexes, cathedral ceils, winter
garden & jacuzzi in every apt.
252 W 17 ST
MANY DELUXE AMENITIES
FULL 1BEDRM..............1495
FULL 2BEDRM..............1995
DUPLEX 2 BDRM......... 2200
Rutherford
Place
Palatial entrance and lobby at­
tended 24-hours a day. Stateof-the-art
security
systems.
Landscaped courtyard. Roof­top
promenade and sundeck. Overlooking beautiful Stuyvesant Square.
STUDIOS
From $ 1650
(with sleeping lofts)
ONE BEDROOM
From $ 1915
JR. TWO BEDRMS From $ 2409
JR. 3 BDRMS
From $ 2665
Weekdays 11AM-7
Sat-Sun 10AM-5PM
Rental office open daily
By Appointment Only
w/terrace, private garden, one-of-a-kind
IMMEDIATE OCCUPANCY
645-6973
Exclusive Renting Agt on Prem 7Dys
J.I.SOPHER & CO., INC.
20’s to 90’s
Also Village
Over 20 Years of Reliability
and Integrity
SOPHER
We Rent Or Sell Over
250 Apts Per Week
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LUXURY BUILDINGS
Gramercy Pk Drmn 1 BR..........1135
Murray Hill Studio...................805
E. Side Full 1 BR .................... 1051
E. Side Full 2 BR .................... 1695
Upper E. Side Flex 3 BR.......... 1925
Upper W. Side Studio.............. 815
W Side Prewar 1 BR............... 1225
West End Ave 2 BR..................595
Wall St Studio.........................795
Grnwch Vill 1 BR................... 1095
Seaport Vic 2 BR...........14 17 St W
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425 E 61 St
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230 W 74 St
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496-2900
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691 Broadway
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475-8888
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J.I. SOPHER & CO., INC.
OPEN 7 DAYS
305 Second Avenue
(at 17th Street)
(212)473-9066
HR DRMAN
295 Park Ave So
(At 23rd Street)
New lux hi-rise,imm occ,singles ok
Agent on premises 7 days.
260-8685
20’s E Gramercy Pk Vic Mod Reno
LARGE 1 BR $ 1195
24Hr D/M, PRIME LEASE
Hi ceil, gd size rms,excl SHARES OK
ALTER
open 7 days 777-1900
20’s, 30’s East, 24 Hr D/M Bldg
2 BR-LOFT $ 1650
Shares ok, PRIME LEASE
ALTER
open 7 days 777-1900
20’s EAST
PRIME LEASE
LUX BLDG
2 BEDROOM $ 1295
J.H.LAKER – – – – – – – 980-9770
20’s EAST-Loft-like 1 BR, hi ceils, grt
lite, perf share, lux D/M, prime Ise $
1050
THOMPSON
758-1377
20’s W
$ 1350/mo
LUX DOORMAN 31/2 RMS
All amenities. NO FEE. 212-877-6585
20’s EAST
GRAMERCY PARK
Renov 3 BR w/unbelievable 30x30 terr,
hi ceil, gd size rms, excl share $1925
MANHATTAN APTS
475-5100
20’s WEST
7-8 AVES
Jr 1 bdrm apt in pretty ownr-occ
brwnstn, fine location ........................$800
PAN AM 5 West 16 ST 741-2919
20s/Gram
Pk Prime
NEW HUGE 1 BR $1194
HUGE NEW STUDIO $890
LeaseSo Xpos
20’s W.CHELSEA
Lovely newly renovated 1 bdrms. Huge
closets. Immediate occup. $1097 NO FEE.
212-741-2335, M-F, 9-5
20TH ST/CHELSEA
SUNNY
Sm 2 BR, $ 1375, hi fi, river view
No fee. Gd elev bldg. 691-4137
23rd
St 131 East
Cozy 1 BR apartment with polished
hardwood floors, huge windows, 111/2
ceilings and laungry room on every
floor. Attractive Gramercy Park area.
Call 777-0043. 7 Days.
27th St & Lex-Beaut 2br
2 bths, designer kitchen, w/d, d/w,
full carptd, securit y alrm sys and
safe. Ready for immed occ. No broker fee. $1875/per mo.212/762-0487
wknds;wkdys 212/921-7009.
29TH WEST, #315
NO FEE
Renov 1 BR. Hrdwd flrs, exps’d brk
walls, fplc. $1050. Avail immed. 2791578 or 940-4031
30’s EAST
Lordon Realty 888-9288
30’s E (Park Av) 108 E 38 St
LRG 1 BEDRM, F/P, TERR
SPECIAL...$1250
NO FEE CALL 532-8500
32nd St/LEX AVE NO FEE
New apt. 184 Lexington Plaze $1900/
mo. 2 BR, 2 bth, Irg LR. 319-8270 John
34 ST E NO FEE
RIVERGATE
Magnif riv, vu 25 fl w/terr, 1 BR, EIK,
drmn. Sublet below mkt, 6 mos plus.
$ 1950 firm 212-689-5033
Betwn Third & Lex
1 BR co-op sublet, lux bldg, 24 hr elevman, new EIK, Fr drs, very quiet $ 1300.
Owner 212-685-9897 eve.564-9417 wkdy.
36 ST E-Full svce D/M, huge 2 BR,
2BTH, dining L, new kit, south exp,
many closets, a steal at
$ 1895
THOMPSON
38 ST 758-1377
AT PARK AVE
*** NO FEE ***
TOWNE HOUSE
108 EAST 38ST
STUDIO......................... $900
1 BEDRM......................$1250
SPECIAL!!
Lrg 1 Bed, F/P, Terr $1950
CALL 532-8500
39 ST E- Lge sunny 1 BR
LR 18x15, BR 15x12, foyer 10x7, fully
crptd, new kit, windowed kit & bth,
many xtras. $1300. 889-5527 (8am8pm)
Owner/Mgmt
Outstanding
Choise Suites Available
For Immediate Occup In
Choise Areas. Superior
Services & Amenities
1Bed Jr............ $1235
Flex 2 Bed........ $1850
2 Bed, Din........ $2490
GLENWOOD RENTING CO
CALL 535-0500
40’s EAST Luxury 34-Story
THE
BELMONT
Outstanding Services & Features
FULL 1 BEDRM..............$ 1590
FLEX 2BR 2BTH.............$ 2295
2 BED 2BTH..................$ 2695
IMMEDIATE OCCUPANCY
CALL 661-7979
Owner/MgmtGlenwoodMgmt Corp
40’s
TREE-LINED BLOCK
STUNNING 1BR—$925
40E LUX DRMN 1 BED $ 1200
(Off Lex) Hi Flr, Sunny, Custom Kitchen
Very Spacious Apt, What A Deal!!!
APT WORLD, INC 832-7311
952 2nd Ave (50) Open Eves Until 6:30
40’S EAST
LUX DRMN
WALK TO WORK
1 BEDROOM $ 1250
30’s-40’s E
Lux Drman Bldg
*NO FEE*
Immed occup, live & work OK, prime
walk-to-work location. Sundeck, marble
baths, Irg closets. STABILIZED LEASE. 1
BR from $ 1298, 2 BR from $ 2125. For
immed appt: bkr, 303-4270
30’s EAST. 1 BEDROOM. FABULOUS MURRAY HILL. IN LUXURY
DOORMAN BUILDING. FABULOUS
VIEWS. GARAGE ON PREMISES.
PRIME LEASE.
$ 1292
J.H.LAKER - - - - - - -980-9770
30’s EAST.
LUX DRMN BLDG
PRIME LEASE
2 BED + TERR $ 1747
VUS, 2 BTHS, GARAGE ON PREM
J.H.LAKER - - - - - - -980-9770
30’s
E.
Lovely
Townhouse
1
BR.
Large
bi-level
terr,
WBF.Rent
stabilized.
$998
243E82 CITYLIFE 517-5555
30s E/Lux Drmn 1 BR. $1150
Lite. Feb 1 occup. Prime Lease.
Rent Stab
NEW RENOV 1&2 BRs
**NO FEE**
539 WEST 49th ST.
Fully renovated units with new kitchen
& bath, hardwood flrs, slate tile, all new
applcs. Ideal for sharing. Short walk to
Rock Center, located between 10th &
11th Aves. 1 BRs Rents from $950. 2 BRs
from *1,150, Agent on premises wkdys
10-6, wkdys 11-5
Call 315-5607
50th St, 460W.
Corner 10th Ave
NO FEE
GRAND OPENING
BRAND NEW RENOVATION
1,2 & 3 BEDROOM
DUPLEXES & PENTHOUSES
All appartments w/high ceils, marble bths,
track lighting & designer kitchens.
