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What to get your friends and family for Hanukkah or Christmas? It's the most vexing, most stress-inducing question of the festive season. It doesn't have to be. Too many of us spend too much time thinking up clever gifts that will make a statement about the giver?and not enough trying to please the receiver. Startingly original, handmade gifts are touching; otherwise, when in doubt, fork out. If you have a generous budget, here are a few ideas that are sure to make them smile...
...Heart and Music,” “Gordo’s Law of Genetics,” “Sitting Becalmed in the Lee in Cuttyhunk.” The show’s lyrics, on the other hand, are outstandingly funny and clever; Mr. Bungee and his Mouseketeer-like companions sing a cheerful “Yes Song” about how you should always say “yes I can” or “yes I will” except when asked to “lose your virginity?...
What to get your friends and family for Hanukkah or Christmas? It's the most vexing, most stress-inducing question of the festive season. It doesn't have to be. Too many of us spend too much time thinking up clever gifts that will make a statement about the giver - and not enough trying to please the receiver. Startlingly original, handmade gifts are touching; otherwise, when in doubt, fork out. If you have a generous budget, here are a few ideas that are sure to make them smile: For The Kids The ultimate place to hang out with...
...background, “Hi, who are you voting for?” Equivocally at first, another falsetto answers, “Joe, Joe Lieberman?” A few lame measures later, everyone’s resolve has strengthened with a crescendo into the oh-so-clever chorus of “Let?...
...genius. He was just a twentysomething layabout, an Irishman drinking away his exile in the Italian city of Trieste, scribbling unpublished manuscripts. Lucia took after her father: tall, pale and skinny. In Carol Loeb Shloss's Lucia Joyce (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 560 pages), she emerges as shy but clever, a bright, pretty girl and a witty mimic. Lucia became a dancer. Her work was by all accounts strange and fascinating--"totally subtle and barbaric," one critic wrote. But her promise was never fulfilled. As she grew from an adolescent to a woman, her life took a darker turn. She fell...