Word: nagano
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That music is admirably presented by Kent Nagano, 37, a long-maned Californian who has guest-conducted widely and won a solid reputation for his performances of works by such contemporaries as Olivier Messiaen and Steve Reich. His reading of Mahagonny is sharp, clear and briskly energetic (even a bit too much so in the lovely "cranes duet"). Gary Bachlund brings an appropriate touch of Nelson Eddy to the role of the doomed hero, though Anna Steiger (daughter of Rod) plays Jenny with a less happy touch of Jeanette MacDonald. As Lotte Lenya taught a whole generation of admirers, Weill...
...least 40 cameramen and reporters were jammed into the narrow corridor outside the Osaka apartment of Kazuo Nagano, 32. Inside, Nagano, the chief suspect in an alleged fraud that had bilked thousands of Japanese investors of $800 million, waited for what seemed to be his inevitable arrest. Suddenly, two men pushed their way through the crowd and announced to two private security guards, "We've been asked to kill him." When the guards refused to let them inside the apartment, the two men first tried to break open the door; when it did not yield, they smashed a small window...
...sounds of scuffling emerged, one photographer pointed his camera through the window at a horrific scene: one of the men was holding Nagano in an armlock while the other brandished a bloody bayonet. Moments later the men emerged from the room covered with blood, and announced: "We stabbed him." Nagano lay dead from 13 wounds. Then the two killers, whose motive is still being investigated, calmly awaited the arrival of the police...
...videotape of the gory murder was watched by television viewers across Japan (as well as in the U.S. and other countries), including Nagano's 63- year-old invalid mother. Outraged viewers deluged newspapers and television stations with calls demanding to know why reporters and photographers had not tried to stop the killers or even summon the police. Japan's largest daily, Yomiuri Shimbun, criticized the journalists for putting their professional duties before humanitarian concerns, adding that "the mass media should search their souls." The suspect in another fraud investigation decided he was not taking any chances. The day after Nagano...
...highest affirmation of life in its potential for creation. So if these deities expose an organ of increase to a passerby, it is not to sling an obscenity but to bless him with the healthful prosperity of generation. That is why, at New Year's, the Nagano Dosojin festivals are children's celebrations, where new life honors the continuance of life. If the rest of the year children throw mud at the deity, or whip it with sticks, or urinate on it, the long-suffering peasant Dosojin will still be cleansed by the festival night fires and will...