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...combine it with a state visit to Japan. For three days, while diplomats maneuvered in the back rooms, the President patiently went through the ceremonial rituals of such a visit?reviewing troops under a broiling Tokyo sun; chatting amiably with Marine Biologist Hirohito about scuba diving; attending a Kabuki play; lunching with 125 top celebrities of Japan, including Home Run King Sadaharu Oh, at the Imperial Palace. Jittery police cleared the streets of spectators for most of the President's trips around Tokyo, but Carter did journey to the port of Shimoda, where Commodore Perry's fleet called 125 years...
...strength, all Thomopoulos had to do was avoid knocking over the furniture when he moved into Silverman's office. On at least three nights of the week-Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday-the network seems so secure that the opposition might just as well give lessons in Kabuki dancing. On Tuesday, Happy Days leads into Laverne & Shirley, which is followed by Three's Company and Taxi. Wednesday is a night for everybody: Eight Is Enough, the quintessential family show, introduces Charlie's Angels and Vega$, both of which unveil as much skin as the network censors will allow...
...visual equivalent to the long social descriptions in Victorian novels. What the genre screens lack in iconic profundity, they make up for in their beguiling chatter of incident and their unfailing decorative sense. Priests, archers, race jockeys, carpenters, nobles, swordsmen, dancing girls, cooks, vegetable sellers, water carriers, lackeys, Kabuki actors, fishermen-the cast of characters is wide, embracing most of the classes and occupations in Japanese society-seen from the detached eyeline of upper-class patronage. The intimations of sympathy with underdogs that occasionally crop up in European genre painting are not to be seen here...
...drawings by American artist friends (de Kooning, Arshile Gorky), and a modest studio on Long Island. In the country, his wooden constructions: tables scattered with whittled books, made-up pens, artificial pencils. A disciplined man with many friends and no discoverable enemies, he enjoys what he calls "the Kabuki theater of the night" ? the rituals of sociability and long dinner conversations. His extracurricular passion (apart from cats) is baseball, which he regards not only as "an allegorical play about America" but as a metaphor of ideal conduct. "At night," he says, "I often identify myself with the pitcher...
THIS YEAR'S installment of America's oldest ongoing response to Kabuki featured the usual raft of pretty boys in leotards, tennis-ball halves and wigs, playing pretty girls with puns instead of names ("Jemima Fysmoke," "Cybil Service"), whose stock-in-trade is the Big Pun ("You made an asteroid out of yourself!"). Or, alternately, the Silly Joke ("Don't Be a Dope Head, Buy a Moped"). Or, alternately, the Cliche ("Let's Do It"); it's 2078, after all. As far as I could discern from the production notes, the main plot-line consists of a mad grab...