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...public investments (“Beware the lure of fiscal fairy tales”, Opinion, February 14)....
...On the right, the long-standing fairy tale of choice is that tax cuts raise revenues....
...such as Kings of the Road and Alice in the Cities and so on, all strung like fairy lights through a cityscape he’s always loved....
...Explicitly a Disney self-celebration, the movie must salute fairy tales past, without ever suggesting the company’s glory days are over....
...Fairy tales work, as anyone who has spent any time around a small child will tell you....
...It’s part of Ford’s mastery that he was able to elevate a sensational and sordid tale into grand and beautiful tragedy....
...The enchanting stone house, in the Fontainebleau forest south of Paris, feels like the setting of a Charles Perrault fairy tale....
...Stridsberg has perfected a kind of contemporary fairy tale with a bracing Scandinavian edge, here elegantly translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner....
...London Coliseum of Poul Ruders’ The Handmaid’s Tale is now better — more lucid, more absorbing, more moving....
...It’s a Y2K fairy tale about the fashion industry, magazine politics and power. How accurate was the film about fashion then, and why is it still resonating now? We love hearing from you....
...The Fourier subplot is not fleshed out, however, and beautiful writing doesn’t inject much energy into a tale of rootless, affectless characters whose main drive is “whatever”....
...Explored in beautiful prose, the book’s central themes of identity and authenticity stay with us long after we turn the last page....
...Alongside renowned Indian writers such as Rabindranath Tagore and Khushwant Singh, and widely loved tales such as Ruskin Bond’s touching and beautiful “The Blue Umbrella”, the collection contains lesser-known...
...The intention was to offer family fare, and director Antony McDonald tells the Brothers Grimm fairy tale fairly straight with a sprinkling of nice touches for children along the way, though only adults will...
...He is so beautiful.”...
...As a self-described “very weird” child growing up on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, she had always veered towards the magical, devouring a steady diet of fairy tales and folklore....
...In her images, you see them coming of age against the backdrop of el campo — the sparse and poor place is, for them, a palace, a fairy tale....
...He finds inspiration in naturalists’ accounts, legends and fairy tales rather than in zoos or safaris....
...summer fairy tale....
...beautiful botanic gardens....
...A fan might claim Garland just wants as many people in the room as possible for his cautionary tale....
...The murders and suicides that crop up in folk song acquire a crushing intensity. Tales of dashed love are given a deep tone of desolation....
...By contrast, Philip Haas’ 1995 film of Angels and Insects captured her highbrow aesthetic and her fascination with themes such as fairy-tales, the insect world and the nature of scientific taxonomy....
...Wills notices how her mother sets up stories as if they’re fairy tales before delivering their matter-of-fact endings....
...The Witches National Theatre, London “This is not a fairy tale,” booms a disembodied voice at the start of the National Theatre’s Christmas show. To which one might reply, “Oh yes, it is.”...
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