Word: pas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...than anywhere this side of pay cable (for men), plus grooming tips and a visit to some fashion pooh-bah's aerie. Hovering above the glitz, as stately and nurturing as the Queen Mum, is the Australian-born Klensch. For Elsa, shoddy clothes and naughty tattle simply n'existent pas. "Karl Lagerfeld could kill his mother," she told HG, "and I'd just ask him about the design of his clothes." Who else could merge Diana Vreeland and Diane Sawyer? No one Elsa...
...days as Israel's Prime Minister have put Arabs and Palestinians in a similar bind. He has yanked open the door to serious negotiations against which they had been pushing, only to find them in a tangled heap on the floor, their muscles stiff and unprepared for a vigorous pas de deux...
Monday nights are the low point in a Kong lover's week--the restaurant is closed. "Even Kong goers make the mistake. you say, 'Kong?' and you show up and see the sign that says it's closed on Mondays. It's a big faux pas," Migdon explains...
...dream up what for some are odd pas de deux, but this postmodern master maintains his allegiance to such old-fashioned values as form and narrative. "I am very, very strict structurally," he says. "You can break any rule you want, but you have to have a clue about what the rules are." Morris makes up full-bodied dances that celebrate the pure joy of movement, usually spiked with an irreverent wit. "The knee-jerk response is to assume that a lot of what I do is parody or sarcastic when it actually isn't," he observes. "I'm interested...
...Reichmanns and their bankers prepared for their complicated pas de deux around the negotiating table, the stakes could not be higher: the world's biggest property developer was about to embark on the largest private debt restructuring in history. Banks in Canada are said to hold an estimated $2.4 billion in O&Y debt, much of it on the books of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and the Royal Bank of Canada...