Word: humbug
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...Christmas Carol is emphatically not part of recent tradition at Seattle Repertory Theater. In fact, it has been a standing joke within the troupe that artistic director Daniel Sullivan always fills the holiday slot with some play involving suicide. So when he decided to do the ultimate "Bah, humbug!" and create a show mocking the Carols elsewhere, he wrote an offstage suicide into the script. That small self-indulgence is about the only inside joke in Inspecting Carol, a piece so accessible and hilariously funny that, to Sullivan's surprise, it is also being produced this holiday season by half...
...refuses to partake of the benevolent Christmas spirit. To such words as "goodwill" and "brotherhood," he responds, "Humbug," not because the second one is politically incorrect, but because he's just a greedy, unfeeling jerk...
...Humbug! Just when things were looking up for the Harvard men's basketball squad, the ghost of its abyssmal past came back to haunt...
...Humbug/Love Sucks Theory. Necco's not letting me into the factory because the CEO is an unfeeling cold fish. He made the "no tours policy" because he's bitter and he thinks that Valentine's Day is sappy. For years he's lived a personal hell of coming up with cutesy sayings for other people's corny love lives. Every night he comes home from work, watches "Love Connection," and laughs until the tears roll down his cheeks...
...London's Daily Mirror to tiny entities like Nimbus Records, is the subject of investigations on both sides of the Atlantic, notably a criminal probe by Britain's Serious Fraud Office (SFO). About 30 banks and other creditors are lining up in what promises to be a bruising humbug. Says Smith Barney analyst John Reidy: "Robert Maxwell left behind mysteries that may never be solved and a big, big mess that may never get unsnarled...