Word: midori
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...bullied by better-off children. The bullies particularly delight in pointing out the father’s middle-management position. In retaliation, the kids become bullies themselves and begin protesting their parents’ mediocrity. The real treat, however, is live Benshi (narrators of silent films) narration by Midori Sawato, Japan’s leading modern Benshi. Ticket $15 regular, $12 students (2 per I.D.) and seniors. 8 p.m. The Harvard Film Archive...
...proudly made by countless Shanghai grandmas. After you finish your phad thai or tikka masala, head to Face's bar, which opens out to a sweeping lawn. Sit in the Ming-style chairs for a quiet drink on the veranda. House drinks include the Chinese Whisper (Cointreau, Midori and lemonade) or a frozen vodka-cassis cocktail called the Shanghai Blues. The real action, though, is in the cushioned front salon, where the jeunesse dorée of the 21st century gather each night to discuss red lipstick and red-chip companies - even the prettiest, poutiest Shanghai vixen dabbles...
DIED. DOROTHY DELAY, 84, Juilliard violin teacher known for inspiring a lush, rich sound in her famous students, among them Itzhak Perlman, Midori and Sarah Chang; of cancer; in Upper Nyack, N.Y. Frequently consulted by conductors and prone to such endearments as "Sugarplum," DeLay defied the image of the icy European maestro with her motto, "Teach the student, not the subject...
...silent predecessors. It did. Cineasts found some films in katsu kichi, private salons showing silent films held in private collections. The groups were organized by Shunsui Matsuda, a benshi who died in 1987. The clubs re-created the original conditions of silent screenings. Last fall, the Pordenone festival invited Midori Sawato, the last in the line of professional benshi, to perform. She transformed herself from a petite mild-mannered woman to a wild narrator on stage, exploding into a shower of tones, sounds and voices...
...someone in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic." DIED. DOROTHY DELAY, 84, renowned violinist and instructor of some of the finest players to have emerged in the past 30 years; in Upper Nyack, New York. Educated at Julliard, DeLay's students included Itzhak Perlman and Midori. DIED. THOMAS J. KELLY, 72, engineer who oversaw design and construction of the Eagle lunar module that landed the first astronauts on the moon; in Cutchogue, New York. CONVICTED. TIMOTHY WOODLAND 25, Okinawa-based U.S. Air Force staff sergeant, for the rape last June of a 24-year-old local woman...