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...rise of Kabuki, a form of theater that began one night in 1603, when a priestess named Okuni performed in Kyoto dressed as a kabukimono, or dissolute samurai. The shogunate soon barred women from the stage, but male actors embodying the expressive new style developed large followings?and eager customers for their portraits. A lively example is Katsukawa Shunsho's The Actors Ichikawa Danzo III and Onoe Tamizo I, in which the two men portray a courtesan and a samurai with an intensity that literally defies gravity. Other ukiyo-e scenes were drawn from popular literature, especially the tagasode painting...
...rambling with all the energy of a repressed fancier of a dead society, with a frigid wife and a job whose benefit he begins to doubt. As Alan, Fishburn is a worthy foil, with a mournful stare and an affect that switches like a light between cold disengagement and eager emotion. In their scenes together, Dysart’s fight to overpower Alan’s hostility to his questioning with a somewhat dubious methodology of hypnosis, “truth drugs,” and leading questions becomes a sort of vicarious entry for him into Alan?...
...Saturday Night Live has had four all-female rock groups as musical guests. SNL is a major rung on the ladder to mainstream success, and it's worth wondering why so few female bands get the chance to step up. Lilith Fair proved that plenty of ladies are eager to strap on a guitar, but very few seem to want to do it with their sisters--perhaps because they know that the (still) mostly male rock audience inevitably associates all-women bands with either gender politics or tickle fights...
While Brown would hold the home advantage in a matchup in Providence, the Crimson sees it as further incentive to play well. Offsay, who described the play of the Bears as comparable to a pro-wrestling match, is eager to overcome Brown’s thuggery once again...
...after a grueling five days of tennis, neither player was eager to spend another three sets worth of energy on a match against a teammate. Instead, Chu defaulted to Wetzel—making the recently crowned doubles champion the singles champion as well...