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Last year's Cinderella team looked much like this year's version in the early part of the season. The difference, though, was that midway through last season, everything came together, both on defense and offense...
...tradition means anything in the Sprints, the Crimson can boast of winning the overall title as symbolized by the Jope Cup for the past seven years And with the exception of Princeton's Cinderella in 1973 the varsity has brought home the laurels annually since 1968. Al: yet seems well...
SUCH AN EXERCISE in grand tragedy is difficult to take seriously, however, when none of the characters avoids two-dimensional typicality. Clara, particularly, as the martyred Working Woman, displays ludicrous malleability in her metamorphosis from Cinderella to Princess at the caprice of the plot. All the romantic music, charming mountain cafes, melting glances and scenic forest idylls De Sica produces cannot lend authenticity to this melodrama, so that the inevitable denouncement is devoid of pathos...
...sort of ambivalent and delusory self-consciousness we might expect a woman in her situation to have: the easiest exit from the drudgery and stark misery of factory and tenement is assimilation into the elite through physical beauty and seductive charm, as the heroines of mass culture from Cinderella to Marilyn Monroe have discovered. Had De Sica treated the contradictions in Clara's self-awareness with the sardonic tone whose subtle pinpricks enabled Flaubert to deflate Madame Bovary's romantic illusions. A Brief Vacation might have been a penetrating analysis of the obstacles that inhibit working women's emancipation. Because...
...PHILADELPHIA--This season's cinderella club, the all-new, improved Phillies will capture their first division title in 25 years for the City of Brotherly Love. In a division where convergence to mediocrity reigns king, the Phillies have the best combination of power, pitching and defense to surge to a .548 record and a pennant...