Word: reindeers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should have seen it coming. Claus had a furtive air about him to begin with, like a man who drinks before noon. First, there was the song about Mommy kissing him on the sly--and of course that reindeer with the bulbous nose (probably acquired from "nightcaps" during the long polar dark). But now, the flood-gates are opened. We will be hearing Freudian chuckles about Santa's pipe, husbands will be accused of wearing invisible antlers; children will be warned about fat, beared men who get too friendly...
...ever placed: 50,000 bulbs for the Czar's Winter Palace. Dumfounded, Gerard wired back asking how many of the zeros were a mistake. Rewired multilingual Anton impatiently: "Fifty thousand, fÜnfzig tausend, cinquante mille." When Germany later cut the rail link to Russia, Anton hired 70 reindeer and sleighs to get light bulbs through to the imperial court via Finland...
...Happy Reindeer (Capitol). Another of the tape-doctored disks, this one featuring the nasalized singing of "Dancer, Prancer and Nervous" in a message of blue-eyed innocence: "We are Santa's reindeers/ We've learned to sing this year/ So we can tell everyone/ Christmas day is near...
...director of culture, Vicentina Antuña, is out because he is "a recent importation [from the U.S.] and foreign to our culture." From now on Cuban children will expect presents from the Three Wise Men on January 6, the feast of the Epiphany. No cardboard Santas or reindeer will be permitted. "Decorations must be made of Cuban materials, with traditional Cuban scenes," ruled Senora Antuña, "and Cuban Christmas cards must be used instead of imported ones." Yankee Christmas trees are out; everyone will use the good Cuban palm...
...north, Sculptor Hjorth won admiration. As the central teakwood altarpiece for Jukkasjarvi Church, Hjorth carved a looming Christ with heavy Gauguin overtones, surrounded by the Far North's flowers. On the left stands Laestadius preaching hellfire, while one Lapp smashes a keg of aquavit, another returns a stolen reindeer. On the right, Laestadius begs mercy from a Virgin Mary, while a Lapp lay priest, Raatma the Mild, listens. Dagens Nyheter, Sweden's largest daily, called it "a masterpiece . . . everything is dissolved and recreated in the same breath...