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for research to put together his novel.In almost 700 pages it chronicles more than six centuries of civilization and destruction in the region.“The idyllic portrait is only partly true,” said Michener, 82, as he and his wife, Mari, prepared to set sail on a farewell cruise to the islands he described in his book.“There were undoubtedly fine black-white relationships and many were friendly .and yet each one of the islands had eight or 10 insurrections,” he said.“There’s a dichotomy there that I think we all are engaged in.” FACT AND FICTION Michener explores the contradictions of the Caribbean using his patented blend of fact and fiction.Historical figures such as Christopher Columbus, Admiral Horatio Nelson, Fidel Castro and Gen.Toussaint L’Ouverture, who outfoxed French, Spanish and British armies in what is now Haiti, brush against imaginary characters that range from a Mayan priestess to a Jamaican Rasta.How the Caribbean islands can be so beautiful and yet so violent is the central question of the book.In scene after scene, men and women of ambition build dreams, only to be crushed by tyrants.“In the short run, brutality always wins; it takes longer for amity to prevail, ' ’ Michener writes after describing how the Carib Indians cannibalized the primitive Arawaks, the islands’ first residents who were satisfied with planting vegetables and watching the sun set each day.The message resonates throughout the islands’ history, demonstrating how the legacy of harsh colonial rule provides both a charm and a curse for the islands of today.DIRECT LINE Michener draws clear lines from the slave rebellions to contemporary scenes in which poverty-stricken blacks prey on tourists.The Gift of the Magi —charming By Rod Currie CP Entertainment Editor TORONTO (CP) — It’s the heart of urban Canada but it feels like the soul of rural charm when that Christmastime charmer The Gift of the Magi opens as a two-character minimusical in an old red-brick church hall.The polished hardwood floors creak as the sold-out, 160-member audience is seated.The little balcony is decked with garlands of evergreen.At intermission, they sell gingerbread men and hot cider.Alan Desnoyers at the old upright piano, looking suitably Edwardian with thick wavy hair and gold-rimmed glasses, is the orchestra.All this rustic qua intness—just a few blocks from the intersection of Bloor Street and Spadina Avenue — came as the new award-winning adapiton of O.Henry’s classic short story opened Friday night at Elmore’s Hall, part of the 100-year-old Wal-mer Road Baptist Church.In the roles as Jim and Della are Gerald Isaac, who has played everything from Snoopy the cartoon hound to the Stratford Festi- val stage and the New York City Opera, and Donna Abbey-Colborne who has sung with the Edmonton Opera Company and appeared in the Edmonton Fringe Festival Everything about this 70-minute production is modest — the costumes, the set with little black skyscraper cutouts to suggest a 1900s New York skyline, the props of pathetic hand-made Christmas angel and anemic strings of popcorn.The broken leg of a dressing table is propped up with a stack of books and Jim’s bowler is frayed.ADDS AUTHENTICITY But all this adds authenticity to the plight of the young newlyweds, struggling on his salary as a junior clerk and finding themselves flat broke on Christmas Eve.Most everyone knows the familiar story — Jim sells his handsome antique watch to buy combs for Della’s magnificent, thigh-length hair; she sells her locks to a hair merchant to buy a suitably grand gold fob for his watch.Isaac, who will appear in an Edmonton Opera production of Die Fledermaus in February, and Abbey-Colborne bring an unusual amount of fun and loving slap-and-tickle to the sentimental love story that also is heavily laden with poignant twists.It’s a problem, operating on a handkerchief-size stage within a few metres of the audience, but the two overcome such challenges by concentrating on the yarn’s uncluttered simplicity.The music is lilting more than memorable but the tune If We Had Money gives the young lovers a flight-of-fancy chance to imagine what each would buy the other if they weren’t so poor.The show is the first production in the converted Sunday school space and the inaugural production for Brookstone Performing Arts, created by writer-director Dennis Hassell with the hope of elbowing into the Toronto theatre market with other such small productions.The story was adapted as a musical by American Peter Eks-trom for the Actors Theatre in New York in 1981 and has been an annual Christmastime event there ever since.It runs at Elmore’s Hall through Dec.30, tickets priced $9.even though the visitors provide desperately needed cash to their island economies.“The history of this land, and of all the islands Spain has captured in this lovely sea, will involve the slow and even reluctant admission that the big black man down there has a soul,” says a forward-looking 16th-century priest of Michener’s invention, ruminating on the atrocities Columbus ordered against Indians, and the oppression his descendants would force on slaves.Michener, a lifelong Quaker, says he grew to love and fear for the people of the islands during his research, which took him to back streets and poorer areas tourists rarely see on their Caribbean vacations.