Word: pas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rivalry for Turkey's prime-minister-ship has become an ongoing pas de deux. The dance began when Süleyman Demirel, leader of the conservative Justice Party, was named Premier in April 1975. Two years later, Bülent Ecevit, head of the liberal Republican People's Party, elbowed him offstage. But Demirel replaced him in July 1977. Last week Ecevit again succeeded an embittered Demirel, and their stately duet became a throbbing hustle...
...conjunction with the recently-formed Boston Repertory Ballet, presents A Week of Ballet, culminating in a performance at MIT's Kresge Auditorium at 8 on Saturday, January 28. The evening will feature special guest artists Lydia Abarca and Ronald Perry of the Dance Theater of Harlem in pas de deux from the virtuoso "Le Corsaire" and the Balanchine-Stravinsky "Agon," as well as the Repertory company in Antony Tudor's "Soiree Musicale," Director Samuel Kurkjian's snappy "Speed Zone", and the world premiere of a new Kurkjian work, "A Cole Porter Suite." The week preceding offers lecture-demonstrations and master...
...flying saucers in Close Encounters rival the ones in Star Wars, the latter easily win the prize for original aliens. This is especially surprising considering that the costume designers in Close Encounters only had to design one other-wordly creature. Besides not wearing space suits--a definite faux pas--the aliens in this film are greenish, long-necked, pot-bellied, leathery-skinned, and have gaping mouths, which makes the creatures look boringly akin to Martians...
Nevertheless, Carter, Vance and their colleagues contributed significantly, if not always deliberately, to the atmosphere that made the Sadat-Begin summit possible. Whatever faux pas he committed along the way, the President succeeded in getting two of the principals in the conflict to lift their eyes from procedural details and ponder the prospect of a final, comprehensive settlement. From the outset of his Administration, Carter had made clear that the old step-by-step approach employed so effectively by Henry Kissinger was in danger of becoming a treadmill, and that haggling over credentials, timetables and terminology had become an excuse...
...pure dance." Yet this limited view is not totally stifling, as the dance, a supreme masterpiece of the Russian tradition, contains some of the most exquisitely harmonious choreography ever devised--and some of the most demanding. It is structured something like a concerto, the Swan Queen's solos (or pas-dedeux with the Prince) alternating with ensemble passages for the corps de ballet of swan-maidens...