So Mr. Chapin went about replicating a bit of la France profonde in the Hudson River Valley.
And David Hallberg, the American danseur noble now with the Bolshoi Ballet, shined all too briefly with Ms. Kondaurova in a bit of "La Bayadère".
It was a symbol of a resurgent Atlantic City, a dazzling, luxurious, bigger-than-life amusement park cum casino that was supposed to bring a bit of Las Vegas to the Jersey Shore.
There is a bit of domestic "La Bohème -style comic relief.
A day after Real Madrid joined Barcelona on the exit ramp out of European competition, two Spanish clubs salvaged a bit of prestige for La Liga by advancing to the Europa League final.
Dominick's in West Hollywood, a legendary Rat Pack hangout, brings a bit of New York to LA.
And how weird it was to see humans in the audience cheering on the A.I. Our only hope is that Watson doesn't rebel against his masters and cause a bit of havoc à la Shodan (not that I'm altogether opposed to a robot takeover, mind you).
He begins the contest by playing a bit of Antonio Bazzini's "La Ronde des Lutins".
"I think I've always carried a bit of LA and LA aesthetics," she told me.
All well and good, but I had just spent three years writing a book about this very subject, so it was a bit of a blow - La Leona wasn't even on my radar.
Unlike Martin Luther King, he says, "I have no dream…but I do like pilu [a dialect term for a bit of tail]." Mr La Qualunque, the central character in a new film, "Qualunquemente", is an invention.
