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Like Chauvin. By way of retaliation, U.S. presidential hopefuls may be tempted to emulate France's Nicolas Chauvin and cry a pox on all alien coinages. Admittedly many of these words and phrases are silly, frilly, misused and mispronounced by Yanks; they range, without any particular élan or éclat, from soupçon and soupe du jour to déjà vu and á la almost anything. However, there are hundreds of French words imbedded in the English language for which there are no substitutes-even the politician may find it hard to oppose the tongue...
...secondary role of the Saracen his magisterial elegance of line, as well as a Tartar-like ferocity surprising in a dancer noted for ethereal courtliness. Hampered by an ankle injury, Nureyev as Jean de Brienne performed his four demanding solo variations with visible strain; the unmistakable élan and animal dynamism were there, but not the usual accuracy. Still, his work with Cynthia Gregory was a model of supportive adoration...
...centuries-old Noh drama uses no curtain and no change of lighting. The plays are acted with few or no props beyond a fan, which may represent a cup of wine or a deadly weapon. We know, too, that Wilder was deeply affected by seeing the art of Mei Lan-fang when the late Chinese star visited New York and moved many observers to proclaim him the greatest actor in the world. Mei was the supreme master of mime and symbolic gesture, and his dramas made do with the same kind of simple table and straight chairs that the Stage...
Instead, she likes to discuss "Myrtle's life force" or "Monkey's élan." In much the same way, she will talk about "the essences" of friends or colleagues. She feels that she has learned much from Scientology, Ex-Science Fiction Writer L. Ron Hubbard's free-floating religion. Black keeps an E-Meter, which indicates emotionally charged words, close at hand. It measures "biofeedback emotional response," she says. "Scientology is a group of knowledge to handle and get rid of inexplicable behavior. It has cleared my mind...
Beyond Caricature. In fact, the real heroes are the Bolshoi dancers, who survive Grigorovich's overly athletic, cliché-ridden choreography with amazing élan. The crowd scenes, whether they involve battles, conspiring boyars or rebellious peasants, are confused and repetitive, and pale in excitement by comparison with the kind of dashing maneuvers performed by Russia's folkish Moiseyev company. Every grimace and gesture seems aimed broadly at viewers in the last row of the top balcony. Naturally, the boyars are evil beyond the point of caricature; the peasants are simple and good...