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...night belongs to the evil stepsisters, played by Adriana Suarez and Jennifer Glaze. Glaze, as the taller and clumsier of the two, sends the audience into guffaws with her ditzy facial expressions and ridiculously bad dancing. As the shorter and meaner daughter, Suarez is the kind of villain you love to hate--she pushes, pulls and grabs toys and fans away from her sister just as Glaze starts to admire them. The loudest applause came when the sisters try on Cinderella's lost slipper: Glaze finally fought back, slapping Suarez and pretending to throttle her. These two dancers combine impressive...

Author: By Sarah A. Rodriguez, | Title: Something Doesn't Quite Fit | 5/9/1997 | See Source »

...their sequel, the Next Generation stalwarts will do battle with a creature even meaner and mouthier than the Borg: the McEnroe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ALIENS! ADVENTURE! ACTING! | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

Although PDAs struggled in the early '90s, a second wave of industry leaders is preparing another assualt on your Coop schedule. And the fighters in this rematch are leaner, meaner and designed to work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: tech TALK | 10/8/1996 | See Source »

...most mortal of sins. Its carriers were monsters or, the luckier ones, martyrs. With few exceptions they have been members of the movies' creepiest underclass: the men more feminine than the heroine, foils to make the hero look more masculine; the women as big as truck drivers and miles meaner. And that was on the rare occasions when they were there at all. Mostly, homosexuals have had nonperson status in movies. What a destiny, in movies or in life: to be either reviled or invisible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THE FINAL FRONTIER | 3/11/1996 | See Source »

...Republican proposal to eliminate nutrition programs, including school lunches, brought to light just how the G.O.P. plans to take credit for making government leaner while avoiding responsibility for making it meaner [Welfare, March 6]. The G.O.P. answer is to make block grants to the states. This will make spending cuts much easier by deflecting blame for the impact of such reductions from the Republican-controlled Congress to the states themselves. State officials will be forced to slash many programs affecting children, the elderly and homeless. And those same officials will receive the blame for the resulting suffering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 27, 1995 | 3/27/1995 | See Source »

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