query: who wrote its beginning to look a lot like christmas

pos: It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" is a Christmas song written in 1951 by Meredith Willson. The song was originally titled "It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas". The song has been recorded by many artists, but was a hit for Perry Como and The Fontane Sisters with Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra on September 18, 1951, and released on RCA Victor as 47-4314 (45 rpm) and 20-4314 (78 rpm). Bing Crosby recorded a version on October 1, 1951, which was also widely played. A popular belief in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia,

pos: It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas of medley on the 1975 album "Merry Christmas from Sesame Street". Johnny Mathis recorded the song for his 1986 album "Christmas Eve with Johnny Mathis"; this version gained popularity after its inclusion in the 1992 film "". Gradually, Mathis's recording began to receive wide radio airplay, and for the past several years this version has been a Top 10 Christmas hit. It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" is a Christmas song written in 1951 by Meredith Willson. The song was originally titled "It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas". The song

pos: Iowa Fight Song Iowa Fight Song The "Iowa Fight Song" is one of three fight songs currently used by the University of Iowa Hawkeye Marching Band along with On Iowa and Roll Along Iowa. The music and lyrics were written by Iowa native Meredith Willson, author of The Music Man, in 1951. The song is mostly a contrafact to his hit, "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas," much in the same way that "76 Trombones" and "Goodnight, My Someone" from The Music Man are based on the same harmonic structure. As part of Willson's library, the song is copyrighted to Frank

neg: Meredith Willson by Willson include "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" (published as "It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas"), "May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You", and "I See the Moon". He wrote the University of Iowa's fight song "Iowa Fight Song", and Iowa State University's "For I for S Forever". He also wrote the fight song for his hometown high school "Mason City, Go!" He honored The Salvation Army with a musical tribute, "Banners and Bonnets". An oddity in Willson's body of work is "Chicken Fat", written in 1962. In school gymnasiums across the nation, this was the

neg: It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas Frank Lloyd Wright, and is situated in downtown Mason City overlooking central park. "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" was later incorporated into the pre-Broadway version of the score of Willson's 1963 musical "Here's Love" and can be heard on that show's original cast recording, where it is sung in counterpoint to a new melody and lyric, "Pine Cones and Holly Berries." Alvin and the Chipmunks covered the song for their 1961 album "Christmas with The Chipmunks" and 1981 album "A Chipmunk Christmas". The "Sesame Street" character Big Bird (performed by Caroll Spinney) sang the song as part

neg: WJBR-FM and 101.1 More FM (Philadelphia's WBEB) switch on the same day. WJBR-FM announced on November 21, 2013 that the all Christmas format would begin on November 22, 2013 at noon. The radio station started the 2013 Christmas season with "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" by Bing Crosby. WBEB started its Christmas music November 21, 2013 at 3pm and WJBR-FM made its announcement on Facebook a short time later. On November 20, 2014 at 9am, WJBR-FM switched to all Christmas. WJBR-FM switched back to its regular format at Midnight on December 29. On November 19, 2015 at 2pm,

neg: Christmas by medium popular suite drawn from it, and Johann Sebastian Bach's "Christmas Oratorio" (BWV 248). Some radio stations play Christmas music commercial-free the entire day on Christmas Day, with only interruptions for Christmas messages from station personnel and personnel from the station's parent company. Others, like 96.5 KOIT in San Francisco do on both part of or all of Christmas Eve and the entire day Christmas Day. Frequently, the first song played on an "all-Christmas" station is the popular tune "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas". The UK music industry features the battle of the bands and artists to make

neg: Christmas Eve with Johnny Mathis Horse Open Sleigh" in 1857. "Toyland" originated in the 1903 operetta "Babes in Toyland", and "Happy Holiday" was first performed in the 1942 film "Holiday Inn". Perry Como and the Fontane Sisters reached number 19 on "Billboard" magazine's Records Most Played by Disc Jockeys chart and number 23 on its list of the Best-Selling Pop Singles of the week in 1951 with the first recording of "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas". Peggy Lee's rendition of "It's Christmas Time Again" was released in 1953, and "Caroling, Caroling" first appeared on the 1954 LP "The Christmas Mood" by The

neg: Martina McBride and I Will Always Love You which celebrates 50 years of the CMA Awards. In July 2017, McBride revealed she is planning on releasing a Christmas album, of which she said " It won't have as many hymns on it. It will be more things like 'Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town' and 'It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas.'" She has now said it will be out in 2018, "One is a new Christmas album, which will come out in 2018." The Christmas album "It's the Holiday Season" was released on October 19, 2018. This will accompany a

neg: The Classic Christmas Album (Johnny Mathis album) and "My Kind of Christmas") can be counted among the rarities here. The collection also includes a selection or two from several of Mathis's Christmas studio albums—"Sleigh Ride" from "Merry Christmas", "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" from "Sounds of Christmas", "Calypso Noel" from "Give Me Your Love for Christmas", "The Christmas Waltz" and "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" from "Christmas Eve with Johnny Mathis", and "Home for the Holidays" from "Sending You a Little Christmas"—as well as his duet with Bette Midler from her 2006 holiday album "Cool Yule", which was a medley of "Winter Wonderland"

neg: It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas holds that Willson wrote the song while staying in Yarmouth's Grand Hotel. The song makes reference to a "tree in the Grand Hotel, one in the park as well..."; the park being Frost Park, directly across the road from the Grand Hotel, which still operates in a newer building on the same site as the old hotel. It is also possible that the "Grand Hotel" Wilson mentions in the song was inspired by the Historic Park Inn Hotel in his hometown of Mason City, Iowa. The Park Inn Hotel is the last remaining hotel in the world designed by architect

neg: Yarmouth, Nova Scotia wrote his well-known song "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" while staying in Yarmouth's Grand Hotel. In August 2004, a record mako shark was caught off the coast of Yarmouth during the Yarmouth Shark Scramble. It weighed and set a new Canadian record. It is considered one of the largest mako sharks ever caught. Yarmouth is known for some of the most exuberant examples of Victorian houses styles in the Maritimes, a legacy of the wealthy captains and shipowners of the town's seafaring Golden Age. A heritage district preserves several blocks of these residences, including the Lovitt House

