Word: pas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, it was horticulture, as she dutifully sniffed and stared at the wares in the late autumn show of the Royal Horticultural Society. For Ballerina Natalia Makarova, who defected a couple of months ago from Russia and the Kirov Ballet, it was the Black Swan pas de deux from Swan Lake, danced for the cameras of the BBC with her fellow defector Rudolf Nureyev-a star at the Kirov when she was in the corps de ballet. "Who would have believed we would ever dance together again?" breathed Natalia. "An absolutely exquisite dancer," raved Nuri...
...President's faux pas came in the middle of another attack on his frequent foe, the press. Nixon had just come from a ten-day working holiday in San Clemente, where he found himself angered by the coverage given the Manson case in the local media. Many of the young, Nixon said in Denver, "tend to glorify and to make heroes out of those who engage in criminal activities." Was it the fault of the press? Yes and no, said Nixon. Yes: "It is done perhaps because people want to read or see that kind of story." No: "This...
...pas,t year Bickel, 45, has shuttled regularly to Washington to testify on subjects ranging from electoral-college reform to presidential war powers...
...from that scene, the current battle cry of France's increasingly aggressive young Maoists was scrawled on a wall: "Pas de vacances pour les riches"-no vacations for the rich. A day after the Deauville raid, the Maoists threw a Molotov cocktail and started a small fire at a hotel in La Baule on the Brittany coast. On Bastille Day, they slashed hundreds of tires in Lourdes near the shrine of Bernadette...
...tubes designed by the Venezuelan painter Jesús Raphael Soto. Then the Tiller Girls, 16 bright British birds whose forebears were the original inspiration for the Radio City Rockettes, descend from the ceiling in sentinel boxes. Their number is followed by blonde-wigged nudes and a sleekly sophisticated pas de deux executed by a pair of Petit's dancers. Finally, following a flurry of furs, sequins and extravagant nudes, the inimitable Zizi appears. Her ink black hair is clipped into a skull cap, and her raspy, pushcart-vendor voice keeps the audience in thrall for two solid hours...