Word: kabuki
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...Japan too, where the influence of American entertainment is pervasive, $ the misgivings are growing. "Younger people are forgetting their native culture in favor of adopting American culture," says Hisao Kanaseki, professor of American literature at Tokyo's Komazawa University. "They're not going to see No theater or Kabuki theater. They're only interested in American civilization. Young people here have stopped reading their own literature...
...GOODWILL ARTS FESTIVAL. Just as Ted Turner's Goodwill Games will bring international athletic stars to the Seattle area, this festival will gather there some of the world's most talented performing-arts groups, including the Bolshoi Ballet, Cirque du Soleil and the Grand Kabuki Theater of Japan. Through Sept...
Following in the footsteps of one's father is a strong tradition in Japan, evident in fields as different as Big Business, the Kabuki theater and sumo wrestling. But in politics the custom has been intensified by the commitments of money and time involved in cultivating constituents...
...action from space to starkly different space within the castle, mostly by use of lighting and a movable back wall that is by turns opaque, reflective or transparent. The first act begins with an elaborate dinner party glimpsed from an antechamber; the second starts with a gaudily dressed, Kabuki-like version of the play within a play; the third, with Ophelia's funeral. In each case, the ceremony heightens the sense of falseness and decay against which the prince rebels...
...Brenda Frazier was not the richest or the most beautiful girl in '30s America, she came close enough. She was the glittering symbol of privilege and glamour; her picture made the cover of LIFE; women imitated her Kabuki-like look, with a complexion evoking Colette's description of "milk in shadow." Brenda was seen with notables from Errol Flynn to Cardinal Spellman to Irving Berlin. But obscurity overtook her, and in later years she viewed her life as a cosmic joke: she had become one of the most famous people in the nation simply because of a debutante party...