neg: WLIF WWIN) also played jazz music during the weekends for many years. WLIF continued to play jazz until 2004, when WSMJ became Baltimore's full-time Smooth Jazz station (that station has since changed formats, first to Alternative in 2008, then to Top-40/CHR a year later). On December 29, 2013, at Midnight, after playing "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" by Johnny Mathis, WLIF rebranded as "Today's 101.9", with its first song being "Hey Soul Sister" by Train. Like its AC sister stations KEZK-FM in St. Louis, WDOK in Cleveland, and KVIL in Dallas, WLIF retooled its format to more hot

neg: Christmas Eve with Johnny Mathis covers of the album jacket. (The CD booklet does not include song titles on the cover.) The track opens with background vocalists singing, "Let's take a sleigh ride, a merry sleigh ride," and the subtitle is inserted into each refrain of the chorus. Although no credit for additional lyrics is cited, the credit for the arranger of this rendition, Ray Ellis, is listed with the songwriter's name on the LP label. The album's opener, "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas", was featured in the 1992 holiday release "" and included on its original soundtrack album. In the issue

neg: Merry Christmas (Bing Crosby album) a 12-inch LP version of "Merry Christmas", catalogue Decca DL-8128, with four additional songs and the now familiar cover with Crosby in his Santa Claus stocking cap as pictured above. The new songs were "Silver Bells" and "Mele Kalikimaka", both recorded in September 1950, and "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" and "Christmas in Killarney", both recorded on October 1, 1951. The album's track listing was also adjusted slightly, with "Faith of Our Fathers" now preceding "I'll Be Home for Christmas." This issue has remained unchanged to present; first pressings of the album were released on Decca's all-black

neg: Here's Love "Miracle on 34th Street: The Musical". The song "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" was written by Willson in 1951 and used in the musical where it is sung in counterpoint to the newly composed "Pinecones and Holly Berries". Susan Walker and her mother, Doris, live alone in New York City in the 1960s. Doris works in an executive position at Macy's and, at the start of the musical, is busy organizing the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Susan meets an ex-marine named Fred Gaily, who takes it upon himself to rid her of her "realistic" outlook on life

neg: Hopalong Cassidy with issue #86, publishing it until issue #135, in 1959. Mirror Enterprises Syndicate distributed a Hopalong Cassidy comic strip starting in 1949; it was bought out by King Features in 1951, running until 1955. The strip was drawn by Dan Spiegle. Beginning in 1950, Capitol Records released a series of Hopalong Cassidy "record readers" featuring William Boyd and music by Billy May, produced by Alan W. Livingston. The song "It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas" includes a reference to Hopalong boots as a holiday gift desired by children. There have been museum displays of Hopalong Cassidy. The major

neg: Pip (South Park) look like they are "right out of a Dickens novel". To achieve the style, a lot of assets had to be built from scratch, including many new characters with "new mouths with rotted out teeth" that were used for most of them. At the beginning of the episode, Pip is dressed in more ragged clothing than he usually wears in "South Park". Later, when he becomes a gentleman in London, he is wearing his usual "South Park" attire, including his bow tie. The character of Pocket is designed to look similar to the children in the 1974 Rankin/Bass animated Christmas

neg: Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy "Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy" is a Christmas song co-written and recorded by Buck Owens. After its recording in 1965, the song has been covered by several country music artists, including Garth Brooks, Travis Tritt, and Brad Paisley. The song was released on November 8, 1965, with "All I Want for Christmas, Dear, Is You" on the B-side. It placed at number 2 on the yearly Christmas singles chart issued by "Billboard" at the time. The song is about a child who has sneaked downstairs to catch a glimpse of Santa where the

neg: Christmas in the Sand Fittingly, Caillat recorded "Christmas in the Sand" "in my bathing suit in the sunshine in southern California in the summertime...between takes of going swimming with my mom and our dogs." The album, she says had been broached by her label in the past, but with six months off at the beginning of this year she felt like it was "a perfect time to put my focus and attention on it and decide how many songs I wanted, which songs and to write songs for it." A lot of the songs I wrote for it are about how not every (winter)

neg: Here's Love Shubert Theatre, and closed on July 25, 1964 after 334 performances and 2 previews. The cast included Laurence Naismith, Janis Paige, Craig Stevens, Lisa Kirk, Fred Gwynne, Kathy Cody, Michael Bennett, and Baayork Lee. The original director, Norman Jewison, was replaced by Ostrow, the producer, during rehearsals. The Toronto Civic Light Opera Company has produced "Here's Love" twice, with significant musical and book revisions by artistic director, Joe Cascone. Their first production ran in December 1994, and a more elaborate staging was presented in December 2007. This show also been titled "It's Beginning To Look a Lot Like Christmas" and

neg: Crazy in Love in Love", Beyoncé performed a short rendition of Gnarls Barkleys "Crazy" (2006), singing: "Who do you, who do you think you are? / Ha, ha, ha, bless your soul." Shaheem Reid of MTV News wrote: "There are few (very few) ladies out there who can really sing, a lot who can dance, a lot more who look good — but really no other who can combine all three and add iconic star power like Miss Beyoncé, arguably the best all-around stage performer in the game right now." Jon Pareles of "The New York Times" wrote: "Beyoncé needs no distractions from

neg: The Christmas Heart pitched it to a Hollywood executive, but a film deal was never confirmed. His sister Patricia Heaton remembered the script Heaton had written and sent a copy of his treatment to Hallmark, who purchased the treatment and the script. Filming for "The Christmas Heart" took place in Winnipeg, Manitoba during March 2012. Due to the unseasonably warm weather in Winnipeg, the film crew had to make snow to make it look "like winter", but was also able to find "a snow bank in the parking lot of a church". Critical reception was mixed to positive, and the "Christian Film Database"

