WGBH Journal; Boston Marathon, Pompeii AD 79 At Museum Of Fine Arts, Artemis Productions, Louis Lyons

Good afternoon. Welcome to TB external I'm Bill Gates. They Vivien do God and Becky Rowe are getting ready for the curious three day weekend. As the bump a show opens at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and mountain racers get out their running shoes. Lee's approach takes us behind the scenes at Women's Music in Boston and blue lines wraps up the news week. Boston Marathon is upon us once again. Thousands of running fans will be showing up all along the 26 mile route on Monday. Watch thousands of other running fans with a little extra dedication. Maybe fanaticism. Drive themselves to physical exhaustion. Maggie roar gives us a preview. This Monday. Over forty five hundred men and women will run in the eighty second annual Boston Marathon this record number of racers who run the course of 26 miles three hundred

eighty five yards from the town of Hopkinton to the Prudential Center in Boston. Runners Ellie Mendonsa and Larry Berman have already run the marathon several times the course itself. It's not hard. It's mostly downhill because you start at the high elevation and in the cup. Sea level so it's mostly down here. But what happened as to when the hand around the 17 miles between the 17th and 20th mile there was a steady uphill. And that's a crucial part of the race when you guys. Started to say no no now that's it. And you face those hills. So that's why people see Boston very hard of course which is not it's just a strategically it's hard the hills actually begin at 16. So more forms where you cross the Charles River and the last you know it starts at about 20 and a half does have significant heels and they do

come at a time when you're particularly vulnerable in the hills especially Heartbreak Hill have achieved notoriety among racers who must climb the hills after they have already been running for almost 20 miles at this point says Dr. Lloyd Smith of the same Elisabeth's runner's clinic. Many runners hit the wall at the marathon distance the number often called it is 20 miles as a point where quote the runner hits the wall and we're not really we don't really understand what happens at that point. But apparently the normal. Physiologic functions that keep the runner going up to 20 mile seemed to deteriorate at that point and the muscles cease to function to a great deal and the runner encounters a tremendous amount of difficulty continuing the wrong that's not it. Not everybody does but they do when they do they will never forget. You feel like. Feel like nothing I mean like you know like some guy running a body the only thing you have is your mind

just like you just feel like sitting now and not going anywhere. He became getting very depressed. What goes on in your mind is What am I doing here. This is crazy I'll never do this again. Every runner has gone through those feelings and there are various degrees of hitting the wall I mean we we knew of a runner in a very hot marathon who for various reasons he wasn't supposed to take water and absolutely at 20 miles ran off the course and into a building. There's a great urge to stop. And it happens very suddenly around comfortably everything is under control you look at your watch and you say gee this looks good I think I'm going to have a decent time today and all of a sudden you get very desperate and you just wonder whether you're going to make it.

Runners Larry Berman Sara Mae Berman and Ellie Mendonsa runners may sometimes wonder whether they're going to make it because of another crucial factor. That is the weather. A common misconception is that the perfect weather for a marathon is a warm sunny day. Although this may be perfect for spectators it is less than perfect for the runners who face possible dehydration and heat exhaustion. Dr. Lloyd Smith if the temperature is about 55 or 60 degrees then heat becomes a factor. We are gearing up for providing some care at the finish line. If we do have a warm day we're probably the most common problem we'll see will be dehydration on a hot day. There you cannot have too much water and I'm not necessarily talking about to drink. But I remember it was at 73 I think it was a very warm day. And Mary and I both Dow started shirts sweater T-shirts down before the start of the race. And within a few miles our T-shirts were bone dry.

Last year was hot and the year before I was even hotter. You cannot run a man. About 55 degrees 75 is lovely for spectators but for a runner running that kind of distance. The colder it is the better. If you've ever watched the start of the marathon you may have wondered how so many people can run together without tripping over each other. Some runners have complained but Runner Sarah May Berman likes the huge numbers of people thing about the Boston Marathon or any of the big marathons and there are quite a few of them now as running a marathon running has become more popular. Is having a lot of people to run with. There are only a few people that really have any hopes of winning the race. Most of the rest of the people are in there to cover the distance and to make is to try to reach a goal in terms of the time or pace that they want to run. Hoping the weather is kind to the runners and that the spectators enjoy the race anyway. This is

