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Although director Paul Verhoeven (Soldier of Orange) has a certified hit with Spetters in his native Netherlands, this Dutch version of Saturday Night Fever would have to cross many cultural barriers to be accessible to American youth. Riding motorbikes with glee, munching french fries and mustard, and wrangling with Calvinist consciences, the Spetters (translated Aces) are rebellious youth who "live like there's no tomorrow." The soundtrack consists of second-rate juke box numbers from the Johnny Rotten timevault, but it is probably the flaunted flesh in Spetters which has made it a box office success. There are masturbations, erections...
...belated appearance of punk movies will likely perpetuate the musical momentum of the old New Wave for a while. Other projects, planned or underway, include Times Square (promised as New Wave Saturday Night Fever, argh, by producer Robert Stigwood), and Urgh: A Music War, concerts of Magazine, Pere Ubu, X, Dead Kennedys, and Wall of Voodoo, the new New Wave...
Harvard's only loss of the day came at the third singles slot. Slowed by illness the past couple of weeks, freshman Erica Schulman was beaten by a fever and cough more than by the Tufts player, losing to a woman she had beaten in the second round of the GBCs...
Suffering from a high fever since Sunday, Young has been ordered by his doctors to remain at home to rest...
Indeed, hypochondriacs might do well to skip Fever Dream altogether. It describes the feelings of a youth who is certain that his body is being taken over by bacteria: "Now he had" no body. It was all gone. It was under him, but it was filled with a vast pulse of some burning, lethargic drug. It was as if a guillotine had neatly lopped off his head, and his head lay shining on a midnight pillow while the body, below, still alive, belonged to someone else...