neg: Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy Flippin’ Christmas Vol. 1”. In 2013, the cast of "Duck Dynasty" released "". "Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy" was included as a bonus track on the Walmart exclusive edition. Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy "Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy" is a Christmas song co-written and recorded by Buck Owens. After its recording in 1965, the song has been covered by several country music artists, including Garth Brooks, Travis Tritt, and Brad Paisley. The song was released on November 8, 1965, with "All I Want for Christmas, Dear, Is You" on the B-side. It placed at number 2

neg: Adam Larter on the UK circuit. As part of Weirdos, as well as curating its nights, he does a lot of writing and directing. He co-wrote and directed their 2013 alternative Christmas panto "The Colonel" with Matthew Highton which featured amongst the "Independent"'s 2013 must-sees for Christmas. In 2014 he wrote their next Christmas panto "A Christmas Tail." In 2014 Larter wrote and directed "Computer Boy", a comedy play about a boy who wished he was a computer. Adam Larter Adam Larter is a British alternative comedian and founder of Weirdos Comedy Club. Larter is most often associated with Weirdos but he

neg: Christmas in the Car lot an hour away. Bob asks Teddy to check on the ham he is cooking, but Teddy is inadvertently caught in a trap set by Louise to catch Santa. Teddy finds himself pinned under the refrigerator as the Belchers search for their tree. While pulling out of the tree lot, their car is almost hit by a large semi truck decorated to look like a candy cane. Linda tries to spread Christmas cheer to the irritated driver by honking the horn in time to "Jingle Bells", but, as Bob tells her, all the driver can hear is honking. The semi

neg: Merry Christmas II You South Korea International Download Singles chart. On October 20, 2010, Carey appeared on the Home Shopping Network (HSN) where she was interviewed about the album and previewed six tracks, including "The First Noel" / "Born Is the King", "O Little Town of Bethlehem" / "Little Drummer Boy" and "O Come All Ye Faithful" / "Hallelujah Chorus", the last featuring her mother Patricia Carey. Of recording a Christmas album, Carey said "A lot of people look at making a Christmas album like, 'Oh, it's just a throwaway thing and then I'll do my real album'. For me, these are timeless pieces

neg: Classy Christmas "Jim [and Dwight] are not friends." Kaling specifically wrote Jim to be "off-guard [and] surprised" in the episode, because she reasoned that "perfect isn't always nearly as fun to play or watch as flawed." The episode was filmed in early November and was shot out of order. This required the assistant directors of "The Office" to re-dress "the sets from white, spare 'classy Christmas' look to the elaborate, colorful 'regular Christmas look. According to Kaling, the group had to pretend like it was cold during the outdoor scenes when it was actually warm. The snow that was used for the

neg: Mr. Bug Goes to Town ones down there. They look just like a lot of little bugs!" Fleischer Studios' first feature, "Gulliver's Travels", did such impressive business in its first week that Paramount president Barney Balaban ordered another feature for a Christmas 1941 release. "Mr. Bug Goes to Town" is similar in concept to "Gulliver’s Travels" with its large cast of characters, complicated crowd scenes, and the contrasting scale of tiny characters against the gigantic human world. In "Mr. Bug", the environment is central to the picture. While the lead characters, Hoppity the grasshopper and Honey Bee, do not lead the story as clearly as

neg: Fly Like a Bird in the morning.' I felt like a lot of people may not hear that message and a lot of people need to. It wasn't to be preachy. A lot of times people will hear songs that I write that are not the typical songs people look at as 'Mariah Carey songs.' "Fly Like a Bird" received acclaim from music critics, many of whom praised Carey's gospel-flavored vocal performance, as well as the song's lyrical content. Critic Jim DeRogatis from the "Chicago Sun-Times" called Carey's voice as "one-in-a-million", and wrote "she's never been shy about showing off with frequently annoying octave-spanning

neg: 100 Rifles in Almeria, Spain, in order to save money. "It's a tough, physical picture," says Gries, who was hospitalised for three days during the shoot when he came down with typhus. "I play a half breed but... I send it up," said Reynolds. "I make it seem like the other 'half' of the guy is from Alabama. I play it nasty, dirty, funky. I look like a Christmas tree — wrist bands, arm bands. At the beginning I even wore these funky spurs. But every time I walked I couldn't hear dialog." There were a number of press reports that Brown

neg: Britney: For the Record humanized the pop star. "It's easier to understand how she feels," Medura said. "Her opinion matters most. I think she covered a lot [in the special]." Some said this look into Britney's life was inspiring. "I really have gained a lot of respect for her now," Derek wrote. "I felt like this was the first time since she burst onto the scene a decade ago that she has spoken from the heart. ... I think this is what fans and others have wanted from her for a long time, to be honest. Her honesty can be helpful for others who

neg: Sleeping Beauty (1959 film) "lacked the mood in a lot of things. All that beautiful detail in the trees, the bark, and all that, that's all well and good, but who the hell's going to look at that? The backgrounds became more important than the animation. He'd made them more like Christmas cards." Earle left the Disney studios in March 1958, before "Sleeping Beauty" was completed, to take a job at John Sutherland Productions. As a result, Geronimi had Earle's background paintings softened and diluted from their distinctive medieval texture. Before the animation process began, a live-action reference version was filmed with live actors

neg: A Prince for Christmas town diner." However, its review goes on to welcome embellishments to the storyline, with Emma looking after her sister and not celebrating Christmas, which was when their parents had both died. It also calls the film "visually beautiful", with snow covered streets and wood-panelled interiors, describes Barker and Bianca as having a lot of eye appeal, and applauds Barker's well-spoken but unpompous prince, so that the film "does deliver a picture perfect look of a small town at Christmas with plenty of snow and Christmas decorations." A line in the film spoken by Emma, "Snow melts, lights go down, it's

neg: Pilot (The Playboy Club) series for its stance on feminism. She wrote, "The show wants things both ways: to glamorize the Playboy 'lifestyle' from a male point of view and also to try to persuade us that, although Bunnydom had its hardships and rigors—no gum chewing, constant smiling—wearing an uncomfortable skimpy uniform and putting a poufy fake tail on your butt meant you held the keys to the universe." Television Blend's Kelly West was much more optimistic about the episode, and asserted that ""The Playboy Club" offers a lot of shiny things to look at, but beyond that, there is a story beginning to

neg: Christmas with Buck Owens and his Buckaroos Christmas with Buck Owens and his Buckaroos Christmas with Buck Owens and his Buckaroos is a Christmas album by Buck Owens and his Buckaroos, released in 1965. It was re-issued on CD by Sundazed Records in 1999, and again via digital download in 2011. In his Allmusic review, critic Cub Koda wrote of the CD reissue "this is prime Buck Owens and His Buckaroos in the holiday mode. Featured here are "Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy," "Santa's Gonna Come in a Stagecoach," and enough Yule-time weepers to make you realize that the holidays have a mighty dark side, too."

