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...should emphasize that it's a fine sauce, with a touch of burn and two touches of subtelty. If it were an orchestra, though, I'd tell this sauce to add some drums and trumpets. I imagine ginger and garlic as the culinary instruments. I would try to retain the expert, greaseless stir-frying...

Author: By Robert Nadeau, | Title: The Painted Dish | 1/15/1988 | See Source »

...course, Mother Ginger with her many toddlers sheltered under the breadth of her skirt. The under-two-feeters ran around the playgroundstage and paused to dance. Clap, turn backs to one another, and bump. Clap and bump...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Visions of Sugarplums | 12/18/1987 | See Source »

LaLonde said he has a videotape of a 7-hour visit of Nicole at his house on Jan. 1, 1986, when his fiance, her two daughters and his mother were present. He said it was following that visit that Mrs. LaLonde, who he refers to as "Ginger," took their child to a Beverly pediatrician for a gynecological exam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LaLonde Says He Never Abused Daughter | 10/14/1987 | See Source »

Astaire also observed that it was time for a dancer to exploit the movies' capacity for intimacy rather than spectacle. In the nine films he made with Ginger Rogers between 1933 and 1939, most of their great numbers were not performed on a stage. Shot full figure in long takes, the pair tapped across park bandstands in the rain (Isn't This a Lovely Day?) and on roller skates (Let's Call the Whole Thing Off), and used an entire country club in The Yam number, which for compressed intricacy may have been their most heart- stopping routine. But more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fred Astaire: 1899-1987: The Great American Flyer | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

...such celebrity diners as Actor Carroll O'Connor, owner and occasional piano player at the Ginger Man, and cigar-puffing George Burns are willing to conform. "I'll do whatever the city wants," says O'Connor stoically. Debbie Parker, a ban supporter who has a water pistol emblazoned with the words STOP OR I'LL SHOOT, says, "Smokers have had a lack of consideration for others for a long time. Now the tables are turned." The Beverly Hills police -- famed for their vigilance in cracking down on jaywalking, illegal parking and attempted burglary -- are so far going slowly. They have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Hands Up and Butts Out! | 4/27/1987 | See Source »

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