Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...What?s the biggest shopping day of most years? Friday after Thanksgiving - this Friday. And what?s the biggest travel period? Thanksgiving to Christmas - to grandmother?s house we go. In this extraordinary holiday season, there look to be three kinds of Americans: Those who stay home for the holidays, fearing for their jobs. Those who drive somewhere, fearing to fly. And those who behave in the proper patriotic fashion and go ahead and fly, fearing nothing...
...feast day for the gods of paradox. It's an ordeal to travel and yet we do; family reunions can be wildly stressful and yet painful to miss. It was invented by a bunch of Puritans who celebrated freedom by throwing a party, and so bequeathed us a holiday both secular and sacred, with parades and prayers that dare us to reckon with all that has changed, and recognize all that...
...music that accomplished a similar goal in Williams’s 1982 score for E.T. The sweeping melody of “Harry’s Wondrous World” smacks of the closing theme from 1980’sThe Empire Strikes Back, also by Williams. And the eerie holiday vibe of “Visit to the Zoo” will make you swear that you’re listening to Williams’s soundtrack from 1990’s Home Alone...
...enjoy the Harry Potter soundtrack for what it is—not a brand-new idea, but great movie music, Williams style. And after fans see the film a few dozen times, and a few pops orchestras play the score at holiday concerts, maybe Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone will join Superman, Raiders of the Lost Ark and so many other Williams works in the canon of American pop culture, forever etched in our collective consciousness...
...UniLu] is considered the Holiday Inn of shelters,” said Kuo. “We are smaller, safer and a dry [non-alcoholic] shelter. It is the ideal atmosphere...