neg: Gilmore Girls the very beginning." The pilot episode was shot in the Toronto suburb of Unionville. The rest of the series was filmed at the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, California. Exterior scenes of Stars Hollow, along with those at Luke's Diner and Miss Patty's dance studio, were all filmed on the backlot – with dozens of background actors utilized to make it look like a functioning town. Production designers regularly had to decorate the town square with fake leaves or fake snow to make it look like a New England fall or winter. Interiors of Lorelai's house and inn, and all

neg: Leon Thomas III "Moving On", "Vibe", "Like Clay", and "Never Look Back". The mixtape also included a cover of "Take Care" by Drake. The cover is by Leon Thomas featuring Ariana Grande. Leon Thomas co-wrote the song "Ain't No Other Me" for the British group Stooshe, which features as a deluxe edition track on their debut album, "London with the Lights On". Thomas co-wrote four songs on Ariana Grande's 2013 album "Yours Truly". He also co-produced five songs on Yours Truly, in addition to the song "Last Christmas" from Grande's Christmas Kisses EP, as a member of production duo The Rascals. Additionally, his

neg: Holly & Ivy In an interview with Clarence Waldron from "Jet", Natalie Cole said the idea of recording a Christmas album started from a telephone call from producer and longtime friend Michael Masser. Cole had previously worked with Masser on the song "Someone That I Used to Love" from her 1980 album "Don't Look Back" and her 1989 single "Miss You Like Crazy". Cole described the telephone call as unexpected; during their conversation, Masser told her: "I've got this beautiful Christmas song I wrote just for you." When they met, Messer played "No More Blue Christmas"; after the session, they both agreed to

neg: Christmas Wrapping a Christmas song for a Christmas compilation album, "A Christmas Record". Songwriter Chris Butler wrote the song in August that year, assembling it from assorted unused riffs. He finished the lyrics in a taxi cab on the way to the recording studio. The lyrics came from Butler's hatred of Christmas: "Everybody I knew in New York was running around like a bunch of fiends. It wasn't about joy. It was something to cope with." Written while hip hop music was beginning to gain prominence, the song is "almost rapped" by Patty Donahue. The title is a pun on "rapping". The

neg: The Big Easy (film) of the year. It also happens to be a great thriller. I say 'happens,' because I believe the plot of this movie is only an excuse for its real strength: the creation of a group of characters so interesting, so complicated and so original they make a lot of other movie people look like paint-by-number characters." Sheila Benson, writing for the "Los Angeles Times," wrote, "Screenwriter Daniel Petrie Jr. sets up the conflict, and director Jim McBride fleshes it out with devastating, sexy assurance..." Film critic Vincent Canby was a bit tougher on the film, and wrote, "Remy and Anne

neg: Merry Christmas (Mariah Carey album) she "sounds like a bush-league Petula Clark". The newspaper later named it the seventh worst Christmas album ever. J. D. Considine was more enthusiastic in "The Baltimore Sun". In his opinion, "Merry Christmas" "may look like just another attempt to cash in on Christmas cheer, but is actually the work of someone who genuinely loves this music". Considine said while Carey's gospel and soul-inflected vocal exercises worked well with the traditional songs, "the album's real strength is the conviction she brings to otherwise corny fare like 'Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town', while the way she augments 'Joy to the

neg: The Puppy Sister fell). When Aleasha is allowed to go trick or treating on Halloween, disguised as a werewolf like Nick, she gives in to her canine side by howling in fear upon being spooked by a man pretending to be a scarecrow at one house. At the same time, Aleasha is beginning to look like less like a dog and more like a furry child, leaving her in a very awkward halfway point through her transformation. By Christmas, Aleasha begins to gain more human abilities such as color vision. However, she is also no longer able to communicate with the family cat,

neg: Jesse Leach when I was supposed to go up there and lay down my vocals. And Adam just said, 'Look, I'll ask Jesse to write some stuff.' So he wrote it, and I just said I don't want no pro-religious crap 'cause I ain't about all that. Anyway, so it's more just about like getting revenge against corrupt motherfuckers and shit like that. And so Jesse wrote a bunch of lyrics and Adam arranged a lot of it, and then when I went up there, we recorded it in his bedroom of his house. And, basically, I would be, like, 'No, wait.

neg: A Very Glee Christmas and wrote that its performance "almost felt like the beginning of a real holiday musical. It was a little cheesy but also kind of charming and sweet." The next song, "We Need a Little Christmas", Benigno declared "fun but too short". He added, "If there's one thing this number teaches us, it's that Mercedes is being woefully misused on this show and can carry a number as well, if not better than she can finish one." Stack said that the "little taste" included in the show "sounded promising", and Harper "totally loved this song". Kurt and Blaine's duet on "Baby,

neg: Everybody's Fool and she was like 8 years old. So I gave her the talk and I wrote a song." She later revealed that the song was written for American pop singers Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera adding, "At this point, everybody knows that Britney is fake. The song is not about Britney Spears; it's about a lot of people in this industry. It's so fake, the whole Hollywood thing. 'Look at how perfect I am!' Nobody looks like that. It's all fake and it's really hurting a lot of girls' and women's self images. Where are all the normal people?". According

neg: Anastasia Lin after her appearance at an Oxford University debate. "Throughout my journey I have encountered a lot of people who look at me like 'what can she possibly offer to this debate?'" Lin said in the Marie Claire interview. "But real power comes when you break through that stereotype and surprise people who have underestimated you. I do all my own research and meet with victims of whatever I am speaking about." Lin participated in the Oslo Freedom Forum in May 2016, giving a speech about Falun Gong, organ harvesting, and freedom of belief. Jay Nordlinger of National Review wrote that

