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...hockey team’s season was a rollercoaster. A flying start to the year that included wins over ranked teams such as St. Lawrence and Rensselaer devolved into a 10-game winless streak through the months of December and January. The Crimson came out of that spell in Cinderella-like fashion, embarking on a winning streak through February and March that took the team all the way to the ECAC finals, where it fell to Princeton. “We definitely had our ups and downs,” junior forward Jimmy Fraser said. “We started...
...There has, however, been one big change - the strategic insertion of 38 Disney cartoon characters into what had previously been a simulacrum of the real world. Here, the eskimos share the North Pole with Bambi and Thumper; Mulan flies a kite in Asia; Cinderella and Prince Charming wave to passing boats from their castle. The additions, when first proposed, inspired a small but fierce cry of sacrilege in the Disney blogosphere. "Everybody is so precious about what we do," Lanzisero objects. "At Disneyland, just a few hours into opening, [Walt Disney] started redoing things. It's no fun just...
Every year, regardless of what unfolds, the NCAA Tournament always confounds sophisticated prognosticators. A 64-team single elimination college basketball tournament is inherently unpredictable. March Madness, with its frequent Cinderella teams, is a consistent reminder that life has an inexorable chaotic streak, and that there is no way to perfectly divine the future, regardless of how much knowledge and expertise one brings to bear. While we often look back and presume that outcomes were foreseeable, in many circumstances random chance simply has more influence than reason can account for. Take, for example, Russell Pleasant, who beat out more than...
...Idol” Season Six, was so talented that the judges began referring to her as the competition’s “consummate pro.” “Consummate pro” doesn’t quite make for an appealing Cinderella story, nor is it ever possible to live up to great early performances; she was eventually beaten by Jordin Sparks, for whom expectations were lower. Melinda Doolittle is an awful lot like Hillary Clinton, the long-assumed eventual winner who flirts dangerously with staleness as an upstart gathers momentum...
...Rent” meets “Wicked” in “Fable Attraction,” a spin-off of traditional fairy tales ranging from Humpty Dumpty to Cinderella. With a savvy balance of pop-culture references, word play, and Harvard humor, the constant jokes in nearly every line and lyric might seem a little excessive at first, but they keep the audience engaged until the curtain falls and leave it wanting more. Before the show even begins, the title “Fable Attraction” begins the onslaught of comedy. The curtains open, a colorful...