Word: cheeked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ginger Rogers, the 1940 Oscar-winner best remembered for dancing cheek-to-cheek with Fred Astaire in a string of glittering, Depression-era musicals, died at her home in Rancho Mirage near Palm Springs. The pair first danced during Broadway rehearsals for "Girl Crazy," a 1930 Gershwin musical. Her close friend President Reagan (in an uncredited paraphrase of a Gloria Steinem one-liner) said in 1986: "Her male counterpart got the lion's share of publicity but Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, and did it with high heels on, and did it backwards...
...lips. And it is fully in the tradition of Marcel Du-champ, whose puns were equally feeble. An early Nauman like From Hand to Mouth, 1967 (a wax cast of the artist's arm, shoulder and throat) is a retread of Duchamp's 1959 With My Tongue in My Cheek, a cast of the old dandy's cheek delicately swollen by the pressure of his tongue inside...
...women, a manager, says she had her first experience with Bolduc's more than collegial style in an elevator. "He paid me a compliment, then reached over and put his right hand on my left butt cheek. Fortunately, the elevator had reached our floor, so I just stepped aside and walked him to the [building's] exit...
...organizers of the underground group have distributed handouts on campus which include a tongue-and-cheek statement of purpose and a social calendar for the month of March...
...whole scene is overtly sentimental, but Grady's emotion is described unselfconsciously so that we don't resist it: "I was seized with a powerful longing to put my arms around [Irv], to brush his rough cheek against mine, to sit down and eat the bread of affliction with him and with Emily and with all of the Warshaws. They weren't my family and it wasn't my holiday, but I was orphaned and an atheist and I would take what I could...