Word: pas
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Presented recitative-style, with alternating spoken dialogue and songs that reveal characters' feelings and motivations, there are secrets revealed, kidnappings, bumbling henchmen, crude comedy and low-tech special effects like flash pots and strobes. Characters have solos, duets and ensemble arrangements, accompanied by interpretive dancers. There is even a pas de deux...
...however, committed a journalistic faux pas by prefacing your questions with phrases that hinted to the audience what you really think. You made no attempt to be objective. I think every reader will know exactly where you stand on these issues and principles...
...line was a faux pas of sorts, but was also significant for making a direct connection between the two prizes...
...champagne during the previous night's $26 million Democratic fund-raising gala. He'd scored one for free trade and corporate campaign donations by being on the winning side of the China trade bill, but he'd had to buck the Big Labor heavies - and like a boozy faux pas, it might be coming back to haunt him. He'd asked unions the classic New Democrat question - where else you gonna go? - but this time they were giving it some serious thought. "In the end, most of the unions want Al Gore elected," says TIME White House correspondent Karen Tumulty...
...intermission, the show left most in the audience wanting more. The first act was especially short, with five scenes compared to the second act's seven. The structure of the second act was repetitive as well, as both acts included a showy opening act, an unfolding conspiracy and a pas deus between Cleopatra and her Roman gentleman. The only change in the second half of the production is that Cleopatra makes Marc Antony chase her to Egypt, and a final scene is added to close the ballet...