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  • The delightfully named Marco Dionysos was Absinthe's head barman at the time, and he had devised a house special called the Ginger Rogers (not to be confused with a couple of vintage drinks so named, one a Dry Martini with apricot brandy and lemon juice added, the other contrived entirely from port and cognac).

    Garden Shrubbery in a Glass 2008

  • And I think the old expression Ginger Rogers had to do everything Freda Stair did but she had to do it backward and in high heels - there's some truth to that that we are held to different standards.

    The Daily Princetonian, 2009-10-05 2009

  • Best known as Ginger Rogers was also an acclaimed actress and singer and one of the industry's first women to demand equal pay.

    BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content 2009

  • For example, Mike and I loved to re-create dance steps that we watched from the golden age of Hollywood—moves perfected by Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

    True You Janet Jackson 2011

  • In entertainment, we have Judy Garland singing "Over the Rainbow", Elvis performing on Ed Sullivan, the "Meet the Beatles" album, Frank Sinatra crooning in Vegas, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dancing, and countless other classic memorable moments.

    Joan E. Dowlin: Why The Arts Will Survive Joan E. Dowlin 2011

  • There's ample opportunity for this during the American Film Institute's impressively wide-ranging Ginger Rogers retrospective, on view in Silver Spring through April 7.

    Ginger Rogers at 100: Even with Astaire, always taking the lead Sarah Kaufman 2011

  • "Swing Time," the sixth film that Ginger Rogers made with Fred Astaire, spins the workaday world of a gambler and a dance teacher into gilded heaven, with duets unlike any the two had whipped up before.

    Ginger Rogers at 100: Even with Astaire, always taking the lead Sarah Kaufman 2011

  • Until you try to be Fred Astaire dancing with Ginger Rogers down a stairway, you'll never design a stairway.

    J. Michael Welton: Drawing Like a House Afire J. Michael Welton 2011

  • Or Mr. Astaire's reaction when Mr. Cavett innocently told him for the first time about a quip already known to the rest of the world—about how in the movie-dancing partnership of Astaire and Ginger Rogers, "He gave her class and she gave him sex appeal."

    Shining Past, Darker Present Nancy deWolf Smith 2011

  • In entertainment, we have Judy Garland singing "Over the Rainbow", Elvis performing on Ed Sullivan, the "Meet the Beatles" album, Frank Sinatra crooning in Vegas, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dancing, and countless other classic memorable moments.

    Joan E. Dowlin: Why The Arts Will Survive Joan E. Dowlin 2011

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