Word: kabuki
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...appearing on TV talk shows and publishing memoirs, how-to guides and even business books. A high-profile TV movie about a host club aired last month, starring a dream roster of the country's hottest male actors. There are hundreds of such clubs in areas like Tokyo's Kabuki-cho and they vie for business via cell phones and the Internet, which has search sites that rank the city's top hosts by looks and charm quotient. For the customers, Japan's trend-conscious young women, a night at a host bar is part thrill, part danger. The thrill...
...make it a thing of the past. Rival gunmakers railed at their competitor's apostasy, but so did tobacco companies at the start of their capitulation. Under pressure from cities and the Federal Government, manufacturers may have to offer their own safety measures. If that happens, the capital Kabuki rituals will become more irrelevant than ever...
...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...