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Meantime, the local tyrant, Lord Farquaad, has been torturing the Gingerbread Man. "No, not my buttons, not my gumdrop buttons!" his brave but hapless victim piteously cries. Just why his lordship takes such violent umbrage at fairy-tale creatures is not clear. But he decrees that they all be exiled from his kingdom to Shrek's fen, which irritates the monster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Monstrously Good | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...early "Fairy-Tale" series borrows from these cultures to create realms of magic in everyday life. The first room in Nolde: The Painter's Prints has the feel of a haunted house, whereas the final room of the two conjoined shows, containing his watercolors, exhibits flowers and landscapes in gumdrop colors to a more soothing effect...

Author: By Marco M. Spino, | Title: MFA Show Escapes To Nolde's Exotic World | 2/23/1995 | See Source »

...workmen to build. Trump's Atlantic City version took only eight years and 1,800 laborers. But Trump cedes nothing to the original structure. He claims to have built "the largest (and most expensive) casino resort, convention center and entertainment complex constructed at one time," a great, glittery gumdrop on the Atlantic Ocean. India's Taj is, after all, just a tomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: A Candymaker Went Mad | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

...boardwalk in Atlantic City sits "The Donald's" billion-dollar gumdrop. The design is preposterous, the decor outlandish -- but then, did anyone expect the Waldorf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

...domestic airliner, another flight attendant strides down the aisle and deposits a tiny tray of what is optimistically described as chicken Kiev. A ragged strip of batter and bone soaked in an indeterminate broth, nested in some wilted greens, alongside a piece of cinder block with red gumdrop icing. A sigh of resignation. "On the short hauls, I never eat anything," says John Downard, vice president of Hoechst Celanese in Charlotte, N.C. "I look at flying as an opportunity for fasting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: You Want Me to Eat THIS? | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

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