Word: tinsel
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...batteries or ones made of plastic from her secular celebration in an attempt to introduce her children to simpler pleasures. Another, an environmentalist, won't give any gifts that aren't made from recycled or natural sources. Others, following Pursell's example, have cut back on the tonnage of tinsel and toys...
...siblings of the bells that wake Yard-dwellers every morning at quarter-to-nine now chime constantly on street-corners and, consequently, in nightmares of every description. Indeed, any attempt to clear one’s head and get some fresh air is foiled by the unchecked proliferation of tinsel. The best part: these little pre-fabricated, plasticized pieces of pure pleasure won’t go away for weeks. When it comes to commercial Christmas decorations, the silver lining isn’t only apparent—it’s the problem...
...gifts this season—more than double the average individual in 1991. Ever since Coca-Cola introduced our modern image of Santa Claus to the world, consumers have been held hostage yearly by their own expectations and by the advertisers who have come to understand them. The tinsel in the window is not an expression of good will; it is a declaration that there are things to be bought within...
...obviously the type of movie where you know what will happen before you even step foot into theaters. For some reason, it doesn’t matter. Elf has all the pine trees and tinsel you could want from a Christmas movie, yet unlike It’s a Wonderful Life, it also shows its audience such comic conceits as an oversized man eating spaghetti with pancake syrup, and that makes all the difference...
...Tinsel and Christmas lights adorn the wall of the barbershop in the shot. Five of the six seats in the shop are empty. In the occupied chair, a young black woman in knee-high boots sits beneath a blower, halfway through the glossy magazine in her hand. A stand across the room holds two racks of periodicals, the top one stuffed with similar fashion publications and the lower one with worn hair magazines like Braids...