1 Bedrooms . ............................from $975
2 Bedrooms Duplexes............... from $1995
3 Bedrooms Duplex......................... $2400
LATE FEBRUARY OCCUPANCY
AGENT ON PREMISES
7 DAYS/WEEK, 11AM-4PM
212-582-2999 -or-212-595-9000
50’S WEST
60’s to 80’s
50’s-70’s W
Lincoln Ctr Vic
**NO FEE**
Ultra lux bldg in prime loc. 24-hr drmn/
concierge, hi flr, river vu, health club avail,
garage on prem. PRIME, STABILIZED LEASE.
Flex 2 BR from $1750, Flex 2 BR from $1750,
Flex 3 BR from $2550. Studios & 1 BR’s also
avail. For imm appt: bkr 769-4770
50’s EAST-1 BEDROOM IN LUXURY
D R M N B L D G. SU T TO N V I C .
ROOFTOP HEALTH CLUB. PRIME
LEASE. GARAGE ON PREMISES.
$1395
J.H.LAKER – – – – – – – 980-9770
50S E. NEAR BEEKMAN
Rent Stabilized 1 Bdrm $1195
Renov Brnst W/Wb,Ic.Brk Walls
Separate Dining Area
& Kitchen, DW/
So Exp Gr Layout. Tree lined St. Lifestyle
Properties, Inc. 308-2007
50S W.RENT STABILIZED
Huge 1 Bdrm Flr Thru $1295
2 full bths. Eat lv Kit.Hi Ceils
Big Living Rm. Extra sleep Area
Lifestyle Properties, Inc. 308-2007
50’s E 1 BR. SPECIALLY PRICED.
Beaut furn’d, lux drmn, avail immed.
Perfect for executives. Excel loc. $1500
Rhoda Forman Assoc
734-9703
54th Street
SUTTON PL
RIVERTOWER
Sutton Place Luxury Rental
. one, two, three bedrooms
. prestige location
. landscaped plazas
. great river & city views
. 24 hr doorman, concierge
. lobby attendant
. private security system
. direct dial access to:
housekeeping staff
wine cellar
limosine service
gourmet food service
vintner
florist
valet parking
40’S EAST, Pre-War Drmn 41/2
$1650 (Off 3rd) Rent Stabilized,
Prime Lease New Apt, Ground Flr,
Private Backyard Custom chef’s
Kitchen & Tile Bath
Shares ok, Bkr, 832-7317
40’S UN/Turtle Bay-Lux D/M,
sunny 1 BR, new kit, great closets,
value $1175
THOMPSON
758-1377
40’s East
54 St E/2nd Ave-1BR on 18th flr, lux, fantastic
So vu, Ige sunny LR, sunrf. Dw, a/c, 24 hr drmn,
2 yr sublt, $1500 1st yr. Garage avail. 212-2656365; Eves 212-223-3148
120 E.56
980-8300
Luxury hi-rise 1 bedroom, dining alcove, 1-2 year lease. $ 1550 per month.
SHORT TERM HOUSING 570-2288
40s. A dazzier of a duplex! 1 BR w/
giant roof terr & river vu in a prewar
drmn bdlg
Only $ 1295 mo.
BARTH
120 E.56
980-8300
44 St East 2nd Ave
FALCON
TOWER
245 E. 44th St
LOCATION
midtown convenience
PRICE
below current market
SIZE
oversized studio, 1 & 2 BDRM
In addition we offer:
*the CONVENIENCE of
kitchens w/microwaves,
self-cleanning ovens and
self-defrosting refrig.
*the LUXURY of imported
marble bathrooms
*The SECURITY of a 24 hour
doorman and individual
alarm systems.
972-1818
Leasing office and Model apartments
open daily 10-6
NO FEE
47th STREET, EAST
DAG
TOWER
240 E. 47th ST
Dazzling Views In
Quality Investor Owned
Condominium Apartments.
Health Club & Pool on Top
Floors Under Glass Dome.
FULL SERVICE BUILDING
IMMEDIATE RENTAL
54 St. E-Must move-2 BR, 2 bth, luxury drmn
bldg. 3/86 thru 7/86. Best offer over $2500/
mo. Wkdays 212-265-6365;
Eves 212-223-3148
55Th ST OFF 5TH
Bright Ige 1BR apt convert into 2 in lux
bldg. $2500/mo. No fee. Owner
212-228-0130/674-1889
55Th St E betw 1 & 2 Ave
Fully renovated 4 rooms, $1,450.
Call 212-828-1111
56 ST (nr Central Prk) NO FEE
CARNEGIE MEWS
211 WEST 56 STREET
Between 7th Ave & Bway
36-sty Lobby Attended a/c Bldg
Good kitchens w/Dishwashers
1 BDRM (3 rms)................... $ 1295-$ 1350
AGENT ON PREMISES
R.W. Kern, Inc
(212)541-4200
56 ST EAST-1 bdrm, lots of closets. New beaut’l
bdlg, 24 hr drmn $ 1400/mo. Will assign
lease; avail Mar 1. No fee. Joan (212)9304285 days/(212)593-4389 ev
57 ST-Pre-war D/M, classic style 2BR, hi ceils,
oak flrs, Ige kit, below mkt $1850
THOMPSON
758-1377
57 ST WEST-ALL NEW
Lux Ige 1 bdrm, 1 1/2 bths. 24 hr drmn, conc.
$ 1600/mo; 2 yr Ise. Brk 870-0675
Featuring
59 ST, 200 CPS. Beaut renov, large 1BR w/
dining alcove, sunny, on hi fl, many closets, lux
drmn bldg. NO FEE! $2240.
Tom 212-744-8788.
60’s e
OWNER RENTS
*NO FEE*
210 & 321 E 22 St
212-974-1930
BY APPOINTMENT
43 WEST 61
STREET
AT COLUMBUS
AVENUE
R.E. GROUP, INC., BROKER
60’s Wall St. to 90’s East & West
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OWNER MANAGED
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60’s E (NR 3RD AVE)
PREWAR DRMN JR 4+ WBF
Hi FI, 2 Expo, Prime Lease, $1600
Ingrid Klausner Bkr, 427-6225
60’s
24HR D/M BLDG
Huge 1BR on high floor with southern exposure,
prime lease $1,353
496-2900
West Side Office/230 W. 74 St(B’way)
60s-70s EAST
SUPER LUXURY
FULL 3BR $3,495
3rd Ave location, 24 hr drmn, huge space.
Ideal for shares. Immed occpy.
Bkr, 212-517-5666
62ST (1134 1 Ave)
ELEV BLDG
AMAZING SPACE
No Finer Value in NY
*HUGE 1BR (25’ LR)
*BEST LOC IN TOWN
*GOURMET KITCHENS
*DREAM BATHRMS
*THERMOPANE WINDOWS
*WOOD FLOORS
*ALL BRAND NEW
$1095-$1195
THURCON
PROPERTIES LTD
OWNER /
MANAGEMENT
Rental Offices &
Furnished
Models Open 7
Days
10 to 6
Agent On Prem-Open House
Wed, Jan 29 Bet 10-4PM
MANHATTAN APTS INC.
64ST E. ST. TROPEZ CONDO
SUNNY, LGE Jr.4 $1800/mo.
A yr or longer, gar, pool, cent air.
MRS. NEMES
628-5446 Bkr.
64th & PARK-Elegant Townhse
CALL-517-7171
1 BR, hi ceils, moldings, fpl, terr, new kit.
$1500. Broker 759-9516
J. I. Sopher & Co. Inc.
Consultant
65 ST-Park & Madison-Ultra Lux, huge 1BR
apt, w/large dining area. D/M bldg, 3 expos,
large wind kit, 1-2yr lease...$1700. BROKER
628-4470.
MODEL APTS BY
ULTIMATE DESIGN INC.
81 st ST
WEST RIVER
HOUSE
65 ST E
2nd-1st AVE
WALKUP BLDG FINE AREA
BRIGHT RENOV 3 ROOM APT
$850
Nancy ZIEGLER
472-2188
66 ST.,EAST (Betw Park & Mad)
LARGE 51/2 RM APARTMENT
Ultra Mod Kitch & 2 Bths. Hi Ceils
Prime Area Cal
(212)929-5300
67 ST, 45 WEST
424 West End Ave
2 BDRM
SPECTACULAR
views from high floor. 2BR apt in super luxury
condo. Avail immed. $3000/mo.
No fee. 212-873-7129
An exceptional 1600 sq. ft. 3
BR/21/2 BTH is now available
in the West Side’s finest doorman
building. There are 3 bright
expos, a windowed kitchen
& BTH, mirrored dining area
or 3rd BR and extraordinary
closet space, health club on
roof & on-premices garage.
67 ST WEST
1 BR co-op, 21st flr, spect so expos, mod
full svc lux bldg, $1600 per mo 1 yr lease.
212-595-9145.
68 ST W
DORCHESTER TOWERS
2 BEDROOMS, $1850
900+ sq ft, sep breakfast nook, 7 closets;
excell cond; drmn, concierge.
