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...perhaps the authenticity in their presentation of "Les Sylphides" which made the evening's other offering, "Cinderella," such a disappointment by contrast. To dance a fairy-tale well, one must make it believable. Yet this "Cinderella" by resident choreographer Ron Cunningham distances the audience from empathy and belief. He sets up a series of cardboard figures, and proceeds to comment on them...

Author: By Jurretta J. Heckscher, | Title: The Classic and the Comic | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...with most of his Cinderella eleven returning in 1972, Navarro was expected to lead Columbia to an Ivy League title. Instead the Lions stumbled to a 3-5-1 mark, and a despondent Navarro found himself at Baker Field with emotions similar to those of John Keats when he penned "the sedge is wither'd and no birds sing...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Navarro's Back in the Ivies Again | 10/28/1978 | See Source »

...most people, venereal disease means either syphilis or gonorrhea. But, in fact, the most common venereal disease in America today is one that has been so overlooked by both the public and doctors that a British expert has dubbed it "the Cinderella of sexually transmissible infections." The clinical name of the Cinderella disease: nongonococcal urethritis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Cinderella Disease | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

...elegant mansions. In Greene County, Pa., the owners of small coal mines may own the biggest houses in town, which are usually simple frame dwellings. In Pikeville, Ky., some owners of mines that suddenly boomed because of the energy crisis have built French provincial-style houses, known locally as Cinderella Castles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Operators: Divided | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

...fairy-book finish was a pleasant close for what had been--until the last minutes--a less than pleasant 1978 finale. If the end of the contest was Cinderella at the ball, the first half and the opening minutes of the second were Cinderella the pauper...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Cagers Can Dartmouth, 71-69 | 3/1/1978 | See Source »

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