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...eighth year as Santa, Scott Calvin (Allen) is vastly enjoying all the praise he receives from his elves, who laud him as the best Santa ever. However, things go sour as Calvin not only begins losing weight, but sees his son Charlie being placed on the year’s “naughty” list. Putting himself square in the middle of a bad case of dramatic contrivance, he quickly hires a substitute Santa so he can head home to save his son from the dregs of youngish angst. Unfortunately, the substitute turns into a Scrooge, and it?...
...brain just to get up in this / Let’s be a star for day, everything in life is just OK.” He connects this scenario to the T3’s earlier verse of a love between a man and a woman tainted and gone sour...
...several hours away, my days were filled with hiking and horseback riding in edelweiss-speckled meadows. Evenings, by gaslight, consisted largely of food and drink. Round flatbread was roughly torn and piled high on a low table. Fish fresh from the lake, noodles and pickled cabbage?all smothered in sour cream?were served up as we sat around the low table on well-worn sheepskins. And for the main course, I was treated to the very fattiest (and tastiest) hunks of mutton. With a growing number of visitors, Kyrgyzstan's warm smiles and piled plates could prove to be valuable...
...spent the next morning recuperating on the sand beneath fraying umbrellas, approached occasionally by children selling sour cherries. On the water, aging catamarans laden with bikini-clad teens drifted lazily...
...passed on the motley appetizers and each just ordered an entrée of just-manageable proportions. Reworking a perennial favorite, their Crispy Pad Thai ($8.95) was a scraggly nest of brittle threads strewn with shrimp, chicken, bean sprouts, scallions, egg and ground peanuts, sweet and sticky and sour, the whole inescapably recalling peanut butter (which, to me, is a good thing). The Rad-Na (wide rice) Noodles ($7.95/8.95) were to all appearances a facsimile of a staple Singaporean dish, beef kway teow, which uses exactly the same ingredients (beef slices and Chinese broccoli...