Word: pair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least it is for Rudolf Nureyev, 30. Not that Rudi is all that wild about horses. It's just that he has this gas about things South American; so naturally that led to an Yves St. Laurent Argentine pony-skin jacket to set off a dashing pair of matching boots by Paris' Roger Vivier. Gaucho Rudi wears the getup whenever the mood strikes him, as with Dame Margot Fonteyn and Princess Margaret at a Knightsbridge mansion, where the Princess helped kick off a fund-raising campaign to provide new facilities for the Royal Academy of Dancing...
...more familiar than Borges with the problems of translation (few know as many languages as he). Having rendered numerous works into his native Spanish, he is now working with Norman Thomas diGiovanni to prepare English translations of an upcoming volume of Borges' selected poems. The pair is trying to avoid the "maybe inevitable mistake" made by Borges' previous translators: "Latin words are natural in Spanish, but may be unnatural and far-fetched in English." The problem is to find a natural blend of Latinate and Anglo-Saxon words...
...quarter-mile, Huvelle and Dave McKelvey will form a pair almost as imposing as Keith Colburn and Trey Burns in the 880. Colburn was the country's top freshman half-miler last year with a 1:48.0, and is now ready for outdoor action after suffering a winter injury...
...pair of brothers, J. Lawrence Pool '28 and Beekman "Beek" Pool '32, put on a show of power that hasn't been equalled since. Lawrence's strength literally wore his opponents down, and the National title fell...
...Production costs are prohibitive; the American Ballet Theater, which carries 58 dancers, plus 38 musicians and technicians on tour, plays to packed houses but still loses $10,000 every week it sets its feet on stage. Just to keep those feet in Capezio toe shoes ($9 a pair) costs $1,000 a week...