Word: pas
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Less than a week after finishing fifth in New Hampshire, Brown used his opposition to nuclear power to secure a virtual tie with former Massachusetts Senator Paul E. Tsongas in Maine. In the pas week, the former California governor has won the hotly contested Colorado primary and the Nevada caucuses...
...attracted to classical pointe work. Three of her dancers, Robert LaFosse, Stacy Caddell and Allison Brown, are from New York City Ballet. On opening night they appeared in Octet, a stringent black- and-white ballet set to an Edgar Meyer score. That was followed by a larky grand pas classique performed by Isabelle Guerin and Patrick Dupond, both visitors from the Paris Opera Ballet. Tharp says, "When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art." Perhaps that is why she can't help kidding ballet conventions...
...Though he was acquitted, tales of extravagant gambling trips and debts paid off with cash-filled suitcases have ^ continued to dog him. But they also spark his campaign for redemption. As the well-scrubbed, silver-haired Cajun traipses across the state like a visiting potentate, he exhorts supporters, "Lache pas la patate! ((Don't drop the potato!)) I made my mistakes, and I benefited by them. I'm running to complete the job I started...
...ultimate spiritual experience, no site could surpass the ancient Olmec pyramids at Cacaxtla, southeast of Mexico City. There a pallid re- enactment of Aztec dances failed to stir the crowd of 3,000, but the sun's pas de deux with the moon, lasting nearly six minutes -- a minute and a half short of the maximum duration possible -- led many to fall to their knees. With Mars, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter suddenly bursting into view in the afternoon, what else could they do but give thanks to the gods, ancient and modern, and pray for the opportunity to view...
...would like to bring to your attention two glaring, embarrassing journalistic faux pas that appeared in the "Arts" section of your publication on Thursday, April 11. The following excerpts are taken from Margaret H. Gleason's "Hamlet Unable to Sustain Innovation," and P. Gregory Maravilla's "Sadism and Flying Refrigerators," respectively...