8The Daily Tar Heel Monday, November 22, 1 987
Photo exhibit shows
abuses in El Salvador
By JULIE OLSON
Stat Write
In a slight change of pace, the
gallery of the Student Union is
sponsoring a photo exhibit on the
subject of El Salvador. The exhibit
started in conjunction with the
Campus Y's Human Rights Week
and is scheduled to run through Dec.
These photos are not standard
shots but rather brutally
honest pictures of the human condi
tion in the war-plagued nation.
"One of the goals of our committee
was to have a show that depicted a
part of the world where human rights
are violated every day," said Union
Gallery Chairwoman Tracy Taft. "El
Salvador was a logical choice."
The photos are the work of 30
internationally known photo
graphers, representing such diverse
publications as Time, Life, News
week, U.S. News and World Report,
the New York Times, Paris Match
and Stern. The photographers were
not in El Salvador for the express
intent of building the show, but felt
compelled to do so after encountering
the shocking scenes while on assign
ment for their respective journals.
THe exhibit is from the book "El
Salvador: Work of Thirty
Photographers."
?Since so little of their work had
ben published, the book, and then
the; show, became an alternative way
to '.increase public awareness of the
situation in El Salvador," said Susan
Mfciselas, one of the book's editors.
"This wasn't something they had
planned on accomplishing, but with
what they saw while on assignment,
they realized that a single photograph
in a newspaper wouldn't necessarily
affect the public as they were affected
while there."
The book was first released at the
end of 1983, and since then the show
has been exhibited in museums,
galleries and universities throughout
the nation. Some of the photos have
been published previously, others
havent, but they all share in the story
of the violations of human rights that
occur daily in El Salvador. The
exhibit is designed to shock, but to
shock for education, not
entertainment.
As macabre as some of the photos
are, the show as a whole is more than
just the sum of its parts. The series,
photo after photo of scenes from El
Salvador, brings out a theme of
repression, death and hopelessness.
"The photographers felt that Amer
icans should know more about what
happens outside of the border line,"
Meiselas said. "After all, they were
the ones who saw first-hand the
deaths and the decapitated bodies."
Yet in the midst of all the despair,
there is always the human element.
The show chronicles not just the
continuing history of a country in
conflict, but shows, in candid detail,
the popular struggle of a people
against repression. It is not pretty, but
it is their reality. "It's something that
everyone should know about," Taft
said. "The exhibit should bring an
awakening to students who may not
know politically what is happening
in El Salvador."
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Houston falls flat
in one of her dullest
performances of all
Whitney Houston gave an unin
spired and dull performance
before a disappointed crowd of
about 12,000 in the Smith Center
Saturday night.
Houston's concert often
dragged and became tedious, and
she was never able to become
comfortable with her audience.
David Hester
Concert
her inability or unwillingness to
establish some kind of rapport
with the audience. She had an
Although her remarkable vocal excessively regal and pretentious
gifts were well in evidence, they stage personality, and her chief
were not enough to make up for form of non-musical communica-
the overall pretentiousness of her tion with the audience consisted
performance. of reading aloud the adulatory and
One of Houston's chief prob- fawning letters her fans threw
lems arose from excessively slow onstage during the early and
and plodding arrangements on middle portions of the show,
many of her songs. She frequently Houston's lack of interest in the
held up the completion of her show became shockingly evident
songs to indulge in seemingly when she told the audience
endless and elaborate vocal gym- between songs, "This is one of the
nasties. Instead of impressing last shows of my tour, thank God."
listeners, these interminable vocal The audience became aware over
contortions made the audience the course of the evening that
bored and restless. Houston tried Houston was not taking any great
to turn many relatively up-tempo interest in them or in her show,
songs into slow and dramatic and a crowd that was wildly
torch songs, but this action merely enthusiastic during Houston's
served to take the punch out of opening numbers became almost
some otherwise interesting songs. apathetic by the end of the even-
This practice even marred songs ing.
that were recorded with slow Houston's voice did sound won-
arrangements. "Didn't We Almost
Have It All" is rather slow and
derful, and her singing was gener
ally impeccable. The merits of
repetitious in its recorded version, Houston's singing were completely
for example, but Saturday night outweighed by the flaws of her
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Whitney Houston opens her concert in the Smith Center
it seemed to go on forever.
Although Houston did perform a
few energetic tunes, such as "I
Wanna Dance With Somebody,"
even these tunes suffered from the
show's overall lack of energy.
The most serious flaw in Hous
ton's performance, however, was
performance style, however.
Houston has one of the finest
voices in contemporary popular
music, but her apathetic and limp
performance Saturday night made
it impossible for the listener to
fully appreciate her musical
talents.
Clef Hangers deliver finely-tuned concert
By KIM DONEHOWER
Staff Writer
One of UNC's established perfor
mance groups offered a different sort
of diversion for Carolina students
Friday night. The Clef Hangers, the
13-member all-male singing group,
entertained a predictably full house
at Memorial Hall with their trade
mark mixture of a cappella songs and
humorous sketches.
The theme for the evening was
Club Fernando's. The audience was
first taken on a simulated plane ride
with the Clefs as they made their way
to an engagement at Club Fernando's
in Rio de Janeiro. A storm struck,
and the audience was informed that
the unlucky Clefs' flight had crashed,
and they now had to make their way
through the perilous Brazilian jungles
in search of their destination.
The scene opened, presumably in
the midst of the jungle, with the
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Concert
tuxedoed Clefs' effective rendition of
"The Lion Sleeps Tonight." The rest
of the first part of the concert
progressed with a mix of traditional
upbeat a cappella numbers such as
"Standin' On the Corner" and
"There's Something About the Old
Songs," humorous bits like "Secret
Love" and the beautiful ballads
"Time After Time" and "Jean."
After the intermission, the
audience was informed that the Clefs
had finally reached Club Fernando's
after a short stop at the local Banana
Republic store, which was evident as
the Clefs took to the stage in more
appropriate Amazon gear. The music
began with "Blue Moon," featuring
soloist Tim Sparks. The program
continued to display the variety of
the group's selections, mixing
numbers like the lovely "Aura Lee"
(recorded by Elvis Presley as "Love
Me Tender") and the spirited "Little
Deuce Coupe" and "Too Darn Hot."
In between musical numbers, the
audience was treated to a variety of
characters. The Church Lady made
an early appearance, with her own
distinctive brand of "superior"
humor. Willie Nelson and Julio
Iglesias performed their "To All the
Girls IVe Loved Beforehand Michael
Jackson offered the opening lines of
"Bad." The Clefs are natural per
formers and pulled off these imper
sonations with style and humor.
The concert closed in the tradi-
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tional Clef Hangers manner with
"Carolina Victory Hark The
Sound." Former Clefs joined the
current group on stage, and audience
members rose to their feet and
heartily joined in. The Clefs raurned
for an encore with their presentation
of "If I Were Not a Clef Hanger."
Alter egos included student activists,
resident assistants, cafeteria workers
and Dick Crum, as the Clefs managed
to poke fun at pretty much every
student group or personality on
campus, ; - c'. $
The; Clefs are all able musicians
and their solid harmonies remained
consistent throughout the Show.
Their humorous interludes and mus
ical quality combined for an evening
of light entertainment that was
extremely relaxing and thoroughly
enjoyable.
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