Word: kabuki
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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...
What follows, as is proper with such a tale, is as traditional as Kabuki drama. There are arrogant Spaniards who need shooting and a 20-year-old American beauty named Amelia, a professional mistress, who needs career counseling. But Theodore Roosevelt, it should be said, does not make an appearance--a sign of restraint that justifies the author's high reputation...
...wishes. ABC, CBS, FOX and cable are ready to make the most likely fix, adding (S)ex, (L)anguage and (V)iolence to the current system, but only when Congress offers some sort of assurance that this is the last campaign in the ratings war. "This really is a Kabuki dance in so many ways; my lips are saying no, but my eyes are saying yes," sighs Bill Pitts, vice president of government affairs for abc. Though public dissatisfaction is cited as one of the reasons for the industry change of heart--a TIME/CNN poll shows that 80% of parents...
...story of the time--a strange, defining piece of cold war Kabuki--has remained a mystery intact. The matter of Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers, and which of them was telling the truth, became a litmus test for several generations, a marker not only of political sympathies but also of intellectual class and sensibility. Hiss and Chambers were the cold war's Mozart and Salieri, and their mysteries were multilayered. If you went below the murk of espionage and infiltration and double lives--a subject fascinating in itself--you penetrated to the deeper strangeness of the two men's psychologies...