Word: kabuki
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...Kabuki rituals of Washington. Each year, a few days after the President's State of the Union address, the commander in chief submits his proposed budget to Congress. TV cameras show the phone book-thick documents coming off the government printing press. The party in opposition denounces the budget as reckless while the administration in power proclaims it tough but thoughtful, perfect for a changing world...
Spielberg doesn't question the choice of Marshall either. "When I saw Rob's version of Geisha," he says, "I realized that he was a much better choice than me. I like that it was like Kabuki theater. The pauses, the looks of the characters, were all little moments of directorial authorship. The close-ups of the hands in pouring the tea. The shots of the geishas' kimono trains wriggling like the tail of a fish through a stream. Rob took the liquid metaphor of the water in Sayuri's eyes and created a river of images. It seemed...
...Without any knowledge of your understanding of the law, because you will not share it with us, we are rolling the dice with you, judge,” Sen. Joseph R. Biden, D-Del., said on Wednesday. “It’s kind of interesting, this kabuki dance we have in these hearings here, as if the public doesn’t have a right to know what you think about fundamental issues facing them...
...much better TV than taking Ryanair. Geldof is also mounting a worldwide string of "Live 8" concerts the weekend before to unleash a flood of public concern for Africa he hopes will induce the Gleneagles crew to write some bigger aid checks. But the interesting thing is how much kabuki has entered the relationship between the protesters and the guys in suits. They are using each other, and enjoying it. One leader of a development charity, who doesn't want to be named for fear of alienating the British government, calls the whole lead-up to the G-8 "reverse...
...academia is starting to flow both ways. Courses like Literature and Arts A-86, “American Protest Literature from Tom Paine to Tupac” pack lecture halls at Harvard. After reading Aesop’s lyric “the villain of my Kabuki hologram cuz I hobble with hollow hands” (from the titular track of 1999’s “Float”), an enthusiastic Professor of English and American Literature and Language Gordon L. Teskey felt compelled to mention that “a good deal of English verse...