CALL BROKER, 496-8072
68 ST E-Unique 1 BR dplx, sun drenched rms,
new kit, elev bldg, prime lse $1285
THOMPSON
758-1377
69 ST, W
190 COLUMBUS AVE
In addition, an 1100 sq. ft. conv
2 BR with a full dining room/
den/or extra BR, a windowed
EIK, WBF and great oversize
terrace is also available in
this 24 Hr doorman building.
Lge 1 BR + Den $1450
For appt weekdays 796-1668
70’s EAST
Prime D/M bldg
Oversized, flex 2 BR with modern
kitchen and bath, all amenities,
imm occ, corp lease ok $1,350
Lordon Realty 888-9288
Open 7 Days, 10-6
212-769-2079
60’s
New Luxury Hi-Rise
IMMED OCC
48 W 68 St
70th St E, Lovely Tree-Lined St,
Townhouse 4 1/2 Rms, Garden Duplex,
WB/FPL,Rent Stab,Immed Occ’y, $1252
243E82 CITYLIFE 517-5555
70s E (off 2nd), Private Brownstone
Flr-Thru, Terrace Overlooking Large
Garden, Hi Ceils, Very Charming, $1090
243E82 CITYLIFE 517-5555
70’s West, off CPW, Lovely Townhouse
1 BR dplx, Lg Garden, Rent Stab, $1140
243E82 CITYLIFE 517-5555
70’s YORK AVE-2BR, great for shares, below
market, prime lease
$953
THOMPSON
758-1377
70’S EAST -Complete newly renovated 2 bedroom apt, 1 flt walk-up
$1100
METHOD REALTY
734-5540
70s E ‘‘LGE APT-18’ LR-15’ BR’’
‘‘MODM BRNSTN 3’’ $798
2 can share ‘‘SCHEIN’’ 861-2400
Dramatic w/2 huge terraces, hi ceils
Over 2,000 sq.ft.
70’s E PRIME
LEASE
Luxury 1 BR, balcony, high floor
Rent Stabilized $1595 988-6100
Pearce, Urstadt, Mayer & Greer
2 BR F1r-Thru....$2565
All luxury amenities
580-0044
70’s RSD-Fantastic river vus, from every room,
huge 1 BR, 13’ ceils, new kitch & bth primary
lease $1300. Must pay low fixture fee. Broker
628-4482
Agent on premises 7 days
J.I.SOPHER & CO., INC.
60’s-90’s east
SUPER SHARES
Gorgeous Ige 2 bdrms, new kits & bths,
wood flrs, rent-stab. Amazing value.
$1,125 & up.
Tel: 472-1878
Sandra Greer, 307 East 77th Street
60’s E
NO FEE
Newly renov brownstone-st yle walk-up,
wbfpl, ceil fan, security system, oak flrs, brick
walls. Feb 1 occup.
Huge 1 BR....... $1655
PH Duplex 3 BR.$4100
477-2700
SOPHER
..24 HOUR DOORMAN
..CONCIERGE
..DELUXE KITCHENS
..BALCONIES IN MOST APTS
..MANY WITH WRAP TERRACE
..ROOFTOP SUNDECK
..Idealy located near the park,
museum row, gourmet shops, fine
restaurants and all transportation.
Steps from Central Park
THURCON PROPERTIES LTD
Lincoln Ctr Vic
LRG2BR 1495
2 baths, all mod bldg, hi ceils, new kitch,
shares, imm occ PRIME STBLZD LSE
123 W 44 St off 6 Ave
STUDIO............................ $850
1 BR................................ $1241
2 BR................................$2075
24 hr drmn & health club avail
OTHER CHOISE SELECTIONS
STUDIO, 1 AND 2
BEDROOMS,
SOME WITH TERRACES
. . . ALL WITH LUXURIOUS
Rental Office open
Mon-Fri 9-5; Sundays 12-5;
closed Saturdays
The most exciting new neighborhood
near Gramercy Park
33 Gold St
The residentiall area
of the financial district
SOFIA
SPECTACULAR
VIEWS
SPAC STU-1BR-2BR APTS
WITH 11/2 & 2 BATHS
FROM $1299
80’s W
IN THE FAMOUS
BATHS...WITH
IMMEDIATE
OCCUPANCY
NO FEE
58 STREET - 150 WEST
NEAR CARNEGIE HALL
NEW 1BR APT, A/C, DOORMAN
DISHWASHER, ALL TRANS. AVAIL 2/1. REF
REQUIRED NO FEE $1325,08
Call 212-744-8788.
LINCOLN
CENTER
MARBLE
WHIRLPOOL
SPECTACULAR
GREENHOUSE &
WINTER
GARDEN
APARTMENTS
WITH
RIVER VIEWS &
PARK VIEWS
420 East 54th ST
1 bedroom Triplex in excellent security elevator building
Call Barbara Moore at (212)593-2232
LANDMARK
OPPOSITE
Between 81 & 82 St
RIVERTOWER
40sE. Big flex 1 BR, prime E.Side location-U.N. Vic. Bright, many closets,
parquet flrs. Immed Occup
175
ART
DECO
1438 THIRD AVENUE
980-1566
54 ST between PARK & LEX
RENT
IN NEW YORK’S
TURNBERRY
TOWER
50’s E-LUXURY 1 BR
11/2 bth, every svce avail Xtra tight security.
Parkg. Grt vu, 26 flr. Rent stab $2500/mo; no
fee 212-371-0245 lv msg
60’s WEST
NOW YOU CAN
All New Exclusive
GRAND OPENING
20 fully renovated 2BR apts, in rehabilitated
Brownstone. All new Kitchens, baths, systems,
appliances & oak floors. $950-$1600. NO
FEES. Come to our OPEN HOUSE at 413-415
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A10 T H E N E W YOR K T I M E S , W E DN E SDAY, O C T OBE R 12 , 198 5 Thomas Pynchon About America, President Nixon,
Hemingway, Céline and Teaching
read when you said you wanted to interview
me... Did you read it? There is no such thing
as good or bad or beautiful or ugly floating
around in a vacuum. This entire either-or just
does not correspond to what we know about
the physical universe, about the chemical
universe, about the molecular universe, or
about any knowledge we have.
By George Plimpton
Having spent the last weeks arranging
this interview, I pretend to be unimpressed
when the door opens. Thomas Pynchon’s
New York apartment is decorated with numerous musical instruments, among which I
spot a few ukuleles of various shapes, sizes
and colors. Before being asked the slightest
question, the author, who has only published
three novels to date—V, The Lot of Crying 49,
and Gravity’s Rainbow—offers me tea and
begins by explaining:
You’ve stated before that you like both Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene. Don’t
both of these authors believe in a universal
duality?
Graham Greene does because he’s a Catholic,
and everything with him is written from that
viewpoint. I like Conrad a lot better that
Greene; I think Conrad is a much more profound writer.
Thomas Pynchon: Well, it wasn’t until I heard
Tiny Tim’s “Tiptoe Through the Tulips” that I
really fell hard for the instrument. It’s quite
easy to learn a few chords and start strumming to simple folk tunes. I believe the instrument was introduced to Hawaii by the
Portuguese, who saw in Hawaii and its people a great opportunity for exploitation and
domination.
At the time when you still considered yourself a writer, you kept away from the media
and literary scene, to say the least. Then
a few years ago you started doing reading
tours and your audiences were quite responsive. And now you’ve become a sort of “traveling performer.” You’ve even accepted the
offer to write a column for the French daily
Le Figaro. Do people tend to love you for
who you are or for what you do?
Well, for starters, I no longer do reading tours;
you know that. As I told you I am just a humble teacher now. Anyway, that’s a tricky question, and by the way, it’s the last one I will answer today, because I don’t want to miss my
train. Oftentimes people have a picture, an
image they have projected on me, which may
or may not have anything to do with me at all.
George Plimpton: You have said, “a paranoiac is a man in possession of all the facts.”
Would you agree that you are perhaps excessively suspicious of authority?
I never made that remark about paranoia,
though I guess somebody must have.
Well, it seems I should double-check my
facts and sources. Anyway, let’s get straight
to the point: are you still writing, Thomas?
I would say I wrote two and a half books a
while back. Three were published. I haven’t
been writing lately because of my teaching
schedule. The last decade I haven’t really
been doing much writing.
Have you actually stopped writing?
I obviously have stopped publishing books!
Sinclair Lewis said that if you have just written something you think is absolutely great
and you can’t wait to publish it, or show it to
someone, throw it away. And I’ve found that to
be very accurate. Tear it up into small pieces
and throw it into someone else’s garbage can.
What do you think of the Nixon administration?
At least, since the late 1960s, Nixon has been
doing something. Thanks to him we won the
Vietnam War. I know that much. Did you read
that article in Teaching Mathematics Today
that says that the most powerful instrument
in the hands of the rich is, of course, economic control—since they control prices? They
can create economic downturns; they can
collapse currencies at will. But they can’t go
too far without sawing the branch they’re sitting on. In a way I believe Richard Nixon is
helping the US citizens to live decent lives.
