Word: tinsel
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...evident. The Japanese, who love cowboys, are intrigued by anything Western. Says an employee of Knott's Berry Farm near Los Angeles: "They buy cowboy hats, Indian dolls and jewelry and pioneer bonnets for the women." The Japanese are also fascinated by the glitter and tinsel of Las Vegas. The Germans are mesmerized by the wide open spaces in the American West and the grandeur of the redwood forests; they often rent campers to tour the national parks...
...every paper in Cambridge was quite so willing to look behind the tinsel, though. The Cambridge Chronicle found the all-time alleged news story for its December 22 lead story: "Christ's Birth is Celebrated; Churches Offer Prayers, Singing." People may complain about consumerism replacing the religion in Christmas, but somehow this doesn't seem the way to put the religion back...
Dried seaweed can often make an excellent substitute for tinsel on your "personalized Xmas" tree or you-know-what bush...
Studied Unreality. If this movie were a big-band arrangement, it would be a duet for a sax man and a girl singer, but with the soloists in a different key from the band. Smack in the midst of the gold-tinsel snowfalls and the studied unreality of the sound stages, Scorsese spins out a naturalistic, contemporary-feeling melodrama about a love affair that goes sour...
Robert Lowell, Litt.D., poet. Maurice Sendak, L.H.D., writer. In a world of transient, tinsel pleasures, of television and plastic toys, a world in which little survives because little deserves to, you have given us children's books that will live...