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At 12:49 PM 12/12/96 -0700, you wrote:
>Beth Mazur writes:
>><snip>
>When Mikhail Baryshnikov leaps 6 feet in the air, performs a flawless
>pas a deus, and lands light as a feather, there will be some people
>who think, "That didn't look so hard - I could do that." (BTW,
>I'm sure I massacred the spelling above - please don't bother to
>send me corrective emails.)
>It wasn't the spelling that had me ROTFL, but rather the thought of Misha
performing a pas de deux 6 feet in the air. A pas de deux is a dance for two
people; i.e., a duet. They aren't normally done 6 feet up.
Yes, I know this isn't really about technical writing--and I'm not making
fun of Beth--but I just couldn't resist. Besides, maybe it DOES have
something to do with TW--I'm the mom of a professional ballet dancer/dance
teacher/soon-to-be physical therapy major.
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