Word: grinch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...find my Grinch-like stance softening year by year. You can accuse the Christmas costumers of turning Christ's Mass into kitsch. Or you can see them, from a loftier perspective, as the only true celebrants of the original Christmas spirit, which we have tended to lose sight of in recent centuries. Check out the holiday's history: Dec. 25 wasn't chosen because it was the date on Jesus' birth certificate but because that was the time of the ancient Saturnalia, when all of Rome poured into the streets for days of public revelry. Even Christianity couldn't take...
...with resolutions on subjects ranging from Nigerian oil, to Burmese students, to grape and strawberry pickers. But the council clothing drives or gift drives for the needy have invariably fizzled out with only a few people to staff them. Have you ever even heard of the "Pinch the Grinch Drive?" There is a reason...
Time out! In a garish era for movies, does Brooks even have a shot with this Candygram? Its sentimental story has more cripples and victims than A Christmas Carol. And the first half an hour, a bit slow and unsure of its tone, plays like The Grinch from Greenwich Village. The film also echoes Jerry Maguire, the Tom Cruise hit that Brooks produced last year. That one had a self-obsessed hero, a sweet mother-child tandem and a media figure in trouble. All you can say about Brooks' new film, which he wrote with Mark Andrus, is that...
Regula says he fell in love with the 688-acre Rancho del Cielo when he visited in 1990 and Reagan taught him how to build a notched-wood fence. It's hard to find a discouraging word about the project--who wants to be a grinch when the Gipper is ailing? The tightest-fisted among us would not want to turn around and see Rancho del Subdivision--though in this case commercial development seems a tad unlikely, given the rugged terrain 2,000 ft. up a narrow, twisting seven-mile road. But Paul Pritchard, president of the National Park Trust...
...This time around, says TIME's Wall Street columnist Daniel Kadlec, it was more important what Alan Greenspan didn't say to Congress. "There was nothing like the 'irrational exuberance' line. Things are going well, and he could have killed it. But he didn't." Not that the Grinch of Wall Street has suddenly gone pie-eyed over the invincible new economic order. Bristling slightly, he insisted the Fed "is not, as some commentators have suggested, involved in an experiment that deliberately prods the economy to see how far and how fast it can grow," Greenspan said. "The costs...