Under siege by Red Guards, the then foreign minister reportedly retorted: "On page [X] it says Comrade Chen Yi is a good cadre …" But they also coloured even commonplace exchanges, as described by one historian: "Serve the people.
Yet the passages of melodrama, when the characters resort to spoken dialogue, somehow breaks the operatic spell; it's as if the music is abdicating its expressive responsibilities in a work that otherwise doesn't flinch from the having the most commonplace exchanges sung.
However, as ethnographers, are we as analytical about the impacts of our own commonplace exchanges?
It has become commonplace to exchange large data sets with radiological images and related patient information between display stations both within and outside imaging facilities and hospitals using the Internet and other high-speed data links.
But as speaking via screens has become commonplace, our exchanges are losing inflection, body language, and empathy.
I believe real estate, along with other asset classes, will be commonplace to be exchanged for various liquid CryptoCurrencies.
Before public cheerleading became commonplace, sweet little exchanges of affection--honest expressions of love--were enough.
"It has become quite commonplace to have these exchanges with Britons working abroad and people working here and in my view that it is a straightforward, good thing.
And hundred-point single-day moves, often reversing similar changes the day before, have become positively commonplace on Nasdaq, the electronic exchange stuffed with technology shares.Greater volatility matters for several reasons.
Travel and cultural exchange were not commonplace, but nevertheless possible.
Warren Buffet warned investors to stay away from it, the vice-chairman of its most well-known trading body was jailed on narcotics charges, its original inventor still hasn't emerged from anonymity and cyber-attacks on associated exchanges have been commonplace.
