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Likewise preserving all the unities, its three acts bear the subtitles "Pas de Deux," "Pas de Trois," and "Coda." But the work suggests, more than ballet, a piece of polyphonic chamber music in which all the strings of a violin, viola and 'cello are tuned tighter than usual...
...quality of Bob Walsh's Jazz Dance Workshop varied inversely with the number of dancers on stage. In Leonard Bernstein's First Glimpse, a horde of girls stood in place going through fairly standard motions: swinging hips, snapping fingers, waving arms. In a "pas de trois" danced to Richard Rogers' My Favorite Things, only Carol Schectman. Linda Townsend and Walsh occupied the stage, and theirs was the most relaxed and technically the best dance performance of the evening. Miss Schectman especially moved with great ease and grace...
Tshombe knows how to maintain his popularity at home-and he does it in a way no other African leader would dare. He talks about the dignity his people have lost through laziness and the common response, "Pas moyen, patron [No can do, boss]." He gives them hell...
Bitos commits a characteristic faux pas by appearing in full costume. This also attests the nature of the man, a small-minded, bloody-minded egotist, seething with inner fury and monumentally insecure, inflexible and prideful. Maxime and his friends hate Bitos for his lowly origins, for the brainy diligence that made him first in school and for the fanaticism with which he is hounding and executing wartime collaborationists...
...coeducational Sian University, a French Deputy asks a question natural to any Frenchman: "Does the proximity of 5,000 boys and 2,000 girls pose any problems?" There are puzzled stares, and the rector replies: "What sort of problems?" The French visitor: "Sexual problems." The rector: "Je ne vois pas [I don't follow...