“I see people beating their brains out to figure out what they’re going to do for money,” said Michener, who has several characters suggest all the islands would prosper if the United States would inflate the price of Caribbean cane sugar.But because the U.S.sugar industry won’t allow it, the region is headed for revolution, or worse, says one of Michener’s characters, a Haitian-American professor who flees her island as a child and returns as a guest lecturer on a cruise ship.Michener has published 36 books since winning the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Tales of the South Pacific.And despite a quintuple coronary bypass operation in 1986 and a hip replacement the next year, he plans to keep writing, as a “Professor Emeritus Emeritus” at the University of Texas.The McCartney concert, a dreamy kind of limbo By Bill Anderson TORONTO (CP) — “We’re going to go back, through the mists of time,” Paul McCartney told his audience on Thursday, “to a place they call the ’60s.” You can’t really go back, of course, but the former Beatle almost did it — coming closer than any retro-rocker yet in this year of the second British Invasion.McCartney’s performance Thursday completes a year in which the Who, the Rolling Stones and another former Beatle, Ringo Starr, have all appeared on Toronto stages.But it was McCartney —- arguably the world’s greatest living composer of popular songs — who best delivered the goods, and did it against stiff odds.First, the Sky Dome is still a poor excuse for a concert facility, marred by echoes and an absurd sense of dimension.The choice of venue is ultimately McCartney’s — but it’s the pop audience that has made him a living legend, a part of history, a Beatle.So what does McCartney do?The only sensible thing — take a bWilXLL , r hand made.siCve.TjeweCe.ru (cuxd CrafttcCjcwderii i dfrom tfteJ+(;omet.s| creation-reparation.r J I r of the 'Avorta i 237 ABE^PEET^ 569-0785 Sherbrooke M A R y K A y Mary Kay provides you with a personal skin care or Color Awareness consultation.And our advice is free.Call today.Professional Mary Kay Beauty Consultant Elaine Cooper-Boisvert Bor 374, Ayer's Cliff, Quebec 819-838-5608 lighthearted approach, play it down, walk on stage casually, sing a few newer songs and take his time about it.Thursday’s concert took a long while to warm up, and it looked like it might never catch fire.At times, it even seemed like McCartney and his five-member band were just another humdrum rock act surrounded by the usual flashpots, lasers and big TV screens.But after McCartney called everyone into the mist with him, then sat down quietly at the piano and sang The Long and Winding Road, well, this was something special.LONG ROAD BACK It was pause for thought, a dreamy kind of limbo, and oddly exciting.This was McCartney, after all, singing a timeless song, much as it must have sounded the first time he composed it on a piano, and much as it must have sounded when the Beatles first played it.These were the finest moments of Thursday’s show, when McCartney sang classic Beatles ballads like Eleanor Rigby, Let It Be, Yesterday and Hey Jude.They shone on the sheer genius of the songs themselves.On other Beatles songs, however, the absence of the other band members — especially John Lennon — was almost aching.Besides missing him musically — for his edgy, rock ’n’ roll presence — you just plain missed him.The concert was played on the eve of the ninth anniversary of Lennon’s slaying, an event that seems just as senseless and painful now as it ever did.Earlier in the day, McCartney held a brief news conference at the SkyDome where he discussed, among other things, the everpresent question of a Beatles reunion.Echoing comments made recently by George Harrison, McCartney said: “There can’t be a Beatles reunion because John died.” “Now we wouldn’t call it a Beatles reunion, ” he said, “but you (the media) probably would.” r TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1989—3 Alter several thousand years of reading the future, we still aren’t very good at it Want a peek at the future?It’s probably wrong, but.Nostradamus seems to have pre dieted the Great Fire of London for 1666: “The blood of the just shall be dry in London, Burnt by the fire of 3 times 20 and 6.” Who’s who By TADEUSZLETARTE And the reign of Queen Elizabeth who died at 70 in 1603: “More than ever shall her period be triumphant, At 70 she shall go to her death in the 3rd year of the century.” The French Revolution : "The people shall rise against their king; Peace being made, holy laws made worse — Paris was never in such disorder.” And its Reign of Terror: “The Assembly will condemn a king taken, And the queen taken by jurors sworn by lot; They will deny life to the dauphin.And the prostitute at the fort will partake the same fate.” The Russian Revolution: “The Slavic people in a warlike hour Will be so highly raised by their ideals That they will change a prince, And bring forth a person of lowly birth to rule.” And even the collapse of utopian Communism through the gilttering temptations of Capitalism: “The philosophy of life according to Thomas More Will be unsuccessful, and will give way to another more seductive.In the land of cold winds is where it will first fail.” * * * Then the U.S.A.and the U.S.S.R.will be allied: “one day the two great masters shall be friends, THeir great powers shall be increased; The new land shall be in flourishing condition; The numbers shall be told to the Bloody Person.” Uh oh! Who's this guy?