Word: leotard
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Shoppers not fortunate enough to have connections often have to resort to baser methods, such as those employed by musician Harler. She boasts that on a recent Basement voyage, she had a leotard among the stockings. The next day, when the price had fallen 25 percent, she came back...
...general of the neo-Gaullist party: "The Communists have just said today, down to the last comma, what we have been repeating for three years: the government's economic and industrial policy is a failure." But in a backhanded compliment to Fabius, Republican Party Leader François Leotard noted that Mitterrand had chosen "one of the best. We must not underestimate our adversary...
...lights come up on a young woman standing awkwardly, boldly, downstage center. She is wearing a leotard, mesh stockings and tap shoes. Without a word of explanation she picks up a white rifle and begins twirling it to the strains of the Star-Spangled Banner. Before the national anthem is finished, she will work flips, splits, flag waving and roman candles into the hilariously awful act she is practicing. Doing this lunatic parody of a beauty contest talent routine without onstage preparation or any chance to establish character is, for an actress, the equivalent of an operatic soprano hitting...
...provides a marvelous contract to the rest of Belleville. At one point we see Dede sneaking up to Nicole who is gobbling down some cake at a patisserie. "I am cooking leveret stuffed with pistachios, parsley, and a hint of garlic for dinner. "Two leverets," he protests. Baye and Leotard manage to make an incongruous relationship seem convincing and touching. The very thing that makes the couple so vulnerable to both the gangsters and the police alike, their mutual loyalty is at the some time, the only positive thing in the story. If only the could be left alone...
...balky bicoastal trio prove predictably inelastic in Men's Stretch, their first class. "Men are not as flexible as women," says the instructor encouragingly. Few women are as flexible as the instructors, who are all shimmeringly sleek, exotically turned out in leotard and leg-warmer ensembles, and able to lie on their sides and circle one leg in the air hundreds of times without getting cramps...