Word: geishas
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...love duet in the Met's Butterfly, Pinkerton begins stripping his bride, who throws back her head in ecstasy. On opening night, the sequence was loudly booed by another member of opera's aristocracy, former diva Licia Albanese, who in Mario's day played Butterfly as an elegant geisha. Albanese "looks at the opera from the moral viewpoint of the '40s," shrugs Del Monaco. "But Pinkerton was an ugly American who was drunk and excited...
...sporting a leathery tan, she perches naked on a bed and smirks at Gallimard, "Come and get it." In case you don't get the point of all this, the script is there to help: early in the movie, we're shown Sukowa doing a garish imitation of a geisha girl fluttering a copy of Elle magazine (nudge, nudge...
Lake and Black have many Japanese clients as well, which led Patrick Buchanan in January to liken the two men to "geisha girls of the new world order" and charge that "Mr. Bush's campaign is virtually a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan Inc." Senior White House officials later pressed Lake and Black to sever ties with their firms to prevent Clinton from capitalizing on the issue, but the effort fizzled. Explains Bush-Quayle counsel Bobby Burchfield: "If you have to sever your ties with business in order to work in presidential campaigns, people will not work in presidential campaigns...
...dominated government. Socialist Takako Doi, the first woman in Japanese history to lead a major political party, inspired an unprecedented number of women to run for the Diet's upper house, and they grabbed a record number of seats. Prime Minister Sousuke Uno resigned in disgrace after a former geisha he had patronized broke her profession's code of silence to denounce him as too small-minded a man to lead the country. His successor rushed to appoint two women to his Cabinet. The press seized upon the opportunity to rave about the dawning of Onna no Jidai...
...army assassinated the Chinese warlord who ruled the region in hopes of grabbing the territory outright. But the Japanese government squashed any further moves and hushed up the army's involvement in the killing. In 1931, Tokyo again tried to stop the army. But renegade officers arranged for a geisha to distract and delay the envoy sent by the central government. Overtaken by events and well aware that the Manchurian offensive had won acclaim for the militarist factions in Tokyo, the Japanese government caved in to the army's visions of manifest destiny -- and to its foolhardy insistence on heeding...