Word: cinderella
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...looked for contemporary types on which to build the characters. Jack was the dreamer, the creative type. For Little Red I wanted a compulsive over-eater. The hardest was Cinderella because she is so boring. I kept thinking Nancy Reagan...Nancy Reagan. The Baker and His Wife are a couple from Brooklyn... The Princes, definitely womanizers...
...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...
...STINKY CHEESE MAN by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith (Viking; $16). It was inevitable: revisionism has come to children's literature. In this collection the ugly duckling grows up to be an ugly duck, Cinderella's sisters win, and the frog prince croaks.The comedy depends on a knowledge of the original , stories; given that, the pictures are obvious and excessive. In other words, ideal kid stuff...
...Cinderella for the modern age. Gifted by economic conditions created by a man who relied largely on astrology, not unlike the witches in many a Disney film, Michael D. Eisner, chair of the Disney corporation, was able to attend the orgy of consumption that was the American 1980s...
...climate of corporate turmoil that was due to the policies (or lack thereof) of the government, he is eating the pumpkin and killing the horses out of spite for the society from which they sprang. There is, however, one key difference lost in transition to the modern world: Cinderella always believed in a better...