University Daily Kansan / Friday, May 4, 1990
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The cast from left to right is Michael Brandt, Lawrence sophomore, as Darrell; Jeff Hopkins, Prairie Village sophomore, as the Rev. Ed; and Shannon Broderick, Lawrence senior, as Becky Ann.
Demented preacher is focus of semester's last KU play
By Ines Shuk
Kansan staff writer
Showtime is not over at the University of Kansas.
Before pulling down the curtain for the spring semester, the University Theatre will present "Tent Meeting," a comedy-drama about an Arkansas evangelist and his bizarre family.
Jack B. Wright, director of University Theatre and of "Tent Meeting," said the play was an interesting piece that should provoke a lot of discussion, especially among students.
Wright said it was a play out of the ordinary that questioned attitudes, values and material things usually taken for granted.
"It should be a unique and fun experience," he said. "We are trying to make it move you. We want you to laugh."
an you to laugh "Tent Meeting" was written by
Larry Larson, Levi Lee and Rebecca Wackler and premiered at the 1985 Humana Festival of New Plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Ky. It opened on a highway in New York in April 1985.
The play is the story of the Rev. Edward O. Tarbox, a demented, but charismatic preacher traveling to mass as to a tenn meet in Canada.
Tarbox is accompanied by his son, Darrell, who has recurring nightmares, and his daughter, Ann, who has an deformed child.
Shannon Broderick, who plays Tarbox's daughter, said her character was always hearing music in her head. Becky Amt puts cotton in her ears to avoid disturbances from the outside.
"She escapes from difficult situations through that music,"
Broderick said, "But she is not insane. She is a single-minded woman who only wants to be a good mother."
Broderick, Leawood senior, said working under Wright's direction was rewarding because he allowed him to discover new things in rehearsal.
Performing with Broderick will be Jeffey D. Hopkins as the Rev. Tarbox and Michael Brandt as Darrell.
Special music for the two-hour play was composed by Lawrence musician Michael Beers. Beers described the music as angelic, mood-setting music.
He said the music was composed with a Kurzwile 250, a computerized musical synthesizer.
"Tent Meeting" will be presented at 8 tonight and tomorrow, and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Crafton-Preyer Theatre.
California forecasts to include tremblors
The Associated Press
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — "Good evening. Tonight's forecast calls for a 40 percent chance of rain and a 10 percent chance of a big earthquake."
Californiaans may be tuning into such bulletins so soon as seismologists put their computer models to work in order to infer after ominous raids of the Earth.
The seismologists have gathered enough data on major fault systems in California to be able to predict, to some degree, the probability of a quake of 6.5 or more on the Richter scale within certain brief periods.
after a foreshock of magnitude of 4.0 or greater is registered, the model will go into work, determining whether there is, say, a 5, 10 or 25 percent chance of a quake within the next three days.
The developers of the model are ready to put it into use but are discussing with the state how the predictions will be used — whether they should be used for earthquake warnings or provided to state agencies so they can prepare.
The model is a mathematical formula that uses data on fault activity and the probability of major shocks, Lucile M. Jones of the U.S. Geological Survey said at a meeting yesterday, the Seismological Society of America.
Seismologists long have known that big quakes generally are preceded by less powerful shocks, but most systems are more precise. Jones said.
Jones said a study of the major faults in California indicated, for
example, that in the relatively quiet Carrizo Plain southwest of Fresno the chance that a 5-magnitude quake would be a foreshock to an 8-magnitude quake was 24 percent.
Jones, who developed the formula with Duncan C. Agnew of the University of California-San Diego, said scientists would probably never be able to predict with absolute certainty. But the percentages they could achieve make a possible take action to prevent damage or injure. Jones said.
"As scientists we feel that sharing information is always better than withholding information," she said.
The state could use the information to cancel vacations for disaster personnel, Jones said. Fire stations could move trucks outside. Daycare centers could leave children to getate quickly. Residents could fill bathtubs with water for drinking, put away dishes and prepare emergency supplies.
"Each individual group can start making those sorts of decisions," she said. "We aren't at a really high level (of accuracy), but people have been trying to get us to make these statements because there are useful things to do. And as we get better, the probabilities are going to head up."
Geologist Jim Davis of the California Division of Mines and Geology said he was talking with the Office of Emergency Services about whether earthquakes could earth-quake warnings. Davis said he didn't think quake forecasts would unduly alarm people or otherwise cause harm.
Bush pays more taxes after error is detected
WASHINGTON — President Bush had to pay an additional $7,497 in federal income taxes this week because of an error in the reporting of his 1890 income, spokesman Marlin Flitzwater said.
The Associated Press
the president had to file an amended return because the one he sent to the IRS last month did not include income from compensation he collected last year.
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the tax preparers after they had submitted his tax return last month, according to the explanation on his amended form.
The president had to file an amended return because the one he sent to the IRS last month did not include income from deferred compensation he collected last year.
The deferred compensation was received in the form of a paid-up life insurance policy.
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He was eligible for that compensation when he turned 65 on June 12, under an arrangement with Zapata Corp, the now-deferred oil company he once headed, Fitzwater said. The added income was brought to the attention of
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