Word: deux
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dark night last September, Charles de Gaulle's black Citroen was speeding toward his country home in Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises when suddenly flames erupted in the car's path. Miraculously, the plastic bomb that had been planted beside the lonely road did not explode. Shaken but unhurt, De Gaulle murmured: "Just a joke in bad taste." Last week the punch line of the joke was delivered in a drab courthouse at Troyes, 90 miles from Paris, where the S.A.O. terrorists who had plotted to assassinate France's President stood trial...
...presidential car sped along the road from Paris to Villacoublay Airport. Hurrying to catch the plane home to Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises were President Charles de Gaulle and his wife Yvonne; up front with the chauffeur was the De Gaulles' son-in-law, Alain de Boissieu. Close behind followed a security car and two motorcycle policemen. As the small motorcade slowed down for a traffic circle in suburban Clamart, Old Soldier de Gaulle once again faced the guns of an enemy...
...find Leontyne Price singing Tosca, despite the white singer in the romantic lead opposite her. The ballet, too, has recognized Negro talent and given dancers parts that ignore their color: at the New York City Ballet Arthur Mitchell dances a wide range of the repertory, including pas de deux with white ballerinas. The historical distance and artistic level of the classics give roles an existence apart from those who play them, an advantage that modern theater unavoidably lacks...
...screen, Balanchine's dancers moved with an agile, flowing grace. Adam and Eve (Jacques d'Amboise and Jillana) performed an erotic pas de deux that eloquently argued for their eviction from Eden. There was tragedy-Lucifer being consumed by vanity and ambition. There was comedy-Noah and his tipsy wife got in a domestic squabble. And there were the mournful Te Deums of the Columbia Chorus...
...front of the cathedral with the wilted flowers of the federation in my arms." Today he remains a friend of De Gaulle's; sometimes, referring to his hero's country home, he will call his own modest house in the village of Yamoussoukro "Colom-bey-les-Deux-Eglises." Houphouet-Boigny's sentiments have hardly endeared him to the hotheads of Africa-the Nkrumahs. the Toures and the Nassers-whose political existence is largely based on cursing yesterday's colonialism and extolling today's "positive neutralism.'' This foggy ideology, says Houphouet, is "merely...