“Out of the country of greater Arabia Shall be drawn a strong master of Mohammedan law Who shall vex Spain and conquer Granada, And by sea shall come to the Italian nation.” Then North America and the U.S.S.R.(or NATO and the Warsaw Pact) will join together and make both Arabs and Asians very unhappy: “When those of the Arctic pole shall be united together, There shall be in the east great fear and trembling.” Apres moi, le deluge! Tadeus is getting his licks in early because we re swiftly approaching the end of the year, the start of a final decade, the doorstep to the 21st century, the Third Millenium — and we’ll be inundated by prophets of every persuasion.It’s the arithmetic does it.We all know in our heart of hearts that Monday morning, January 1,1990, won’t really be any different than Sunday afternoon — hangovers aside — any more than your car runs better or worse as the odometer turns from all nines back to zeros.And whether it be meditating mystics, psychics with star charts or futurologists with graphs and trends, the game’s the same and so are the results — mostly wrong.After several thousand years of reading the furture, we still aren’t very good at it.You win a reputation as a prophet by counting (and recounting) your successes while ignoring all failures — rather like becoming a safe driver — by counting only those accidents you don’t have.But prophecy was never a comfortable profession even when you were right — especially when you were right.Jeremiah kept getting jailed for his glooming until he fled to Egypt.Cassandra told them there were Greeks inside that wooden horse but had her head chopped off anyway.When it emerged that Ron and Nancy were navigating the ship of state by the ‘Stargazer to the Stars’, derision was general and nobody checked the books.The trick seems to be ambiguity.The Delphic Oracle was a dab hand at that lark — she predicted King Croesus would destroy a mighty empire and never let on it would be his own.Mother Shipton was no slouch either but the blue ribbon grand championship has to go to Michel de Notredame, Nostradamus, only one of some 30,000 astrologers polluting Paris in the 16th Century but the one we remember.FORGET ny 111 And Quadaffi, who has tried everyone else, will finally join with Japan and lead a Holy War against the infidels: “The African heart will come from the Orient, To vex the head of Italy and the heirs of Romulus, Accompanied by the Libyan fleet.Malta will tremble, the neighouring isles will be empty.” They’ll invade Europe by air, sea and land with guided missiles: “The Oriental will leave his seat.He will pass the Apennine Mountains to see France.He will pierce thfough the sky, the waters, and the snow, And he will strike everyone with his rod” Arabs will overrrun southern Europe : “In the Danube and the Rhine shall come to drink The Great Camel, and shall not repent.” But a Polish pope will drive them out: “A Germanic heart will be bom of Trojan blood, Who will attain a very high degree of power; He will drive out the foreign Arabian people, Restoring the Church to its pristine preeminence.” But not for long : “The Arab Prince Mars, Sun, Venus, Leo, The rule of the Church will succumb by sea.Towards Persia nearly a million men.The true serpent will invade Byzantium and Egypt.” Neil Young conceit triumphant By Angus MacSwan LONDON (Reuter) — Canadian rock singer Neil Young, making a triumphant return concert in London on Tuesday, mocked U.S.President George Bush and dedicated a song to a Chinese student who defied an army tank in the Beijing pro-democracy demonstrations.While other 1960s survivors like the Rolling Stones and The Who have put their pension plans in order this year with nostalgia-laden tours, Young offered a bleak view of the state of world at the end of this decade.The veteran of Woodstock, who turned 44 last month, opened his set singing "It’s better to burn out than it is to fade away,” then prowled the stage like a hungry caveman, thrashing his acoustic guitar with the energy of someone half his age.He played a number of old favorites from a catalogue stretching back 25 years, including the classic After the Goldrush.The more belligerent new songs dealt with urban decay, poverty and crime, crooked cops and drug abuse, and mocked Bush’s campaign promises with the lines “We’ve got a thousand points of light for the homeless