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...failed marriages, cooed nostalgically as she reminisced about her mom and her "godmother," Kay Thompson, whose 1940s nightclub show she pays tribute to in the second act. When she closed the show with "New York, New York" and followed up with an encore of her mother's sentimental holiday number, "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," they died and went to heaven...
Before you had a chance to eat your turkey leftovers, Christmas music started bombarding you everywhere you went on Black Friday. With the holiday season upon us, there’s also plenty of holiday cheer to be found in bookstores. “Hannukah Haiku,” by Harriet Ziefert with Karla Gudeon’s pics Jewish holidays, Japanese poetry, and fly illustrations. A picture’s worth a thousand words. That’s 10 times the words in this whole book. The length is perfect for tired parents who need short bedtime stories...
...Nameless Holiday," a blind reindeer lands on the roofs of houses that are piled with one's most prized possessions - "objects [that] are so loved that their loss will be felt like the snapping of a cord to the heart" - and leaves with them in a dark inversion of the Christmas fable. "Alert but Not Alarmed" sees households issued with intercontinental ballistic missiles by the government. These sit in backyards for so long that people take to decorating them and using them as kennels or toolsheds (one illustration shows them as a bright garden of strange, leafless trees under...
...right to pass the blame. Pathogens like the influenza virus pass like a holiday fruitcake from person to person, but you probably don't think much past the one who gave it directly to you. An infectious-disease expert, on the other hand, would not be satisfied to stop there. What about the person who passed the virus on to your colleague, the one before him and others earlier still? Contagious diseases operate like a giant infectious network, spreading like the latest YouTube clip among friends of friends online. We're social animals; we share. (See the Year in Health...
...lighting we use for our holiday decorations are LED lights. We are now going with solar units, and it’s all been an effort to work towards sustainability,” said Denise A. Jillson, executive director of the Harvard Square Business Association...