Word: pas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which the hero reaches home so late that he scarcely has time to kiss his poor mother goodbye before he rushes away to die-covers the steppes as far as eye can see with the Russian equivalent of smarmalade. Also hard to take: Director Chukhrai's fuzzy-focus, pas de deux romanticism and his bright young mannerisms as a cinematographer. Nevertheless, Chukhrai emerges in this picture as an exuberantly gifted moviemaker. The best of his camera work has force and a creative gaiety. He makes inspired use of sound, silence, rhythm, and a wonderfully witty and expressive score composed...
...lead midway through the final period, when LaPointe tallied his second goal of the evening on an assist from Pettersen. With 2:20 to go Beckett gave the Crimson a seemingly insurmountable 5-4 lead on a near-perfect breakaway solo. After jumping the defensemen Beckett took a pas from Dave Morse. Picking up the puck just over the red line, Beckett steamed down the ice and beat the goalie...
...Crimson, for fairly obvious reasons, can be a lot more interesting than something like the Moscow University Herald (which, one hazards, regarded 600 annual purges as regrettable faux pas that had no place in a sober chronicle of the passing days). Yes, yes, the Crimson is much more than this; as it is easy to see, it is no official organ for anything...
When former Republican Gov. C. William O'Neill took office in 1956 behind the Eisenhower sweep, the state was almost entirely Republican, with the notable exception of Sen. Frank Lausche. O'Neill opened his term with a great faux pas unintentionally ignoring Ike's wave at the 1957 inauguration, and committed many more blunders before he was finished...
...Khrushchev's wife and youngest daughter watched from a box of the Stanislavsky Theater, Maria Tallchief and Erik Bruhn glided through the Black Swan pas de deux from Swan Lake. The troupe also leapt and lassoed its way through the Aaron Copland and Agnes de Mille ballet Rodeo and George Balanchine's abstract Theme and Variations, set to Tchaikovsky music. The Russians admired Tallchief and Bruhn, were politely confused by the unclassic vigor of the American originals, but clapped the entire company back for six curtain calls after their debut...