Word: tinseled
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...SOME PEOPLE have taken to maligning Christmas. They grumble from behind the turned-up collars of their wide-welt cord jackets that "there's too much tinsel in the air." But just when it's getting the coldest, the days growing shortest, and the future looking most barren who can deny that we all like to return to the warm womb of familiar old Christmas? Who can say it isn't great to see that fecund, fetid growth of oozing summer at last driven from the earth as the land is purified by the cold...
Political Activist. Not quite. There is still a lot of Peterson to be heard when Craig's fingers embellish a tender ballad with filigree tinsel. But there is a lot of Mozart in early Beethoven too, and nobody complains much about that. As a pianist, Craig lacks only the maturity that age will bring. And nobody in the music world doubts his ability to get exactly what he wants...
...CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). Poor Charlie Brown searches earnestly for the real meaning of Christmas while his Peanuts playmates loudly enjoy the tinsel and presents in this Emmy Award-winning rebroadcast...
...soft sounds of summer were not disturbed by the tinsel thundering of the summit. By now, most have forgotten and few care to remember...
...never play a part in a conventional manner," says William Daniels, co-star of her new play, Daphne in Cottage D. "She drives the less imaginative directors up the walls." That she gets away with it doubtless reflects a growing U.S. hunger for actresses of talent rather than tinsel. But equally important is Sandy's own single-minded drive for theatrical achievement. Her background has a lot to do with it. She comes from Nebraska, and as a matter of odd fact, so do a remarkable number of other well-known names in show business-the Astaires, Marlon Brando...