European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 15, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes january 1981 pipe Din torture at eardrum Pointe adrift in a Din of iniquity by Hugh Mulligan a by the time 1 got away from Phoenix i Felt As if i had been beaten to within a centimetre of my life to Recycle a cliche metrically by xylophone Mal my subdural still vibrates with the staccato beat of Vaya con if 1 had undergone heart surgery the operating room team would have had to Cut through the sound rack of Hiyi to Rancho Grande echoing from my never before have i passed a week in a place so inexorably attuned to elevator the cloying pipe Din stuff that follows you wherever you for a newspaper convention i was billeted in one of those posh desert re sorts that have made a fetish of the late John Waynes now listen and listen up Good and replaced the san drifted serenity of the old Southwest with the prerecorded sounds of the senile Sun our Hacienda style hotel Complex was called the it Bills itself As the largest resort in the actually it is a Lovely save for some painful lapses in taste by the Interior decorators who had an acute Case of the cuts when it came to naming the toilet would you believe Pointe Siettas and the same people probably brought us the booming endless guitar and xylophone music that issued Forth night and Day from enor Mous loud speakers sequestered in the Cactus and behind the Date Palms everywhere on the even Lloyd Bridges in scuba gear could not have gotten away from the stereotyped As the brochure proudly pointed out main courtyards Are tropical gardens and feature swim up bars and underwater sitting in the Jacuzzi was like being immersed in the big Copper drum at the Boston at 4 on the second i called the front desk and asked if it would be possible to have the music pounding away outside my door turned Down a you would have thought i was advocating mayhem and moral turpitude against the Vienna boys the kid at the desk except he was shouting to be heard Over the musical the sound system is on a timer and i dont have a clue where its at breakfast time at the the timer turned up the volume to Levels that even North vietnamese torture teams would have quailed music Here want but an what the Muzak Call stimulus it got louder and lousier As the Day grew and More Sac Charine As the night Drew but it never predawn i made a Point at the Pointe to adopt their own speech ways of complaining to the desk about the recorded Racket that like Macbeth did murder sleep and left gaping Elbow holes in the rave led sleeve of some of the answers i got were on the same mental level As the music programmers but no one else has Ever com some people May like she was at a loss to name its programmed into our very expensive equipment kept in a locked Ihmi arc vet were not allowed to have the Engineer Doest get Here until speak i cant hear you Over this live strolling guitars and folksinger keen ing into enormous amplifiers outdid the re corded bedlam in the evening turning the tiniest of cocktail bars into eardrum unc Turing padded a duet named Chip and Jeanette bowled into stereo speakers big enough for Houdini to use in his trunk escape Jeanette had a cold one but the show went every time she honked into a the microphone resounded with a blast that sounded like the Queen Mary getting ready to bust Loose from her moorings at Long Beach and head out to All week Long the the steam the Tennis lockers even at times the meet ing rooms echoed with the electronic ennui that just have been concocted by a consortium consisting of Lawrence Liberace and Xavier on the morning i leaving a wedding took place in the courtyard before one of the Spanish fountains that the brochure assured us had been hand carved by artisans in the mountains beyond All through the the splashing fountains and the ministers mellifluous delivery of the rubrics were drowned out by the recorded strains of your cheating just As Drusilla was being asked if she took agamemnon Here to have and to As her lawfully wedded the loudspeakers interrupted to announce that the Airport transportation is now ready for my mental state was such that when i headed to the Airport in that same transportation i thought sure i saw a Gale shaped Cloud hanging Over Squaw Peak and Fleecy puffs arrayed like the five notes of Vaya con Dios floating Over could it be that the navajos now use Muzak for their smoke signals chess master Dies Moscow a Alexander who became an International chess grand master in 1948 and served As chief referee of the world chess olympics in has died at age the official soviet news Agency Tass across jewish month 5 Post 9 hebrew letter 12 arrive 13 Verdi opera 14 eggs 15 it forms Lake Mead 17 at present 18 mistakes 19 Buenos 21 musical note 22 zest 24 heroic act 27 insect 28 elliptical 31 russian 32 House Wing 33 frigid 34 Wing shaped 36 cunning 37 tardy 38 stale or trite 40 italian River 41 la Vista 43 crowns 47khan 48 Salt River dam 51 nothing 52 Singer Paul 53 actress Adams 54 female Deer Sharken 56 to series Down 1 Long for 2 Portal 3 god of love 4 turn against 5 defaces 6 Succour 7 cretan Mountain 8 tibetan monks 9 capital of Liberia 10 bacchanal cry 11 Bird craps solution time 23 answer to yesterdays 16 period 20 japanese statesman 22 Ravine 23 unsightly 24 friars title 25 Lamprey 26 water 27 overcome 29 drama unit 30 Lixi Vium 35 routine 37 bread units 39 actress Remhardt 40 dessert 41 card holding 42 Exchange Premium 43 despot 44 redecorate 45 in latin 46 Short distance 49 United 50 turkish weight today crossword 115 Clear Ann Landers dear Ann Landers this morn Ings mail brought news of the suicide of a he was a Lovely Man whose wife recently passed his daughter had assumed that he had adjusted but since she was not living near him she had Only his letters to go most people Are not aware that the death of a spouse is the most traumatic of All lifes the difficult problems usually be Gin weeks after the when the last relative has gone and the Day today routine the bereaved widows and widowers should be told about the help they can get from government Agen those who Are interested should write to widowed persons service 1909 k thanks for All the Good you but no longer fearful dear Friend in grateful for the 1 did not know this service was thank you for helping me to help dear Ann Landers my Mother is retired and has very Little to so she Calls me on the yesterday it was seven she never has anything to talk about wants to make sure everybody is All my Mother is not a she and dad Are in Good have a no financial worries and Many but suddenly i have become the Center of her this woman does More sing now than when i was in she had a Job then and had very Little time for now she cant leave me of 39 dear hate to be a but ill have to say it it takes two people to create a situation like yours a Mother who is a compulsive neurotic and a daughter who will permit herself to be imposed seven Calls a Day just to see if everybody is All right is too darned at some Point you must enough and no As Sert your Independence and Tell your Mother that her smothering is creating problems in your mar make it Plain that one Call a Day is enough unless there is an if she insists on Call ing More Ive got to 1u phone you then do it dear Ann Landers i have never seen this subject discussed in your column and have been a daily Reader for Many please respond in the i would like several people to see it especially a certain clergy does the minister of the gos Pel presbyterian have the right to ask a couple who come to him about wedding plans if they have had sex maybe i am but i think it is none of his our minister made the statement that he has married 111 and Only one couple out of the whole kit and caboodle had not slept together before the wedding am i right to feel this is a very Nosy minister and that he is not entitled to an answer Reader dear Cham he has no Busi Ness asking such but what kind of dummies would answer c flew