Word: turkestan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...smooth, oily luster and can possess an extraordinary range of colors. The bright green, glassy jadeite, the substance most people think of when they think of jade, was not used extensively until the 18th century. Neither substance is indigenous to China; nephrite had to be imported from East Turkestan and Siberia and jadeite was carried from Burma. Jades were precious and exotic materials and were revered by the Chinese as substances possessing special moral as well as physical attributes...
...while Gaucho is a foot-stomping challenge match for three male soloists, dressed like Argentine cowboys on parade. The Latin rhythms have the right ring, but Moiseyev's cowboys look like Cossacks in disguise, and his Sicilian peasants might just as easily be performing a traditional specialty of Turkestan...