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...concludes this book, an old woman realizes that what she wants to do "is not so much to live in the past as to open it up and get one good look at it." That's what Munro offers her readers, the hope of that one good look. Her gift for nuance is such that you find yourself trying to imitate her. But what works for a fiction writer might not be the best idea for a reviewer. You risk having the reader fail to grasp your full meaning. So let's be clear about one thing here: this...
...GIFT CARDS: Use 'em or lose...
...sets are made for the completist, not the critic. Someone, surely, will watch all 14 hours of the documentary extras and, perhaps, the three films on their own, then with the two tracks of commentary, which means another 20 hours. All of which makes The Ultimate Matrix an ideal gift for that obsessive uncle or nephew who has nothing but spare time. (We're guessing that the fanatical rewatching of action-movie trilogies is pretty much a guy thing. A lonely-guy thing...
...tree until the third week of Advent, and we don't decorate it until the week before Christmas." Other holiday trappings have gone out the window altogether. Several years ago, the couple stopped swathing the house in knickknacks and frills. This year, they're eliminating Christmas lights. Gift purchases have also been reduced. Instead of giving presents to every last cousin and aunt, they give charitable donations in the names of a few close relatives. The Dear Santa lists made by their two sons, ages 3 and 8, are limited to three gifts each...
...seven college friends in Dallas got sick of trying to outdo one another with presents. So they decided to skip the shopping and donate to a local humane society. Each set up boxes in her workplace to collect food, toys and blankets for needy animals. Instead of their usual gift-exchange party, the friends piled $2,000 worth of donations into several cars and distributed them at the shelter. "The animals were going nuts," Wisdom recalls. "We never anticipated how emotional it would be. It ended up being the most rewarding holiday experience we've ever had." This year they...