man, a kinder, gentler, machine-gun hand.” He finished with the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young song Ohio about the shooting of four students by National Guardsmen at Kent State University in 1969, dedicating it to the Chinese student seen on television screens around the world defying a tank during the suppression of the pro-democracy movement in Beijing in June.Tickets for his London show, part of a brief swing through Europe, sold out within hours.Then Martians will take over the earth in July of 1999: “In the year 1999 and 7 months.From the skies shall come an alarmingly powerful king, To raise again the great King of Jacquerie, Before and after, Mars shall reign at will.” And the Third Millenium begins with rockets carrying conventional and biological warheads: “After great trouble for humanity, a greater one is prepared.The Great Mover renews the ages, Rain, blood, milk, famine, steel and plague.In the heavens fire seen, a long spark running.” Unitl the final nuclear ka-boom: “The great star will bum for seven days; 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Remember where you read it. 4—TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1989 Eleanor Gang and Michel Lachance join soloists Lucie Roy and François Panneton Sherbrooke Chamber Ensemble’s first Christmas concert By Claudia Villemaire SHERBROOKE — Michel Lachance never dreamed of singing as he studied classical music and majored on the double bass.“1 only started singing because someone told me I should audition.They heard something in my humming I had never imagined,” he explained.So he took his courage in hand, auditioned for the McGill Singers and surprisingly was welcomed to the fold.Today, the Lachance bass voice, rich, sonorous and true is almost a legend eventhough he admits the necessity of teaching to earn a real living.“So, when I was successful at the audition and the director took me under his wing for lessons, I continued to major in music but for a school-music teacher’s certificate.The double bass kind of got left behind.” Lachance told of the scarcity of jobs for school-music teachers.He explained this type of music training has been phased out of many school study programs and recalled sending out 250 curriculum vitae.“I knew I couldn’t make a living doing part-time teaching, semi-professional singing as I was doing in Montreal and besides, I was married by then and a baby was on the way.It was time to find work that would be steady and hopefully located in one place,” he said.So Lachance waited for replies.One sunny spring day, an answer A warm Christmas is By Claudia Villemaire Now what would you think?There are some folks around who swear they’ve seen my knitting needles smoke — now that’s going pretty fast.But when that number 24 in the twelfth month hovers on the horizon, a person with my ability to procrastinate has to compensate somehow.By the way — procrastinate means putting things off.It’s the story of my life.Ask my family.They’ll tell you and probably still laugh about it.Who else but those cherished cherubs would find the handknitted socks dutifully wrapped (pretty lumpy packages), carefully and strategically placed under the tree, hiding not only one complete sock but a matching mate still on the needles with a ticket saying simply “give them back.” Or perhaps there are families in hiding somewhere, hoping no one will find out they too had a propensity to lose one of anything that comes in pairs — socks, mitts, gloves, and even slippers.I pray with dedication and fervor every night they also wrapped up that one, of a pair, and hoped to find the mate before the ripping sound of paper spelled another Christmas fuzzled up.I know, because, oddly enough, even my family has found two socks, wrapped separately, under separate cover! Not many people will admit they dropped the turkey at least once on its wobbly trip between the sink and the roasting pan.No one would confess to dropping this succulent featherless, shining clean and dripping wet bird twice.Ha! Neither will I.but.And how about that Christmas pudding.You know, the one that calls for suet.Most bird-feeding people these days are quite well-informed about winter birds’ diets —which include beef suet.Ah ! that wonderful ingredient, once reserved especially for steamed puddings, a favorite family dish come Christmas day.I can see it all as tErabitional Christmas Œurkep Sinner ©ill bt Srrbtb frùap, Setembrr I5tl) at 11:30 to 2:00 Don't Forget to Come by & Try Our Newest Beer Brewed on the Premises — Black Fly Stout ffltnv Ojrigtmg anà ftappp JUto gear from tf)e tèolùen lion j)ub anb ^vetoing Companp New Year's Party! Bring the New Year at the Golden Lion 2 College St., Lennoxville 819-565-1015 came from East Angus, offering yet another part-time position as a school-music teacher for the East Angus School Commission.