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...weekend before Christmas, and something like a hundred million Americans are heading to a place called home. They still call it that, though they've lived far away for years, and have created new branches of the family they grew up in. This trip into the past may be pleasant or painful. But for most people, whether or not they are practicing Christians, the soundtrack of that wayback machine is Christmas music: the religious and secular tunes, the novelty songs and ballads. Grandma has spun these standards for a half century or more, replacing the 78s with LPs, then cassettes...
Another difference among the frames is in how they handle the photos: Is the transition from one photo to the next smooth or jarring? The Philips and the 8-in. Image Moments from Digital Foci ($230) both handled photos smoothly, with pleasant dissolves from image to image. The Westinghouse ($200) and PanDigital ($180) 8-in. frames, which look suspiciously identical, didn't fare well in either department...
...Carroll added that the décor was very pleasant...
Sentimentalists will object here that shopkeepers’ motives for polluting their storefront displays with tinsel, holly, and plastic candelabras are an expression of holiday good cheer, perverse financial considerations be damned. That’s a very pleasant thought, but it defies common sense. This isn’t someone’s living room—it’s the marketplace, and the only warmth that matters is that of customers’ grabbing hands. Storeowners aren’t trying to cheer you up or brighten your day; they’re trying to pander...
...Vadim Bolshakov, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, sweating is a typical “non-specific fear response.” Tolaas wrote in her proposal for the installation that in the West, smell is thought of in “aesthetic terms—pleasant or unpleasant,” whereas in other cultures, body smell is an important personal defining feature. “Since our representations of the world are most of the time scentless, this indeed reinforces the social drive for deodorization of the world,” Tolaas wrote...