Michelle
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posted 25 December 2005 09:17 AM
quote: It's been a good year for obnoxious on TV, a quality whose value rises as Christmas approaches with its sentimentality, or schmaltz, to slightly multiculturalize the reference. Sentimentality often contains its own inoculations, like Scrooge, or the Grinch. Herod tried to strangle the first Christmas in its cradle; Antiochus was the Grinch of Hanukkah etc. This year, we are blessed, i.e. cursed, with an election, seeding the season with meanness.
Rick Salutin
From: I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell. | Registered: May 2001
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