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Hola. Estoy enferma. Lo siento, pero no voy a estar en clase...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: As Follows | 11/6/2003 | See Source »

...understand Yasuo Tanaka, you need a piece of slang you won't find in any Japanese-English dictionary. Pero-guri is a phrase Tanaka coined himself to describe the sexual act. More specifically, his sexual acts. It's an onomatopoeic word, the pero coming from the slang pero-pero, which means to lick. The guri comes from guri-guri, which means to grind. The 45-year-old Tanaka is Governor of Japan's mountainous Nagano prefecture, west of Tokyo, but he's also a writer, specializing in autobiographical pero-guri tales, which reveal a predilection for flight attendants, married women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Grooviest Guv | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

...Perignon at Roppongi's Kingyo. Head to Chianti at Iikura for an espresso chaser but end up on the roof of the adjacent building, pero-pero guri-guri with the Tokyo Tower in the back. Her screaming fills the air. Pull out moist wipes from the bag and clean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Grooviest Guv | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

...Nevertheless, Tanaka is now discovering that winning over the voters was the easy part. His pero-pero-ing of the public is still going well: housewives continue to adore him and young people think his brashness is kakkoii, or cool. His guri-guri-ing of the political establishment, however, is proving to be a more strenuous task than an assignation with Mrs. U at the Hyatt. The ldp hacks in Nagano have overruled his plan to stop dam construction and rammed through their own budget. (Even though Tanaka is Governor, they still hold the majority power in the prefectural legislature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Grooviest Guv | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

...Tanaka may well fade away and leave little behind but a legacy of chuckles about his pero-guri adventures; in the same way, people may someday remember nothing about Koizumi but his haircut. But don't count either of them out yet, because they are both getting unwitting help from the people who despise them the most. Each time the Establishment pols and government functionaries criticize them, their popularity inches higher. So Tanaka loses the battle over the dams and the budget, but he wins the p.r. war for the hearts and minds of the people. Tanaka figured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Grooviest Guv | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

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