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Show THE I sot THERN lTAII l ":\11\TRSITY. CEI>AR CIT\. l TAH 87TH YEAR; NUMBER 11 MOND AY, OCT OBER 26, 1992 INSIDE: H EAD START: ~l 'U u •1ll reccit•t.'. one of only St.Tm Head Swr1 Teachinl! Ccn<t.'.n rHII wnally, according lo V1ri.: irna H 1i.:bee. SEE PAGE 3. At:ti,,itics Vice President Lisa Pewee is calling Homecom ing a great success, with excellent attendance. SEE PAGE 6-7. Kier /,erformed Thu rsday night in the Starlight Club as part of Homecoming Week festivities. H is repertoire included im/icrsoruuins: such acts £LS Uill:y Joe.I, Bruce Springstttn, Prince and others. Kier lucks out with an easy audience The Starlight Club is an overall success along with other activities during the week REVIEW BY CHERJS TIJCKER lluindnbinl Editor SUU VICTORY: Tight end Ryan Moynier caught a 14-J<Ird touchdown pass in Saturday's Homecoming win ot•er Sacramento State. SEE PAGE 11 . Kier, a rock impersonator/comedian, scx,red Thu™'ay night with an easy audience when he came to SU for Homecoming Week's Thursday night Starlight Club. His impersonations did sound miraculously similar to the stars he imitated, including James Taylor, Lat Zeppelin, Nirvana and a host o f others. Althou1,,~, Kier didn't look anything like d1e acts, if students closed their eyes, it seemeJ as if his impcrsonccs wen: really in d,e Harris Pavilion due to his incredihle vocal capacity. He used the guitar and keyboarJ to accompany his sin1,,,jng, and should be admired for doing the whc~c perfurmancc with his pointer nns,-er in a cast, due to a run.in it haJ with a six·pound sledgehammer. • 1 screamed and jumped around for days," he said. At times he overemphasized d1e accents of the stars he impersonated-sometimes fur comic efkct, sometimes not-and it detracred from dle impeminations. Kier also d iJ a great deaJ of stand-up comedy d uring the act, wh ich at times floundcrcJ . He tcndc<l to Jwdl tuo lung on L~rtain jukei1 and at o(her rimes l"ICCOfflC really mdlow, acting as if d1e wf"K~e perk,nnanc:e was a dK1re. . He alM:l rencled tn drag out everything he Ji4.I, induding his impersonations. He wuulJ tdl d1e m.k.ticno: he was Joing a i;ong, and, 10 minutes lall:r, he wuuld play it-<1nly after he haJ intrudtk,,1 it SCYernl tim~ and play the intro to lhe ~mg 11CYC:rnl times. "I thot~t I was reaJy," he woulJ ~y. He also Jra~ out hi:- p('rftmn:ultt as a whole, ~,ins: wcll heyonJ his alloctc<l time, s:iying he haJ more acts he w.mtcJ tu J o. In f.K."t, as he was pcr,1rming his later numl-iers, the Jerorations l:x.-.::m to fall down behind him-mayhe he should have taken it as a si1,,,n, However, many auJicncc memhcr:s (thl'Y must have lx.'t'n ~hmcn) indul1,,oeJ Kier hy l:m1,,~1ing at jokes, c mslng him to continue with his diJ,,'l'essiuns, including :-uch tupcs as Monnonism and hitting his nnf,!Cf with a sk..lJ,,•ch:unmcr. He ali;c;1 should have stuck tu impersonating lither people's M:lngs rather dlan pl-tying his own, which seemed to have no definitive melody. I • |