neg: Don't Look Back (John Lee Hooker song) read: "John Lee Hooker hailed as one of the greatest R&B singers in the world wrote 'Don't Look Back'...Perhaps it isn't so extraordinary that this soulful ballad sounds uncannily like a Morrison original as the two men have a lot in common." Them's version was also included in songs hand-picked by Morrison on his second greatest hit album, "The Best of Van Morrison Volume Two". A live performance in 1979 was also one of the songs featured on Van Morrison's video "Van Morrison in Ireland" in 1981. Don't Look Back (John Lee Hooker song) "Don't Look Back " is a

neg: Winger (band) In reference to the dispute Winger wrote the song "Hell to Pay", in which Metallica song titles and lyrics are used in opposition to the band that wrote them. In 1994 or so, when the magazine "Metal Edge" asked Kip who he would like to look like, given the chance to look like some other rock star, Kip took his shot at slapping the drummer of Metallica: "I would not like to change my looks really, I think I look OK already, but someone I would NOT have liked to look like is Lars Ulrich." Winger (band) Winger is an

neg: Jeffrey Sanzel which to view the story. This year he has woven holiday carols throughout the show like multicolored ribbons tying the package together." And of Sanzel's own work acting within the play, they wrote he "does an excellent job as a Scrooge haunted by the shadows of his own life and its many lost opportunities and misdeeds". They offered of the overall production, "This is a forceful production that again brings home the necessity to look around and offer a helping hand to the less fortunate. It helps visualize the Christmas spirit of human kindness that can live throughout the year,

neg: Sutton Foster of San Jose, and "South Pacific" at the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera. "Thoroughly Modern Millie" finally opened on Broadway at the Marquis Theatre in 2002, to many positive reviews. "The New York Daily News" reviewer described her thus: "newcomer Sutton Foster, who has the pert look, the silver voice and the dazzling legwork to make an extraordinarily winning Millie." Clive Barnes, reviewing for the "New York Post" wrote "Newcomer Sutton Foster's own star turn as Millie is perfectly charming, but as a star she doesn't twinkle, glitter or light up Broadway like a Christmas tree defying a July noon. But

neg: Christmas (Clay Walker album) people’s place. The thing I like the most about it is that it has orchestra, strings, horns, real orchestra, its costs a lot of money to make." Editors at "The Cincinnati Post" wrote "You might not be able to pick Clay Walker out of a lineup of second-tier country singers, but don't overlook this CD. Producer Jim Ed Norman paid careful attention to instrumentation, expertly meshing oboe, harp and everything else at his disposal with Walker's toned-down twang. Highlights include a heartfelt "Mary Did You Know" and a spirited "Go Tell It on the Mountain" with hand- clapping gospel choir

neg: Poinsettia them to display on air from Thanksgiving to Christmas. He also appeared on television programs like "The Tonight Show" and Bob Hope's Christmas specials to promote the plants. Until the 1990s, the Ecke family, who had moved their operation to Encinitas, California, in 1923, had a virtual monopoly on poinsettias owing to a technique that made their plants much more attractive. They produced a fuller, more compact plant by grafting two varieties of poinsettia together. A poinsettia left to grow on its own will naturally take an open, somewhat weedy look. The Eckes' technique made it possible to get every

neg: Julita and Paula album went gold, and the single promoting it, "Ameryka", was for a long time one of the three songs most frequently played by Polish radio stations. A year after its premiere, the record was noticed in other countries. With a new look of the cover and with a wider repertoire it appeared in Europe and Asia where it received a lot of good notices.On their next album "Koledowanie Julity & Pauli" (Christmas Songs of Julita & Paula), beside well-known musicians, played also the rest of their siblings. The video clip of one of the Christmas songs form the record has

neg: Dustin Kahia tone that harken to masters like Hitchcock, Preminger, Litvak and Lang." Lynn's sentiments were echoed by Lisa Mejia of The Entertainment Source, "The shot composition is beautiful, and the use of black and white and its play with the shadows brings the audience into the genre with ease." Aaron Neuwirth wrote, ""Call of the Void" clearly pays homage to key players from the time of film noir. Hitchcock is a notable influence and I personally thought a lot of Fritz Lang in terms of the look and mood of the film. The nature of story also brought to mind Franz

neg: W. H. Auden ironic style was "self-defensive, self-indulgent or merely irresponsible", and Harold Bloom who wrote "Close thy Auden, open thy [Wallace] Stevens," to the obituarist in "The Times" (London), who wrote: "W. H. Auden, for long the "enfant terrible" of English poetry . . . emerges as its undisputed master." Critical estimates were divided from the start. Reviewing Auden's first book, "Poems" (1930), Naomi Mitchison wrote "If this is really only the beginning, we have perhaps a master to look forward to." But John Sparrow, recalling Mitchison's comment in 1934, dismissed Auden's early work as "a monument to the misguided aims that

neg: Hard to Swallow dark. I opened up to Ross and I told him a lot of things that happened to me in the past. It was like, really deep conversation, and he was like, you should write about that. And I was like, dude, I didn't want people to judge me for that. But he was right. It was like total therapy." The subjects focused on in the album's lyrics include Vanilla Ice's abusive childhood and drug addiction. He stated that "I wrote 'Fuck Me' 'cause I know how I've been perceived. "I can look back at the whole Vanilla Ice thing, and

neg: Variety show variety specials, which often showed the star in a set meant to look like their home, welcoming singers and other guests to perform duets of Christmas songs. The popularity of these Christmas shows outlasted that of weekly variety shows. In 1973, for example, even as variety shows were starting to fade in popularity, variety Christmas specials hosted by Williams and Como both attracted an enormous 40% of the American television audience. Christmas variety specials' popularity continued into the 1990s, before starting to wane in the 2000s. Nevertheless, the tradition has continued. Entertainers who have hosted Christmas variety specials in the

