Word: kabuki
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...perhaps a bit of "Kabuki theater," as an official speculated, in which the actors played out stylized roles to a foregone conclusion. Several of the top 15 advisers who sat down with Clinton in the White House Cabinet Room for a supposedly decisive session Wednesday suspected the President had already made up his mind to sign the welfare-reform bill Congress was about to pass. A tip-off: Hillary Rodham Clinton was conveniently out of town at the Olympics in Atlanta and, White House watchers believe, already knew what her husband would do. If the First Lady had been...
...someone who professes not to be a politician, Dole is a helluva campaigner. At her speaking engagements, she leaps out from behind the lectern and wades into the audience, Oprah-style. But the spontaneity is well rehearsed. Her campaign manner is Southern-fried Kabuki: every line, every smile, every knowing aside, every haa-haa-haa has been tested and practiced until the timing is just...
There is much to admire in director George C. Wolfe's eclectic production, which draws on Kabuki, Balinese puppet theater, rap, jazzy percussion. This is a big, bold, colorful spectacle--a boiling sea of sights and sounds. But something is radically--fatally--wrong with any production in which lines like Miranda's "Oh brave new world/ That has such people in't!" or Antonio's "Say this were death that now hath seized them" are laugh getters...
...Dole, the arbiter of morals, "hasn't given me permission to read that book yet." Now Gingrich is planning to stage a mock endorsement of it by Dole. After the New Hampshire event, Gingrich refused to close the door on his presidential aspirations. "I have to go through a Kabuki dance of personal ambition to get covered," said the most overexposed Speaker of all time, adding that he doesn't have to decide definitively about running until Dec. 15, which gives him a lot of time to become a best-selling author...
...have the opportunity to be Upton Sinclair, I feel a duty to reveal all that I learned for the good of the American consumer. Never eat the popcorn at a movie theater. I must relate the story of the time Gina Maria Sandoval, she of the big hair, the Kabuki harlot make-up and the lavender Lee Press-On nails, was in charge of making the popcorn. We heard a muffled cry of horror and a Spanish expletive emerge from the lovely Gina, who she told us that she had lost one of her nails in the popcorn. About...