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Heck--I bet if my family had celebrated Christmas, I would have looked forward to the candy hearts and Valentine's cards more than the candy canes and stockings. Who needs Santa Claus when he has sisters, grandmas...
After intermission came the "Sonata" (1991). The first movement of this work incorporates six popular songs from various eras: "Ring Around the Rosy," "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town," "L Homme Arme," "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye," "Give Peace A Chance" and "Three Blind Mice." This pluralism offered much potential for humor and for keeping listeners in constant anticipation, but it finally resulted in a disturbing lack of coherence. Rzewski has a tendency to encapsulate when he composes, not maintaining any particular texture, motive, or even mood long enough to establish it firmly. When he is not working within...
Bush's explanation of why he played Santa Claus with the law in the twilight of his presidency is a vivid demonstration of his mistaken confidence that the American people will believe anything he tells them. (Remember "no new taxes"?) To Bush, the gentleman preppie from Andover and Yale, honesty is not nearly as important as rhetoric. He could say with a straight face, "I am doing what I believe honor, decency and fairness require...
...realize that Santa Claus is somehow derived from St. Nicholas, and it's true that no self-respecting Jew would ever romp around in that idiotic outfit and give away all that stuff for free. But as an American icon, he's much closer to Dom DeLuise than Pope John Paul II. Anybody with a head like Dean Jewett and a body like Dean Epps isn't my idea of a symbol of religious devotion...
...nation need all the unifying rituals and symbols we can find. They killed off Elvis. They forced Carson to retire. And they turned "Saturday Night Live" into repetitive, humorless drivel. Now they're trying to take Santa Claus and Christmas trees from us. It's time to fight back...