Word: miki
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Father (Miki Manojlovic) is a functionary in the Yugoslav Department of Labor and, whenever he gets the chance, a dedicated philanderer. During a tryst on a train, he deflects pleas of love from a randy gym teacher with an offhand "Who loves anybody in this madhouse?" Before you can say "compulsory resocialization," he is sent to a labor camp--or, as his six-year-old son Malik (Moreno D'E Bartolli) is told, "Father is away on business...
...time when some of his colleagues have difficulty selling anything but their umpteenth La Bohème, Gaddes has found an audience for the new and the unusual. The current season is typical: the American premiere of Japanese Composer Minoru Miki's An Actor's Revenge, a double bill consisting of Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's The Secret of Susanna and Frederick Delius' last opera, Fennimore and Gerda (also an American premiere), Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro and Verdi's Rigoletto, all sung in English...
...Miki's score uses nine Western instruments plus the koto (a kind of harp), samisen (a Japanese lute) and the tsuzumi drum. The composer manipulates a few simple musical motifs to achieve great emotional resonance as the themes recur; a sensitive, fragile hybrid that combines traditional Japanese elements with contemporary Western compositional practices, it must be heard in the theater to make its effect. Director Colin Graham, who commissioned the work for London's English Music Theater in 1979, staged the sometimes violent action subtly and with formal grace...
...effort to stop such corruption, revelations of which rocked the government of Takeo Miki in Japan and disgraced Prince Bernhard in The Netherlands, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act made it a criminal offense to pay bribes of any sort to foreign officials to secure or retain business abroad. Punishment could be a prison sentence of up to five years and fines of as much as $10,000 for individuals and $1 million for corporations. The legislation also set up accounting procedures designed to make it virtually impossible for companies to disguise such "sensitive payments" or to hide them elsewhere...
...there was ever a girl who had everything going for her, it was Leslie," Miki L. Kagan '83, one of Poole's roommates in Weld Hall last year, said last week. Mary L. Thompson '83, another roommate, added, "Leslie didn't waste a minute...