Word: cinderella
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Yorkers would have been hard-pressed to identify her correctly as a state senator. Now that she has toppled incumbent City Council President Paul O'Dwyer-one of the most respected figures in local politics-the fresh-faced, strong-voiced Brooklynite has become the city's newest Cinderella...
...Park is not a bitter man and his teams reflect the class with which they play. Harvard closed out its season with a twinball split against Dartmouth and with that the baseball season became a Cinderella story that ended just after midnight...
...music, music. They are the new breed of discothèque, moth-gathering hotpots of the urban night. Discomania is the latest passion of faddish, fickle American city dwellers, turning daytime Jekylls and Jacquelines into nocturnal and nonma-levolent Hydes and Heidis gyrating through smoke and decibels in a Cinderella world of self-stardom...
Deep in the cellar and rife with disgruntled stars angry at Board Chairman M. Donald Grant's tight contracts, the New York Mets made popular player Joe Torre their manager and immediately got red hot, winning seven of nine games. Can they repeat their Cinderella performance of 1969 and become world champs? Unlikely. But Torre, 36, who practices self-hypnosis "to eliminate the negative in my approach to life," has his team thinking positive and feeling loved. "The key to the game is being relaxed," he says. Coach Willie Mays has a simple explanation for Torre's instant...
...corporate conglomerate as "my cottage industry," Paradine,* Ltd. (the name, not incidentally, almost rhymes with paradigm) grosses an estimated $20 million a year. In addition to the $1 million he expects to garner from his Nixon interviews, he hopes to get a few farthings from his glossy Cinderella movie musical, The Slipper and the Rose; an eight-part TV series, Crossroads of Civilization, which is being shot on a $2.5 million budget in Iran; and Nessie, a $7.5 million sci-fi extravaganza on the Loch Ness monster, to be filmed later this year...