And what do you think of revolutionary
groups like the Symbionese Liberation Army?
They’re ridiculous. It’s unrealistic for any
small group to make any political changes,
except for the worst. Whether the French are
willing to admit it or not, George, the days
of old-fashioned terrorism and barricades are
over. A revolution is not feasible in any industrialized country, even countries as industrialized as, let’s say, Greece, Mexico, or even
Brazil. Simply because of the weaponry. The
heavy weapons are not in anybody’s hands,
which, if you ask me, is rather a good thing.
What are the principle means at our disposal for transforming the planet?
The situation hasn’t changed much since
1969, you know. The political hopes that
many held proved to be unfounded. We have
to face the fact that a leftist revolution is out
of the question in this country, or anywhere
else for that matter. I think President Nixon
will go down to history as one of America’s
great folk heroes. You have to remember that
lots of people in America were pro-Hitler, and
not only the rich. The whole of Yorkville in
New York was pro-Hitler, whole sections of
Chicago were pro-Hitler.
Are you surprised at the current state of
America?
I’d say it’s about as easy a place to live as you
can find. It looked like it was going to develop
into a repressive police state, and that didn’t
happen. But what is an American? We’ve got
everything from sharecroppers to atomic physicists here, and there’s certainly no uniformity
in their thought processes. They have very little in common. In fact, Americans have less in
common than any other nationality. There are
such huge differences between the rural and
city environments. There are so many different social and professional groups.
Is there something you’d like to write about
that you haven’t written about? Something
that would be a complete change in terms of
characters or subject matter?
I’ve been thinking a lot about that lately, while
taking the train to Albany on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and to Poughkeepsie
on Thursdays and Fridays. You know that I
teach math and physics in two different high
schools, right? Well, well, well… Writing
Douglas Florian
something completely different... I’ve made a
number of attempts that haven’t really worked
out. I’ve been thinking of writing a straightforward novel with a beginning, middle, and
end. But, as of late, I haven’t been able to make
it happen.
Interesting.
Gore Vidal said he never heard me say anything interesting. But I have no interest in being interesting. That’s what you say to writers
who send you unreadable stuff—“very innaresting”.
Reading you I get the impression that you
have attempted to defy classification, making it a challenge to interpret your meaning.
How do you go about escaping the categorical imperatives of reason?
Take the case of Joyce, who spent 20 or 30
years writing Finnegan’s Wake, a book no
one can really read. I could not let that happen. For one thing, I have to make a living.
Do you believe that forces such as good and
evil are somehow external to man?
This whole either-or dichotomy is one of
the great errors of Western thought. I don’t
think it exists. It just does not correspond to
the actual process. George, this one book by
Korzybski, Science and Sanity, I asked you to
Thus the teaching job, right? By the way, I
can’t resist asking you: would you say that
you have been influenced by Céline?
Yes, very much so.
Did you ever meet him?
Yes, actually. I went out to see him in Meudon
shortly before his death.
Would you agree that he was one of the very
rare French novelists to write in association
blocks?
Only in part. People complained that my
novels had no plot. Well, a picaresque novel
has no plot. It is simply a series of incidents.
That tradition dates back to the Satyricon of
Petronius Arbiter and to one of the very early
novels, The Unfortunate Traveler by Thomas
Nashe. I think Céline and I belong to the same
tradition. I find the same critical misconceptions put forth by critics with regard to his
work are put forth to mine: they said it was a
“chronicle of despair,” etc. I found that very
funny. I think Céline is primarily a humorous writer. And a picaresque novel should be
lively and funny.
You once said you might have ended up head
of the CIA. What was that supposed to mean?
Well George, as you probably know, I volunteered. I went down and saw Bill Donovan,
Chief of the OSS in Washington. A friend of
my father had told him, This boy is a natural; he studied physics, he spent two years
in the US Navy and so on. It was the man
who’d been the head of my House at Cornell
University. He just didn’t like me and I didn’t
like him. This son of a bitch put the skids under me. We don’t want this guy. But remember James Angleton. He started out as an intellectual and poet and became head of the
CIA. He was the one who really saved Ezra
Pound. He hated Colby, who eventually threw
him out.
Please, one more thing… Do you think that
has a lot to do with the media’s image of
you, and of your writing?
Well, I feel a novelist doesn’t have by nature
of his profession a clear-cut image of himself
or a clear-cut image in general. And if he cultivates his image too much, his work will suffer. Strangely enough, that’s what happened
to me and that’s why I stopped publishing
books a while ago. Another perfect case at
the other end of the spectrum—the very same
phenomenon, but inverted—is Hemingway.
His determination to act out what I feel are
the least interesting aspects of his work—the
big-game hunter and so on—and to do everything that his characters did, always shooting
and fishing. So finally, there’s nothing there
but the image: Papa Hemingway. You can see
a steady deterioration of his work while his
own image is more and more emphasized.
Sad to admit, in a way, but what some people call “a self imposed exile” when they talk
about me, was the equivalent of Hemingway’s
macho image. I think his overexposed image
was disastrous for his work, and the kind of
translucency of mine, so to say, did not work
well for me either. The Snows of Kilimanjaro:
great short story. But in pieces like Green
Hills of Africa, and Across the River and Into
the Trees, Hemingway’s image takes over.
Too much image is a very dangerous thing for
a writer. But the image of a recluse is worse
than being a recluse, it’s deadly.
Justice for Calvino
By Ronald P. Pask
Siena, Italia, Oct. 11 — A great
man died on September 19. A great
writer has left us. A great body of work
is now complete. Around the world, his
death has been mourned, his books
lauded, his intelligence, erudition and
skill emphasized, his essential contribution to Italian and world literature
widely recognized. However, this passionate praise is invariably tinged with
error and contradictions concerning
his work as well as his life. According
to his detractors, Italo Calvino, once a
committed young man, ready to use his
writings to defend freedom, gradually
became entirely disinterested in human affairs, working on the sidelines,
away from the fire and blood of humanity’s struggles, producing works
as cold as they were abstract, creations
of a pure, calculating spirit devoid of
emotion.
These critics divide his life and
work into three phases: activism (neorealism), withdrawal (fabulism), and
indifference (formalism). His initial
commitment to resistance (The Path to
the Nest of Spiders, The Crow Comes
Last) and communism, flush with social criticism, ended in 1956 with the
entry of Soviet tanks into Budapest,
an event which filled the author with
disgust. Initially an actor, Calvino became a spectator, abandoning the great
theater of the world to enter an authorial ivory tower. A second phase followed, during which Calvino seemed
to neglect the present and immerse
himself in a collective historical past
(the Middle Ages portrayed in Italian
Folktales and the famous trilog y,
Our Ancestors: The Cloven Viscount,
T he Baron in the Trees, and T he
Nonexistent Knight) as well as an individual one (childhood, fairy tales). His
final phase hinged on formalism: the
writer lost himself in scientific abstraction (Cosmicomics), joined the experimental French writers’ group OuLiPo
and created combinatorial narratives
(The Castle of Crossed Destinies, If
on a Winter’s Night a Traveler, etc.). A
non-negligible portion of the Italian
intelligentsia, captivated by the extreme left’s terrorist rhetoric, and its
brutality—which is unfortunately not
only verbal—condemned these subtle
works as scholarly but totally gratuitous games of the sort one expects
from an elitist, “decadent” bourgeoisie.
Calvino then became a scapegoat,
because of his having supposedly left
this world of tears and rage to live in
one of perfect, unemotional fantasy. It
was said that he had “betrayed” and
abandoned the “cause,” which could
have benefited from his undeniably
extraordinary gifts. His famous 1979
meeting with Dr. Manhattan was fodder for his detractors, who interpreted it as confirmation of his betrayal
and his collusion with neo-fascist
American imperialism, as personified
by the indigo Übermensch. Above all,
this encounter became symbolic, and a
perfect excuse to ridicule Calvino. He
became the Dr. Manhattan of Italian
literature, in search of an inhuman
perfection; the cartoon published in
Il Manifesto portraying Calvino as
Manhattan (impassive, naked, with
blue skin, the hydrogen atom engraved
on his forehead) became known the
world over, and fixed this image of the
writer in people’s minds. Having been
on friendly terms with him, I can attest
that this state of affairs anguished him,
though his anguish contained more
than a trace of pride. His discussions
with the blue superhuman, constrained
by “Top-Secret” American government
restrictions, were not things of which
he could speak freely, but it was clear
that they had had a profound effect on
him. “Achieving a literary equivalent of
Dr. Manhattan’s perception of the world
is one of the great challenges in fiction
today,” he confided to his friends.
The truth is that Calvino never
“betrayed” the cause, his cause, that
of humanity. He was one of the first
to perceive the illusory nature of commitment to “the cause” and of cheap
routes toward a clear conscience.
