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...years, whereas the Sales shot was a surreal, Broadway-like moment. After letting UConn win the tipoff, the opposing Villanova players stood silently on their side as a player ceremoniously dribbled the ball to the basket and handed it to the flat-footed Sales, who finished the stilted pas de deux by banking an ugly one off the backboard; then Villanova evened the game with an uncontested shot of its own. The backstage maneuverings were even more contrived. Geno Auriemma, UConn's coach, devised the stunt, then suggested it to his buddy, Villanova coach Harry Perretta. The two coaches cleared...
Remember a few years ago when you suddenly couldn't eat a tuna-fish sandwich without a pang of guilt--unless the tuna can bore a seal promising that no dolphins had inadvertently been harmed when the fish was caught? Soon there will be a new faux pas du jour: eating the endangered swordfish. If environmentalists have their way, most restaurants will take the delicacy off their menu, and those that don't will lose customers in the wake of a great swordfish boycott...
Monica Lewinsky's lawyer, William Ginsburg, and Special Prosecutor Kenneth Starr spent the day in the pas de deux that lawyers call the "immunity dance." No deal's been struck -- at least, none has been announced. Reportedly, Lewinsky would reverse her earlier testimony and say she had a sexual relationship with President Clinton in exchange for immunity. But Starr wants to hear the ex-intern testify that Clinton and Vernon Jordan pressured her into covering up the affair...
...decision, when it finally came, was based on one of those peculiar divinations that Seinfeld thrives on. "I felt ... the Moment. That's the only way I can describe it," Seinfeld explains in the tone of voice the TV Jerry might use to delineate a date's faux pas. "I just know from being onstage for years and years and years, there's one moment where you have to feel the audience is still having a great time, and if you get off right there, they walk out of the theater excited. And yet, if you wait a little...
...Waltz of the Flowers was well choreographed, and though the too-familiar music may grate on the nerves in crowded shopping malls, here it retains some of its magic when accompanied by dancers gracefully simulating the opening and closing of flower petals. In the final pas de deux of the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier, Jennifer Gelfand and Robert Wallace were both excellent. Gelfand's solid technique, effortless jumps and unmatched turns made her variation a joy to watch, reaching a high point when she completed four and five rotations after her fouette turns--a feat seldom seen...