Word: deux
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ballet is a bravura double pas de deux using four of the company's top dancers. The dramatic Brazilian prima ballerina Marcia Haydee is partnered with the ebullient American Richard Cragun. Joyce Cuoco, who was discovered at Radio City Music Hall, dances with Egon Madsen from Denmark. They appear on an empty, side-lit stage in salmon-pink Lycra leotards shining like a second and highly sensual mermaid skin. Hans Werner Henze's Third Symphony, in turn compressed, then explosive, provides the cerebral score...
...deux chevaux coughed and stalled, coughed and stalled all the way down the hill. I stopped at the bistro. Maybe he had seen the light and gone in to see his friends from the town. I hoped he was there where it was bright and warm. Jean-Luc answered first when I called into the smoky room for Francois. "He's not here, but I saw him head for the seawall about half an hour ago. Give me the keys, I'll help you look...
...deux chevaux was there, and Jean-Luc, but Francois was not. When Jean-Luc saw me returning alone, his face tightened. He remembered, I suppose, someone he had once pulled out from the next morning's ebb. I remembered, too. "Call the police," I said. He went for the phone. I went down the crooked steps to the chapel behind the house for a moment's rest before they came...
...keep De Gaulle under glass," he would declare whenever security got too tight. Fortunately for the French President, many of the assassination attempts sound as if they were concocted by Gordon Liddy. One zany plot called for poisoning the Communion Hosts at the village church in Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, where De Gaulle attended Mass. The idea was discarded after the plotters realized that the first person to receive a Host would keel over dead and give the scheme away. And there was no way to guarantee that De Gaulle would be first at the Communion rail...
...told every brush with the great and the near great supposedly has its poignant moments, proving that they are just folks after all. My experience seemed notably lacking, though there was one that might qualify. While á deux with Mrs. Taylor-Burton and a beaker of champagne, she remarked that Richard often considered returning to Oxford to become a simple don. This was said with great sincerity and a straight face. Which-since the lady was at the time wearing a stupefying wig made from the scalps of at least nine healthy Italians and a frock costing upwards...