Word: cinderella
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story of Fanny Brice is the fairytale dream of an unprepossessing kid who rose from the ghetto to the Follies on a powerful amalgam of brass and tal ent. Barbra's marked resemblance to Fanny is more than nasal. She is the flip side of Cinderella-the homely gir who made it. Conceivably, it could happen to every unendowed citizen in America. For her fans, that is enough...
...programming. Last year such hey-look-me-overs as Miss USA, Miss Universe and a newer entry called Model of the Year ranked among the 20 highest-rated specials for the entire season. For men, the appeal is the simple joys of girl watching; for women, it is the Cinderella mystique. "There's a kind of primitive fascination in watching all the flesh parade around," explains one network executive. "Besides, everybody likes the feeling of ordinary, nonfamous people suddenly being catapulted into wealth and good fortune. Rags to riches -it's part of the national mythology...
...Schuller makes a most persuasive case for the argument that the beauties of jazz "are those of any great, compelling musical experience: expressive fervor, intense artistic commitment and an intuitive sense for structural logic." Who knows? If the slipper fits, music's Cinderella may one day even go to live in the castle of esthetic status, cultural respectability and all that...
...when it states that Jesus walked upon the water and Jonah was swallowed by a great fish. No one has yet come up with any evidence to the contrary [April 5]." There is not a shred of evidence that the cow did not jump over the moon, or that Cinderella's coach was not turned into a pumpkin at midnight...
...shopping centers (two in Denver, one each in Dallas, San Antonio, Amarillo, Texas, and Boulder, Colo.). Last week, in the Denver suburb of Englewood, more than 5,000 workmen labored in three shifts around the clock to finish his latest and largest creation, 75-acre, $50 million Englewood-Cinderella City, in time for its scheduled March 7 opening. On the other side of town, Perl-Mack Construction Co., Denver's largest builder of tract homes, was putting the final touches on 73-acre, $20 million Northglenn Mall, due to open a week later...