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...production itself is another matter. Rather than trusting the music to make its effect, Graham Vick offers instead a cartoonish and superfluous gloss on the sardonic opera. Vick, the director of productions for the Glyndebourne Festival, and his all-British production team have set the action in the deprived consumer hell of the Soviet 1950s: Katerina's erotic fantasies, for example, run to materialistic visions of brides wielding vacuum cleaners. $ Symbols of heavy industry like cranes, tractors and forklifts move props (such as Katerina's marital bed) on and off stage, and Katerina's feckless husband is buried...
With an unfamiliar opera that is as powerful as Lady Macbeth, a radical staging is hardly necessary to create freshness and vigor in a production. Shostakovich's music can do that very well on its own, and all of Vick's efforts are more a hindrance than a help...
Charles A. Vick of Alexandria, Va. cited Harvard's "abundant resources and endless opportunities" as the deciding factor for choosing to attend...
...Mark A. Vick, Charles Vick's twin brother, saidhe's seriously considering Brown University. "I'mnot sure if I want to continue my education withmy brother or try branching out by myself," hesaid...
Take Subaru. After more than 15 years with the New York agency Levine, Huntley, Vick & Beaver, Subaru of America in June awarded its $60 million account to Wieden & Kennedy, the hot shop in Portland, Ore., that handles Nike's ads. Subaru hopes the right ad campaign will help boost U.S. sales from last year's 108,000 to as many as 150,000 in 1992. Said Chris Wackman, Subaru vice president of marketing: "Consumers are looking for qualities like safety, affordability and rugged performance, all of the things that Subaru represents. We've always been called bulletproof...