Word: deux
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What was a ceremony becomes a seduction-or is it a wedding night? The lovers, danced with moody excitement by Allegra Kent and Edward Villella, are circled by their attendants and stripped of their outer robes. In bikini and tights, they dance a pulsing pas de deux that ends in a crouching embrace. Their attendants return, tug them apart and restore their robes, but the partnered dance that follows suggests the first steps of the love duet. The ballet ends-a courtly, exotic, unresolved sexual fantasy...
...grim Ivry Fort. Dead before the firing squad sank ex-Lieut. Colonel Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry, 35, convicted ringleader of last summer's abortive attempt to assassinate Charles de Gaulle in the Paris suburb of Petit-Clamart as he was motoring to his country home at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises.* Though De Gaulle spared two other plotters, he presumably ordered the execution of Bastien-Thiry to discourage other terrorists from further assassination efforts on behalf of the dread Secret Army Organization...
...Deux fois...
CHARLES DE GAULLE lives in stone houses. In cosmopolitan Paris, home is the buff-colored Elysée Palace, an elaborate 18th century pleasure dome that belonged to Mme. de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV. In rural Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, home is a 14-room château of grey limestone surrounded by formal gardens and groves of elm and pine. In both, le grand Charles tries to keep life as simple and uncomplicated as possible...
...Respect. Nureyev ignores his critics, though he realizes that he still has much to learn-and many observers agree with him. In bravura numbers-such as the pas de deux from Le Corsaire or from Bournonville's The Flower Festival of Genzano-his technique is often insecure. Nureyev himself points out that Yuri Soloviev of the Kirov Ballet is a far more polished performer. But what remains undisputed is that no dancer has greater natural gifts than Nureyev, or a more tempestuous temperament...