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...child, embraced social activism in the early 1970s (he was once arrested while protesting the demolition of a squatter camp) before joining the bank in 1978 and rising rapidly through the ranks. On reporting to his new job last week, he said, "I almost feel like I'm Cinderella and this is a fairy tale...
Like most boxing pictures, Cinderella Man is about an underdog becoming a top dog. But that description doesn't begin to suggest the distinctions of director Ron Howard's very good, epically scaled film...
...film, in his way prefiguring a more modern ambiguity. But the film is most significantly about puzzled people trying to comprehend the cosmic reversal of fortune that was the Depression. They don't have much more than raw courage and simple virtues to rely on. Unlike most period pieces, Cinderella Man encourages us to fondly recall not songs or clothes but values we have largely mislaid. Look on the faces of the elder Braddocks when they realize they don't have enough fried bologna to feed their kids, and you'll understand true despair-and the bravery it takes...
...fans. You’ve captured a conference crown and advanced to college hockey’s big dance for the first time in your brief Division I history, where you’ll face the defending national champions. This is more likely than not where your Cinderella run comes...
...It’s definitely tough, when we’ve come on so strong late in the year…you see all the time teams in other conferences that will find themselves and just start clicking at the end of the year, and become something like a Cinderella team,” Cusworth said. “I’m not about to make any of the Ancient Eight founders roll in their grave trying to start up anything. We’ve come to terms with...