Word: princess
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...telling them. 2005's Hoodwinked! reimagined Little Red Riding Hood as a crime Rashomon, while this year's Happily N'Ever After sent up Cinderella. Broadway smash Wicked posits that the Wicked Witch of the West was misunderstood. This fall Disney (et tu, Mickey?) releases Enchanted, in which a princess (Amy Adams) is magically banished by an evil queen to modern New York City, where she must fend for herself, parodying her princess foremothers as she goes. (Snow White's Whistle While You Work scene is re-enacted with vermin and roaches...
Shrek didn't remake fairy tales single-handed; it captured, and monetized, a long-simmering cultural trend. TV's Fractured Fairy Tales parodied Grimm classics, as have movies like The Princess Bride and Ever After and the books on which Shrek and Wicked were based. And highbrow postmodern and feminist writers, such as Donald Barthelme and Angela Carter, Robert Coover and Margaret Atwood, used the raw material of fairy stories to subvert traditions of storytelling that were as ingrained in us as breathing or to critique social messages that their readers had been fed along with their strained peas...
...revolution in migraines was very much in evidence last week in London as more than 600 scientists from 32 countries gathered for the biennial symposium of the Migraine Trust (whose patron, the late Princess Margaret, suffered from migraines). A ripple of excitement followed reports of progress in blocking a key neuropeptide called cgrp (more on that later). But the biggest headlines came from a seemingly unlikely source, the anti-epilepsy drug topiramate. Dr. Stephen Silberstein of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia presented a study of nearly 500 patients showing that topiramate significantly reduced both the occurrence and duration of migraines...
...Dawes Rolls are the most authentic document we have to trace ancestors. If we didn’t use those rolls, then what would we use? Should we just open the tribe up to anyone who says they have a great, great, great-grandmother who was a Cherokee princess? We wouldn’t have an Indian tribe anymore, would...
...years later, the Anglo-American couple and their young son Thomas visited London on a public relations scheme hatched by the Virginia Co. Its heavily indebted investors hoped the exotic New World princess would help them drum up desperately needed capital to keep their flagging American venture afloat...