Word: slippered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...paintings and sculpture, Degas captured these "rats" both graceful in mid-performance and in their less alluring offstage moments, as they turned dumpy and slump-shouldered tying their slipper laces or trudging heavily on their heels. ("After all, have you ever dated a dancer?" a modern critic of Degas' regularly asks his modern art classes. "I once did, and believe me, their legs are as thick as tree trunks and they eat, why they eat like horses...
...SLIPPER AND THE ROSE
Around holiday season, stocking-stuffer items like The Slipper and the Rose usually show up, all covered in glitter and good will. These gaudy little baubles are easy enough to tolerate in the floodtide of fellowship that ebbs and flows around Christmas. Holidays are over, however, a cold wet January is upon the land, and The Slipper and the Rose lingers on, looking as foolish as Cinderella hotfooting it out of the palace as her ball gown turns to rags...
...songs not only cloy, they choke, which must make them as much of a challenge to sing as to hear. In The Slipper and the Rose, the melodies slosh around lyrics that have largely to do with the frustrations of love and royalty. The Prince (Richard Chamberlain) bellyaches tunefully about the difficulty of finding a loved one from amongst the array of regal dogs put forward by his father the King (Michael Hordern). These complaints absorb rather more time than they should, and result, directly or indirectly, in several dance numbers of singular clumsiness. The dancers-presumably professionals-look like...