Word: pas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PARIS, April 7--Many French coal miners are deeply dissatisfied with the settlement which ended their 35-day strike Wednesday. Although some striking miners held out through Friday for better terms, they gave up Friday night. In both the Northern mine fields and at Pas-de-Calais almost all miners were back at work underground Saturday...
What was a ceremony becomes a seduction-or is it a wedding night? The lovers, danced with moody excitement by Allegra Kent and Edward Villella, are circled by their attendants and stripped of their outer robes. In bikini and tights, they dance a pulsing pas de deux that ends in a crouching embrace. Their attendants return, tug them apart and restore their robes, but the partnered dance that follows suggests the first steps of the love duet. The ballet ends-a courtly, exotic, unresolved sexual fantasy...
...Comme il ne faux pas...
Scholarly as well as sprightly, the shows constantly match language to life. Dawn Addams brandishes a sandwich to explain the French negative. The top piece of bread represents the ne, the filling the the bottom piece of bread the pas. Remember the sandwich." chirps Dawn reminding the viewer to use ne and pas and keep them apart. To teach the French possessive RTF uses a song-and-mime team called the Frères Jacques, who pretend to be burglars tirelessly dividing loot à moi; à toi, à toi, à lui, until even a Kansas City house dick would...
...being eyed by networks in many other countries, including Russia. Hachette's series will start in the U.S. next spring, is also scheduled for showing in Spain. Next on Hachette's agenda is an "encyclopedia of languages" -TV shows teaching every language in Europe. Pourquois pas indeed...