Word: cinderellas
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Inevitably, the fairy-tale nature of Aquino's sudden ascension prompted some extravagant mythmaking. To some the woman in yellow seemed a Joan of Arc, a religious figure incarnating her people's hopes as she led them to freedom; to others she was a Cinderella, with one glass slipper instead of Imelda's 3,000 pairs of shoes. Indeed, as startling as it may seem in the secular West, millions of devout Filipinos viewed Aquino as a sort of Blessed Mother, a redeemer who came to resolve the passion play that had begun with her husband's death...
...rescued from her room and from her medieval homework. To Sara Wilford, director of the Early Childhood Center at New York's Sarah Lawrence College, "it is not so strange that children would find a Barbie doll to be interesting, something they could idealize and put in a Cinderella framework...
...faux jewels is Designer Kenneth Jay Lane, whose styles have made the fakes almost as appealing as the genuine items. Says Lane, who charges anywhere from $16 for lion's-head earrings to $600 for a belt studded with "rubies" and "emeralds": "Every woman wants to be a Cinderella when she puts on jewels. Faux jewelry is like glass slippers. She can look like she's going to the ball even...
...JUST WANTED to get to Cinderella's Castle. Not even to go inside, just to get there...
...sound that would send the fanged canines to do me in. I was too scared to visualize the surreal implications of my plight. Each foot was emotionally exhausting, each moment a frame from a real-life thriller. And all I wanted was fantasy: the mundane reality waiting at Cinderella's Castle...