More ambitious than other writers,
he tried to confer the noble function
of unification to his literature, creating an imaginary universe that people
of the future could all share: as new
literature must tap into the timeless
tradition of tales transmitted from generation to generation, this vernacular
that is our common heritage; thus the
postmodern writer must pay attention
to the popular tales of his time, be they
verbal or visual (Calvino was very interested in comic books and pirate stories, which he hoped one day to write
himself), in order to narrate the fables
of the modern era, creating new literary forms that will be the foundation
of a new era. However, if yesterday’s
tales were informed by religion and
superstition, tomorrow’s will require
a different cultural basis, another representation of the world, as embodied
by science. Hence, his sophisticated
stories with their crystalline symmetry
can be seen as fragments of a future
Weltanschauung. We can therefore
conclude that Italo Calvino was an
important political figure; more importantly, it must be emphasized that
his formalism is actually a form of
humanism, full of determination and
hope for the future, despite concerns
about the present. The best evidence
is undoubtedly his magnificent and
visionary book, Invisible Cities. To
emphasize this, I will quote the generous sponsor of the Veidt Lectures, for
which Calvino was to be the principal
contributor, and for which he was writing “Proposals for a New Millennium”
when he was struck down by a stroke.
Hours after the death of the great writer, Adrian Veidt said, “I’m not a great
reader of literature. I prefer the lessons
of history and principles of philosophy
to his fiction. Yet I am fascinated to
find these three elements intertwined
in Calvino’s writing, to their mutual
benefit. Invisible Cities is, for me, an
inexhaustible source of dreams and reflections: I do not hesitate to count this
collection of utopian proposals and
dazzling sketches of improbable cities
as one of the most brilliant achievements of the human spirit, a product
of Calvino’s implacable rigor and unbridled fantasy. In radiant sentences,
he traces mankind’s path toward a better world.”
A11
T H E N E W YOR K T I M E S , W E DN E SDAY, O C T OBE R 12 , 198 5 Gwendoline Van Zsandt aka the Entity Super Eros
Are You Watching
Me, Watching You,
Eyes Wide Shut
By Moshe Axelman
“I left the rock stars of the 60s
and 70s to Pamela Des Barres, because if you’re after unbridled sex,
they’re a bunch of losers, whereas the
Watchmen are the real deal!”
Stretched out languidly on a chaise
longue in her panoptic Martian palace,
Gwendoline van Zsandt set the tone
early in the interview, putting down
Mick Jagger, Jim Morrison and Jimi
Hendrix in a burst of dark laughter.
“Mick Jagger was lucky to be shot at
Altamont by the Hell’s Angels, on the
orders of the Black Panthers, who were
following the orders of Edgar J. Hoover
and Nixon, who were in turn following
the orders of Elvis Presley. At least he
didn’t embarrass himself in old age
like Morrison, playing dreadful double
bills in Las Vegas with Duran Duran
and Julio Iglesias!” ageless. Eternal. No past, no future. I
only exist in the here and now. I’m your
every desire …”
With these words, Gwendoline van
Zsandt pours herself some Cheval
Blanc, bringing it to her lips with a sort
of aristocratic, decadent anguish. She
stares at you as if you were a tiny, useless atom in the universe, inviting you
to continue the interview since she has
already condescended to it.
Since the famous trial, van Zsandt
vs. United States, it is widely known
that Gwendoline van Zsandt is the
daughter of Dr. Manhat tan. Like
Athena from Zeus’s skull, Gwendoline
van Zsandt was born from the flesh of
her “father” as he disintegrated. And,
like her famous parent, she put herself
back together and returned to haunt
the world with powers similar to those
of Jon Osterman.
When representatives of the military-industrial complex then involved
in the Vietnam War discovered her existence and asked that she join forces
with them, she refused. She hired
the best lawyers and won her case
against the Nixon-Kissinger government, which argued that Gwendoline
“I screwed them simply because
they made me come!”
Although we may concur with this
artistic viewpoint, it is still crucial to
know why Gwendoline van Zsandt decided to make the Watchmen the sole
objects of her sexual passion. Was it
a conceptual decision—in the manner of Pamela Des Barres (although
Van Zsandt does not hesitate to dish
on that infamous groupie)? A hunger
for the extreme from a woman who
starred in some of the first porn films
shot by the major Hollywood studios
(including Kenneth Anger’s experimental 1973 film Quark Whore, made
for a whopping $32-million budget)
whose aim was to destroy the rising
power of Franciscoland and the young
Turks associated with fascist madman
John Milius? A frantic desire to share
quality time with the most magnificent
outcasts of their generation? Or a constantly evolving orgiastic suicide destined to leave her mark in the history
of martyrdom?
Irony is the weapon Gwendoline
van Zsandt uses to resist both psychoanalytic explanations and conspiracy
theories. “I screwed them simply because they made me come! And I really
got them off too! Period!”
Allow us to remain skeptical.
Slut For Life
“I was born somewhere between
August and November 1959, but I am
van Zsandt was a technological entity
belonging to the US, rather than a human being with rights and individual
freedom.
Armed with this verdict, she entered the Rockefeller Military Research
Center, met her father … and made love
to him. “There was no taboo to break.
At most one might speak of incest or
quantum masturbation, but nothing
more than that. It was like finding a
lost part of myself. We only did it once.
It was a cosmic orgasm!” said van
Zsandt in an emotionless voice.
She describes herself, without any
moral indulgence or puritanism, as
“a fucking quantum whore, a cosmic
cunt!”
Though she would have been entitled to inherit the estate of her demiurge father, presently roaming the
cosmos, she preferred to chart her own
course. The explanation she provides
for this is only partially convincing.
In 1977 two major events affected her
life: the promulgation of the Keene
Act, which prohibited the actions of
masked vigilantes, and in effect signed
the Watchmen’s death warrant, and
the release of the album Never Mind
The Bollocks by the Witchmen, the
rock band formed after Altamont by
Keith Richards and his sidekick Gram
Parsons, along with Iggy Pop returning from Lhasa to sing lead vocals. For
Osterman, placed himself in limbo in
order to find peace.
her, these two events seemed to trigger a negative spiral that could only
end in chaos or ridicule. She decided
at that time to become a contract killer and help rid the world of riffraff.
She could have triggered World War
III—as Ozymandias attempted to do
in the throes of madness—but instead
preferred to act with the deadly discretion of an anonymous vigilante. It
was a kind of Harry-Callahan-meetselementary-particles.
All this while simultaneously pursuing “romantic” relations with the
Watchmen … What more can one say?
Bing-Bang Bondage
Watchmenocracy Rules
“So, there was Rorschach. I crept
into him, into his arteries, blood vessels, pores, metastases, his diseased
synapses. I saw the world through his
mask. It was a very strange experience,
even for me.”
If, according to van Zsandt, he
was less sex y than the man with
the Scrambled Faces (who disappeared into limbo, circa 1983), less
crazy than Derek Hermann (aka the
Vampidermist), and less obscene than
Sybil Seberg, the SlaughterSlut, he had
a certain sensitivity, a nostalgia for a
bygone world.
Clearly, Rorschach refused to admit
that his time had already passed. He
had never accepted the Keene Act and
behaved like a child whose toys have
been taken from him.
“But he could be tender and compassionate. He knew how to let his
guard down. He didn’t want the dream
to end. But it was already over before it
began. Apocalypse Yesterday.” In this sense, Gwendoline van
Zsandt agrees with the popular theory
that like rock music, Western prosperity, the hope for a better world, the end
of history, and all the other whims of
the masses, stupefied by drugs and
rhetoric, the era of the Watchmen actually ended in the middle of 1967! The
eyes of The Entity express an unlikely
feeling of compassion as she thinks of
one of her more ambiguous lovers …
Her connection to Sally Jupiter, Silk
Spectre I, was a mixture of fascination
and hate. “Yes, you could say that our
relationship was sadomasochistic.
Sally had sex in the Oval Office with
Nixon and Kissinger, both of whom I
hated. Any psychologist would say that
she was reliving being raped by The
Comedian, but I have a simpler explanation: she was just a slut, hungry for
recognition and power. She took all
the drugs she could get her hands on.
Mandrax, Quaaludes, poppers, heroin,
coke, hash … She wanted to stay young
forever, like me, and she wanted the
skin—in the literal sense of the word—
of her daughter.” On several occasions, The Entity
and The Silk Spectre I made love and
participated in White House orgies, all
during the famous trial that pitted the
government against van Zsandt. Was
this the height of perversity? No, just
Gwendoline van Zsandt
another aberration committed during
a time of madness.
She is not very forthcoming about
Hollis Mason, the Nite Owl I, suggesting only that he was not very good in
bed. She is even tougher on Daniel
Dreiberg, the Nite Owl II. “He was a
cross between GI Joe and Ken! Really
boring to be around. No imagination,
no initiative. A pitiful fellow, the kind
you see in lame Hollywood comedies
for suburban housewives. But he was
hung like John Holmes. He was my
super-toy! Nothing more. Pamela Des
Barres should get to know him!”
