Word: cinderella
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York Mets, the veritable Cinderella squad that seemed nestled in the fireplace of the National League Eastern Division just five weeks ago, yesterday took the pennant with a 7-2 victory over the Cincinnati Reds in New York...
Many of the old films have been more successful in re-release than originally. Bambi, considered a failure when it grossed only $1.5 million in 1943, has vindicated Disney's vision by drawing an impressive $15.5 million to date. Cinderella, presently in rerelease, has grossed $17.5 million in four circuits. A few years ago, one Disney employee confessed that Alice in Wonderland had never been re-released because latter-day misinterpretations might tarnish the Disney image; the Caterpillar, for instance, loftily puffing on his hookah, now looks suspiciously-well, stoned...
...blonde dancing with Richard Nixon (TIME, Jan. 29)? The national photo services were flooded with calls. The mystery Cinderella with the 38-in. bust line turned out to be Susan Snyder, 27, the 5-ft. 8-in. wife of a Xerox Corp. employee who intends to turn the famous photograph into the family Christmas card...
...often only the excellent acting prevents the film from plummeting into absurdity: "Have you looked into the mirror lately," a whorehouse madam mockingly asks an adolescent Billie who has misinterpreted a job offer. But, in only a few short scenes, the skinny pig-tailed scrub-girl makes an unexplained Cinderella transformation into the most glamorous lady of the night on the block...
...high school there. He seemed safe and sound enough to local politicians to be selected as director of a new Economic Opportunity Commission project in 1965 The stated purpose of the program was to fight poverty in an isolated region of Appalachia, sprinkled with towns with names like Cinderella Hollow and Magnolia, but inhabited by people 50% of whom were officially classified as poor...