So those big dance numbers, that kind of physical intimacy between Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, represented that kind of sexual ardor that movies just couldn't express in the ways that are much more open to us in the last 30 or 40 years.

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It's a combination as tightly coupled as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers: wherever economic growth leads, greenhouse gas emissions must follow.

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As I watched the second presidential debate, my mind flashed back to how Katharine Hepburn described the Hollywood partnership between dancers Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

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