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"Populaire" tells the kind of transcendentally silly fairy tale that has long been a French cinematic specialty.
The humans named me Tigger After a silly fairy tale And coaxed the two females To welcome a unique male.
He coined the word in a letter of 1754, when recounting the "silly fairy tale" ("fairy tale" is another term he is credited with inventing) of "The Three Princes of Serendip" (Serendip being a former name for Sri Lanka).
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"Wasn't she the one who wrote those silly romantic fairy tales?
The story of course is willfully silly: Iolanthe, a fairy, has been banished for marrying a mortal, and when the fairies persuade their queen to restore her, she reveals that she has a son, Strephon, who is a fairy above the waist and mortal from the waist down.
It was silly to perform fairy tales when the students were already in high school, but most of her classmates did not speak enough English for more sophisticated work.
The film's ridiculousness would not be so irksome if Mr. Shyamalan did not take his sleight of hand so seriously, if he did not insist on dressing this scary, silly, moderately clever fairy tale in a somber cloak of allegory.
"O" had water; "Zumanity" has sex, however silly; "KÀ" has an elaborate fairy tale of lost imperial twins in search of each other and enlightenment; and "Love" has the Beatles.
"On and around the stage" more accurately describes the company's production of "The Tale of the Silly Baby Mouse," a Russian fairy tale about a young mouse who refuses to go to bed, as set by Shostakovich in 1939 for an animated cartoon.
Frightened by a death curse that Maleficent has laid on the baby, King Stefan sends Aurora away, to be reared by three fairies, lovable but silly old ladies.
Choreographed by Alexei Ratmansky to music by the Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin, this ballet adapts a famous Russian fairy tale about a silly hero and his faithful humpbacked horse.
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