pas-de-deux

The pas-de-deux between Chuck Lane and myself, which has now become a long day's journey into night and the subsequent morning, has touched on a number of topics raised by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's attack on public-sector unions -- but not on the full range of political consequences that will follow if Walker's denial of collective bargaining rights is enacted.

Scrooge-ism in Wisconsin, part 2 2011

He didn't seem so much a duet partner as an editor and ghost writer, filling in all the notes she would have herself played half a century ago; Mr. Weber so astutely functioned as a second, younger McPartland that it reminded me of a jazz version of Sondheim's "Follies," in which you see a younger and an older version of the same character standing side by side, as if intertwined in a pas-de-deux.

Passing Down the Piano Torch Song Will Friedwald 2011

"There's someone you must meet," she told the group who mostly towered over me, who out-sophisticated me, who were at ease, at home, in their place in the world, and I standing outside the dancefloor, not ever expecting to be asked to the slightest pas-de-deux.

February 2010 2010

She doesn't do this by confrontation or violence, but by challenging the victims to a pas-de-deux, danced to the music of the classic ballet that mirrors the victim's problem.

Reviews Too Late: Princess Tutu Walter Jon Williams 2010

"There's someone you must meet," she told the group who mostly towered over me, who out-sophisticated me, who were at ease, at home, in their place in the world, and I standing outside the dancefloor, not ever expecting to be asked to the slightest pas-de-deux.

Delightful 2010

One of the most chilling moments in post-ceasefire Ulster came at a moment when Sinn Féin-IRA Terrorist leader Gerry Adams was doing his ballot-box/Armalite routine with a crowd which was unhappy at some sinuous snakelike gyration he had just executed in his pas-de-deux with the Unionists.

Archive 2007-09-23 2007

What's appalling to me is how we don't at least let the other shoe drop in our dysfunctional pas-de-deux with our preoccupation with all that is young.

Bruce Kluger: From the Mouths of Babes 2009

One of the most chilling moments in post-ceasefire Ulster came at a moment when Sinn Féin-IRA Terrorist leader Gerry Adams was doing his ballot-box/Armalite routine with a crowd which was unhappy at some sinuous snakelike gyration he had just executed in his pas-de-deux with the Unionists.

We Haven't Gone Away, You Know 2007

Strategies aside, this archaic attitude reinforces the age-old pas-de-deux: Men are the protectors; women are the protectees.

Melissa Soalt: Harmony... or Else: The Physical Feminism of Women's Self Defense 2008

I once admired the subtle thought, the careful parsing, the diplomatic pas-de-deux of policy, but lately I seem to have taken up a taste for straight talk.

Think Progress » Sen. Lamar Alexander ♥ David Horowitz 2006