Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...valkyrie voice of the first track where Merchant sings, “Soon come the day / When this tinder box / Is going to blow in your face,” to the domesticated, Mediterranean post-card song, “Motherland,” disorients the listener like holiday jet-lag. Merchant ensconces herself amongst accordions and harmlessly strummed banjos singing, “Motherland, cradle me / Close my eyes, lullaby me to sleep / Keep me safe, lie with me / Lay beside me, don’t go.” This is great music to play to hyperactive three...
...analysts agree that economic levels in the month of September point towards a recession. They argue that if we weren’t already in one by Sept. 11, the terrorist acts sealed our economic fates. Still, the optimistic economists are looking towards a turnaround to be sparked this holiday season, which will supposedly bring us back to the promised land of economic growth by mid February or March...
...commercials as exploitative but simply a reflection of new sentiments. In fact, shortages of American flags have given way to prospective shortages of firefighter action figures and good ol’ G.I. Joe’s, indicating that Americans have changed their consumption patterns to include patriotism in their holiday spending. If Christmas trees could be sold in red, white and blue, there would probably be shortages of them as well...
...were built on that principle (ironically, Chrysler is now owned by Germans). Furthermore, the commercialization of Christmas has been an issue for decades. It is the merging and amplification of these darker, manipulative parts of capitalism that suggests that the malls may be more stifling than usual this holiday season...
...light of Sept. 11, that is really a shame. We are in mourning; we are at war. Perhaps we ought to put consumption aside this holiday season, and do something truly novel: spend more time with the people we love instead of spending more money on them—even if it’s not patriotic...