Hints and tips:
...We wish all of our readers a merry Christmas and happy new year....
...Therefore, on a merry occasion like a wedding, it should be avoided, especially as a solo instrument....
...– makes merry with former lovers on her island of delights. You will not, of course, be expecting a penetrating analysis of the Greek financial crisis in this space....
...Jimmy welcomes the camera, his arms outstretched, as behind him people talk, dance and embrace in a bar decorated gaudily with tinsel and “Merry Christmas!” decorations....
...Fletcher lived through the boom as a successful ad man and became chairman and chief executive of Ted Bates, a leading British agency — gobbled soon after he left in 1985 by the voracious Saatchi brothers...
...Nothing about her performance is tentative: though Beatrice is surely more merry than she makes her, she makes the most of the character’s tough, independent, mature defensiveness....
...Take Midnight at the Dragon Cafe by Judy Fong Bates, about a Chinese family that emigrates to Canada. It’s a harmless, agreeable book, and the young girl protagonist is sweet....
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