neg: Larry Carney ♦My Own Prayers: My Family (2010) ♦My Own Prayers: Growing and Learning (2010) ♦My Own Prayers: Being a Good Christian (2010) ♦In the Beginning (2010) ♦The Story of Adam and Eve (2010) ♦The Birth of Jesus (2010) ♦The Miracles of Jesus (2010) ♦The Silly Zoo (2008) ♦The Silly Farm (2008) ♦The Silly Sea (2008) ♦Silly Town (2008) ♦Look! I'm a Firefighter! (2008) ♦Look! I'm a Rock Star! (2008) ♦Look! I'm a Pirate! (2008) ♦The Night Before the Three Pigs' Christmas (2008) ♦The Night Before the Little Mermaid's Christmas (2008) ♦The Night Before the Three Bears' Christmas (2007) ♦The Night Before

neg: It's a SpongeBob Christmas! Robert Lloyd wrote, "I felt I'd been somewhere, watching this. When it ended, I was not ready to leave." David Hinckley of the "New York Daily News" wrote, "It's enough to make you want to dream of a yellow Christmas." Zack Handlen of "The A.V. Club" called the episode "cute, and goofy and doesn't have a mean bone in its body." Mark Frauenfelder of Boing Boing said that "...they [the animators] perfectly captured the look and feel of those delightful old stop motion specials." Judge Dawn Hunt of DVD Verdict called the episode "a sweet holiday treat, punctuated by musical

neg: Fanboy & Chum Chum of "It's A SpongeBob Christmas!" included the Christmas episodes of those shows on a bonus disc. Aaron H. Bynum of "Animation Insider" called "Fanboy & Chum Chum" "a fun show that deserves a good look. The quality animation helps counterbalance the immense amount of dialogue from the series' chatty characters, and the sheer comedy of marginally competent comic-loving kids helps outweigh what might otherwise be a binge of geeky annoyance. But overall, "Fanboy & Chum Chum" is a lot of fun." "Variety" praised the series' "bright, energetic look and even an appealing premise in theory". David Hinckley of "NY Daily

neg: Paul Hackett (politician) in Loveland on July 19,; Mariemont on July 20,; and Lebanon, the northernmost part of the district, on July 21. Hackett arrived at many events on his Harley-Davidson motorcycle. Hackett attracted national attention to what had always been considered a safe Republican district. "The New York Times" ran a front-page story on him and articles appeared in "USA Today" and "The Washington Post". "USA Today" wrote "if Democrats could design a dream candidate to capitalize on national distress about the war in Iraq, he would look a lot like the tall, telegenic Marine Reserve major who finished a seven-month tour

neg: Nothing like the Holidays air. After everyone has arrived, they all sit down for Christmas dinner. Everyone is digging into an abundant pile of food, chatting away, while Sarah sits there with a look of awe on her face as she has never experienced the holidays with Mauricio's family. Edy is about to give a toast to everyone but gets a call, it seems that Edy has been getting a lot of calls, and often runs out when he does which gets Anna suspicious that he is having an affair, and cheating on her again (there was one previous incident in the past). Well,

neg: Friday the 13th: A New Beginning A review in the British film journal "Films and Filming" was critical of its redundancy in comparison to the previous sequels, with the review noting: "The woods are really spooky...especially when there's one of those giant thunderstorms (and boy! Does that Pam look great in a wet blouse!). And wait till you see what happens when Jason traps this one poor guy in a porta-loo!" Henry Edgar of the "Daily Press" wrote: "If you like the others in this series, you'll like this one. If you didn't, stay away. Jason has his own followers, and he seems willing to continue

neg: Christmas in Finland Church spends Christmas at the same time as the Western Christianity. The Finnish Christmas has acquired some characteristics from the harvest festival kekri, that used to take place around the old All Saints' Day. In Sweden and Finland, joulupukki (Christmas goat) was a man who dressed as a fertility rite character, a goat. He put goat horns on his head as in shamanistic tradition to look like a goat. The outfit also included a mask made of birch bark and a sheepskin coat worn inside-out. Feeding small birds at Christmas is an old tradition and the peasant culture’s ritual that

neg: Split Second (1992 film) it, titled "Black Tide", was very close to the final film. It was set in a futuristic London which has been flooded due to the effects of global warming. This new version of the script was send to Rutger Hauer who loved it and agreed to star in the film. Though Thompson originally wrote the script with Harrison Ford in mind for the main role, he was happy that Hauer was cast as the lead. During production, the script kept getting changed. There were lot of discussions about what the main villain/creature should look like and what exactly it would

neg: Santamental Santamental Santamental is the fourth solo album from Steve Lukather. When Lukather's record company, Bop City Records, approached him about recording a Christmas album, he quipped, "Why me? Do I look like Father Christmas to you mofos?" The company wanted him to do the record knowing he would approach the project with a unique angle and produce something different from the typical Christmas album. Lukather recruited keyboardist Jeff Babko and guitarist Larry Carlton, who Lukather had worked with previously, to help arrange the songs. The result was a challenge to Lukather, who had to be creative to turn the traditionally

neg: Look Japan Look Japan "Look Japan" was established in 1953 by Takenori Kimura. It was published in English, Chinese, and Spanish editions. The offices of the publisher, Look Japan Ltd, were in the Asahi Seimei Hibiya Building in Yurakucho, Chiyoda, Tokyo. Jay Brushart of the "Portsmouth Daily Times" said that the format of "Look Japan" was similar to that of "TIME". Ed Gibson of the "Harlan Daily Enterprise" said that "Look Japan" was "a slick publication, a lot like "People" that offers the non-Japanese a most interesting look at the country and its people." As of 1991, it was published in Singapore.

