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...MORE interesting aspects of the holiday season is the way magazines get fat all of a sudden. They each become a kind of corpulent Santa Claus, dressed in bright seasonal colors and laden with advertisements offering more toys than the elves could make if they were to industrialize the North Pole. There's something very attractive about magazine stands, too, in the winter--especially at night when the snow is falling--something that even transcends the commercialism behind them. There are also a few good articles tucked away in some of those magazines that you might look...
...Crimson matmen may have to wait for Santa Claus to come before they can have something to cheer about this year...
...country to Zaire (meaning river). He decreed that all Zaireans discard Christian names for African ones. Throbbing tom-toms replaced the 21-gun salute as official greeting for visiting heads of state. In what was perhaps a further attempt to consolidate his personal power, last summer Mobutu banned Santa Claus...
...season's secular spirit, a procession of toys emerges from the sacristy; Teddy bears, dolls and soldiers move up the center aisle. Right in the middle of it all, decked out in spangles and waving a glowing magic wand, is the Blue Angel -Father Quinlan, of course. Santa Claus (an assistant priest) joins the march as it heads back toward the altar. Quinlan ducks out, then reappears in festive liturgical vestments, mercifully putting Christ back into Christmas...
...Killed Santa Claus? is playing at the High for Summer theater in Fitchburg. Nobody is going to travel up to Fitchburg for this (you can if you want), but don't you like the name of the playhouse? High for Summer. Good idea. Anyway, we know who killed Santa Claus. Nixon did that...