Articles tagged "christmas"

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Merry Sitcom: Christmas Classics From TV’s Golden Age

by Terrence Butcher

[9.Nov.09] :. The overarching theme among these stories is an often unacknowledged tension between affluent postwar consumer culture and a more austere mode of living.

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Season for TV Christmas specials

by Hal Boedeker [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[30.Nov.08] :. Christmastime and the new year send television into overdrive with specials and holiday-themed episodes. What stands out? Here’s a look at noteworthy programs and a countdown to the most...

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Loreena McKennitt: A Midwinter Night’s Dream

by Deanne Sole

[25.Nov.08] :. On this Christmas album, the courtliness seems unnecessarily flowery.

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Column: The Screener

The Cold Season

by Chris Barsanti

[19.Sep.08] :. Just when you start worrying about the state of American movies, and wondering whether the business is going to swandive into irrelevance, along comes something as vital and jolting as Frozen River.

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Various: Think Global: World Christmas

by Deanne Sole

[5.Dec.07] :. More like an adventurous sampler of interesting, sometimes surprising, songs rather than just a Christmas album.

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Jars of Clay: Christmas Songs

by Mike Schiller

[5.Dec.07] :. Christmas Songs is refuge from the bombast of the season, a perfectly subtle slice of Heaven.

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Various Artists: Slow Jams for Christmas

by Quentin B. Huff

[27.Nov.07] :. Recipe for a romantic Christmas -- light the candles, pop the bubbly, hang the mistletoe, and play this CD.

 

Low: Christmas

by Sarah Sharpe

I admit it. I am a holiday music fanatic. Each year, I roam the stores in search of the perfect Christmas record. But this year I was beginning to despair. Because, although I am obsessive about the...