Word: cinderellas
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That is, financially. Spiritually, all of America mourns the (temporary?) loss of our heroes. No NLCS and ALCS means no cheering for the Yankees or the Cinderella Indians, no indignant fury at discovering that because of The Baseball Network, we in Boston (as an American League town) would have no access to the NLCS this year save on satellite...
...true: what's past could be prologue to a Cinderella finish to a season that long ago looked to have gone sour. Thanks to a Saturday tie between league-leader Brown and Crimson-beater Columbia, Harvard knows that it can run the table against Princeton, Dartmouth and Brown and steal an NCAA tournament berth...
...with only Boston College and Hartwick left as non-conference opponents, and with three of its four remaining Ivy games at home, Harvard could be forgiven for looking past its current clutter to what could conceivably be a Cinderella postseason appearance in a sub-500 campaign...
...sprouting an ear of corn (Get it? Corny!). A character will pluck a vagrant "hair" from the film-projector lamp, or abruptly go monochrome because he passed a reading technicolor ends here. "Ain't we in the wrong picture?" asks Red Riding Hood of the wolf in Swing Shift Cinderella. By keying the insane pace, wild exaggeration, mock-cheerful tone and inside references that today define so much of movie and TV entertainment, Avery practically invented pop culture's Postmodernism...
...American Cinderella squad scores an upset...