Word: ginger
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...moving figures could be so ... moving. Poetry in motion. As the girl was swept into the boy?s arms, viewers were swept into the deepest empathy. That?s why, to many people, the most romantic film couple was not Gable and Lombard but Astaire and Rogers - because Fred and Ginger translated feelings of love, depression, jealousy, joy in the integrated choreography of their bodies. In this more inhibited era, holding a woman or lifting her or spinning her across the ballroom floor was the most explicit metaphor for the whole range of intimacies in a love affair...
...Another patch that Kelly had on Astaire: his movies were far superior as integrated works of popular art. Astaire?s prime-time vehicles with Ginger were pretty inane, except for the glorious terping, and his directors added little but traffic management to the packed Astaire brought. Kelly worked for better directors - Busby Berkeley on "For Me and My Gal" and "Take Me Out to the Ballgame," Vincente Minnelli on "An American in Paris" and "Brigadoon" - but, as co-director of two of his best films, he could take a measure of credit for their success, even as Astaire...
...Astaire, when asked who his favorite partner was (people wanted him to say Ginger, and he didn?t), would declare that it was... Kelly. Kelly?s favorite may have been himself. He was his own partner (and nemesis) in the "alter ego" number from "Cover Girl." He expressed both love and self-love - the potent giddiness of feeling that surge of ardor, ? etc. in "Singin? in the Rain." He danced with a mop in "Thousands Cheer," and he sometimes led his leading ladies the same way. A different leading lady, often a movie ingenue, in almost every picture: Leslie Caron...
...from secure sections. A proposed $12 billion expansion to LAX is on hold until architects can incorporate a luggage-inspection facility several blocks from the terminals. Other gateways are drafting facilities with ductile window frames that flex during explosions. "This isn't the end of glass in terminals," says Ginger Evans, aviation manager at the engineering firm Carter & Burgess Inc. "It just means we might have to utilize it differently." Though more urgent fixes will come first--making space for the new baggage-inspection machines required of the airlines, for example--big alterations are on the way. "There...
...same way that ballroom dancing, which is currently rebranding itself as Dancesport and applying to be included in the Olympic Games, is today less Fred-and-Ginger and more Britney Spears, ice dancing is looking to attract a wider sports audience - but not one that turns up in dirty raincoats...