True, what is happening off Taiwan is pantomime rather than confrontation: eager to avoid a clash, both sides are merely using their military to lend muscle to political messages.
It was a pantomime Mandela perfected on Robben Island, where there was much to fear.
In 1923 Hart Crane, who wrote a poem about Chaplin, said his pantomime "represents the futile gesture of the poet today.
Utah teens head to India, Ghana with Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange program Maryam Shehab hesitated to go onstage. The 16-year-old had agreed to perform a pantomime scene with another student. She was to play a model and set her bag down. Her acting partner, mimicking a photographer, checked her out from a few feet away. Back in Kuwait, girls and boys attended separate schools, adhering to a code of modesty, Shebab said recently. She called home last school year to talk ...
June 29, 2013 - The Salt Lake Tribune