Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Though purchases of roses or chocolate hearts are often expressions of sincere love and gratitude, many of the corporations that sell these products neglect to make the sorts of compassionate decisions that befit the holiday. The flowers and chocolate that arrive on your doorstep are the result of a production and trade process often rife with inequity and human suffering...
...this year, Miramax only had about three weeks between Cold Mountain’s December 25 release and the January 17 deadline for Oscar nomination ballots—not enough of a window for the studio’s post-holiday campaigning to make the needed impact on the psyches of Oscar voters...
Other December releases fared just as poorly: besides The Last Samurai, holiday big shots like Big Fish, Something’s Gotta Give, and Girl with a Pearl Earring were largely ignored when the Oscar nominations were released. And this year’s Best Picture category is a reverse image of its recent self, with four out of this year’s five nominees in theaters by November. Only the endlessly hyped The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, whose Best Picture nomination had been a given for months, premiered during the holidays...
...retrospect, it seems predictable that Academy voters would largely ignore the year’s holiday releases. At the same time, the nominees that the voters selected to replace these spurned December brides were utterly unpredictable. In a normal year, there are only one or two major surprises in a slate of Oscar nominees—think Robert Forster for Jackie Brown, Pedro Almodovar for Talk to Her, or Ethan Hawke for Training...
...Ralph Lauren’s world, there are four seasons—Spring, Summer, Fall, and “what we call Cruise or Holiday...