Word: kabuki
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...Eulogy Kabuki artist UZAEMON ICHIMURA, 84, who died in Tokyo last week, was one of Japan's Living National Treasures. Born into a family that was in the business for six generations, he made his debut at the age of five and earned the Uzaemon stage name in 1955. He also passed on the tradition?three of his sons went onto the stage, including Manjiro Ichimura, who recounts...
...first thing I think of when I remember my father is the breadth of his shoulders and the strength of his back. For 82 years from the age of three, my father devoted the whole of his existence to the Kabuki stage, living many lives through his many roles. Following each of three operations for lung cancer over the past seven-and-a-half years, he returned right away to the stage. As he lay in intensive care, I told him, "You've worked too hard." Tears appeared in his eyes. I can only wonder what those tears said. Drama...
...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...