Word: geishas
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Westerners have never quite understood geishas - those well-schooled, delicate wisps of femininity clad in elegant kimonos who coo sweetly over tired Japanese businessmen on the town for a night. Naturally, the men always leave their wives at home; unnaturally, they rarely get to go home with the girls. Baffling as that is, consider the newest addition to Japanese culture: the male geisha...
...third studies by day for his Ph.D. Each must sign a pledge agreeing, among other things, not to unbutton his jacket or dance slower than the beat of the music. To Ryuji Kami jo, 27. a much sought after host at the Club Tokyo, the life of a male geisha is not all sake and cherry blossoms. Of the customers, he sighs: "One moment, they are full of sunshine, then the next, full of thunderstorms. It's a hard life we lead here...
...racing is Millionaire Sportsman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 55, whose past coups include Crashing Bore (by Social Climber, out of Stumbling Block), Age of Consent (by My Request-Novice) and Social Outcast (by Shut Out-Pansy). And when Vanderbilt in 1949 bred a stallion named Polynesian to a mare named Geisha, he came up with a name that will be remembered as long as horse races are run: Native Dancer. Trying as always to combine ancestry and euphony, Vanderbilt has concocted the following names for his current crop of two-year-olds...
...restaurant table with her husband's libertine friend and a broken wine bottle. But what about the episode in the flower-filled coffin at the duke's chateau? Or the exquisitely painful encounter with a fat, sadistic Japanese who tries to pay for her services with a Geisha Club credit card? Does her uncommonly cuckolded husband really spend the rest of his life blind, mute and paralyzed after an attack by her gangster lover? Or is that merely another of Severine's interior arrangements...
...from Germany after World War I and immediately set about seriously developing and colonizing the islands. Japanese methods were often harsh, but they were vigorous and effective. Koror (see map) became a miniature Miami Beach for winter-weary Japanese, a sophisticated city of 30,000 replete with fine restaurants, geisha houses and Shinto shrines. Trading vessels from Japan were soon exporting great quantities of fish, pineapple, sugar and pearls from the islands. The Japanese paved roads, built hospitals and ports and laid down a rudimentary infrastructure for economic growth...