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This enthusiasm helps compensate for the production's predictably rough edges: a missed line, a mishandled prop. a conversation shouted instead of projected. Unfortunately, Saka's direction sometimes isn't up to the challenges of performing theatre-in-the-round, as when he lets actors huddle around a dying man, muffling lines and shutting off visual expression...

Author: By John KENT Walker, | Title: Playing With Fire | 3/13/1981 | See Source »

...Parthian (a Persian people), nomadic (from the Eurasian steppes) and even Roman. All collided with the Hellenistic Greek domination of Alexander the Great, who conquered Bactria in 331 B.C., and his Seleucid successors. Two centuries later, the Greco-Bactrian kingdom was overrun by nomadic groups, among them the Parthians, Saka from the steppes and five Central Asiatic tribes called the Yiieh-Chih...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Golden Nobles of Shibarghan | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

...million on the election so far. The party, moreover, is receiving the open support of the great zaikai (conglomerates) for the first time. Some firms, including Mitsubishi, Hitachi and Toyota, are "sponsoring" their own L.D.P. candidates. Mitsubishi, for instance, is backing one of its employees, ex-Policeman Ken Saka, for a national seat; the company's interest in Saka is not likely to be lost on the 850,000 employees of Mitsubishi and its affiliates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Unsinkable Kaku-san | 7/8/1974 | See Source »

...ADNAN SAKA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 24, 1964 | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

Centerfielder Bob Smith started the Crimson's rally with a single. Ray Mae-saka followed with another one-baser, and when Chuck Wade pinch-hit another single, the visitors had the bases loaded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Purple Rolls Over Crimson Nine for Easy 13 to 3 Win | 5/27/1952 | See Source »

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