Becky roar for GBH Journal. It's being called one of the greatest shows ever to get. Over half a million people. The first morning of the opening. For the first time in history many artifacts wall paintings and other materials excavated at the site of Pompei in southern Italy have been brought to the United States. They've come as part of an exhibit called Pompei A.D. 79 a show which has drawn record crowds all over Europe. Tomorrow it will open here in Boston at the MFA where it will remain until mid-July. The exhibit is being compared in scope to the common show that has

recently been touring the country. But Robert Kasem an associate director of the Museum of Fine Arts points out that unlike the common which exposes the world of kings Pompei A.D. 79 illustrates the life of the every day citizen. The thrust of the exhibit is really to recreate the day it was before us erupted almost a thousand years ago and recreating it to demonstrate the extraordinary. Culture levels the artistry achieved by that. But at that time in Roman history and mostly though to show what it was like to have lived in Pompei where you were on the ruling side or whether you were just an ordinary working person in the city. Pompei was a was rather a working man city and an ordinary city with a wide range of kinds of people. It was an industrious thriving industrial city in those days with great agricultural exporting why

and will it not. Great artists an array of fabulous sports and it was sort of the Green Bay Packers location of the ancient Roman days. The sport being a gladiator sports which were by our standards bloodthirsty but very closely resembled modern professional football. And how are you exhibiting these kind of people oriented aspect. We're trying to make it possible to stroll through to have the feeling of strolling through some of the homes some of those. The dining room perhaps the bedroom sort of the gardens and see the objects as they as they would as they were in Pompei. It is not just a procession of objects not of the cases it's there of course but it is the feel of being in a just before the service blue. Robert Castleman associate director of the Museum of Fine Arts where Pompei A.D.

79 opens tomorrow. The exhibit includes over 300 objects many of which are in a rare state of preservation. John Hermann the curator responsible for the installation of this exhibit describes some of the contents of Pompeii 80 79. We're trying to have everything that the Pompei offers at least a little bit of it. It includes some fantastically fragile some fantastically bulky things and and above all things that are preserved almost anywhere else in the in the ancient world. I think the most conspicuous thing are the the wall paintings. It's really what people associate with art and what the Romans in the ancient world thought was the most important kind of art. And it's practically preserved only it in the city's buried by Vesuvius. And we have really some very. Beautiful examples of ancient painting.

We have marble sculpture. We've got so many of the small things of life you are often in bronze iron things that were melted down and endlessly made into new tools in antiquity or or in the case of iron with just rust the way we have things in really incredibly fragile materials like like Amber We've got gold work and silver and it's really surprising the sort of thing survive because the gold in the silver was what the people escaping from the disaster tried to take with them. And much of the gold was found on the the bodies of people who were caught down by the sea shore or tried to sit out the eruption in there.

In their house John Herman is assistant curator of classical art at the Museum of Fine Arts exhibit at the MFA is being synchronized with a show at the Museum of Science which will explain the geologic aspects of the Pompei story for this show a two to three ton piece of volcanic rock has been brought directly to Boston from the slopes of Vesuvius the volcano that erupted and covered Pompei for GBH Journal. Vivian Duca. Across the river one of the. Growing out of the production.

Productions is a group of women. Currently there are three of us in the past we've been as many as five women committed to producing good quality concerts by women for women with content that is feminist. OK when did you start your production. We first met to start planning in the spring of 1975. Haven't produced our first of man which was the first Boston Women's Music Festival in October for three days in October of 1970 fab. And we've done an average of about three events a year since then single concerts and one other festival in the past three years have you seen the growth of Women's Music in Boston has there been any. When we did our first event there had been no single women's concert that had an audience larger than about 300 and so we didn't know what to

expect. Well I've first event sold out over 600 city hall for three nights and that clued us in to the fact that this was her idea whose time had come. It's continued to really grow since then. Critics of the women's movement argue that it focuses largely on white middle class women. However women's music seems to cater to all classes and races. Do you see the growth of a distinct women's culture as a unifying force in the movement. I do think it's unifying I think it's unifying in several ways. Just to talk locally for a minute. One of the things I like about producing women's music is that it's a place for us to cross paths with each other when often we're scattered into very diverse lifestyles and very diverse political work. And it's very energizing and unifying I think to have a place where we come together and see how many we all are and how beautiful and wonderful and strong we all are.

