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...unlighted interior of Satian No. 6 (satian is Sanskrit for "supreme truth"), a warehouse in an Aum compound near Mount Fuji. Then an investigator tapped on a wall and found a hollow spot. Police cut in with an electric saw and discovered a bearded man in a deep pink pajama suit lying in a compartment about 10 ft. long and 3 ft. high. With him were a cassette player, some medicine and a bag containing $106,000 in cash. Followers had apparently sealed Asahara into the hiding place a day or so earlier when it became clear his arrest...
...Misleading Lady to the rethinking of his 1955 box-office smash Damn Yankees for its current revival. In between were well over 100 productions in which George Abbott was named somewhere in the program, including a succession of bona fide classics: Where's Charley?, Wonderful Town, The Pajama Game, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Pal Joey. All of them were marked by what came to be known as the "Abbott touch," which eschewed psychological depth for a seamless, balletically precise progression of word, movement, song and stagecraft, all at a pace somewhere between high spirited...
...asking passersby, he came upon a center for the elderly in the working-class district of Nagata. There he saw a slim woman pouring tea for quake victims. She looked older than in the photo, but when Tachio showed her the picture, she recognized herself by the striped pajama trousers and black-and-white jacket she had been wearing when the photo was taken. The woman, Emiko Deguchi, 47, a department-store salesclerk, agreed to tell Tachio her story...
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...Yankees is Abbott's 125th career production as writer, director, producer or actor. Erstwhile protege Harold Prince, 66, whose first big shows as a producer were Abbott's Pajama Game and the original Yankees, wasn't yet born when Abbott burst to writing fame in 1925 with the melodrama Broadway and the comedy Three Men on a Horse. (Both have been revived on Broadway in recent years, the former in a staging by Abbott himself.) Prince recalls asking Abbott a couple of years ago what became of a play he was writing: "He told me it wasn't working...