Word: cinderella
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There is perhaps no story that has endured as many interpretations, transformations, and mutilations as “Cinderella.” Once upon a time, Greece, China, and Japan all told versions of the tale, long before it was published by France’s Charles Perrault in 1697. Many years later, the Brothers Grimm’s Aschenputtel was transformed by Walt Disney, wicked fairy godfather that he was, into the blonde and beautiful cerulean gowned princess that we all know today. Not one to stay behind the times, ballet jumped on the bandwagon in 1893 with...
Sarah By Kaylene Johnson; out now This surprise best seller about the Republican Veep candidate, which rocketed from 10,000 copies to 350,000 copies in a matter of weeks, is a blend of annoying hagiography ("It is a political Cinderella tale") and revealing detail (she shot her first rabbit at 10). Amid all the fluff, a portrait of a sharp-elbowed politico emerges...
...author doesn't hide her admiration for the Governor, whom she refers to throughout by her first name. In fact, she tells Palin's story in terms usually reserved for the DVD boxes of romantic comedies: "It is a political Cinderella tale in which a small-town mayor and hockey mom follows her hopes and dreams in the face of a disapproving political establishment to become the belle of the inaugural ball." (That's the gubernatorial ball, of course...
Zardari's rise to Pakistan's Presidency reads like a Cinderella tale turned Mafia thriller. The son of a feudal landlord and cinema-house owner, Zardari married Bhutto, Pakistan's political princess, in 1987, when she was about to launch her political career. In time, Zardari became Bhutto's political partner, taking posts in her Cabinet and smoothing the ruffled egos the sometimes haughty Prime Minister left in her wake. "He was the fence mender," says Aftab Khan Sherpao, a veteran politician. "If someone [in parliament] had grievances, she sent Zardari in. He was the back channel. He knew...
Sarah Palin has done for the gop what 10 male candidates, nearly two years and $300 million had failed to accomplish: she has boosted excitement, crowds and campaign coffers virtually overnight. She has lifted McCain in the polls, has put Obama into confusion and is living out a Cinderella story unlike any other in recent political history, though the ending is still a slipper of uncertainty. Even Palin seems astonished by it all. Gazing out at thousands from a platform in Sterling Heights, Mich., she shakes her head, dumbfounded for a moment as the crowd chants her name. Her mouth...