Word: pas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ballet Russe, in town for its one week curtsey to the cultural center of the world, opened Monday with three old standbys and an extra Pas de Deux thrown in for kicks. It was a nice gesture, but it didn't make up for the loss of ballerinas of Danilova's calibre...
Swan Lake, The Nutcracker Suite, Scheherazade, and the Grand Pas de Deux from Don Quixote all combined to prove one thing: that the Ballet Russe no longer has the outstanding prima ballerinas which once made it the greatest company in the world. They have instead a group of young and graceful principals, many of whom are technically excellent, but none of whom have the faculty of complete abandonment which makes for inspiring classical ballet...
...fact, it has nearly everything an operetta should have. It has dancing--ballroom, ballet, and can-can, all done with devastating elan. In particular, the team of Gilrone and Star shone with their smooth pas de deux in the Merry Widow Waltz...
Simultaneously, the researchers used streptomycin and PAS against miliary tuberculosis, an equally deadly form of the disease (in which the bacilli are spread throughout the system) which also singles out children. In these cases the results were even more encouraging...
...feel like the fellow who burped in church and created a lot of attention, all of it bad," said White House Jester George Allen mournfully. Allen's faux pas was a letter which he had co-sponsored with another fervent Truman Democrat, New Mexico's Senator Clinton Anderson, and mailed to selected businessmen around the country. It began by suggesting that a special archives building should be constructed on Harry Truman's farm at Grandview, Mo., to keep the papers of the Truman Administration, much as Franklin Roosevelt's are kept at Hyde Park...