Word: pas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Festival Hall last week and put on a rare show: a firsthand demonstration of contemporary Russian ballet style. They were Hungary's Istvan Rabovsky, 23, and his wife, Nora Kovach, 21, since 1949 leading dancers in the Leningrad, Moscow and Budapest Opera ballets. They danced the Grand Pas de Deux from Don Quixote-a circusy old number that gave little chance for high art but plenty for high jumps-with a kind of brilliant virtuosity that left balletomanes' toes twitching. Istvan won top honors with his incredible double turns in the air, but Nora, looking like a round...
...village green. Blond ballerinas danced freely, often just on their toes, rather than always formally on pointes. The performances depended almost as much on mimicry as on footwork. There was none of the tense, hushed atmosphere of the Russian ballet, with its emphasis on the technically difficult solo and pas de deux...
...Encouraged by the first year's results with isoniazid (especially when given along with streptomycin or PAS), New York City officials announced an ambitious program to bring every known tuberculosis case under treatment. Outpatient care will help those waiting for hospital beds and will make it possible to send patients home sooner but keep them under treatment; it will also be good for many of the balky ones who refuse hospitalization...
...pushed a plunger to explode 50 lbs. of dynamite, the first blast in the construction of Haiti's $21 million Little TVA in the Artibonite Valley (TIME, Jan. 12).* A small boy in the crowd of 2,000, expecting something downright atomic, heard the muffled whoom and muttered, "Pas bon [no good...
Igor Youskevitch took up dancing at the age of twenty-four and, within a decade, has become the foremost classical ballet artist in this country. His double pirouettes in the Pas de Deux from The Nutcracker were so brilliant and perfect that he appeared suspended above the stage. And his control and grace in slower movements compare only with Andre Eglevsky of City Center...