Word: pas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Myrtha, Queen of the Wilis. The hapless Hilarion is trapped by the wilis as he comes to mourn at Giselle's grave and is forced to dance to his death. A remorseful and grieving Albrecht sees Giselle's spirit in the graveyard and, after a sorrowful and loving pas de deux,he too becomes trapped by the wilis...
CHARLTON HESTON, you adorably cranky gun-toting thing, you. Is it because you're president of the N.R.A. that you feel you can shoot from both hips? In an industry in which public criticism is an unforgivable faux pas if not a cardinal sin, you opened fire on two of show-biz-land's most beloved citizens. First there was the charming advice you told the New York Daily News you gave ROBERT DE NIRO, that he ought to do Shakespeare. "It's ridiculous for an actor that good to keep playing Las Vegas hoods. That's terrible," you said...
...describing her. Not long after he told TIME that he had kissed the infant Lewinsky's inner thighs--"those little polkehs!"--he was explaining that he had agreed to the Vanity Fair shoot because Starr had imprisoned "her libido." It was a remark that on top of other faux pas so infuriated Lewinsky's father Bernard, an old friend, that for a while he stopped talking to Ginsburg, sources tell TIME...
More importantly, they are one of the few times when the College exhibits signs of a truly collective social life. This spring season, we set out to evaluate four formals, separating fact from fiction, faux pas from fabulous and clipons from hand-ties...
...like Spenser ("Her nipples like young blossomed jessamine"), Dryden ("Young am I and yet unskilled") and, most appallingly, Anne Frank ("Am I only 14? Am I really still a silly little schoolgirl?"). One photo of a pert but defiant-looking young thing is labeled with an uncredited "Ne touchez pas." Another reads, "Not unless--or until--I say so!" Could you possibly not be wincing? I found myself both amused and repelled by The Age of Innocence--it's as campy as it is creepy. But that's no defense...