Page 10, Out in the Mountains 3333333333%‘?$'§33'3‘E’33@'3E‘$‘33‘E"3'@‘E33‘@‘3’§ L & M Handywork Do you have a chore? Remodeling, sheetrocking, landscaping, or maybe more!! No job too small - we’ll do them all Slatework, painting - in and out, just give us a shout. For all your repairs, we’ll be there... Call us at 879-4381 Movie Review by Sarah Dreher Theater Too in Montpelier presented Alumnae News: The Doris Day Years by Sarah Dreher. The evening's entertainment was a wonderfully touching but light-hearted depiction of three college classmates from Wellesley looking back ten years later. It is a story of hopes and dreams, of fears, and of the search for identity in a world stressing conformity. Karen, a very bright, and lesbian, English student transferred to Wellesley College that year and there she met Stacey and Stacey's roommate Terry. Stacey is taken with Karen’s optimism and vision and the two schoolmates often stay up late discussing dreams of their futures. Terry, taken only with the Wellesley tradition, worries that Stacey might be "led astray" by Karen. Alumnae News is set in the 1960's, ten years after the trio have graduated, with flashbacks to their college days. As the play progresses we learn that ten years ago Terry went to the Dean with tales of Karen’s Last month’s OI'IM reporters wish to share their identity with curious readers. We inadvertently left off bylines on articles in November's issue. Legislative Comer - Susan Aranoff MOW Revitalizes Vermont Contigent - Carrie Coy UU Religious Group Forms - Michael Ferrell Book Review: Now That You Know - Anita Love and Life to Us All - Zeichner The Wedding - Anita MOW Commentary - Philip Roberts MOW thoughts (in italics) - Sarah Coy 1st National S/M Conference Held - Gilles Yves Bonneau Vermont Coalition Report - Perdue Walter Holly lesbianism. Stacey is warned by the Dean not to "hang around" with Karen anymore. Karen is deeply hurt by the sudden, mysterious, departure of her friend. The players are easy to empathize with and the audience is carried back to a time when the "L"-word was not spoken and the mere accusation meant ostracism. Alumnae News was performed on Friday and Saturday nights, November 6 and 7. Lis Brook as Karen, Leslie Jennings as Stacey, and Becca Brown as Terry did a very convincing performance. The set was simple with only some sparse furniture placed on opposite ends of the stage. The hall, in the basement of Montpelier’s Unitarian Universalist Church, was small and noisy at times but the play, directed by Nancy McAvoy and Sarah Dreher and produced by Fran Czajkowski, easily carried our imaginations back to a time when we were young and friendships were magic and I was not so sure of my sexual-orientation. Book Review PLAGUE: A NQVEL ABQUT HEALING by Toby Johnson 250 pp. $7.95 Alyson Publications Toby Johnson knows how to spin a good yarn, and he does just that in PLAGUE: A Novel About Healing. The plot is original and interesting but not always believable. In fact, the plot is the book’s strong point and also its weakest. Mr. Johnson, in his haste to get the novel published, sold out to expediency. Interviewed here in Burlington, Johnson’s response was, "it doesn’t take very long to write a book, once you get started." The story line,‘ while intriguing and at times even gripping, does not achieve its full potential. PLAGQE was given a premature birth and would have been a much better product if it had received more development. The story revolves around AIDS; it enjoys an interesting twist, however, in that both the cause of AIDS and its cure are controlled by "The Liberty Bell Foundation," a thinly veiled disguise of the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. This "right wing think tank" harbors such a loathing for homosexuals and all things to the left of the Spanish Inquisition that it is not impossible to believe that it would actually undertake just such an endeavor. It all begins in Africa where the Foundation is trying to develop new types of germ warfare that can be turned off when the battle or war is over. The experiment goes awry when animals escape from the laboratory and the disease begins to spread. Not to worry, though, because the researchers have an antidote that is 100% effective. However, they refuse to release it because "we have a responsibility to God to rid the world of homosexuals," which they believe this disease can do. This, of course, is all kept very secret by the Foundation. There are several interesting subplots in this book which are fun to follow. Peace 6' Just1ce Center 186 College St. ( 1 flight up) Burlington 863-8526 Peace 911 . Earth Store Third World Gifts: N on-profit Regular Hours M-F 10 am - 6 pm Saturday Hours 1 pm - 5 pm Call for a quote. Take a minute and compare Allstate for value. You may find we can save you some money on your home or auto insurance. Call me today... it'll only take a minute. Ellen Hetherington 340 Mallets Bay Avenue Colchester, Vermont ,.