Word: gingered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LEWIS ARGUED that the ginger treatment of Reagan stemmed from three factors. First, Reagan's 1980 landslide and his dexterity in forging what appeared to be a political consensus earned him political respect and legitimacy. His success in winning Congressional tax and budget battles sheltered his weaknesses from immediate exposure. Second, Lewis contended, some journalists are gun-shy because they worry their views on issues are more liberal than the President's and that the public would thus not take hard-hitting accounts seriously. Both those reasons for journalistic quiescence become irrelevant, however, when their raison d'etre-public...
...Sometimes he says things like, "Listen, there's got to be something on the other side of the rainbow." At other times, he wails, "There must be a place somewhere in the world where the songs are real." But it's 1934, and only stars like Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers have anything to sing about. Times are hard. No one wants to buy Arthur's music. An evil bank manager refuses to lend him the money to start up a store. Worst of all, his frigid wife Joan just doesn't like sex. "I want...
...MOST EXPERIENCED Broadway hoofers might think twice before dancing alongside the larger-than-life screen images of Fred and Ginger in the lovely final dance sequence of Follow the Fleet. For the competent but mediocre Steve Martin and the Less-than-competent Bernadette Peters (also mediocre) to try it is simply ridiculous. (The dance pyrotechnics are best left to Christopher Walken, who steals the film's best scene--and unfortunately his only one--while executing an elegant strip tease on top of a barroom pool table...
...relaxation. Even subtle shifts in their owners' life-styles can send kitties into tailspins. When Philadelphia Writer Marc Kaufman, 32, and his wife Lynn Litterine, 35, brought home their new baby, their cats, Yukon and Ted, became perverse-fighting, spraying and hissing. The couple sought out pert, brunet Ginger Hamilton, 45, a cat shrink, one of only a dozen or so such practitioners in the country. Her pet-psychology office in Silver Spring, Md., has quadrupled its business in the past decade. For a fee of $50 an hour, Hamilton began involving Yukon and Ted in play-and-affection...
...looked impossibly easy. It was not: six weeks of rehearsal before every film, dozens of "takes," worn-out shoes, bleeding feet. Even now, as Astaire looks back on the Fred-and-Ginger films from the vantage point of his one-story marble palace in Beverly Hills, he likens the experience to "running the four-minute mile for six months. I'd lose 15 lbs. during rehearsal," he told TIME'S Martha Smilgis. "But then you'd get in a winning groove-a kind of show-business dream sequence where you can't do anything wrong...