“I was getting pretty discouraged.So I thought I’ve never been to the Eastern Townships — why not take a ride down, relax, enjoy the scenery and talk to these people eventhough I really was not too interested in another part time position.” “I liked it so much it didn’t take much negotiating before we were moving out here to stay,” he added.So, Michel Lachance teaches and is singing again.No more running from job to job with no real sense of accomplishment anywhere.And his bass voice has brought him into contact with local choirs and musical groups such as the Ensemble de Chambre de Sherbrooke who present their first Christmas program this Saturday, Dec.16.Lachance will be joined by Eleanor Gang, who is also earning quite an envious reputation as a talented and expert soprano.Gang has appeared in several solo parts this past year and presented a solo program this summer.She brings not only talent, but a genuine love and understanding to the music she sings, making it a special joy to hear.Eleanor Gang and Michel Lachance will be joined by two other soloists from the region ; François Panneton, tenor and Lucie Roy, alto.The program begins with Corel- li’s Christmas Concerto, opus 6 followed by Noel pour Instruments by the French baroque composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier.Ralph Vaughn-Williams Fantasy on Greensleeves will complete the first part of the program.The entire second half will be devoted to a performance of the third cantata from J.S.Bach’s Christmas Oratorio.This is where the soloists will shine, putting the finishing touches to a piece of music that is always impressive.The concert will be repeated in Magog at St.Patrick’s Church the following afternoon, Sunday, Dec.17 at 3.Tickets will be available at the door or call Mary O’Keeffe at (819) 569-4603.chocolate for dogs, suet for birds though it was yesterday.The pudding, slipping without crumbling, onto one of the ‘best plates,’ (used by my greatgrandmother for just such an occasion), the white sauce (the recipe handwritten in grandmother’s hand and a carefully guarded tradition) steaming temptingly on the back of the wood stove.And all those expectant faces.A ring of rosy cheeks, yum-yumming and squirming in anticipation of that first succulent mouthful — the ultimate reward on Christmas day for cleaning up their plate and being fairly civilized until Christmas-tree time.There was no way I would look out the window.I was certain the baleful eye of some hungry blue-jay or grosbec was burning a hole in my back.No way could I face my feathered friends who cast desperate, famished looks at their empty suet bag.Confusion reigned in bir-dworld, but after all, you had to do what you had to do.We were a close family — still are and a very forgiving bunch at that.Like the time the dog ate all the chocolate santas, most of the popcorn and a few strung cranber- ries before Mother Nature had a fit and Queenie deposited the steaming mess under the tree she had just licked clean.My kids don’t even know about that one.Then there was the time one little tyke we won’t name discovered Christmas joy also came in the bot-tom of the visitors’ drinking glasses.We found him in a queasy state of health, shortly before dinner.I guess my kids knew about Santa’s real name long before I thought they did.At any rate, I insisted that every gift must be well hidden and my favorite hiding place was the freezer, a 27-cubic-foot giant that often was more empty than full.As a matter of fact, there is one dear friend down home who remembers well being presented a gift in a brown paper bag decorated with a huge bow and the card inscribed with her name and the proper loving greeting.And I remember, as I waited for her exclamation of surprise and pleasure, finding her expression of shock and disbelief rather unusual.She thanked me rather vaguely, leaving me wondering what could have been wrong.All the guests wanted to see.what was the gift?.why was she sidling towards the kitchen with a desperate look?Heavens to Hannover, .of course, it was the wrong bag.Instead of a shimmering, silky shirt .it was a scrawny chicken — frozen solid and gleaming with a bluish, frosty sheen.Christmas at our house always meant imaginations would be stretched to the limit.Meagre money supplies meant most gifts would be fabrications — cotton-ball snowmen, soap-container angels — toys made from the local furniture factory’s wood scraps — whatever could be fashioned into a recognizable shape from next to nothing.There were special feeds to get ready for favorite animals.Carrots to choose, grain to shake clean and apples to quarter for horses, calves and chickens.No notice was taken of the meagre mountain of gifts under the tree or the festive table that perhaps lacked the flourish of sparkling silver and crystal.Candles made from melted crayons often spluttered gracefully in wedding-gift silver holders, and Fred Flintstone glasses shimmered (no clinking please) beside the cheapest paper napkins.But who can measure precious moments.Our Christmas special (as in ‘tee-vee land’) was dressing up in our finest hand-me-downs, gathering in late afternoon twilight around mother’s piano, lighting up the tree, and, in that shimmering, colored light, singing everything we knew — from Silent Night to You are my Sunshine.And