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...Uncle Gabby, and Mr. Crow, a cloth crow with button eyes, get into adventures by innocently imitating the adult world. The stories read like original Grimm's fairy tales - the ones where Cinderella's stepsisters hack away at their feet with an ax so they will fit the glass slipper. They have a romantic, quaint naïveté mixed with moments of modern existential horror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Millionaire's Sock Monkey Offers Strange Comfort | 2/16/2001 | See Source »

...Today's rich breakfast by offering pretty much the same thing: a newsy first hour, a lighter second; glass-walled, tourist-courting studios; platonic marriages of male and female anchors (the assumption that Gumbel's partner would be female was so absolute that CBS dubbed the search Operation Glass Slipper). The producers describe their differences with vague intangibles, complete with promises to be "the show for the next millennium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Battle Of the Morning People | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

Meanwhile, night had fallen and my driver wanted dinner. I agreed to head back to Harvard without my green sash, my golden fleece, the right shoe size for my glass slipper. We drove back toward Route Two in silence. All of a sudden, I spotted the Ayer Police Station. Stop! I cried...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN? | 10/22/1998 | See Source »

...film's pedigree promises a fractured fairy tale: the last time its star (Drew Barrymore) and director (Andy Tennant) teamed, it was for ABC's trash package The Amy Fisher Story. So let's see...Cinderella lives on Long Island; Prince Charming runs a garage; the glass slipper comes from Wal-Mart; and the wedding is on the front page of the New York Post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Aieee! It's Summer!! | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

...Boston Chinese Anglican Church draws 1,000people to Sunday mass," Lee says. "People wouldrather come into town than have the church moveinto the suburbs."CrimsonHector U. VelazquezTHE GLASS SLIPPER: This theater forexotic dancing is one of the few remaining adultentertainment businesses...

Author: By Jason T. Benowitz, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Boston Cleans Up 'Combat Zone' | 3/18/1998 | See Source »

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