She still does not seem to understand why Laurie Jupiter (The Silk
Spectre II) fell in love with the man
she regarded as the embodiment of
unattractiveness.
Her eyes sparkle much more—with
anger, rather than desire—when discussing Adrian Veidt, the man who had
the nerve to engrave these lines in the
marble of his Antarctic retreat:
My name is Ozymandias, king of
kings. Look on my works, ye Mighty,
and despair!
“Rather pompous, don’t you think?”
Gwendoline van Zsandt laughs, seeking your approval. It is tr ue that
the man she calls “the Watchmen’s
Marketing Director,” who considered
himself to be the pharaoh of a new
humanity, was somewhat laughable.
He dreamed of being Alexander the
Great, but was finally no more than the
Pythia of Western arms merchants. He
heralded an infamous period of decay
and degradation. But Gwendoline van
Zsandt knew him biblically, just as
she did the other Watchmen. “A real
introvert. He disgusted me. And that’s
exactly what turned me on.” The Entity
has never met a paradox she didn’t
like. And unless you want get atomized, you listen politely as your host
continues.
“I even got it on with Bubastis, that
outlandish animal. She ultimately
proved to be a better lover than her
master.” The Entity expresses all this without hatred or bitterness, as if she had
suddenly become an accountant conducting an erotic debriefing. And she
smiles at you. Next …
“Dr. Maïak!” At this point, you
blanch. Everything The Entity has recounted so far has been surprising, to
say the least. But to hear her state that
she had sex with the Soviet equivalent
of Dr. Manhattan leaves you speechless. “The Russians managed to perfect
him. At Tcheliabinsk 69. Around 1979,
1980. Well, he did not have the gracefulness of Dr. Manhattan, and even
less his philosophical turn of mind,
but at least it was not my father.” She
laughs before continuing. “He had a
tormented Russian soul, and was a true
romantic.” You wonder if she is leading
you on or telling the truth. Maybe both.
She lets you imagine that he, like Jon
Although she does not come right
out and say it, the two remaining
Watchmen are undoubtedly most important to Gwendoline van Zsandt.
The Silk Spectre II, Laurie Jupiter,
daughter of Sally and The Comedian …
“Dissecting her, dismembering her.
I loved it. She was my Christ on the
cross. A Greco by day, a Bacon by
night. She was meat, flesh and blood.
She was viscera and secretions. She
was the perfect lover.” One does not
wish to dwell on their diabolic copulation. “I gave her the ultimate orgasm.
Death, followed by resurrection.” For
the first—and last—time, emotion
creeps into The Entity’s voice. When she mentions Eddie Blake,
T he Comed ia n, Gwendol i ne va n
Zsandt breaks into a sly grin.
“He could have been my great love.
But he wasn’t up for it, and I did not
want it to be.” Imagine Elizabeth Taylor
with super powers and Richard Burton
armed with a force as strong as his alcoholism and you get an idea of the
relationship between The Comedian
and The Entity. They met for the first
time in Vietnam when The Comedian
was in a very destructive phase. Later,
after the victorious close of that war,
they crossed paths again in the seediest sections of New York, where they
infected each other with boredom and
unhappiness. And while you listen, you
really want—but don’t dare—to ask the
ultimate question, which Gwendoline
van Zsandt answers anyway.
“Yes, the rumor was that it was I,
and not Ozymandias, who killed The
Comedian because he wanted to rape
his own daughter, Laurie …”
A crime of passion, a woman’s revenge. You wait for the other shoe to
drop, watching her greenish-blue eyes.
“Perhaps for once the rumor is true. But
the legend tells a different story. And
don’t you think it is more beautiful than
the truth? So let’s stick with the legend.” Enter The Entity
She serves you a drink, and talks of
this and that, finally indicating that the
interview is over. The Entity is more
comparable to the stars of the 20s,
like an ageless Gloria Swanson, than
to the dilapidated superheroes she has
known and loved … or not. She claims
to now have close relationships with
certain humans, though she wants to
kill others.
But when you are one with atoms,
how interesting can it be to talk with
humans?
That is the drama of Gwendoline
van Zsandt’s life, and that of her father’s as well. She became The Entity, a
cosmic delicacy, and incompatible with
ordinary peoples’ neurotic intricacies.
She did not choose to become a killer;
the Universe decided for her!
Looking out over the Martian channels that disappear into the horizon,
she deftly terminates the interview on
a deliberately vague but poetic note.
“Papa wasn’t a rolling stone, but he
was a cosmic hobo!” After teleporting you back to your
newspaper desk, where you land
haggard and breathless, The Entity,
spoiled little girl that she is, disappears
into the Milky Way, leaving behind a
heavy odor of cordite and the echoes
of a booming laugh.
A Sunburn in November:
Immaterial Things Exhibition
Continued from Page A1
Back to the Future, with Eric Stoltz
Back to the Future
By Judith Miller
Back to the Future is producer
Steven Spielberg’s latest smash hit,
continuing his series of films for, and
about, teenagers. It is the stor y of
Marty McFly, a boy whose friend, the
mad scientist Emmett Brown inadvertently sends him back in time to 1955,
the year his parents met.
The film begins w ith a strong
sequence in which director Robert
Zemeckis introduces Marty (played
by Eric Stolz, who seems a tad too old
for this role), a typical teenager with a
pathetic family: an alcoholic mother;
a morbidly shy, stupid father, who lets
himself be bullied by a neighbor; moronic brothers and sisters. Marty is
aware of all this, and regrets that he is
powerless to change it.
Following the minor film Rom­
ancing the Stone, ostensibly a comedy
adventure, which was in fact an ode
to American supremacy (the green
diamond being a metaphor of Dr.
Manhattan’s nuclear power), Zemeckis
has now seemingly reaffirmed his attachment to contemporary American
values.
For Back to the Future is clearly a
fable about Dr. Manhattan’s role in US
global dominance. The scene in which
Marty is sent into the past calls to mind
the transformation of John Osterman:
he accidentally gets into a car that runs
on plutonium, stolen by Dr. Brown from
Vietnamese terrorists who want him to
build a bomb. In a distressing turn of
events the car and its passenger disintegrate, only to reappear intact, 30
years earlier. Much like Dr. Manhattan,
Marty becomes omniscient (he knows
the past, present and future) and allpowerful: in control of his own history, he orchestrates his parents’ first
meeting, gives a soda fountain busboy
the idea that he will be elected mayor
in 1985, and inspires Chuck Berry to
compose the song Johnny B. Goode by
playing it for him one night.
However, Zemeckis does not stop
there, adding to his film the elements
of a cautionary tale. Marty will change
the sad fate of his parents by rewriting
key events of their history in their favor.
Where his father failed in 1955 (having
been bested by his arrogant and violent future neighbor), he succeeds, with
Marty’s help (triumphing over his future neighbor). In 1955, Marty imbues
his father with values dear to the youth
of 1985: justice served by individuals,
using violence if necessary, and wearing masks (the final fight scene takes
place during the prom, with Marty’s
father disguised as Hooded Justice,
the masked judge of the Minutemen).
Through supernatural intervention, the pitiful dad of 1955 becomes, in
1985, the mainstay of a family of slick,
fulfilled young professionals who offer Marty the shiny black SUV he was
so keen on having at the beginning of
the film. The posters of rock stars that
covered Marty’s bedroom walls at the
beginning of the film are replaced, in
the revised year of 1985, by family photos and a poster of his father shaking
hands with Dr. Manhattan.
Therefore, Marty is to his parents
what Dr. Manhattan is to America: a
scion, but also the guarantor of permanent power.
And that’s where this highly polished blockbuster film, calculated
to appeal to its market, is less naive
than it appears. For Marty’s trip in
time, a metaphorical expression of the
transformation of Dr. John Osterman
into Dr. Manhattan, is also a subtle
warning.
The first thing Marty does upon arriving in 1955 is save his father’s life,
causing a young girl, who will later
become his mother, to fall in love with
him. By becoming an obstacle to the
romantic meeting of his parents, he
imperils his own future existence. He
must then work hard to repair the tear
he has made in the fabric of time.
We could well imagine this film,
without the happy outcome dictated
by Hollywood studios, ending like a
Greek tragedy with the disappearance
of Marty in the present time.
In the same fashion, Dr. Man­hattan’s
nuclear gifts are the guarantors of our
security, but simultaneously the most
terrifying threat that hangs over humanity. With this film, Zemeckis pays
tribute to the American superpower
while expressing concerns about the
dangers it breeds. He has created an
eclectic film—with its blend of science
fiction, comedy, parable, sex, rock
and roll—which has the merit of being somewhat less dutiful than it would
appear to be at first glance.
