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...Lucie had come because she had heard there was a fortune to be made in this glittering district simply by pouring drinks and making small talk with Japanese businessmen. To Western girls with a streak of adventure, this Japan has a curious appeal. They find out about hostessing while touring Asia, perhaps, and encountering women returning from Japan who tell stories about the big money. Some answer employment agency ads in overseas newspapers to work in Japan as "dancers" or "entertainers" - only to find themselves hostessing. Others are just passing through Tokyo, perhaps as the first stop on an Asian...
...parable for Japan's economic journey. And like most of his countrymen, the downturn didn't affect his lifestyle. His lavish habits continued; he kept his Ferrari, vintage red Rolls Royce Silver Cloud, his condominiums by the sea in Miura. Driving his Ferrari around Roppongi, he was a curious figure with his droopy mustache and surgically altered, Westernized eyes. At 1.7 m tall, he wore shoe lifts and took regular doses of human growth hormone under the mistaken belief it would make him taller...
...perhaps? Would it have made any difference either way? Actually, all those nannies amounted to the daycare of the wealthy. In any case, the parental influences seemed perversely symmetrical: it was from his father that John Kennedy learned the womanizing, and from his mother that he somehow acquired his curious aversion to being touched...
...that." Meanwhile, rumors start spreading virally on the Mac loyalist websites. It's going to be a widescreen iMac, says one. No, they're going to announce a nationwide chain of Apple boutiques, argues another. Now you're in a state of hyped-up curiousity. And there's nothing better suited to Jobs' dance of the seven veils than a room of hyped-up, curious people...
...This is the script, familiar to veterans of Macworld Expos ever since Jobs returned from exile. But here's the curious thing about Tuesday's performance: from this point on, the script got lost...