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Dorothy

[dawr-uh-thee, dor-]

noun

  1. a female given name, form of Dorothea.



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You can make out Dorothy’s slippers from an airplane.

“When Dorothy stood in the doorway and looked around, she could see nothing but the great gray prairie on every side,” Baum wrote, adding that her house and her weary aunt and uncle and everything else were gray too, “to the edge of the sky in all directions.”

Inside Dorothy’s Kansan house, a once-shadowed frying pan on the wall now dangles front and center, as does a digitally added “Home Sweet Home” needlepoint nailed to the threshold.

Dorothy belts “Over the Rainbow” underneath newly actualized bluebirds and an impressively ominous sky.

As Dorothy pleads for the Wizard not to fly away without her, we’re distracted by hundreds of waving extras who visibly don’t give a hoot what happens to the girl.

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