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...songs Lennon wrote later on his own-Imagine and Whatever Gets You Thru the Night, Instant Karma and Give Peace a Chance and the gentle and unapologetic Watching the Wheels from the new album, or the gorgeous seasonal anthem, Happy Xmas (War Is Over), which he recorded with Ono in 1972-kept the standard high and his conscience fine-tuned. The political songs were all personal, the intimate songs all singular in their fierce insistence on making public all issues of the heart, on working some common moral out of private pain. Rock music is still benefitting from lessons that...
...rest of the Xmas crop of toys and gifts for the youngster, they all have a hook. Somewhere, deep in their past, there is a superhero. Or even better, a supervillain. Darth Vader Death Star space stations are hot this year, even at $40, a clerk explains. And why not--they've got an Alien Trash Monster, a Rope Swing to Safety, an exploding laser cannon and even a "working elevator...
...great number of our countrymen will not be cooking ye Xmas turkey or ye mince pie at all. They are instead preparing outlandish dishes that I can barely spelle or pronownce. These platters have such names as ortolans á la périgourdine, chausson de jambon au foie gras et truffes, polio in umido, media yemista, klephtiko charti, kalua pig, civet de lievre, poularde de Bresse a la demi-deuil, moussaka, agnello in vescica con ginepro, frit-tatas, beignets, gaufrettes, gazpacho, gefullte Schweinerippchen, pastello di pesce, dim sum, kaeng keao wan, shashlik, crudites, ratatouille, pho, ktapodi krassato, calfs head (aargh!) caillou...
Dried seaweed can often make an excellent substitute for tinsel on your "personalized Xmas" tree or you-know-what bush...
...XMAS SPIRIT, COUNSELING 5?, advertises a sign on a booth outside the Southern California Counseling Center in Los Angeles. Below it is a second inscription: "The psychiatrist is in." He really is: psychiatrist Benjamin Weininger is dispensing advice from the booth at a nickel per patient...