Word: haras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Could those little golden men be contemplating hara-kiri with those swords? Perhaps, if they had any idea of the farce they seem poised to act out Monday night...
...shame occupied the same place in American culture that it does in Japan, Washington, D.C., would be Suicide City. The hara-kiri of a Japanese Finance Ministry official this week after he was questioned by officials investigating bribery is simply the latest indication that the spectre of public disgrace still compels men of power in Japan to take the way of the samurai. Continued...
...characters in the play are, as critics have stated, difficult to capture; they are inherently slippery. Billings' flighty and fidgety Cleopatra, the play's only recongnizable character, is marvelously coquettish; Cleopatra--an Egyptian Scarlett O'Hara--is as equally lovable as she is despicable. She seductively coos to Antony in one instant, while in the next scene she drives a messenger to his knees with a gun to his head after he delivers bad news...
...main plot thread off which Altman works involves Blondie O'Hara (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a punchy, fast-talking gal looking to get her husband Johnny (Dermot Mulroney) back from a gangster, Seldom Seen (Harry Belafonte), whom he foolishly irked. Kidnapping Carolyn Stilton (Miranda Richardson), the doped-up wife of a prominent politician, arises as the logical solution: she hopes to force Mr. Stilton to sic the police on the gangster...
...Over the sourness generated by the much advertised "culture wars" of the early '90s hang the famous lines from Yeats: "The best lack all conviction, while the worst/ Are full of passionate intensity." But one should also recall the equally durable words of that all-American girl Scarlett O'Hara: After all, tomorrow is another...