Word: kabuki
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...instance: “I like that you kooky / And into kabuki / Though things might get tricky / I want my rice sticky...
Bienvenido! Willkommen! Irashaimase! No, that’s not some lame kabuki version of “Cabaret,” and it’s not the opening lines to “Babel 2,” either. It’s a trio of exclamations from the languages of some of the best movies at the 79th annual Academy Awards, a motley group of international films that have largely blown the English-language competition out of the water. Why the Spanish? “Pan’s Labyrinth,” Guillermo del Toro?...
...This is probably the biggest piece of kabuki in the President's speech. Just a few months ago, in November, Abizaid told the Senate Armed Services committee that there were no - as in zero - Iraqi army units currently operating independent of U.S. forces. The Pentagon's inspector general has reported they lack the men, the weapons, the trucks - pretty much everything - to be ready to fight. Meanwhile, the Iraq Study Group said the police units were almost completely corrupt or infiltrated by sectarian militias. It is a little hard to square those reports with the way the President talked about...
...collector, Monet had a sharp eye. Though he never went to Japan, he befriended writers, curators and art dealers who did, and they steered him toward quality. His treasures, all hand-printed from wood blocks, encompass the best of ukiyo-e - "images of the floating world" of geishas, Kabuki actors and pleasure houses that flourished in 18th and 19th century Edo, as Tokyo was known. These include works by such giants as Utagawa Hiroshige, Katsushika Hokusai and Kitagawa Utamaro. Rarer still are the fierce battle scenes from the Sino-Japanese war of 1894-95 that Monet collected, as well...
...movies' longest-running series faces middle age by both toning up, with the muscular new Casino Royale, and looking back, with this multi-DVD pack of all 20 of the "official" films, with the first five of the superspies. The Bond tropes may be as codified--and believable--as Kabuki, but the films can still shake and stir...