Word: kabuki
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...cooperation with RM Arts and BBC-TV. Dancing has its pleasures, both small and large. In one charming vignette, a great-bellied guru beats time as he teaches a tiny girl some basic gestures of Indian classical dance. Much of a segment on stage performance compares Bando Tamasaburo, a Kabuki star who excels in female roles, with Larissa Lezhnina, a dazzling young ballerina of Russia's Kirov Ballet. In surprisingly complementary ways, their performances -- his in a dance-drama called Dojoji, hers in Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty -- embody Eastern and Western ideals of womanhood...
...claimed he has had only minimal plastic surgery, referring viewers to his 1988 biography Moonwalk, in which he admitted to having had his nose removed -- sorry, remodeled -- and a chin cleft made. And he denied he bleached his skin to its current Kabuki whiteness as a renunciation of his ethnic roots: "I am proud to be a black American." He said (and his dermatologist has confirmed) he suffers from a "disorder that destroys the pigmentation of the skin . . . It's in my family. . . . Using makeup evens it out, 'cause it makes blotches on the skin." The disease, vitiligo, is "more...
...scene at the Senate played out like Kabuki theater. Here the ghost of Anita Hill welcomed two new committee members, Carol Moseley-Braun and Dianne Feinstein, who owed their election in some measure to her. Here sat some of the same members who had been lambasted for their handling of Hill, eager for the chance to display their elaborate courtesy and newfound sensitivity. Here was Hill's chief tormentor, Orrin Hatch, praising Baird's competence, her record as a corporate lawyer, knowing full well that for his conservative purposes Baird was the best candidate he could hope...
...part that displays her to the world. Prince has mastered the musical-comedy art of making everything as exaggerated as Kabuki yet remaining utterly real. Her silences get laughs as big as her lines; her takes are often + no more than a glance or a slight tilt of the head, yet they are as howlingly funny as someone else's pratfall; and every absurd moment is suffused with the pain of an ordinary woman yearning for respectability from a man incapable of giving it. As Prince says, "This is my role. She has my sense of humor. The dialogue tumbles...
...usual suspects: John Kennedy and his girlfriends, Franklin Roosevelt and Lucy Mercer, Dwight Eisenhower and Kay Summersby, Gary Hart and Donna Rice. The story is still basically junk, a little sugar rush of news. But somehow the winter of 1992 feels a bit late for the prim old American Kabuki: the mayor caught in the whorehouse, the schoolmarm shaking her finger...