Word: ginger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Assistant Dean of Students Sarah E. Flatley offered the group an assortment of cookies, including fudge, chocolate chip and ginger snaps--all of them frozen...
...Lester H. Miller '95 went through a 90-minute make-up session with his friends to dress up as Ginger Rogers, a female character in a 1930's Fred Astaire movie. To prepare, he also watched one of Astaire's movies...
...dawn of the Prozac Age. The immense popularity of the drug, which is most often prescribed for depression but is gaining a reputation as an all- purpose personality enhancer, has given Breggin his best ammunition yet. In his new book Talking Back to Prozac (co-written with his wife Ginger Ross Breggin), he says the drug is merely a stimulant that does not get to the root of depression and is probably dangerous when used over long periods. He has dumped on Prozac in TV and radio debates with Dr. Peter Kramer, whose best seller Listening to Prozac describes...
...popular art, smoking was always chic. Fred and Ginger, Bogie and Bacall, every gangster, gunslinger and G.I. used cigarettes to emblematize their suavity, maturity, grit. Kids loved the lordly caterpillar in Disney's Alice in Wonderland, purring, "Whoooo are yooooo?" while blowing his Alpha-Bits smoke rings. For the college set, Jean-Paul Sartre and Edward R. Murrow were the patron saints of nicotine. F.D.R.'s cigarette, in a holder at a jaunty angle, proved him both a dapper patrician and a man of the people, while the . can-do bosses of the public weal sucked on fat cigars. Smoke...
...mere bronze medal for British dancers Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean infuriated many of their fans, who felt their smooth Fred-and-Ginger routine should have cut more ice with the judges. Italian slalom star Alberto ("La Bomba") Tomba disqualified himself by skiing off the course in his second giant-slalom run. He later complained of a stress headache...