Word: kabuki
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...embryos; to the pro-choice, it’s promoting the safety of women; and to minorities, it's avoiding the dangers of eugenics. Briefings and luncheons held to advertise the bills attract hordes of hungry interns, and a few curious staffers. Hearings are held, as scripted as Kabuki drama; four handpicked witnesses deliver their prepared five-minute remarks to a handful of members of Congress and a dozen empty chairs. A few questions follow, and then the subcommittee members move on to hearings and issues closer to their constituents’ hearts...
...recent six-hour video project for PBS, Ma collaborated with artists from various disciplines to present Bach’s “Suites for Unaccompanied Cello.” Choreographer Mark Morris, Olympic figure skaters Torvill and Dean, filmmaker Atom Egoyan, a Kabuki actor and a landscape designer worked with Ma on different suites to create what The Washington Post called an “18th-century music video...
...first place, we live in a culture of pre-hardened argument, of debate as predictable as kabuki. A president is foolish and undisciplined to get rhetorically involved in an issue (oh, let's say, gays in the military) simply because it happens to be in the air at the moment. Each argument (police brutality, abortion choice and so on) instantly deploys its predictable pros and cons. I know all your arguments, you know all my arguments. If a man's presidential ambition is to see America continue as an afternoon talk show, a sort of brawling Jerry Springer spectacle from...
...Mori started off the week in full-on kabuki mode, denying Monday that he'd told a weekend meeting of party elders that he'd resign. The denial, universally deemed mere lame-duck face-saving in advance of upcoming summits with George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin, tipped the Japanese markets over into panic mode and sent the Nikkei 500 plunging to lows not seen since 1985, the long-ago days when Japan was an economic juggernaut to be emulated...
...then there was hope, in the form of more kabuki: the lame-duck Mori urging his ministers to tackle the banking system's $600 billion bad-loan problem, and finance minister Kiichi Miyazawa promising fiscal guarantees for a bailout scheme that many wonder whether the government can afford. But the task forces are meeting and ministers are huddling, and in Japan, that constitutes dramatic action. In the financial markets there was hope that Mori's puppetmasters in the beleaguered Liberal Democratic Party might just be moved to vigor in the cause of self-preservation...