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...With these new alterations, Cinderella eagerly joins the rest of the elite of the kingdom at the royal ball where she wins the affections of Prince Charming. The clock strikes midnight, her carriage turns back into a pumpkin, Cinderella dramatically runs out of the palace leaving her petite glass slipper behind. No romance would be complete without a quest. Prince Charming travels all over the kingdom with the one slipper in search of the precious foot it belongs to. (Alas, he finds it, and Cinderella and Prince Charming live happily ever after...

Author: By Amanda S. Federman, | Title: Swept Away by the Boston Ballet | 4/22/1993 | See Source »

...story, this would mean giving the people money to go buy the right kind of shoes from private stores instead of issuing them all the same kind of shoe. At present, a government peddling one-size-fits-all education is like the prince making the rounds with the glass slipper, satisfying the lucky Cinderella who wears the right size but leaving everyone else sitting in the ashes...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, | Title: Public and Private Schools of Thought | 1/11/1993 | See Source »

...there was no glass slipper for Seles, she was still the tourney's top story. Late in her quarterfinal match, foes began charging that the formidable Seles' most effective weapon is not her racquet but her racket: the unnerving grunts and shrieks with which she punctuates every stroke. Nathalie Tauziat of France and Navratilova complained that the screaming was so loud they could not hear the ball coming off Seles' racquet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stop That Grunt! | 7/13/1992 | See Source »

...seeing Disneyland, Walt is in the details. The spirit of Walt hovers over Euro Disney too. Mice with sewing needles and birds holding ribbons in their beaks adorn the capitals in l'Auberge de Cendrillon, the park's only French restaurant (try the dessert they call Cinderella's Slipper: chocolate mousse in a white-chocolate shoe mold). Dumbo snouts serve as the spouts for fresh water in man-made Lake Buena Vista. At the Hotel Cheyenne's Chuckwagon Cafe, which has antlers in all of its decorating, plastic horseshoes hold the condiments, and nailed to the wall is a dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Voila! Disney Invades Europe. Will the French Resist? | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

This year the Crimson, now coached by Sue Caples, breezed through four Ivy contests with an unblemished record. The seniors were finally getting a taste of victory. The frog turned into a prince. The glass slipper...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson Fairy Tales Don't Always Come True | 11/2/1989 | See Source »

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