Word: kabuki
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reaffirm his strength. If his opponents, led by former Cabinet Member Aiichiro Fujiyama, captured 150 votes or more, Sato would have to consider himself seriously censured. As party leaders walked solemnly across the stage of Hibiya Hall to cast their ballots, Sato looked on impassively. His strongly arched Kabuki-actor eyebrows barely twitched at the final count: 289 votes for Sato, 170 against...
Bestselling Author Yukio Mishima can write no wrong-at least in his native Japan. There he has briskly blended sensation and sensibility in 16 novels, 30 plays, and 80 short stories. Nine of these have now been issued in fluid, faultless English translation. In Onnagata, a dedicated Kabuki actor who plays only feminine roles lives his onstage art offstage as well, falls in love with a nasty new-wave director. In Patriotism, a dis graced lieutenant and his wife rapturously relax in a last voluptuous night together-and discover that after such pleasures, hara-kiri hurts even harder...
...open the door, a "dancing" West German water fountain, 1,250 hostesses in evening dress or kimono, and 30 Japanese Rockettes who bump and grind through Papa Don't Preach to Me in top hat and tails. Bare-breasted "Arabian" beauties alternate onstage with lion-maned Kabuki dancers. There is an exclusive downstairs party suite with 120 of Tokyo's most luscious hostesses, as well as a 16-page leatherbound wine list in which choices range from $5.80 for a thimble of Hennessy brandy to $1.50 for "aerated water," otherwise known as Coca-Cola. During the Christmas season...
Milk in Kuwait. The language barrier, thanks to expert dubbing, is the most readily surmounted. Japan uses classic Kabuki actors to speak for Bonanza's Cartwrights, although their services often cost as much as the purchase price of the tape. Subtitles come much cheaper, but audiences in the richer nations like Germany won't abide them, viewers in the poorer ones can't read them. Not that a lot does not get lost in the translations. In the original version of a Zane Grey Theater episode, the villain burst into a saloon, hammered his fist...
...Then there is the matter of removing them, a highly complicated process involving a series of postures (feet planted firmly on the floor before the mirror, back hunched, one palm cupped below the eye, the other fanned out beside it) that might seem the essence of grace in a Kabuki dancer but stir less enthusiasm when performed in a crowded ladies' room, look downright insane in a restaurant. Worse still are the moments when removal is imperative due to a flying cinder or a sudden slip of a lens, or almost impossible (on a street corner, in a snowstorm...