Word: kabuki
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Much of this was full of speeches and meetings, but we did escape to some Japanese gardens, a kabuki theater, and a marvelous visit to the Shanghai Museum," he said...
...Much of this was full of speeches and meetings, but we did escape to some Japanese gardens, a kabuki theater, and a marvelous visit...
Assembling the right group is a delicate business; as with any ritualized art form, from Kabuki to slasher films, one must follow rules but with a whiff of originality. Pearlman and his staff look at everything--the proportionate size of group members, their height, their weight, their hair color, their personalities onstage and off. Who will be the prankster, like 'N Sync's Chris Patrick? Who will be the lead sex symbol, like Backstreet's Nick Carter? Who can make a credible dangerous guy, the one who dresses more "urban" and maybe even has tattoos...
Harvey didn't stick around to clear things up. Besides a few side projects with interesting talents like Tricky and John Parish, she attests to having grown nervous with her growing fame and unconfident in the kabuki-ish performance art she was creating in concert...
...helped make Sony and Coca Cola household names in both countries--spans the ocean that separates us. It's physically more apparent in this hemisphere. With Seven-Eleven, KFC and bowling around, who needs sleepy Chestnut Ridge, N.Y.? And as for Japanese culture in America, I certainly remember watching kabuki as child--on an episode of "Alvin and the Chipmunks." And who can forget the educating Gilbert and Sullivan production of "The Mikado" at Harvard this fall...