Word: kabuki
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...broadcast Tuesday night. "Nothing surprising has happened. Nothing surprising is anticipated." ABC News is continuing to cover the convention, but some irritation is beginning to show at the other networks as well. NBC anchor Tom Brokaw called the events "the network news version of a Kabuki dance," while one of the CBS lead anchors appeared at night in a helmet cam. The real action is in the conversations with delegates and politicians outside the convention hall. Those conversations are still happening, but not much is being said. "This is most closely controlled, intensely choreographed media event I have ever seen...
...broadcast Tuesday night. "Nothing surprising has happened. Nothing surprising is anticipated." ABC News is continuing to cover the convention, but some irritation is beginning to show at the other networks as well. NBC anchor Tom Brokaw called the events "the network news version of a Kabuki dance," while one of the CBS lead anchors appeared at night in a helmet cam. The real action is in the conversations with delegates and politicians outside the convention hall. Those conversations are still happening, but not much is being said. "This is most closely controlled, intensely choreographed media event I have ever seen...
...perhaps a bit of "Kabuki theater," as an official speculated, in which the actors played out stylized roles to a foregone conclusion. Several of the top 15 advisers who sat down with Clinton in the White House Cabinet Room for a supposedly decisive session Wednesday suspected the President had already made up his mind to sign the welfare-reform bill Congress was about to pass. A tip-off: Hillary Rodham Clinton was conveniently out of town at the Olympics in Atlanta and, White House watchers believe, already knew what her husband would do. If the First Lady had been...
...someone who professes not to be a politician, Dole is a helluva campaigner. At her speaking engagements, she leaps out from behind the lectern and wades into the audience, Oprah-style. But the spontaneity is well rehearsed. Her campaign manner is Southern-fried Kabuki: every line, every smile, every knowing aside, every haa-haa-haa has been tested and practiced until the timing is just...
There is much to admire in director George C. Wolfe's eclectic production, which draws on Kabuki, Balinese puppet theater, rap, jazzy percussion. This is a big, bold, colorful spectacle--a boiling sea of sights and sounds. But something is radically--fatally--wrong with any production in which lines like Miranda's "Oh brave new world/ That has such people in't!" or Antonio's "Say this were death that now hath seized them" are laugh getters...