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...Christmas Story--and the snarky holiday comedies that have followed it--inverts this moral. Here, the Christmas celebrated by the greater society is crass, stressful and risible. The movie opens with a crowd of kids staring slack-jawed at the pagan temple of a store-window display. (No, George--that's where my money is!) In the end, the characters discover an authentic holiday outside the usual traditions--as when Ralphie and family, their turkey devoured by the neighbor's dogs, discover "Chinese turkey" (Peking duck) at a chop-suey restaurant. It's the individual Christmas that matters. Bedford Falls...
Busy Nalewki Street in Warsaw where the street vendors once hawked bajgels on sticks was empty, smashed flat. For the audiences that used to crowd the little Ruski Teatr in Riga there would be no more after-theatre suppers in the warm and friendly Café Schwarz. Wilno's Niemiecka and Tatarska Streets, once thronged by students of Talmudic learning, were empty. Gaon Street, named for Gaon Rabbi Elijah, the 18th-Century miracle-working rabbi of Wilno, was deserted...
...course, ESPNU television cameras will be watching every move.“It’s great if we have that, and we want that—that’s our goal and what we’re looking for,” Amaker said of the large crowd. “But it’s not going to change who we are. We’re going to have an identity about us and that doesn’t change based on attendance.”—Staff writer Kevin C. Reyes can be reached...
...what to make of Obama's unfamiliar material as he honed his message and started spelling out his policies. The candidate was confused as well. "The expectations," he tells TIME, "are elevated to this odd level. Even when we do the spectacular, people discount it. If we have a crowd of 23,000 people in a red state in the spring, people sort of say, 'Ho hum.' We've raised more money from small donors than all the other Democratic candidates combined, and from a standing start, we are competing with the dominant political organization in American politics that...
...audience, however, appeared to disagree. At the event’s end, when Bhabha asked the crowd if they would like to ask a last question or hear Vendler read a short poem, audience members shouted, “read a poem...