Word: kabuki
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...Hutton's whom he left, not, as it would happen in the real world, because she had a cork leg or wanted to live in Chicago, but because she had $40 million and he had none. According to the ancient and wonderful rules of this sort of kabuki, Hutton's share of the roulette killing will let him have matrimony with honor...
...Grand Kabuki. For the first time in history, Japan's classical, all-male acting company is performing in the U.S., providing a rich-if necessarily academic-experience for American audiences...
...three weeks at City Center, Grand Kabuki went American Plan in three ways: it offered audiences individual transistor radios to hear about what was happening on the stage, it permitted curtain calls, and it cut its usual five-hour performances to three. On its opening bill were an adaptation of a classic 15th-century No drama, a doll or puppet play, and a work of late 19th-century "realism." Whatever their genre, all three are some times elaborately, sometimes delicately stylized, even to their high-pitched speech; far from merely accepting stage artifices, they glory in them and glorify them...
...theatrically trite than poetically touching. On the other hand, the final play-telling of a rich provincial who falls in love with a courtesan and tries, with tragic consequences, to buy her out of her brothel-has not only pictorial charm but genuine story and character interest. Here Grand Kabuki conveys very well the theatrical vividness-and the esthetic purity-of its method, without any hint of vulgarity. And though the Kabuki method, by making a ceremony of the mere uttering of platitudes or repeating of pleasantries, often sadly slows things down, even that has its uses in a Broadway...
...numeral denotes the number of Kabuki actors who have had the same name...