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washingtonpost.com/discussions Fashion Fix with Janet Bennett Kelly and Holly Thomas Noon Hawaii’s reigning son
No man is an island, yet Daniel Inouye is all of them in one
by Jason Horowitz in honolulu
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n the morning of Sept. 2, the 65th anniversary of Imperial Ja- pan’s surrender to the United States aboard the USS Missouri, generals and politicians
snapped to attention as the war hero who became the king of Hawaii boarded the battleship’s deck. “Hello,” Sen. Daniel Inouye said in a voice so soft-spoken that the luminaries had to surround him to hear. The right sleeve of his boxy tan suit hung limply, a reminder that he lost his arm while heroically disabling enemy ma- chine guns in World War II. A wooden cane dangled from a rope on his left wrist, and a lei of kukui nuts hung around his neck. He led a procession to the stage and took the center seat as the guest of honor. “I was honored to play a small part in bringing the Mighty Mo to Hawaii,” Inouye said on the podium. Through rimless glasses, he looked out at the uniformed crowd and “Sons of Aloha” choir and spoke in subdued but clear sentences. The battle- ships — the restored Missouri and the ad- jacent, submerged USS Arizona — “send a small, strong message to our allies, and throw caution to our potential enemies, that we can endure hardships, that we per- severe and, yes, we will emerge victorious.” The same can be said for Daniel Inouye. More than any other statesman in the
MARCO GARCIA FOR THE WASHINGTON POST SWEET SOUNDS: Sen. Daniel Inouye plays the piano with his wife, Irene Hirano, at his side in Honolulu. Inouye lost his right arm in World War II. ASSOCIATED PRESS
PUBLIC SERVICE: Rep.-elect Inouye and his wife arrive at Friendship Airport (now BWI) in 1959. He became a senator in 1963.
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CAPITOL HILL: Inouye at a news conference in 1980 with Sens. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.), left, and Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.).
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IN JEST: Before a session of hearings in 1987, Rep. William Broomfield (R-Mich.) goes to hand the gavel to Inouye, who grimaces as a joke.
history of these volcanic islands — more than Kamehameha the Great, who united them into a kingdom in 1810, or Gov. John Burns, who led the political revolution that established Democratic Party rule here in 1954 — Inouye, 86, has ruled over Hawaii. As the federal funding he has provided has grown, his political opposition has waned. Hawaiians have voted for Inouye for 56 years, first for territorial representa- tive in 1954, then for Congress in 1959. In 1963, he became the nation’s first Japanese American senator. His uninterrupted stretch of service in the country’s most ex- clusive chamber is the second-longest in history behind the recently deceased Rob- ert Byrd, whom Inouye replaced as the Senate’s senior member and president pro tempore in June. That position, ceremo- nial though it is, puts him third in line to succeed the president. In the decades since Inouye last com-
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BOOK WORLD
Philip Roth, polio and an emotionally crippled tale
by Roxana Robinson F by Peter Marks
or decades, Philip Roth has written the long narra- tive of the Jewish American experience, shining on it the light of his considerable intelligence. His latest
book, “Nemesis,” addresses a biological threat to his com- munity in the 1940s. It’s difficult, now, to imagine the terror that polio once roused, but by the early 1950s there were 58,000 new cases in America and no cure. Some victims recovered, some suffered permanent disabilities, and some were par- alyzed in the lungs and succumbed to the disease. Antibi- otics eliminated other childhood illnesses, but polio raged on. This is the historical context for “Nemesis,” which re- counts an outbreak of polio in 1944 in Roth’s home town of Newark. Here the disease carries cultural as well as medical import. “The first case of polio that summer came early in June
. . . in a poor Italian neighborhood crosstown from where we lived. Over in the . . . Jewish Weequahic section, we heard nothing about it.” The Jewish section hears soon enough. Bucky Cantor, a young phys ed instructor, is the director of a summer sports program in Weequahic, and in the arresting opening scene, Italian toughs arrive at his
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Every knight into the pool! For the baptismal production in its new home in Crystal City, Synetic Theater has left the water running. It’s ankle-deep on the stage throughout the 90 heart-jolting minutes of “King Arthur,” the latest addi- tion to the company’s repertory of word- less movement-dramas. Put aside for a moment the question of
NEMESIS By Philip Roth (above)
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 280 pp. $26
why on earth Arthur and his coterie are gathering at a Round Table that’s desper- ately in need of waterproofing. The liquid spectacle that director Paata Tsikurishvili and his choreographer wife Irina have devised is a rollicking treat, a gymnastic epic spraying ample amounts of delight —and wetness — across the auditorium. This much simultaneous dancing and splashing have not been on display since Gene Kelly brandished an umbrella in “Singin’ in the Rain.” The cavorting
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PARIS FASHION: A somber thread runs through the city. C10
by Robin Givhan
THEATER REVIEW
Glisten up: ‘Arthur’ makes a splash without a word
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