kabuki

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I suspect that Bilrer will be having a little chat with both Luca and his favorite kabuki-hime.

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  • You'd lose sight of the kabuki-meets-anime-meets Native American warpaint makeup and the rainbow lionfish costumes. —  KEXP 90.3 Blog
  • It's all kabuki, of course -- there's no real representative democracy in Hong Kong, and half the seats in the legislature will be filled with members "elected" by small-circle vested interests. —  Learning Cantonese
  • Over the past few weeks, newspaper ads featuring the distinctive Kiss kabuki-style makeup designs have been directing the curious to a kissonline. com revealed the event was a go as well as the Friday sale date. —  The Chronicle Herald - Front Page Stories
  • The theater itself, both in the puppet drama and the newer kabuki, as written by the greatest dramatist, Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1724), relied on the clash between duty and inclination in the context of revenge and love. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • Granted, the UN kabuki is pointless, but it keeps North Korea reasonably quiet while we attend to more pressing matters. —  Hot Air » Top Picks
 

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