Word: grimm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some ways, the novel is similar to the Grimm fairy tale, "The Robber Bridegroom," with the exception that the gender of the main character is changed, Atwood said...
...from gunshot wounds. "After we were there," says Campagna, "the death rate dropped to three or four a day." That was a morale booster. So was the eventual sight of villages coming | alive again and fields being put back into cultivation. "As we were pulling out," says Sergeant Donald Grimm, "and you started to see all the crops, you'd say, 'We made a big difference in Somalia...
Cocteau's movie is the sort of dream you would have if you fell asleep with your head on a deluxe illustrated edition of Grimm's tales. It is perhaps the most sumptuous and satisfying version of a fairy tale ever put on celluloid, candy for the eyes and a banquet for the aesthete. Above all, it is a swooningly romantic film graced with many visual miracles. And, like love, "Beauty and the Beast" is a dream from which you never want to wake...
...raised to be charming, not sincere," says Cinderella's Prince to the Baker's Wife. It is an apt description of this production of Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim's musical valentine to the Grimm Brothers' fairy tales. The competent cast does a good job with the funnier first act. But especially in the inherently weaker second act, the actors too often seem lost in pro forma direction and overwhelmed by the pit orchestra from hell. There are saving graces--the well designed set and scene-stealing cow are two examples--but John Weinstein's production of Into the Woods...
...Grimm, the rather deranged Old Yeller (I'm referring to the pre-rabies Yeller of course) has done one too many "fire hydrant" jokes for my tastes, but he's weird enough to like. The strip alternates between one shot gags and storylines, the one shot gags often being funnier. A recent "Soup of the Day joke" involving some confusion between they day (Wednesday) and the soup, was stupid, but funny, which is perhaps a good way to summarize the strip...