while we sang with all the fervor of a Westminster Abbey choir, kittens leaped at baubles and tinsel, the tea kettle boiling away on the wood stove whistled its own merry tune, and we were happy, together.Ah, what Christmases they were.Grand Opening December 2nd and 3rd Special Savings on CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAYS WITH US j&Lj ^arclùv 'jemico %cu> Antiques — Christmas Trees — Decorations Poinsettias — Plants — Gift Ware 1149 Knowlton Road 514-263-5476 West Brome, Quebec We tried a technique known in the business as dry-brushing” TOWNSHIPS WEEK-FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15.1989-^ Marge White & Dale Beerman — artists in ceramics By Sharon McCully Marge White, a Chambly housewife and mother of two, and Dale Beerman, a forklift operator at a Pointe Claire container depot, share the same Granny — but that’s the extent of their family ties.The near-human Granny figure who sits perched on a wooden rocking chair with a twinkle in her eye, is a testament to the two artists’ ability to work together to produce some of the region’s most outstanding ceramic figures.Finding two artists who can work together on the same project is as rare as finding two women who can work together in the kitchen making the same pot of soup.But Marjorie White and Dale Beerman appear to have found the formula to do just that.A TEAM “I don’t work well with other women,” Marge joked, “I’m too bossy.” Partner Dale doesn’t seem to mind.“Dale cleans the greenware, then I’ll put the base coat on,” Marge says.“Then he’ll start on another aspect while I’m finishing up.” Both Marge and Dale, old friends and new partners, confess to being perfectionists.“We’ll both stay at it until we think it’s perfect,” says Dale, “but it’s Marge who puts the finishing touches on each piece,” he adds.“She has the artistic talent and a real eye for detail.and she sews!”.Dale and Marge became artistic partners after visiting a ceramics exhibition in Montreal three and a half years ago.“We were both intrigued by the work and thought we’d be interested in trying it,” says Dale.Marge said she was looking for a hobby that would occupy her now that she had more free time with children Debbie, 20, and Robbie, 18 becoming more independent.HOBBY HUNTING “My husband has his Blue Grass band as a pastime and the children have their own projects, so I needed something that would challenge and interest me,” says Marge.Dale, meanwhile had always enjoyed building and creating things.One of his projects, he said, was finishing the White’s basement.It was not surprising then, that after a few trys at producing ceramic figures, Dale and Marge knew they were on to something.“We enjoyed working at it so much that Marge’s husband bought her a kiln and we began making the pieces at her house.” Dissatisfied with the seemingly simple technique of painting and glazing the greenware to produce ceramic figures, Marge and Dale decided to try something more challenging.DRY-BRUSHING “We tried a technique known in the business as dry-brushing, which gives the subjects more lifelike characteristics,” explained Marge.With dry-brushing, paint is ap- plied layer upon layer giving detail to each line on a face, each hair on a dog’s back.It’s also a very expensive process.“We go through four or five paint brushes a night,” estimated Marge, “and each brush costs anywhere from $3-$8.In order for a piece to be appropriate for dry-brushing, it must be handled with meticulous care by the workers who produce the molds.“The seams have to be hidden, and finger marks which often appear when the soft clay is handled, have to be removed,” commented Dale.“The best pieces for dry-brushing come straight from a mold that hasn’t been used before.” Finding the right molds can be as time-consuming and costly as producing the completed pieces in the shop.“There is very little greenware in Quebec that we would find suitable,” Marge said.“Partly because it can’t come into Quebec from the U.S.without French labelling, and also because we are constantly searching for pieces that are very unique.” A SPECIAL GRANNY Like Granny.The “Granny” mold was purchased in Tennessee during a family vacation.Many of the other pieces found in the BK Ceramics collection have roots in various parts of the United States.Thousands of miles have been logged by the two partners in search of the ‘right project’.Like the Teddy Bear’s picnic that caught hockey star Bob Gainey’s eye at the Brome Fair.Other pieces in the collection include Indian figures, life-like animals, and a host of Christmas decorations.Their most recent acquisition has been the greenware for twin infants.“We toyed with the idea of doing them in porcelain, but the trials and the process would make the cost prohibitive,” Dale said.NOT FOR THE MONEY But neither Dale nor Marge are in the ceramics business to make money.In fact, they probably don’t come close to getting a financial return on their investment of time and materials.“It’s a very expensive hobby,” admits Marge, “But one we enjoy.” A highlight of the hobby, according to Dale, is meeting other people in the ceramics field, and joining the exhibition circuit.