Fairy tale images, the hopes of princesses and kitchenmaids, of youngest sons and poor old women, are contained in but also corrected by the realist novel.
Romney also tossed in a mention of Rumpelstiltskin, so maybe either a Mafia metaphor or some sort of weird fairy-tale image?
Other events this week include a screening of the film "Stella Days," on Monday at 8 p.m., at the Elevated Acre, 55 Water Street, and starting on Thursday, a window exhibit at One New York Plaza Art Space, "Tales: The Narrative Image," open for viewing from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. (The festival and exhibit run through July 15).
Anna Gaskell's fairy-tale images explore similar terrain.
And Mr. Goicolea's fairy-tale images recall the disordered, half-dreamed consciousness of childhood.
In the drama, set in an unnamed… "All in One," at the Drawing Center, showcases the illustrator's dark fairy-tale images.
Mr. Brown doesn't shy away from romantic hyperbole and fairy-tale images, but even his most extravagant effusions have the ring of truth.
His jewel-toned fairy-tale images are as embedded in Japan's collective memory as, say, Homer Simpson is in ours.
He subsequently created a work that he himself described as "an orchestral suite…closely knit by the community of its themes and motifs, yet representing, as it were, a kaleidoscope of fairy-tale images".