neg: Christmas traditions beginning of Christmas in Austria. On Christmas Eve (December 24) the tree is lit for the first time and the whole family gathers to sing Christmas carols like "Silent Night, Holy Night". Gifts that are placed under the tree are opened after dinner on Christmas Eve. Austrian Christmas tradition has it that it is the Christ Child himself who decorates the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve and brings the children their Christmas presents, and it is to him that their letters and wish lists are addressed in the weeks before Christmas. The Christmas Eve dinner is the main event of

neg: Christmas Attack Zone This was a decrease from the previous episode, "Chain Reaction of Mental Anguish", which was watched by 5.034 million American viewers. Zack Handlen of "The A.V. Club" wrote that "Christmas Attack Zone" was a "nice holiday outing with a lot of great gag-writing", however "...I wouldn't put this up there with the show's best Christmas episodes. But I'd say it fits in nicely with the general run of competency to excellence we've been seeing so far this season. It was modestly funny, a little sweet, and not at all horrible." Alan Sepinwall from HitFix who is not a fan of

neg: National Basketball Association Christmas games game between the Boston Celtics and Orlando Magic at Amway Arena in 2009, personnel on both sides referred to playing on Christmas as a reward. Celtics Coach Doc Rivers said that like most of the players, he always watched Christmas Day games growing up. He said, "As a kid, you wanted to be on Christmas...I tend to look at it as a reward." In 2010, added that it was an "honor" to be part of the marquee games, saying, "I look at it as a privilege. The fact that they asked us to play on Christmas means we're one of

neg: Christmas Lullaby a boy. The work was published by Oxford University Press in 1990. It was published in a German edition, "Weihnachts-Wiegenlied", with a text translated by Alex Brendelmeier, by Bärenreiter in 1998. It became part of the "John Rutter Anniversary Edition". "Christmas Lullaby" was recorded several times, notably with the composer conducting the Cambridge Singers on an album "The John Rutter Christmas Album". It was also sung by the chamber choir Polyphony with the City of London Sinfonia, conducted by Stephen Layton. Rutter, who composed many works to celebrate Christmas, wrote his own text for "Christmas Lullaby", beginning "Clear in the

neg: Christmas in Compton ownership of Sweet Stuff. Big Earl negotiates with Maxell, who agrees to build a community center on the lot and employ Derrick as a producer for the artists on the label in return for ownership of the lot and the ability to sign Sweet Stuff to his label. Big Earl says that he will simply take the money that was made that day and buy another lot with it. The film was released in the United States with a PG-13 rating on November 9, 2012. The film received mixed reviews. In a positive review, John Anderson of "Variety.com" wrote, "With

neg: Smash Your Head Against the Wall with the rest of the album, he said: I've been saying a lot of stuff that I didn't really believe in. I sort of wrote it for the heads, really, the people thinking, "ah, so that's where Entwistle's brain's at, he really sort of believes in the devil and hell and all that sort of business." So I wrote a number that touches on reincarnation, then goes into the absurd, with Father Christmas and the whole bit and right at the end just to prevent the heads from thinking that I did believe in everything like I was saying, 'cause

neg: Casper's First Christmas to be hibernating in the winter) can be seen celebrating Christmas with the other cast members. This also marked the first and only time that this special pairs together the characters from its owners, Hanna-Barbera and Harvey Entertainment. Like many animated series created by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, the show contained a laugh track created by the studio. Casper and his friend Hairy Scarey are in a house about to be demolished on Christmas Eve and go out to look for a new place to move to after Christmas in California. Then Yogi and his friends get lost and arrive

neg: It's a Wonderful Life the damnedest thing I've ever seen", Capra told "The Wall Street Journal" in 1984. "The film has a life of its own now, and I can look at it like I had nothing to do with it. I'm like a parent whose kid grows up to be president. I'm proud ... but it's the kid who did the work. I didn't even think of it as a Christmas story when I first ran across it. I just liked the idea." In a 1946 interview, Capra described the film's theme as "the individual's belief in himself" and that he made it

neg: Extreme Prejudice (film) who carried a lot of pain with him. I told Nick, 'The kind of thing I'm talking about is Cooperesque.' I had him look at a lot of Gary Cooper films. Nick Nolte said the role made a change of pace for him: It was a chance to play a morally perfect character. Like Walter said, we spent a lot of time looking at old films to get this Old West flavor. We looked at Wayne films, at Cooper films, at Randolph Scott films. Yeah, there's a lot of "High Noon" in this movie. There's a lot of Howard Hawks

neg: Chanel ready-to-wear collection we wanted to avoid security alerts, missed luggage, all that kind of stuff. So, it was more like a happy airport," observed Michel Gaubert. "We're flying high class and it was beautiful," said Audrey Marnay. "All the prints at the beginning and the look with the long skirts, it's always a new thing." "I thought the collection was very fresh and colorful. There were a lot of twists at first. And I love the way the fabrics, they were like graphism on the tweed of red and blue and white. It's always a surprise with Karl, I never know where

neg: All I Want for Christmas Is You locked in a Brill Building safe." In a piece on the song in "Vogue", a writer felt the song's lyrics helped solidify its status over two decades later: "those lyrics could have been sung by Frank Sinatra—well, maybe not Frank, but another singer back then. I think that's what gives it that timeless, classic quality." "All I Want for Christmas Is You" received critical acclaim from music critics. Parisien called the song "a year-long banger", complimenting its instrumentation and melody. Steve Morse, editor of "The Boston Globe", wrote that Carey sang with a lot of soul. According to Barry Schwartz

neg: Like Father, Like Santa business. He travels to the North Pole to take over Santa’s toy workshop. However, he realizes that he has a lot in common with his father. He faces a crisis of conscience when the Christmas elves at his father’s mailroom go on a labor strike. Like Father, Like Santa Like Father, Like Santa (also known as The Christmas Takeover) is a TV movie starring Harry Hamlin and William Hootkins. It premiered on Fox Family in 1998 on their 25 Days of Christmas programming block. The script was written by Mark Valenti. The story revolves around a toy tycoon named Tyler

neg: Connie Talbot's Christmas Album are a bonus". The "Leicester Mercury" published a review from a nine-year-old critic, Natasha Dattani, who said that Talbot "has a nice voice, it's very cute", and added that "older people, like grandparents, will really like" the album. James Whittle, writing for the "South China Morning Post", described the album as "chock-a-block with old-time favourites", calling Talbot "sweet-voiced". Despite the problems in the United Kingdom, which left hundreds of copies of the album in warehouses, Amy Bowen of the "Walsall Advertiser" wrote that the album was proving successful in Asia. In its first week of release, "Connie Talbot's Christmas Album"

