Word: cinderellas
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...great art boom is now old enough no longer to seem like a fairy tale, but the Cinderella of the market is only beginning to show herself. With only the richest buyers and biggest museums able to afford a master painting, collectors are discovering the virtues, both as art and investment, of the humble master drawing. A drawing is small, convenient to transport, easy to hang, and above all, it is apt to reveal more about the artist than any painting...
...German Writer Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué (1777-1843) describing the love of a water sprite for a mortal.* Although it bore all the marks of Ashton's familiarly gentle, classically oriented manner, it discarded the classical ballet conventions that appear in such Ashton successes as Cinderella and Sylvia. What he was trying to suggest, says Ashton, was "the ebb and flow of the sea: I aimed at an unbroken continuity of dance, which would remove the distinction between aria and recitative." As a result, Ondine offered few pyrotechnics, gained its effects instead through sinuous mass movements...
...wedding would help take Belgian minds off the bloody catastrophe of the Congo. The rest of the world experienced the warming reaction that seems to come, especially to democratic nations, with every pomp and circumstance of vanishing royalty. In this case there was a special cause for cheers: the Cinderella girl who couldn't seem to catch a man had caught a king...
...satellite hitchhiker was a space Cinderella. Originally intended to be taken aloft by the U.S.'s ill-fated Vanguard, it was left forlornly on earth when the Vanguard program was discontinued. Rescued by Transit, it is now on a beautiful orbit that will probably keep it up for 50 years. Its instruments are sending information about solar ultraviolet and X rays, which do not pass through the earth's atmosphere but have effects on its upper layers. Data from the Cinderella satellite may explain radio blackouts and some kinds of weather...
Tufts' hopes for a Cinderella performance tonight lie in remembrance of its near upset of Brown and in the fact that the usual disadvantage of unfamiliarity with the ice for visitors will not confront the Jumbos. In addition to lacking depth and a victory, the Jumbos are homeless and use Watson for their infrequent practice sessions...