Well it seems that in women's culture and especially in women's music lesbian women have made an incredible contribution. Could you comment on on this phenomenon is there any any reason that you can see for this. When. I don't miss looks at who we have been producing while we have not produced exclusively lesbian musicians. By and large the early impetus and the continuing main energy for Women's Music has been coming from lesbians and from woman identified women and we are proud to be identified as a lesbian production company. I think one of the reasons for that is that if you're a woman committed to relating to women it's very there's something that's just very clear immediately about having to articulate your situation having to express how you see the oppression that comes down on women. The urgency of having to found

solutions for ourselves that are positive for women to. To me that doesn't mean a narrow focus of music that doesn't speak to all women. But that's that's definitely man a very clear source of of the energy for Women's Music which is something that I think people could well ponder. The alliance brings formant meaning to the usual bewildering array of news events which rained down on us around us this week. The week has been catching up with the slow sprang in time for the official spring weekend opening here the Red Sox opener at home today. The Boston Marathon is Monday. Yesterday's summit temperature brought out their early part to lips yellow John cloves and Magnolia set for

Cynthia yellowing lilacs and willows greening. The last of the ice is almost gone from the deep ponds here and there a turtle ventured out yesterday to bask in the sun and Iraq decide upon the rising day temperatures have tempted impatient home gardeners to rake the most from shrubs and flower beds then to hope you know late freeze. Tomorrow the ides of April income tax day that needs no reminding. Taxpayers have heard much talk of tax cuts but have found that was not for tomorrow but next year and maybe not then. The new chairman of the Federal Reserve William Miller is sharply critical of the president's plan for a 25 billion dollar tax cut. It would be inflationary Miller says an undo the end inflationary program. The president announced this week rather than cut taxes the government should cut the deficit. Otherwise he calls the president's proposals a good first step. The president's urgent insistence on cutting government spending appears to have had quick results with

Congress. Next day the house killed the farm price bill that he said had said he'd veto it was inflationary. The day before the Senate had voted for it. And on the tuition tax exemption a Senate committee had voted for it before the president announced he'd veto it. The House Ways and Means Committee next day voted to eliminate the exemption for private schools and cut the college exemption into the $250. On the issue of the Social Security payroll tax also the climate appears to have changed with the president's stand against a movement to roll back the increase. House committee approved the rollback before the speech. A Senate committee disapproved it the day after. Of course another factor comes in here all the House are up for election. Only a third the Senate but persuading Congress to moderate appropriations may be less of a problem than holding down wages and prices. The president announced he will hold federal pay raises to five and a half percent

and said he'd expect other workers to accept a rate of wage increase below the average of the last two years. He does appear to set a goal of five and a half percent to further inflation this year. It's been rising at the rate of seven percent the first quarter. But though he'll hold down the pay increases of all he can control. The president will not apply wage and price controls to the national economy. He said I don't think that would work. You asked about this my edit is you made the audience for a speech on inflation. The president declared the only instance in which I can think wage and price controls might be applied would be a case of national emergency like all out war or some tragedy of that kind. Yet in his speech he had said inflation has become embedded in the very tissue of our economy. It persists because all of us are caught in a treadmill which none can stop along except for Abe Rosenthal of the New York Times. No one seems to have raised the contradiction in these

statements. If there is a constituency for wage and price controls it has failed to find effective political voice. The industrial index in March rose one and four tenths percent the government announced today. That's the most in a year. The Senate leadership has a weekend problem to get its ducks in line for the final vote Tuesday on the second Panama Canal Treaty that ministration and Senate leaders have been struggling all week to contrive a sentence that will undo one in the first treaty without alienating those who apply created by it. Panama is government has faced agitated home protest over the reservation. The Arizona Senator DeConcini succeeded in having added to the first treaty that said the U.S. reserves the right after the year 2000 to take such steps as it may deem necessary including use of military force to reopen the canal or restore its operation against any internal disruption Panama's government declares it's a violation of

