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...after coming to power, he organized his Tonton Macoute, meaning bogeymen in Creole, a vicious, plainclothes gestapo that collects taxes and blood money from merchants [and] tortures and murders suspected anti-Duvalierists. To help the Tonton in their grisly business, there is now even a ladies' auxiliary?the Fillette Lalo, a group of pistol-packing molls who are just as predatory as their male counterparts...
...conventional setting. This highly theatrical effect is achieved by the creative talent of Italian cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, three-time Oscar winner for best photography in films such as The Last Emperor. The music is a combination of traditional tango music by famous Argentine composers and several original pieces by Lalo Schifrin, known in this country for his re-working of the Mission Impossible theme for the 1996 film starring Tom Cruise...
This is not to say that Harvard is completelyoblivious to the efforts of rising musicians.Cellist Haimovitz is living proof. He now shareslabels with the likes of Eduard Lalo on PolygramKlassik. Following Haimovitz's transfer to Harvardfrom Princeton, the music department went to greatlengths to accommodate his needs and his erraticperformance schedule, as did Kirkland House, byensuring that he had access to sufficient practicespace. When referring to the majority of cases,however, Risinger offers a logical analogy."Musical performance here is akin to varsityathletics. People will be enthusiastic andsupportive," but in the end, the emphasis stillrests on academics...
...government agents is assigned to infiltrate a fortress commandeered by a charismatic maniac. Then comes a fatal ambush of the good guys, and all that remains of our super team is star quality. Can't you see the lighting of the fuse, hear the hopscotch rhythms of a Lalo Schifrin theme? All right, the threat--like most threats in recent spy movies--is domestic, not international. But The Rock, this week's entry in the summer-movie testostero-thon, still looks like an instant sequel to Mission: Impossible...
...LALO SCHIFRIN, 63; LOS ANGELES; composer