Word: pas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...huge opening-night program featured no fewer than 13 separate items, from brief solo dances and pas de deux to the whole third act from Romeo and Juliet. For Western tastes, the costumes were both overly lavish and tacky (although the ballerinas are usually sewn into them), and the sets seemed stodgy. But the dancing was just about as good as legend...
...slid from first to ninth place among causes of U.S. deaths, and the rate has dropped to 16 per 100,000. There is a vaccine, BCG (Bacillus of Calmette and Guérin), which is fairly effective under some conditions. There are at least three wonder drugs-isoniazid, streptomycin & PAS-which can arrest a majority of TB infections, if not cure them. And with the aid of these drugs, daring surgery can save many patients...
...entertainment officer and Chaplain, Paris decides that the weekly groans of a string quartet are hardly a diversion for his troops. To his quest for a program replacement, the Captain applies his own special talents of adroit bungling and naivete. He is essentially a master of the faux pas, breeching social etiquette regularly and filling in the gaps with comic dignity and a pained smile...
...command was heard: 'Close in! Close in! Close in to the center! Close in! Close in!' " It was then that France's General Bosquet, watching in horror from the heights above, let fall his famed comment: "C'est magnifique, mats ce n'est pas la guerre" (It is magnificent...
...sometimes called "American" ballet, it pays almost no attention to "Americana." The repertory leans heavily (about 60%) on the choreographic work of Balanchine himself. A typical program might contain his Symphony in C, set to Bizet and danced in simple costumes against a plain blue backdrop; his showy Pas de Trois (music from Minkus' Don Quixote) as a sop to oldtimers who like to watch three top soloists show off their grace and strength; his grotesque fantasy of insect life, Metamorphoses (music by Hindemith). and perhaps one of popular Choreographer Jerome Robbins' impudent romps such as Pied Piper...