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...OBA OBA '93 offers more dancing in the aisles than Five Guys Named Moe, more exposed flesh (of both genders) than Miss Saigon, more relentless good cheer than Crazy for You and more Carmen Miranda fruit-bowl hats than any other musical in Broadway history -- except for its predecessors of the same name. Yes, the brainless Brazilian musical celebration is back in all its feel-good glory, blending campy musical novelties, twanging folk songs, a jamboree of gymnastics and color-drenched carnivals when the entire 75-member cast is onstage, shamelessly seeking to please. The show serves a more diverse...
HITTING Name AB R H RBI AVG. 2B 3B HR SLG% SO BB OBA Jim Mrowka 73 13 28 22 .384 52 3 .630 17 8 .435 N. DelVelcchio 69 18 26 17 .3775 1 4 .652 6 8 .457 Dan Scanlan 73 17 27 16 .370 6 1 2 .562 14 7 .425 Juan Zarate 56 20 20 13 .357 34 0 .554 8 8 .433 Michael Hill 63 17 22 15 .349 31 2 .524 9 17 .500 Patrick Hegarty 43 15 15 7 .349 40 0 .442 9 6 .434 Michael Giardi...
...OBA OF BENIN. Benin's history was once the brightest of all the African kingdoms': its famous bronze sculptures are collector's items across the world. Today, the 450,000 members of this Nigerian tribe are led by Oba Akenzua II, 74. Like the Oni of Ife and the Alafin, he receives a stipend of about $10,000 a year from the Nigerian government; in addition, he has extensive landholdings that produce considerable extra income-just how much, no one will say. His successor is Crown Prince Solomon Akenzua, 48, who retired from the Nigerian civil service...
...buyer of Japan's goods in general (almost $1 billion worth last year), but Britain is likely to be the chief beneficiary of Japanese in vestment. Japanese find English the easiest European language to learn, and they savor the English way of life. Says Mitsui's Sadao Oba, one of the more than 4,000 Japanese businessmen living in greater London: "I like the quiet very much. I like the gentler pace of life." English employees in Japanese firms often return the compliment (see box previous page...
...pounce on any contrasts or similarities." Baroque Italian cupids by Guido Reni hang beside Isamu Noguchi's stainless-steel Man in Space. A gemlike 15th century English marble Pietà contributed by Seward Eric (P.A. '10), is set off by a terra-cotta Nigerian 20th century oba's (a ruler's) head, contributed by Whitney P. Foster...