Word: voil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lights go up on three scanty-panty circles of writhing male dancers. They then form a single circle of life, and voilà it is genesis time. Nijinsky is given life and immediately departs for Diaghilev's Ballet Russe, which represents earthly paradise. Thereafter, the graceful and the grotesque prance the stage in some of the longest, slowest processionals since Catherine de Medici introduced ballet spectacle to the court of France in the late 16th century. Nymphs, whores and clowns flutter merrily about. Morality figures of death and madness strut menacingly. The serpent, dressed in a red flapperesque...
...VOILÀ," said Philibert Tsirinana, the only president Madagascar has had since it won independence from France and became the Malagasy Republic in 1958. "So you are going to drive to Tamatave? Voila. You will find the road is bad. I will tell you why. First, because we do not have money to do all things at once. Second, because if we improved the road, people would use it and the profits of our railroad would be reduced. Third, because the sooner we improved it, the sooner it would be torn up and the sooner we would have to improve...
...Voilà! Each of Charlie's intentions is given a variety of interpretations, like a sunbeam hitting a prism. A pickpocket on the lam deposits a stolen watch in the tramp's trousers. Charlie looks at the watch-which the original victim spots as his own. A policeman gives chase-and corners Charlie in a hall of mirrors, where an infinity of cops vainly pursues an equal number of tramps. Disappearing into a tent, Chaplin seeks cover during an act. A top-hatted prestidigitator covers a girl with a cloth, walks to a large wardrobe, opens...