Word: cinderella
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...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...
Only a child that familiar with adversity, contend critics of the saxophone, could have foisted such a contraption on an unsuspecting world. A hybrid of the brass and woodwind families, the instrument is the perennial Cinderella of serious music. Its rich, sometimes dozing sound has never found a permanent place in the symphony orchestra, although after its invention in 1840 such French composers as Berlioz and Massenet experimented with it. In Germany only Richard Strauss, whose Domestic Symphony included a quartet of saxes, regarded it as anything but a yeoman of military bands...
Meanwhile, back in the East, the division final between New York and the Boston Celtics took a surprising turn. The Knicks, who had been the Cinderella team of 1970 (when they won the first N.B.A. championship in their 24-year history), had earlier this season seemed back in the pumpkin class. But after bouncing past the Baltimore Bullets 4-2 in their semifinal, the lightly regarded Knicks proceeded to savage the Celtics 4-1. Suddenly the New Yorkers were at center court, confronting the mighty Lakers...