“We started coming down here to the Brome Fair and Townshippers Day and now we are regulars at most of the fairs and exhibitions in the Eastern Townships,” commented Dale.As a matter of fact.Dale developed such an affinity for the region.he moved to East Famham in June and commutes daily to his Point Claire job.And Marge says some of the best years of her life were spent in Cookshire where her father William Kipling ran a monument busi- ness.Her 82 year-old mother continues to run the family business in Cornwall, Ontario.ART CAME NATURALLY “My father kept art books all over the house so I couldn’t help but have some artistic ability,” chuckled Marge.And both artists say they inherited their drive and determination from their mothers.“Last year, when we encouraged my mother who is in her 70’s to move closer to town because the farm was two miles from her closest neighbour,” recounted Dale, “she raised her South Dakota farmhouse and moved it six miles into town.” The long hours and high standards have earned Marge and Dale the admiration of others in the field."Going to the shows is a real ego trip for us,” laughs Marge.“It’s really nice to have other people who work with ceramics come over to your table and admire your work.” Pieces from the BK Ceramics collection are available for sale from either Marge or Dale.Just give Dale a call at (514) 263-9534.PHOTOS/PERRY BEATON Marge While and Dale Beerman search far and wide for special moulds * aüi-"—¦ Æm-: 6—TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1989 A quick survey of the ’89 Christmas music scene This week Kaleidoscope attemps to aid frantic shoppers in their wading through the multi-genred confusion of pop music, with a rapid survey of some of the choices available for Christmas giving.For every person on your gift list there is sure to be a style of music, a currently trendy artist, or an old favorite performer, whose music will light up eyes when it’s placed on the turntable, shoved into a Walkman, or played on a new CD-player.?MOTION PICTURE/TELEVISION SOUNDTRACKS: Parenthood (REPRISE—WEA) Not only is Steve Martin’s latest receiving fine reviews, but the added bonus is that song stylist Randy Newman follows his father’s long tradition of success by providing the soundtrack.Much of it is mood music, with Newman's quirky touch, but there’s also a vocal track or two, including “I Love To See You Smile” .Black Rain (VIRGIN—A&M) Ridgley Scott iAlien, Blade Runner» directs Mike Douglas in this film about contemporary Japan and its clash with American values, but the music relies on names such as Gregg Allman, UB40 and Iggy Pop, plus unknown Japanese artists like Ryuichi Sakamoto to 0 ETIRE IN STYLE • Autonomous Residents • Single or Double Rooms • Home Cooked Meals • Laundry Service • Private or Semi-Private Baths • Reasonable Rates • Access to Game Rooms and Gymnasium • Ready Now! Call for information 819-876-5870 PLACE NOTRE DAME 43 Railroad St., Rock Island Kaleidoscope By RICHARD LONEY add musical thrills to what is reported to be an action-jammed film .The Wonder Years (ATLANTIC—WEA) Part of the runaway success of this Emmy winning tee-veer must be attributed to the dynamite soundtrack.From Joe Cocker’s smokey delivery on the signature track “A Little Help From My Friends”, to Stevie Stills’s lament for the assaults on the street people of L.A.in the late sixties “For What It’s Worth”, this one has great material gathered on one cassette.Carole King’s “Will You Love Me Tomorrow”, CSN&Y’s “Teach Your Children”, and Van Morrison’s "Brown Eyed Girl" are a further trio of super tracks among the thirteen included here .When Harry Met Sally .(COLUMBIA) Harry Connick, Jr.emerges from the Billy Crystal/ Meg Ryan romance flick as a new talent doing the kind of music that made Sinatra famous decades ago.Tunes like “It Had To Be You” and “Where Or When” have critics talking about the young Connick, and his seasonal “Winter Wonderland” should get lots of Christmas play as well.Do The Right Thing (COLUMBIA) Director Spike Lee’s film has stirred up considerable controversy.but the soundtrack, with tracks like “Magic, Eddie, Prince Ain’t Niggers”, or “Da Mayor Drinks His Beer” reveal the kind of ethnic comedy that occasionally rises above some of the racial posturing that controls much of the movie.UB40 1ABOIR OF LOV E II 0!&e3tâC!Si«K3feSt!aKSlS3tS>£CiitiB3f!3>eat{$3! 0.Coming Events 612 Sherbrooke $ Magog 847-2806 £ Quebec version of Gilly's Place in $ Texas j 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 ta «s a» «a «s «s ts «« es ta fes t*a «s «a t» «s t CFTM (D CFCF œ WVNY œ ETV MM FC TSN PC S Saturday DECEMBER 16.1989 MORNING 5:00 Q USA TODAY Director-composer Gordon Parks' ballet tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.(MM) VJ: LAURIE BROWN (TSN) SENIOR PGA/LPGA GOLF Mazda Charnpionship.From Dorado Beach in Puerto Rico.