Word: kabuki
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...scene at the Senate played out like Kabuki theater. Here the ghost of Anita Hill welcomed two new committee members, Carol Moseley-Braun and Dianne Feinstein, who owed their election in some measure to her. Here sat some of the same members who had been lambasted for their handling of Hill, eager for the chance to display their elaborate courtesy and newfound sensitivity. Here was Hill's chief tormentor, Orrin Hatch, praising Baird's competence, her record as a corporate lawyer, knowing full well that for his conservative purposes Baird was the best candidate he could hope...
...part that displays her to the world. Prince has mastered the musical-comedy art of making everything as exaggerated as Kabuki yet remaining utterly real. Her silences get laughs as big as her lines; her takes are often + no more than a glance or a slight tilt of the head, yet they are as howlingly funny as someone else's pratfall; and every absurd moment is suffused with the pain of an ordinary woman yearning for respectability from a man incapable of giving it. As Prince says, "This is my role. She has my sense of humor. The dialogue tumbles...
...usual suspects: John Kennedy and his girlfriends, Franklin Roosevelt and Lucy Mercer, Dwight Eisenhower and Kay Summersby, Gary Hart and Donna Rice. The story is still basically junk, a little sugar rush of news. But somehow the winter of 1992 feels a bit late for the prim old American Kabuki: the mayor caught in the whorehouse, the schoolmarm shaking her finger...
...Japan too, where the influence of American entertainment is pervasive, $ the misgivings are growing. "Younger people are forgetting their native culture in favor of adopting American culture," says Hisao Kanaseki, professor of American literature at Tokyo's Komazawa University. "They're not going to see No theater or Kabuki theater. They're only interested in American civilization. Young people here have stopped reading their own literature...
...GOODWILL ARTS FESTIVAL. Just as Ted Turner's Goodwill Games will bring international athletic stars to the Seattle area, this festival will gather there some of the world's most talented performing-arts groups, including the Bolshoi Ballet, Cirque du Soleil and the Grand Kabuki Theater of Japan. Through Sept...