Word: pas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fewer Yuppies with dogs and baby strollers. One professional carrying a perfectly appropriate bottle of California white zinfandel said to her colleague of a newly made acquaintance, "I didn't give him a card, though. What a faux pas...
...cast adrift. Jerome Sirlin's innovative set makes use of a multitude of opaque and translucent screens upon which are projected images as diverse as primeval forests, alien spacecraft and New York City brownstones. The shifting patterns of light chase M around and dance with her in a malevolent pas de deux, whimsically trapping her and letting her go as her mood shifts from hope to despair. The light and sound join forces to overwhelm M, sometimes leaving her a helpless lump on the floor...
Theme and Variations featured Larisa Lezhnina, 20, a richly talented Kirov prospect. But her consort, Ruzimatov, literally got in her way. Defeated by the partnering in the pas de deux, in which the woman must execute many steps while appearing to move languorously, he acted like a man caught in a turnstile. In one Montreal performance, Lezhnina was forced to retract her extended...
Some students hissed. Then he acknowledged his faux pas, with a gosh that was bad, wasn...
...Louvre. The French buzzed and clucked at the outrageousness of the new upstart. After all, who but Kelly could boast that only eight years ago he was peddling his clothes on the sidewalk of the Boulevard St.-Germain, calling out to passersby in a Mississippi drawl, "Tres chic! Pas cher!"? Now he's selling on four continents. "Patrick is refreshing because he isn't trying to be divine," says Mary Ann Wheaton, who runs Kelly's worldwide operations...