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...When you put your arm around Hilda, imagine she is Ginger Rogers...
...invented for the moderate but merry '80s. Here is an upscale-looking bottle of Seagram's Golden Spirits in a flavor called "mandarin vodka"; it tastes like a spritzy cocktail but contains little more alcohol than a beer. How about a Wineberry Sausalito Sling, with a flavor suggestive of ginger ale and bubble gum, or a Calvin Cooler in citrus flavor, with real fruit pulp floating...
...tropical and native to Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, this colorful harvest used to be found only in ethnic neighborhoods. Now many of these edibles are becoming standards, not only at high-fashion greengrocers but in the supermarkets of several major chains. "Foods that look strange now (as ginger, shallots, bean sprouts and even avocados did not so long ago) may soon be common in our culinary vocabulary," writes Elizabeth Schneider in her carefully detailed and timely new buying guide and cookbook, Uncommon Fruits & Vegetables, A Commonsense Guide (Harper...
...last the battle with the armada unfolds, it is a clash between two tiny, hand-manipulated boats, reminiscent of a puppet show. At this point the scenery begins to collapse around the cast until the stage is a shambles. McKellen, still capering, still jigging, still shaking his frizzy ginger hair, surveys this chaos, cheerily chirps, "Ah, yes, very well, but not perfect," and really brings down the house. For this capstone to a richly varied festival, Chicagoans can thank the homegrown troupes that have put the city's name in boldface on the theatrical map of the world...
Musicals used to trade in innocence. Fred Astaire could get a thrill just from being caught in the rain with Ginger Rogers. Gene Kelly shouted, "Gotta dance!" as if it were a battle cry or a mating call. But those carefree days seem as distant as Ike and Mamie; musicals have more serious topics--Argentine dictators, pointillist painters--weighing on their souls. Musicals used to be called, oh, High Spirits. Now London's hot song-and-dance show is Les Miserables, which locals translate as The Glums. That is precisely the disease afflicting the modern musical. Artistic ambition...