Word: tearless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...series of excerpts from Chinese operas that-in China-may run as long as seven hours apiece. It went heavy on astonishing acrobatics, mimicry and comic pantomime, the spectacular sauce of the Chinese originals. What was left of the dramas was put across by exquisite, formalized gestures, e.g., a tearless eye elaborately wiped on a sleeve, a circular motion of a hand on breast to indicate meditation, a ritual lifting of feet as actors entered the stage. All these were perfectly punctuated by the gaudy sounds of nasal voices, rattling drums, clanging gongs...