Word: clauses
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...still believe that Santa Claus will be sliding down your chimney on Christmas Eve, skip Jeremy Seal's historical travelogue Santa: A Life. Not that Seal is a killjoy. After all, for a start the British writer indulgently ferries his wonderstruck daughters to Santa's Kingdom, a vast, tawdry grotto in Birmingham, England, and then, a year later, all the way to Lapland. In between, though, Seal comes to admire Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments...
...Burton's the Nightmare Before Christmas Every Burton film is Halloween scary and candy-cane sweet. So it's appropriate that the fevered imagineer (Beetlejuice, the Batman films, Edward Scissorhands) dreamed up this stop-motion fable about a Halloween ghoul who wants to play Santa Claus. Directed by Henry Selick, Nightmare is Disney's weirdest cartoon ever: chilly, rollicking, endlessly inventive. And it's animated by Danny Elfman's magical-spookical score. Is this the first Hollywood musical to set every one of its 10 songs in a minor...
...these caricatures with pathos and existential import: the freaks and geeks that populate Berman songs are transformed into emblems of desire and resignation. The band’s new album “Tanglewood Numbers” invokes such lyrical oddities as a “young black Santa Claus,” a “depressed pony,” and a “girl from the special economic zone.” Their relative obscurity is particularly frustrating because the Jews are more “authentic” than Adams (who is more...
...sons she had already drowned in a South Carolina lake. Bereaved relatives have become suspects in the court of public opinion. Such before-the-evidence perceptions overshadow the loss of a precious child. Bill McReynolds, a retired journalism professor at the University of Colorado, has played Santa Claus for the past three years at the Ramseys' Christmas party for neighborhood kids. He remembers how JonBenet gave him a vial of stardust for his beard this season. "JonBenet believed in Santa Claus," he says. "I don't think there was a doubt in her mind." Three days later, she was gone...
...letter from Santa complaining about his reindeer's death and looked into it seriously." MORTEN JENSEN, spokesman for the Danish air force, which paid a part-time Santa Claus about $5000 after flight data and veterinarian reports backed up his claim that F-16 jets screaming over his farm had frightened his animal, Rudolf, to death