Sitting a little too close to Clay, she exchanges a few pleasantries before the dance of death begins.

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Ian McKellen, whose new show "Dance of Death" opens October 11, is unconcerned by the ups and downs of ticket sales.

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Mr. Watkins said that "some of the harmonies and the wildness of the rhythms" in "Tanec" have elements of a dance of death.

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And it seemed to Katia that the dance of death was not merely horrid but unjust terrifying because the lion was going to eat both the cow and the unborn calf.

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But Conservative leader David Cameron said Mr Brown and his critics were locked in "a slow dance of political death".

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If you were at a party or a sporting event or (seriously) even the Democratic National Convention, you were (by penalty of death) required to dance the Macarena.

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As the last set of fiscal policy negotiations lead to the failure of the super committee and the death of Simpson-Bowles, trust in the fact that the government would not dance at the edge of the fiscal cliff has been compromised.

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