(R) (2 hrs.) (PC) MOVIE *** “LA GUERRE w ; m •] m : 'Passport to Skiing' visits ski meccas of the world By Ted Shaw The lifestyles of the rich and shivering is the subject of TSN’s new travelogue series, “Passport to Skiing" (Wednesdays).Jean-Claude Killy The weekly show, hosted by Todd Brooker and Laurie Graham, guides viewers on a tour of the world’s great ski resorts.Brooker and Graham, both former World Cup champions, are familiar with the world’s classiest ski meccas.Among their stops on “Passport to Skiing" are Aspen, Colo., and St.Moritz in Switzerland.There are suggestions about where to stay and eat, and each week there’s a special guest.Among those who drop by are French Olympic and World Cup champion Jean-Claude Killy.• The Los Angeles Raiders, featuring former CFL great Mervyn Fernandez, take on the Seattle Seahawks in an NFL game this Sunday, Dec.17, on TSN.TSN also has a clash between the Cleveland Browns and the Houston Oilers on Saturday, Dec.23.• Two of the greatest players in the NBA go head-to-head this week when Ervin “Magic" Johnson of the Los Angeles Lakers meets Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls in a game from Chicago Stadium.It’s on TSN on Tuesday, Dec.19.• In his recent best-selling book about Harold Ballard, Toronto writer Dick Beddoes relates a humorous story about former Toronto Maple Leafs great Frank Mahovlich.It seems that during the 1972 summit series between Team Canada and the Soviet national team, Mahovlich was so paranoid about being watched by the Soviets while his team was in Moscow that he searched his hotel room with a fine-toothed comb.Lifting a rug, the lanky left winger saw what appeared to be a listening device.So he promptly unscrewed it.Unfortunately for the Big M, it turned out to be the support for a ceiling lamp in the room below, A tell tale crash of glass revealed the awful truth.• NHL hockey this week: Montreal-Buffalo, Friday (TSN); Philadelphia-Montreal, Chicago-Toronto or Calgary-Ed-monton, Saturday (CBC regional telecasts).D’HANNAH” (1988, Drame) Ma-ruschka Detmers.Ellen Burstyn.Une leune Juive hongroise tortures par ses compatriotes, collaborateurs des Nazi, a gagne la stature d heroine en Israel.(2 hrs.25 min.) 5:30 B WEBSTER Katherine and George explain the facts of life to Webster.G> ARNOLD ET WILLIE 5:40 (MM) ROCKFLASH NEWS 6:00 B FUNTASTIC WORLD: PADDINGTON BEAR CD JEM «B HERCULES © WOLF ROCK POWER HOUR (1 hr.) (MM) BLUE SPOTLIGHT SPECIAL Featured: the Thompson Twins.(FC) MOVIEDDDH “Little Dorrit Part Two: Little Dorrit’s Story" (1987.Drama) Alec Guinness, Derek Jacobi.(3 hrs.3 min.) 6:30 B FUNTASTIC WORLD: FANTASTIC MAX B WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY A Disney Christmas Gift" A collection of animated films including "The Night Before Christmas" and "Once Upon a Wintertime" as well as scenes from "Bambi" and "Peter Pan." (1 hr.) O G.l.JOE © LEGENDS OF THE WORLD When Master Lukas finds a valuable icon, two towns battle over its ownership.(MM) VJ: LAURIE BROWN 6:35 B LES P’TITS BONSHOMMES 6:50 B SAMEDI DE CONGE 7:00 B INSPECTOR GADGET B FUNTASTIC WORLD: RICHIE RICH 0 G.l.JOE © C.O.P.S.© SMOGGIES © MARVEL ACTION UNIVERSE (1 hr.) (MM) FAX (TSN) SPORTSDESK 7:15 B MIRE ET MUSIQUE 7:25 (PC) MOVIE ** "BOOM TOWN” (1940, Drame) Clark Gable.Spencer Tracy.Deux aventuriers du petrole deviennent soudainement riches grace a des gisements sur lesquels ils travaillent, (2 hrs.) 7:30 0 O CALIMERO O MASK B FUNTASTIC WORLD: SUPERTED O TRANSFORMEURS B PEPPERMINT PLACE © MAXI © ROCKETS (CC) © RAMONA Beezus is disappointed after getting her hair cut by a salon's apprentice (R) (CC) (MM) MUCHMUSIC WEST (TSN) HOCKEY WEEK (R) 7:45 B THOUGHT FOR TOUAY 7:50 B HATHA YOGA SHOW 8:00 B B TCHAOU ET GRODO B DINK, THE LITTLE DINOSAUR (CC) 8 ALF-TALES (CC) B UNDER THE UMBRELLA TREE O PETITE POULICHE B © PUP NAMED SCOOBY DOO (CC) © LA BELLE VIE 0 EXTRA! EXTRA! (CC) 0 SESAME STREET (CC) (1 hr.) (MM) VJ: STEVE ANTHONY (1 hr.40 min.) (TSN) WORLD CUP SKIING World Downhill Training Run, from Panorama, B.C.(R) (1 hr.30 min.) 8:30 O Q TOUFTOUFS ET POLLUARDS 8 JIM HENSON’S MUPPET BABIES (CC) (1 hr.) a CAMP CANDY (CC) B SESAME STREET (1 hr.) B LES PTITS BONSHOMMES O © © DISNEY'S ADVENTURES OF THE GUMMI BEARS (CC) © ARNOLD ET WILLIE 9:00 B B LES SCHTROUMPFS (SC) B CAPTAIN N: THE GAME MASTER (CC) O GHOSTBUSTERS O © © NEW ADVENTURES OF WINNIE THE POOH (CC) © LA CROISIERE S’AMUSE © SILENT MOUSE Lynn Redgrave narrates how "Silent Night" was written with the aid of a young boy s pet mouse.(1 hr.) 9:25 (PC) MOVIE ** "LES DENTS DE LA MER: LA REVANCHE" (1987, Horreur) Lorraine Gary.Lance Quest.Une femme doit vivre a nouveau les horreurs du passe lorsque son garçon est tue par un requin gigantesque.(1 hr.35 min.) 9:30 B B LA BANDE A PICSOU B PEE-WEE’S PLAYHOUSE (CC) B KARATE KID (CC) B SHARON, LOIS, & BRAM'S ELEPHANT SHOW When Sharon, Lois.Bram and Elephant invite some neighborhood kids for a sleepover, a mime group, the Potato People, provide the bedtime story.(CC) a c.o.p.s.a © SUMER! AND THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS (CC) (1 hr.) © S-4-3-2 RUN (CC) (FC) MOVIEDH "Illegally Yours" (1988, Comedy) Rob Lowe, Colleen Camp.(1 hr., 41 min.) (TSN) WORLD OF HORSE RACING