Word: holidaying
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December is fast-approaching, and students who stored their winter gear over the summer may find this holiday season a bit colder than usual. A large number of Kirkland House students—about two dozen, according to two Kirkland House seniors who have volunteered to gather complaints—are still without the clothing, furniture, and dorm paraphernalia that the Watertown-based company Collegeboxes promised to deliver to their doors in September. Three months later, students have had to complain repeatedly to Collegeboxes and threaten legal action against the company, and only now have they begun to recover?...
...places. Having weathered--that is, not been blamed for--All the King's Men, and done a serious turn with Little Children, Todd Field's tale of suburban suffocation, she's dipping her foot into her first big commercial movie since Titanic, Nancy Meyers' romantic comedy The Holiday. Winslet plays Iris, a retiring English wallflower who swaps houses for Christmas with Cameron Diaz's overachieving Hollywood type. This is the first film in which Winslet has ever played who she actually is, a modern young British woman. But Iris is Winslet too. "You, I can tell, are a leading lady...
...suddenly turned up--after years of obscurity--in two Winslet movies. Having worked with him on King's Men, she heard he was up for a part in Little Children, recommended him, read with him at his audition and wept with him after he got the role. When The Holiday's Meyers wished she could make an interior into an exterior shot but the set wasn't dressed, Winslet offered to help ready it. "She was ready to get the hammer and nails, I swear to God," says Meyers. "We didn't have time, but the fact that...
...that she's on dry land and has established herself as the go-to actress for difficult, interesting roles, what does she do? She returns to the multiplex with The Holiday, a big treacly romantic comedy, in which she finds love, happiness and gets to keep all her clothes...
...Square. Diamond nevertheless said he expects to see increased business in the weeks leading up to Christmas. Michelle Benoit, a manager at ALDO, said students, who form one-third of the store’s customer base, leave town for Thanksgiving weekend, impacting the store’s holiday sales. The shoe retailer also did not provide door buster discounts like other stores. Black Friday, a decades-long tradition named as such because retailers move into the black and start earning a profit, has become one of the busiest shopping days of the year in recent years. On Friday, Americans...