Word: cinderella
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...tough to follow an act like last spring's Cinderella baseball story. A year ago, Harvard's Crimson squad ran up a phenomenal 35-3 record and nabbed an invitation to the Royal Ball of college baseball, the College World Series in Omaha...
...Cinderella story unfolds a little further. The coach is waiting...
...obvious, but once you try to explain the various subtleties, complications set in. For a long time now film screenplays have been adapted from novels, and it doesn't look as if the practice is fading. Take a look at some of the most recent films: The Last Detail, Cinderella Liberty, Thieves Like Us. The Way We Were, and of course, The Exorcist and The Great Gatsby were all originally novels. And nobody seems to question the transformation. After all, popularizing F. Scott Fitzgerald's portrayal of the decadent twenties isn't exactly literary sacrilege. But more often than...
Every day, every American throws away an average of nearly six pounds of trash. Most goes to dumps and landfill projects, which gobble up land, or to incinerators, which can pollute the air. But now refuse is being reappraised as a possible Cinderella fuel. Cheap and almost limitless, as municipalities know only too well, it consists mainly of paper, plastic and organic matter that when burned, releases about 50% of the heat value of coal...
...tabbed as the "Cinderella team" of the playoffs after its opening round upset won't be able to do it again. Harvard will take this one by three...