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...Although Kabuki is an insular and conservative culture, it isn't the artistic trap it might seem. In fact, it's recently become a fertile breeding ground for film and TV talent. Twenty-five-year-old Shinnosuke Ichikawa cultivates a parallel career as a TV-drama heartthrob, and 20-year-old rising star Shichinosuke Nakamura landed a supporting role in this year's Tom Cruise vehicle The Last Samurai. Tokyo's Asakusa Kokaido theater has capitalized on the trend by staging Kabuki plays showcasing younger actors. "They realize that people like Shido are the key to Kabuki's future," says...
...first edition, Poor Richard predicts "the inexorable death" of his rival almanac writer Titan Leeds, giving the exact day and hour. It was a prank borrowed from Jonathan Swift. Leeds fell into the trap, and in his own almanac for 1734 (written after the date of his predicted death) called Franklin a "conceited scribbler" who had "manifested himself a fool and a liar." Poor Richard responded that all of these defamatory protestations indicated that the real Leeds must indeed be dead and his new almanac a hoax by someone else. "Mr. Leeds was too well bred...
...understand why some of us supported the impeachment of her husband. For me it came down to two issues: Bill Clinton lied to a federal judge and lied to the citizens who had elected him. The questions in the Paula Jones deposition may have been "designed solely to trap the President into charges of perjury," but I can't accept the idea of the head of the Executive Branch lying or in any way dissembling before the Judiciary. The far greater injury, however, came when Bill Clinton lied to me. ALASTAIR DALLAS Los Gatos, Calif...
Armstrong has always had an easy ride to Paris because he's never faced real climbers. If we can get him in a trap, we can make him panic. - GILBERTO SIMONI, Italian cyclist
...winner, Italian Gilberto Simoni, who sat out the last Tour because of a drug suspension that was later overturned, promises to be another contender. "[Armstrong] has always had an easy ride to Paris because he's never faced real climbers," said Simoni. "If we can get him in a trap, we can make him panic." Overcoming obstacles - that's what the French like to see a rider doing, and what Armstrong happens to be very good...