Word: kabuki
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...Dole, the arbiter of morals, "hasn't given me permission to read that book yet." Now Gingrich is planning to stage a mock endorsement of it by Dole. After the New Hampshire event, Gingrich refused to close the door on his presidential aspirations. "I have to go through a Kabuki dance of personal ambition to get covered," said the most overexposed Speaker of all time, adding that he doesn't have to decide definitively about running until Dec. 15, which gives him a lot of time to become a best-selling author...
...have the opportunity to be Upton Sinclair, I feel a duty to reveal all that I learned for the good of the American consumer. Never eat the popcorn at a movie theater. I must relate the story of the time Gina Maria Sandoval, she of the big hair, the Kabuki harlot make-up and the lavender Lee Press-On nails, was in charge of making the popcorn. We heard a muffled cry of horror and a Spanish expletive emerge from the lovely Gina, who she told us that she had lost one of her nails in the popcorn. About...
...word racism has degenerated to being a mere ritual term of abuse and self-pity, part of the Kabuki of manipulation. Any grownup knows there is racism in America. There is racism almost everywhere in the world. The Chinese refer to Africans as hei gwei, or "black devils." (They refer to whites, by the way, as "white devils.") The Chinese were used as virtual slaves in the American West during the 19th century. In Egypt (which many African Americans embrace as the founding mother of black civilization), even people with moderately dark skins refer to themselves as "white...
...performances are also something to see. When the film came out, the performances were a point of contention, called naturalistic by some and grotesque by others. In retrospect we can see that they were not influenced by kabuki, as so many facilely claimed, but, rather, by silent films, which Kurosawa greatly admired. Toshiro Mifune's feral performance as the bandit is legendary, and Machiko Kyo brings off the task of presenting what are in reality four different women. Masayuki Mori as the husband is excellent; his serpent-like look of contempt is unforgettable. Takashi Shimura as the woodcutter...
Japan Program Films at MIT. "Revenge of a Kabuki Actor" at 7 p.m. and "Twenty-four Eyes" at 9 p.m., Rm 1-390, corner of Mass Ave. and Memorial Dr. Call 253-2839 for more information...