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...unspoken truism that sports do little to enrich the spectator because they do not stimulate the mind. It is very hard to successfully argue the merits of football against ballet, hockey against drama, sweat against culture. I will not attempt to compare a wrestling match to a pas de deux, but I would submit that one who views either activity receives equal parts of intellectual and visceral stimulation...
...peered at two red dots on a white flash card held by a teacher, who called out, "Two!" As new cards came up, the teacher chanted the numbers while Kendall acknowledged the exercise with an occasional gurgle. Down the hall, Kendall's four-year-old sister Katie chirped, "Un, deux, trois . . ." mimicking the accent of her Parisian instructor. Elsewhere around Creme de la Creme, 150 other tots and toddlers grappled with art, music, French, math, gym, reading, science and social studies until mothers and fathers in Volvos and BMWs came to pick them up. "There's a lot of competition...
...angel." Robbins' scenario begins quietly and a bit flatly as Farrell moves with increasing stiffness and bafflement between her lover (tenderly danced by Joseph Duell) and friends. Suddenly they move off and she is left with a gauntly beautiful angel of death (Adam Luders). Their pas de deux is the heart of the ballet. The moves are often slow and arduous, but the great tension and energy between the dancers make the struggle heartbreaking. Robbins goes boldly to Farrell's melodramatic strain, and she responds by portraying the horror of death without any romantic gloss. He exploits her ability...
...other Hollywood directors, this one embraced multitudes: Gunga Din and James Dean, Cary Grant and Anne Frank. Exploiting the movies' passion for teamwork, he wrote gags for Laurel and Hardy, struck the first sparks for Tracy and Hepburn, directed Fred and Ginger in their most sublime pas de deux (Never Gonna Dance, from Swing Time). And yet, in Alice Adams, A Place in the Sun and Giant, he displayed an affinity for ambitious outsiders with their noses pressed against the frosted window of the American dream. Maddeningly meticulous, he could earn a laugh by simply waiting out the punch line...
...soon as Treasury Secretary Donald Regan and White House Chief of Staff James Baker finished their pas de deux in the West Wing press room, Congressmen tried to put a cautiously upbeat spin on the news. "It seems logical once you get over the first surprise," ventured Indiana Republican Richard Lugar, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "It's something I wouldn't have thought of," said Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole of Kansas. "But it turns out it's a good switch...