Word: sleighful
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...seen a fridge thrown several hundred yards, while glasses on a nearby table weren't touched." Last month Betty Lou Pearce, a 64-year-old clerk from Pilot, North Carolina, hid from a tornado in her bathtub and moments later found herself sliding into the woods in a ceramic sleigh. She returned from her Wizard of Oz-like journey scratched and bruised but otherwise miraculously unharmed...
...month before the sleigh does ride...
...white whiskers and white hair. (Is this a Christmas fantasy or a horror film?) Scott eventually reconciles to the idea of spending his declining years at the North Pole, winning his son's love in the process. "Pretty cool, eh?" he tells his ex-wife before catching the last sleigh north. "Your parents thought I'd never amount to anything...
...cotton-candy fantasy as the prince escorts Marie to the Kingdom of the Sweets, where waves of dancers, led by the Sugarplum Fairy (Darci Kistler), perform in the children's honor. In a hilarious mock-grandiose conclusion, the pair depart, ascending to the snowy heavens in a reindeer-drawn sleigh...
Anachronistic? Defiantly. The blood on these guitars is Chuck Berry red. The production reverbs with the heavenly choirs, sleigh bells and mausoleum echoes of Phil Spector's wailing Wall of Sound. The lyric lines are long and chatty, with more pomp to the bomp. Bat II is the '50s, '60s and '70s, packed in steel and wrapped in Mylar. Or go back even further. Meat Loaf is not quite Jussi Bjorling, and Steinman ain't no Wagner, but in rock terms Bat Out of Hell II is a Gotterdammerung you can dance...