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  • Not to mention that flailing back leg on the coupes jetes en tournant which is new.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • Javier tells Abigail, "While you were practicing pirouettes and fouttés en tournant at Juilliard, I was busy mastering four languages, and by the time you graduated from NYU, I had the equivalent of two degrees, one in finance, the other in international studies."

    Drink One to Me, Christian Bennett by Vicki Allen 2009

  • Javier tells Abigail, "While you were practicing pirouettes and fouttés en tournant at Juilliard, I was busy mastering four languages, and by the time you graduated from NYU, I had the equivalent of two degrees, one in finance, the other in international studies."

    Drink One to Me, Christian Bennett by Vicki Allen 2009

  • This is an adaptation of the recipe for one of my favorite entrées at La Tulipe restaurant in New York, where I was chef tournant in the early eighties.

    SARA MOULTON’S EVERYDAY FAMILY DINNERS SARA MOULTON 2010

  • This is an adaptation of the recipe for one of my favorite entrées at La Tulipe restaurant in New York, where I was chef tournant in the early eighties.

    SARA MOULTON’S EVERYDAY FAMILY DINNERS SARA MOULTON 2010

  • Toutefois, loin de s'excuser, M. Parizeau en a remis en tournant en ridicule la demande du fonctionnaire.

    Archive 2007-06-01 uncorrectedproofs 2007

  • “Un tournant important dans l™usage du mot idea chez Henri de Gand,” in M. Fattori/L. Bianchi, eds.,

    Hitler's Angel (A Meta Christmas Carol) 2009

  • Pour moi jericho est un tournant , comme dallas ou x-files le furent : il y aura un avant et un après jericho .

    Save Jericho Again | CBS boards acting up 2008

  • Seront mis en ligne prochainement des chapitres tournant plus autour de la “sécurité informatique”: virus, phishing, spam.

    Rédaction d’infos pour ciao.ch — Climb to the Stars 2007

  • Seront mis en ligne prochainement des chapitres tournant plus autour de la “sécurité informatique”: virus, phishing, spam.

    2007 January — Climb to the Stars 2007

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  • "'I know these people!' was my first impression, drawing an immediate parallel between the gargantuan cellars of the Hotel X and the hangar-sized kitchen of the 1970s Rainbow Room, where I was then working as a tournant, buffet cook, prep flunky, and general dogsbody."

    —Anthony Bourdain, The Nasty Bits (New York: Bloomsbury, 2006), 96

    March 25, 2009