Word: gingered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...written in 1987 after a frustrating period that included a musical that never made it out of workshop readings and a filmscript for Steven Spielberg that was shelved. Then, as now, she was living in a Greenwich Village apartment, with no formal attachments aside from a cat named Ginger. Relentlessly social, Wasserstein has built a life revolving around an intricate network of friendships, many with other playwrights. But writing Heidi represented, in part, an acknowledgment that Wasserstein, like her heroine, is a woman alone. As Andre Bishop, the artistic director of Playwrights Horizon, puts it, "Wendy is now coming into...
...Ginger Walker, a vivacious 30-year-old Clay Centerite, launched her own business, Ginger's Shoe Shoppe, three years ago. Her stylish boutique carries an impressive assortment of stock, and has attracted enough customers so far to make a passable profit. Says Walker: "The biggest challenge is to compete with the large communities around us. Our prices aren't that much different. It's just the magic of the malls...
...office that year. Greta Garbo laughed, as the ads triumphantly proclaimed, in Ninotchka; Ingrid Bergman made her American debut in Intermezzo; Marlene Dietrich saved her flagging career with Destry Rides Again; the Marx Brothers clowned in At the Circus; and Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers danced through The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle. Judy Garland, who was all of 16, was in only two pictures -- The Wizard of Oz and Babes in Arms -- but her giant talent and irresistible personality captured the screen and permanently touched the country's heart...
...member and North Yard Senior Advisor Ginger Mackay-Smith expressed concern that the foreign language clause would force candidates to enroll in an intense language course during their first semester...
Infuse a 1940s Harlem nightclub act with a Busby Berkeley film's lavish budget, elbow room and staging style, restrain the raunch and remove the racial bitterness. The result: Black and Blue, the sumptuously spectacular $5 million revue that opened last week on Broadway. If Fred and Ginger had been black and still able to live in that elegant fantasy world, their shows might have looked a lot like this: rows of tap dancers in tailcoats or scarlet evening gowns; vast sets like lacquered jewel boxes gliding across the floor and opening to reveal a kick line; a singer...