Word: gingers
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Katharine Hepburn once remarked that the secret to Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' success was that he gave her class while she gave him sex appeal. Hepburn's equation helps explain the long and awkward tango between Hollywood and Washington. To Washington, Hollywood offered glamour; to Hollywood, Washington provided substance, or at least the illusion...
...itself to the world. The bustling genius of the American system ensured that to a Peruvian or a Perugian, "the movies" meant Hollywood. And the stars bred within that system sold the movies' myth about America. A Manhattan penthouse became the top of the world when Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers danced through it; the canyons of Arizona were the promised land as long as John Wayne patrolled them...
...brothers and their families. They all -- aside from a younger brother -- live in Clear Lake, as did Watson's mother until she moved to a nursing home this year. "When we get together, we talk about children, sales at the local stores and picking out floor tiles," says Ginger Quinn, a younger sister who is a captain with -- yes -- the Harris County sheriff's department. The entire family moved to Houston from Philadelphia in 1963 when Betsy's father John Herrmann became a project manager for NASA, working on the lunar module. He died in 1976, but his influence lives...
...GIVE US A CHANCE, we can perform. After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels." A loud round of applause greeted Ann Richards, then state treasurer of Texas and a rising star in the Democratic party, as she spoke these words at the 1988 Democratic national convention...
...REFERENCE to Ginger Rogers,Richards symbolically expressed the biggestdilemma for women political candidates--being asgood as the guys on the dance floor, whileremaining feminine in the process...