Word: tinsel
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...studio system. Two wild new books by veteran entertainment journalists, Charles Fleming's High Concept (Doubleday; 294 pages; $23.95) and Peter Biskind's Easy Riders, Raging Bulls (Simon & Schuster; 506 pages; $25), chronicle the decadence surrounding these creative eccentrics, offering a rare glimpse at the grime that covers the tinsel...
...with Christmas. At my public (i.e., state-run) high school, school officials were thrilled to display five Christmas trees prominently throughout the building--this despite the "separation of Church and State" which this country supposedly promises. The librarian even claimed that the evergreen in the library--decorated with tinsel, lights, and ornaments, which appeared in early December and was gone by early January--was not a Christmas tree but a "book tree" with no religious connotations whatsoever...
Israelis have ditched Peres gold for Bibi tinsel. Netanyahu's success in the scheme of things will be no less than miraculous, his failure a sure victory for political sanity. MAHMOOD FARIDOON Farsta, Sweden...
...Quincy, Alden M. Mitchell '98 put up tinsel and lights to help alleviate an overburdened work load...
...depressed with how much work I had to do and so I thought some tinsel and lights would make me feel better," she says...