In the “material” zone, the “fragmented
body” section shows the components of nature’s most complex organism, revealing its
similarities to the simplest ones. A live body
and a dead body contain the same number of
particles. Structurally, there’s no discernible
difference. These unquantifiable abstracts are
illustrated in the exhibition by a handful of pink
sand, a chaotic flux of silicone that can take on
myriad forms. Among the prosthetic devices
and bandages shown in the “second skin” section, Lyotard included Rorschach’s famous
mask, a piece of cloth with a fluid contained between two latex membranes. A system of liquid
crystals creates an ever-changing design that
resembles a Rorschach test. As a counterpoint,
there is an astronaut’s spacesuit and a sensory
deprivation chamber, artificial envelopes created to extend the boundaries of our skin. How
can we define where the “outside” begins?
Visitors are free to move as they please,
while listening to a soundtrack on headphones.
Each section of the exhibition has an infrared
transmitter providing snippets of text, music and information. Minitels are also part of
the exhibition, allowing visitors to follow discussions by physicists, philosophers, writers
and filmmakers whose thinking informs the
show. Participants have individual computers, networked with cutting-edge technology
(Internet), allowing them to write and share
their definitions of keywords requested by
Lyotard. A novel linguistic exercise, this postmodernist puzzle, entitled “writing tests,”
blends different forms of language. “Immaterial
Things is not an exhibition of new materials
and new technologies but rather the intellectual and philosophical issues they engender,”
says Lyotard.
Immaterial Things reflects a new sensibility (described by Lyotard as “postmodern”)
and a growing trend toward immaterialism.
Cybernetic and digital technologies are the
keys to this new postmodern condition, that
of a decentralized ego, non-linearity, and the
decline of high-flown rhetoric. The once hierarchical boundaries of our society have become
a relentless, scattered flux. The artificiality of
the virtual world is reinforced by the growing influence of computers. In January 1983,
Time magazine elected the computer “Man of
the Year.” Lyotard sees the postmodern era as
the end of the “high-flown rhetoric of legitimization” that once shed light on a complex
world. A unilateral, rational explanation for
this fragmented society no longer exists. The
modernist dream of social progress shaped by
art has been replaced by an era of sign-saturated techno-science.
It took two years of preparation to organize this encyclopedic exhibition that appears
to penetrate the invisible wiring of the human
cortex: language, genetic codes, cuisine, supersymmetry theory, astrophysics, contemporary
art, observation of the cosmos, space technology. If the glimmer of Andromeda, two million
light years away, the extinct trilobites, or the
supernova discovered in 1855 by Ernst Hartwig
are not enough to please the visitor, he or she
certainly won’t remain indifferent to the twoheaded cat born in Queens or to Bubastis, a genetically modified lynx, in the “maternity” section. After visitors view the electric limousine
and works by Lucio Fontana, Takis and Dan
Graham, the culmination of the exhibit is the
video La Desserte blanche (1980) by Thierry
Kuntzel, in which human bodies are pixelized
and disappear into a snowy fog.
From broken watch mechanisms on a backdrop of black velvet to the latest nuclear physics
experiments on the intrinsic field, Immaterial
Things is a sunburn in November, a temporal
void without seasons, without hourglasses; a
world in which visitors can flow in the pink
sand of a clock which no human hand has designed. For if time is not constant, what good
are watchmakers?
Immaterial Things
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Exhibition from Oct. 12 to Dec. 6, 1985
A12 T H E N E W YOR K T I M E S , W E DN E SDAY, O C T OBE R 12 , 198 5 Andy Warhol, Icons and Safe Investments
By Plurabelle Huntington
Special to The New York Times
Despite the difficult circumstances and gloomy atmosphere, a crowd
gathered last night at 511 West 22nd
Street, anxious to attend the opening
of “Glamour is Vigilance/ Vigilance
is Glamorous,” Andy Warhol’s latest
exhibition. It was also an opportunity
to see Bruno Bischofberger’s first gallery space in the Big Apple. “Given
the circumstances,” he said, “I had to
have a location in New York and, in
addition to my galleries in Zurich and
St. Moritz, to have one in the Chelsea
District. As you know, in recent years
it has become the center of the art market. It was just as natural for me to ask
Andy to be the first artist to exhibit
there.” For this event, Warhol chose to
exclusively present his latest productions, straight from the (third) “factory,” located a few blocks further south.
Four series of artworks are displayed
in two huge white cube-shaped rooms,
connected by a small corridor barely
wide enough for two to people pass
side-by-side. “I like this configuration
of two rooms connected by a sort of
tube; it is simultaneously cold and very
organic,” said Bischofberger, “but it’s
also why I chose this space over certain
larger ones that I considered.” In the first room, large silk-screened
portraits of the seven Watchmen, in the
exaggerated colors that are Warhol’s
trademark, face three huge busts of
Niatmar Vankrazov, the dictator of
Tikharistan. In the second room, a
series entitled “Buffalo Joe”, consists
of photographs of Joe Dallesandro
dressed as Buffalo Bill, alongside a
single portrait of Jon Osterman, aka
Dr. Manhattan. For René Ricard, critic and curator, “the conception of the
show is clearly based on contrasts:
Buffalo Joe meets the Watchmen and
Jon meets Vankrazov.”
It is certainly not the first time that
Warhol has depicted the Watchmen,
in whom he long ago and by his own
admission identified the ultimate star
qualities. “They are cool,” Warhol said,
“I love them. They hide behind masks,
and yet they are so familiar, they are
a part of peoples’ lives.” A few steps
from the man with the ash-gray wig,
Mary Boone, a yellow dress accentuating her raven-black hair, told us, “It
is normal for Andy to be interested in
vigilantes. They defend an individualist notion of charity, and they have
a unique iconic potential. Hollywood
needs celluloid to make the body of
a pretty girl into the image of a star,
whereas the Watchmen are icons without even trying, so to speak.” We find
them all together, lined up along the
wall: The Comedian (Eddie Blake),
Nite Owl I (Hollis Mason), Nite Owl II
(Dan Dreiberg), Ozymandias (Adrian
Veidt), Rorschach ( Walter Joseph
Kovacs), Silk Spectre I (Sally Jupiter)
and Silk Spectre II (Laurie Juspeczyk).
It is no coincidence that the portrait
of Sally Jupiter should be the central
painting of the exhibit. Of all the
Watchmen, Sally has always held the
greatest interest for Warhol, and she
is the one he has most often painted.
Undeniably photogenic and objectively
Nico and Andy Warhol as superheroes
beautiful, with a unique character,
both mysterious and strong-willed, she
represents a feminine prototype that
appeals to this artist. Furthermore,
by choosing very early in her career
to be managed by an impresario, Sally
worked the hardest of all the vigilantes to make their exploits a public
spectacle.
Starting in the 1930s, the Minute­
men heyday, Sally was working with
Laurence Schexnayder, her agent and
future husband. She understood that
her actions had to be accompanied by
image building. She was a true pioneer
in this regard. Naturally, all the other
vigilantes then became celebrities as
well, giving performances, showing
up at charity galas, etc. Their mere
presence ensured the success of an
event. This, said René Ricard, is precisely why the artist chose to hang
these portraits opposite those of Joe
Dallesandro. Buffalo Bill is legendary
for having staged his own exploits. His
big traveling shows crisscrossed the
major cities of the United States.
“This is comparable,” continued
Ricard, “to a kind of mythological peculiarity which, in my opinion—and I
believe Andy is trying to highlight this
as well, in his own inimitably discrete
way, by hiding a political fable behind
the perfectly pure surface of his vivid
colors and the visual shock they provoke—expresses the very essence of
America. To me, this part of the exhibition is without a doubt a profound
meditation on the origins of the United
States. On Mount Rushmore, our
founding fathers were transformed
into monumental figures carved in
the rock: a spectacular approach to
history, with great men engraved in
the landscape to be adored and contemplated. Andy follows directly in this
line. Just as Mallarmé said that the existence of everything in the world ends
up in a book, for Americans, the world
exists to end up in a show. The feats
of Buffalo Bill and the Watchmen have
this in common: they are made to be
staged. But, consequently, it is difficult to know if they inspire the show,
or if the show creates an imperative
for such feats to feed it. You never
know, in fact, if reality precedes the
show, or vice versa. I personally think
that reality and the spectacle are one
and the same; they are simultaneous.
And that’s what Andy, that little albino Polack, has understood better than
anyone. And above all, he has portrayed it for us as no one else could.” The Art Biennale of New York
Through the image of Joe Dalle­
sandro, his favorite model (who already played a parody of a Wild West
hero in Warhol’s Lonesome Cowboys
(1969), Warhol reclaims the myth of
Buffalo Bill in his own special style.
Or rather, it means that the Warhol
superstar and the American myth are
one and the same; that the interpretation of a founding iconography is
constantly renewed. A little later in
the evening, Ricard continued, “What
would be more natural than to juxtapose the Western, with its particular
sense of justice, and the saga of the
Watchmen, the high sheriffs of the
20th century?” In the long-distance iconic duel on
the walls of the gallery, opposing Dr.
