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...land of Latter-Day Saints has provided a curious backdrop for a latter-day carnival. The Lollapalooza tour -- a festival of determinedly edgy alternative music featuring ethnic food, political forums and 12 bands, including rappers Arrested Development and female grunge rockers Babes in Toyland -- has pulled into clean-living Utah...
Other kids also affect somewhat un-Utah fashions: shaved heads with ponytails on top, T shirts that read YOU SUCK, nose rings and lip rings. University of Utah freshman Matt Irvine says many dress alternatively but have firm morals -- a buddy of his at the concert leaves for his two-year Mormon mission in a week. Lis Calder, 22, says the Utah alternative-music scene is a reaction to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints: "I was raised in a strict Mormon family. My aunt thinks there's an evil spirit surrounding rock music...
...eyes: "It's the ultimate binocular looking into the neuroverse. It will probably replace the frisbee, and has already replaced Rubik's Cube." In the speaker's tent, a more serious exploration of the mind is under way as teenage audience members step onto a central stage and debate. "Utah is a hypocritical state." "You got the choice before you get pregnant." "If it's wrong, it's between me and God." The ringmaster-moderator is 23-year-old Mud Baron. He claims police are secretly taping the debate from a nearby building because they fear concerts attract...
...Lieutenant Mike Wells of the Weber County sheriff's department confirms the video surveillance, saying it was "just for our own benefit." He adds that on-scene deputies declined to lecture because of the possibly hostile crowd: "It could develop into a dangerous situation." So for an afternoon in Utah, with its lifeless lake and unbending mores, the kids performed their rites, and the law just watched...
...prank apparently fooled Utah-based Sun International Pictures, which produced the show and sold it to CBS. But Jammal's tall tale was not the only misleading part of the special. Sun filled the two hours with a mixture of fact, conjecture, fantasy and arrant nonsense, while offering no clues as to which was which. "Eyewitnesses" who claimed to have seen or even touched the ark paraded in front of the camera. Unfortunately, the audience was told, an earthquake, attacks by terrorists, the Russian Revolution and other inopportune events had frustrated various attempts over the years to bring back clear...