sovereignty. In a statement circulated to all U.N. members. And ministration diplomats have worked in vain on the truculent Arizona senator to say it doesn't quite mean what it says. Nevertheless Senator Byrd believes he has the answer in a new reservation that will simply state that any action is taken by the United States pursuant to the resolution not to be interpreted as intervention in the internal affairs of Panama. If that would appease Panama the only other problem is if it were piece enough senators except DECONCINI whose vote secured last time at such pains prove their need to send a broker Massachusetts said he'd vote no unless the flub could be satisfactorily rectified. Brooks vote is again the target of an advertising campaign by the Conservative Union. Panama and inflation are screened attention from Secretary of State vents a difficult trip to Moscow and Rhodesia in both the encounters negative situations where the Soviets to confront their policy of

intervention in Africa that President Carter has so sharply criticized and to test the climate for reviving detente in any meaningful way in Rhodesia he joins with Britain's David Owen to try to reopen the conditions for the transfer of power with the one he's been trying to persuade the leader of the growing opposition to join a conference on expanding the agreement already made between Ian Smith and the domestic black political leaders. If the news sells the regime on its side will deal with its old enemies. Masters Supreme Court suspended Judge Robin Bond indefinitely after giving him a hearing yesterday. The court order said public confidence in the courts required that he be enjoined from continuing on the bench while his conduct is under examination by the Bar Association Committee that the court appointed. The committee has interviewed going about his attendance at a fund raising lecture for defendants indicted for sex offenses. The case of the NJ dishes judge has occupied

the press even more this week than the outbreak of racial violence that closed Hyde Park High School and the legislative riles over investigation of corruption in state contracts. The state superintendent of construction who couldn't remember how the MBM construction consultants were chosen to announce his resignation at the end of the week the Managers Association of Civil Engineers has asked the governor and legislature to overhaul a system of contract awards that gave rise to the MGM scandal. The engineer's letter said their members feel shut out of state work. They don't even bother applying because they can't afford to hire lobbyists to get St. Johns. The revelations about the contracts confirmed our suspicions about the way of doing business with the state such as paying to get work said President John Hanlin Jr. of the Engineers Association. Besides listening to the president the American Society of Newspaper Editors had issues with their own survey of what kind of news readers want found they want more foreign news and they getting

a panel of editors disputed this holding to the traditional view that readers want local news all Lynette it is generally took the position that any foreign news they published was a kind of a contribution to culture. They didn't sell papers. It happened the day the argument was going on. The Boston Globe had the candor to publish a letter from a Japanese scolding them for their poor coverage on Japan. It's well-known that the newspapers in this country do not carry much foreign news compared with those in Europe and Japan. You know Mira it's regrettable that the Boston Globe is not an exception to this shortcoming. Suppose Japanese newspapers were to cover only American auto theft and racism. Japanese understanding about this country would be easily distorted. This could be said of other papers and of the coverage of other countries in Japan. If the Globe has some excuse in its preoccupation with Bostons anti busing agitation and the ceaseless

revelation of scandals at the State House this does not justify being completely absorbed in them. The paper has oceans of space and a separation of staff energy and is in the happy position of being able to set its own standards. In New York governor Kerry has again vetoed legislation to restore the death penalty. Whether the veto can be sustained is reportedly uncertain but the governor staked his position strongly on grounds of practical policy and public morality. He has proposed making life imprisonment mandatory he calls again for gun control laws. The legislation reflects he says ever increasing frustration with failure to deal with crime. But the death penalty will turn us away from the urgent problem to make the criminal justice system work. The system needs toughening from the ground up. There's a lack of clear evidence that execution is a deterrent against crime. I do not believe that the ultimate vengeance of execution will make us a better or even a safer people says Governor

Kerry. And that's GBH journal for the day. For use of the Today show is Amy sans Evgeny with Steve Colby and I Bill Gavin next week WGBH will be bringing you a special live public affairs broadcast as the U.S. Senate wraps up its last two days of debates on the Panama Canal. Leading up to the final vote expected for Tuesday evening at 6:00 WGBH with Kerry gavel to gavel coverage Monday and Tuesday so be sure to tune in for the first for the final days of the Panama Canal debate live on Monday and Tuesday. You are WGBH in Boston. With.

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