Manhattan and Niatmar Vankrazov,
the status of the providential man and
his relationship to power is also at
stake. “Of course,” said Mary Boone,
“power fascinates Andy. But the political power of a dictator, based on his
authority and the cult of personality, is
obviously inferior to Jon’s superpower,
which directly modifies matter and is
therefore liberating.” This is certainly
why Warhol chose to exhibit a huge
portrait of Dr. Manhattan and his fascinating blue form. “His physical appearance is already pop and visually stimulating,” said Jean-Michel Basquiat, arm
in arm with Madonna, and accompanied by Francesco Clemente. In the
eyes of Andy Warhol himself, according to Mary Boone, “Jon is the greatest artist in the universe. He can move
anything, or through anything. He is
infinitely malleable. And his relationship with time is precisely that of an
artist. Everything is simultaneous for
him: the past, present, and future—he
sees everything at once. He lives in all
dimensions of time. For me, he is not a
nuclear prodigy. He is the culmination
of the History of Art.”
The painting’s force resides in its
uniqueness, and it literally seems to
burst into the room, in violation of the
laws of physics, just as Dr. Manhattan
is capable of doing. In contrast, the
triptych of effigies of Tikharistan’s
dictator, who was, as everyone knows,
a costumed hero fighting in Vietnam
before becoming a doctrinarian autocrat in Central Asia, spotlights the
interchangeable reproducibility, as
threatening as it is commanding, of
his power.
Of course, Andy Warhol himself
downplays a political interpretation of
this exhibition, despite the fact that his
friends have been doing exactly that.
Nevertheless, today, when the fate of
the world is more uncer tain than
ever, its icons appear anxious, and
art serves to transfigure this anxiety.
In the words of Bruno Bischofberger,
“Our world is disturbing, of course.
But in these troubled times, no matter
where you are, everyone knows that
art is a safe investment. People need
beauty, they need images that express
their concerns, and this is also valid
from an economic point of view. In fact,
everything is connected. More than
ever, Andy’s art is a mirror reflecting
the symptoms of today’s sick society,”
concluded Bischofberger, raising his
glass of champagne.
Power and
Artistic Practices
By ARON HERBST
Faced with the extreme polarization spawned by the Cold War, Western
artists and galleries have chosen sides.
The threat of Soviet supremacy has
caused Western contemporary artists
to align themselves politically with
their governments. And yet, the growing weakness of the USSR makes one
wonder how long this union sacrée will
last.
Since the establishment of the politically opposed blocs, two radically
different periods have in fact produced
similar effects. Post World War II, the
prevalence of works questioning the
wisdom of our economic model seems
to have strengthened its appeal. From
production techniques to sales methods, artists have followed dominant
economic patterns, allowing them in
turn to continue unabated.
It followed that by the mid-eighties,
the hardening of East-West relations
paradoxically brought the political
and artistic elite closer. Any perceived
slight or lack of respect of the current
political orthodoxy is immediately
seen as un-American. Therefore any
artist who wants to have a good public image must appear with our politicians, in order to remain in the public
eye, and to generate approval of their
work.
And yet, now that the collapse of
the Soviet bloc seems imminent, we
believe that the artistic world should
progressively move toward new positions. With no challenger in sight, the
artist-as-symbol of a victorious empire
will soon appear meaningless. The
persistence of this incestuous relationship might end up giving rise to a
predictable State Art utterly devoid of
spontaneity and zest.
Art Biennale of New York, October 1—30, 1985,
on Central Park’s Great Lawn.
Reservations can be made at the usual outlets.
Authors
Index
International
Heysel Tragedy: Stadium Wars,
an Unexplained Stampede
Left 40 Dead and 600 Wounded
in Europe A2
Operation Paradise: Fighting
the Enemy of the Future
A2
Dr. Mayak Versus Dr. Manhattan A3
Mikhail Gorbachev
Rumored to Be Dead
A3
General
Dr. Manhattan, a Family Affair
A Year of Music, a Year of Anger
Philip K. Dick Lives!
No Woman’s Land
What Lies Behind the Masks?
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New york
A Mysterious “Blue Movement”
Plans to Create Other
Dr. Manhattans
Fire Against Geographic,
National, Racial and Sexual
Borderlines
“Go Ahead, Make My Day!”
But What Is a Typical Day
for Harry Callahan?
Sports
Morris Has Giants on the Run
Brett Sparkles as Royals
Triumph Over Blue Jays
Cards Back on Magic Carpet
Balboni Comes Through
The Dr. Manhattan’s “Archisculpture” on Central Park
Michael Bartalos
Art Critic
The sixteenth Art Biennale has set
up shop in the heart of Manhattan,
on the lawns of Central Park. The
most politically committed artists of
the free world are in residence there
for the month of September, a stone’s
throw from the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, for what will surely be one of
the most exciting shows of the season.
Compared to the obvious weakness
of current Soviet art scene, the works
exposed here attest to the western art
world’s supremacy and innovation.
This year, among all the works selected by the High Counsel of American
Art, the major attraction will undoubtedly be Dr. Manhattan’s new opus. This
never-before-seen work, which spans a
semi-circle two dozen yards wide, will
dominate Central Park. The famous
hero’s sculpture, or “archisculpture,”
is an ice palace whose constellations
of crystalline, translucent stalactites
sparkle incessantly.
Glass lances jut out into the sky
above the rooftop garden of the MET.
A series of crenellated arcs fan out at
its base, forming gigantic gears. The
overall impression is of a cross between a castle and a factory—a sort of
utterly original fusion of a fairy tale
world and high-scale engineering.
Seen up close, the apparent chaos is
organized; the composition becomes
symmetrical. This sculpture forms
a scientifically structured space, a
gigantic three-dimensiona l clock
through the hands, cogs and dial of
which the visitor walks.
Great watchmaker of time and
space, the Doctor has given us a set
of immutable laws that govern the
universe. The mathematic rigor of its
composition leads the spectator directly to a numerical ideal of absolute
truth. Using numbers and equations as
other artists utilize brushes, the artist
has here launched a form of absolute
and timeless mathematical art.
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Compared with Soviet obscurantism, this approach is reminiscent
of the artistic and scientific breakthroughs of the Renaissance. From the
Italian quattrocento to late twentieth
century America, artists have become
politicized in order to take part in the
defense of our ideals.
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Economy
A Financial Collapse of the Likes
Never Seen Since 1929
Culture
By ANNA MILLER
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Illustrations
Audrey Wiseman......... A. Prudhomme
Dave Ridley................Raphaël Garnier
Fred R. Conrad........... Gaëlle Boucand
Nino Caprioglio................. Aline Zalko
Tiffany Weiner...........Clotilde Viannay
David Suter..................Maxime Zoffoli
Douglas Florian........... Yann Legendre
Michael Bartalos...... Mathieu Andrieu
YSL Ad. . ............J. Braun & W. I. Rafik
Real Estate Ad. ............. Jagna Ciuchta
Translation
Jonathan von Zelowitz
Philippe Aronson
Graphic design
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Thomas Pynchon about America,
President Nixon, Hemingway,
Céline and Teaching
A10
Justice for Calvino
A10
Gwendoline Van Zsandt
aka the Entity Super Eros
A11
Back to the Future
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A Sunburn in November:
Immaterial Things Exhibition A11
Andy Warhol, Icons and Safe
Investments
A12
The Art Biennale of New York
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Power and Artistic Practices
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ISBN 978-2-916940-75-5
Gerald M. Boyd.........François Delvoye
Bernard Weinraub... R.Juan-Cantavella
James Blake................Jacques Barbéri
Roman Paynes................... Oliver Rohe
Kathrin Slater................... Maud Assila
Roberto Suro..... Eloy Fernández Porta
Stan H. Wass................ Philippe Vasset
Zachary Sheep.....C. Soyez-Petithomme
Mark Frintz................. Julien Fronsacq
Steven V. Roberts..... Philippe Berneur
Mark D. Weiser.............. Jill Gasparina
Harry Hell.......................... Ariel Kyrou
Laura Pietz.................... Émilie Notéris
Hunter S. Thompson.......J. Millanvoye
George Abravanel... Philippe Aronson
George Plimpton........Nicolas Richard
Thomas Pynchon......................Himself
Ronald P. Pask.......... Renaud Pasquier
Anna Miller............... Mathieu Andrieu
Aron Herbst.............. Mathieu Andrieu
Boris Neufang.......... Florence Ostende
Plurabelle Huntington...... M. Larnaudie
Moshe Axelman.............Yves Ramonet
Judith Miller.........................Lila Pinell
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Editorial
Clotilde Viannay
This newspaper is published as part of
the exhibition W by Clotilde Viannay,
Palais de Tokyo (10.07.2011–11.02.2011)
Thanks to: Aldo Jesorka, Nicolas
Delarce, Melanie Jackson, Alexandre
Civico, Mathilde Helleu, Frédéric
Hallier, Owe & Victoire Orwar,
François & Béatrice Viannay, Thomas
Bizzarri, Julien Fronsacq
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