Word: geishas
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...even leering humor. The most successful of the "plate paintings" on view is a striking 1993 portrait of Olatz, which has the mercurial effect of a Cubist-style mosaic. Opposite hang blood-red abstracts painted on tarps or sailcloth, white Rothko-like spears slashing across blackened surfaces, and delicate, geisha-like figures trailing off into tendrils of action painting. The wall-sized Large Girl with No Eyes, painted in 2001 in a pseudo-Pop Art style, shows a close-up of a blond schoolgirl's face abruptly eclipsed by a blue-black swathe across her eyes. Maria de Corral...
...DIED. KIHARU NAKAMURA, 90, English-speaking geisha from Tokyo's Shimbashi quarter, who entertained such visitors as Babe Ruth, Charlie Chaplin and Jean Cocteau; in New York City. Daughter of a doctor, Nakamura worked as a geisha for 27 years before emigrating to the U.S. in 1956 and later wrote a memoir that was translated into eight languages. In a 1989 interview with the Los Angeles Times, she lamented the loss of the geisha's art in her country. "Japan has become rich," she said. "But the people's minds are getting poorer...
...next-office), the succulent embodiment of ordinary Americana. The job of posing for a girlie magazine was now not a shame for a young woman but a kind of honor, like being chosen Homecoming Queen. What John Skow wrote of the Playboy Club Bunny - that she was ?half geisha and half double-malted? - applied even more to the Playmate gestalt. Brilliantly, and bit by bit, Hefner had domesticated the nude...
...film's plot is as streamlined as its combat. Zatoichi (Kitano) wanders into a village beset by gangs, one of which has hired a lethal samurai (Tadanobu Asano) to wipe out its enemies. Meanwhile, a geisha assassin and her brother, a female impersonator, seek revenge on the criminals who slaughtered their family. Zatoichi ends up in the middle. This is a film designed to get to the payoff as fast as possible, and that payoff is bloodier than a hematology convention. Hyperviolence is not new to the Zatoichi oeuvre, but Kitano does Katsu one, two or 11 better. To Kitano...
...effort to adhere strictly to the reality of a geisha’s life, he even went so far as to purchase and experiment with the makeup a geisha would have worn, Medwed says...