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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lost Picture Show | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas Trees Are Not Secular | 1/3/1997 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 1, 1996 | 7/1/1996 | See Source »

...Quincy, Alden M. Mitchell '98 put up tinsel and lights to help alleviate an overburdened work load...

Author: By Maggie Pisacane, | Title: Home for the Holidays | 12/15/1995 | See Source »

...depressed with how much work I had to do and so I thought some tinsel and lights would make me feel better," she says...

Author: By Maggie Pisacane, | Title: Home for the Holidays | 12/15/1995 | See Source »

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