Word: geishas
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...SOSUKE UNO June 3?Aug. 9, 1989 Lowest approval rating: 28% Memorable achievement: The only executive in Japan to actually lose his job over an affair with a geisha...
...things and leaving detail to the imagination. For variety and depth he uses a single shade of gray. You also get a sense of "Japanoise," as the expressionists would have said. I can't quite say why I think this. Perhaps because Watson's previous work was titled "Geisha...
...production numbers brought to mind (for those of us who keep track of excesses from all eras) the best moments of Ann-Margret and Nancy Sinatra - although even Ann and Nancy never came on variety shows decked out as an Aztec goddess, a female boxer or a geisha girl...
...momentum of contradictions, on the trajectory of postmodern appropriation. Always on the lookout for new material, Madonna is an artistic migrant--she moves from subject to subject, from body to body, to claim (or reclaim) a plot of the cultural landscape. Whether it's S&M, Indian yoga, geisha fashion, or now ruby slippers and cowboy gear, Madonna inhabits each new specter so effortlessly and completely that we have to believe her. Sure, she can't act onscreen but the reason is so painfully obvious: Madonna's entire career relies on our ability to accept each of her new incarnations...
Shogun's political side is interesting enough in a Civilization kind of way; as daimyo--feudal warlord--of a medieval Japanese province, you extend influence through alliances, discreet Ninja assassinations and the beautiful-but-deadly geisha. But it is in the continuation of politics by other means that Shogun really excels. Battles with neighboring daimyo are conducted in real time on landscapes realistic enough to reveal the shifting shadows of birds' wings. Your own bird's-eye view is ideal for commanding battalions of archers, ashigaru (foot soldiers) and samurai. Up to 7,000 soldiers can appear at the same...