neg: Joseph Carens are often people who feel like they are not treated equally. For example people could feel they are treated as less because of their race, or their religion. In The Netherlands there are a lot of Christian holidays such as Easter and Christmas, yet not a single Islamic celebration day is recognised as national holidays. Policies like this can be experienced as forms of inequity and exclusion. Generally speaking the nation state and its sovereignty is seen as the most important political community for a citizenship. Other forms of political community: internal (i.e., provinces) and external (i.e., EU) are seen

neg: Star Wars (film) to have an "extremely bizarre, Gregg Toland-like surreal look with strange over-exposed colors, a lot of shadows, a lot of hot areas." Lucas wanted "Star Wars" to embrace the combination of "strange graphics of fantasy" and "the feel of a documentary" to impress a distinct look. To achieve this, he hired the British cinematographer Gilbert Taylor. Originally, Lucas's first choice for the position was Geoffrey Unsworth, who also provided the cinematography for Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey". Unsworth was interested in working with the director, and initially accepted the job when it was offered to him by Lucas and

neg: They Look Like People wrote that it was "a deliberately paced and subdued stunner of a film that succeeds above all in its genuine approach of concern and respect for its realistically horrifying subject matter." Film School Rejects praised the film for its treatment of mental illness, commenting, "It's rare to find a genre film that takes the time to explore the human behind the madness while still providing thrills". Screen Anarchy and SciFiNow also gave the film positive reviews, and both felt the actors and the director were highlights. They Look Like People They Look Like People is a 2015 independent psychological horror

neg: Christmas traditions popular and are seen in most homes. Another Christmas tradition is the planting of common vetch seeds in flat-bottomed pots. They are planted around the beginning of December, normally placed on white cotton and watered every day whilst being kept in the dark all the time. They are usually taken out just before Christmas, and resemble long white spaghetti-like strands of leaves (since they would have grown in the dark). Christmas, an official holiday in Portugal, is widely celebrated and is associated with family gatherings. People who have moved to the main cities, like Lisbon or Porto, or even those

neg: Shazam! (film) the DC Extended Universe. In April 2018, a first look at "Shazam!" made its debut at CinemaCon convention in Las Vegas, Nevada with director David F. Sandberg introducing the behind-the-scene footage. During an interview with Film Riot Podcast in June 2018, Sandberg stated that "On this one, it was just like 'Yeah, I want this to be a classic superhero movie.' It takes place in the winter, so it's a lot of dark exteriors, but with a lot of colorful lights and stuff around them." An official first look at Shazam in costume, along with Freddy Freeman, was revealed by

neg: Pow 2011 music to a part of the show called 'Frimponged'. The song was premiered by Tim Westwood on 18 November 2010. Each artist who is on the song wrote their own verse. The re-make is produced by Teddy, also known as Silencer - whose trademark is heard at the beginning of the song. He stated that he decided to re-make the original Pow beat, and make it "Teddy-style". It was announced by Lethal Bizzle on Twitter that he would be re-releasing "Pow!" on 13 December 2010, to try to get the Christmas number 1 in the UK Singles Chart, like many

neg: Awkward Black Girl refreshing.” On her site beyondblackwhite.com, Christelyn Karazin blogs, “Aren't you tired of seeing black women look like idiots on television? Here's a girl—whom I suspect is a lot like the women who read this blog—quirky, funny, a little unsure of herself, rocks her hair natural and is beautifully brown skinned.” Erin Stegeman of "The Tangled Web" praises "Awkward Black Girl" for defying stereotypes of African American women and being “an uber-relatable slice of life, narrated by J’s inner-ramblings that run through any awkward person’s mind.” In its honest portrayal of the African-American experience and its depiction of the main character,

neg: Machine Gun Kelly (rapper) single featuring vocals from Victoria Monet. MGK soon had an interview with MTV, describing the reason as to why he wrote "A Little More". Stating in the interview: "People always came up to me after the first album and a lot of my friends back home said 'we need something for the streets' and then I did "Till I Die". Months later, when I look back at the video [for Till I Die] I [was] like 'Okay, he's in jail, he's shot, he's dead, he snitched' and just to the point where it's sad and I wrote the song to

neg: History of Freeform (TV channel) aired during Fox's inauguration of the channel under the initial format as Fox Family, and "", which was compiled from several Japanese "Digimon" short films. Aimed a more teenage audience, Fox Family Films created "Ice Angel", a made-for-cable movie about a hockey player who is reborn as a female synchronized skater, as well as the thriller "Don't Look Behind You". Fox Family also aired a wide array of Saban Entertainment-produced movies as well as many direct-to-video films from 20th Century Fox (including "Richie Rich's Christmas Wish", "" and "Like Father, Like Santa"). In August 1999, the channel experienced its highest

neg: November Christmas her illness. In the final scenes, a young woman (reading Tammy's book to children at the local library) explains that she is Vanessa; she survived her illness after that early Christmas. Afterwards, she goes to the farmer's Christmas tree lot where she reunites with her family and the farmer; to select the town's annual tree. Greg Coppa wrote a short story sequel to "November Christmas" titled "A Partridge in a Persimmon Tree". November Christmas November Christmas is a 2010 American made-for-television Christmas drama film based on a short story written by Greg Coppa. The movie premiered on CBS on November

neg: Discipline (Janet Jackson album) saying "If anything, "Discipline" may be too subtle: a pretty, smartly produced collection that sometimes sounds like background music." Michael Arceneaux of PopMatters called the album the "same old from her", adding "These days her look and sound seem nothing more than a continuation of 2001's "All for You"." "Entertainment Weekly"'s Margeaux Watson wrote that Jackson's lyrics "sound like the cheesy text messages of a lovesick adolescent" and gave a C- rating. Nick Levine of Digital Spy wrote that "Jackson's attempts to play the uber-nympho are beginning to sound very, very desperate" with "embarrassingly lewd lyrics" and gave the record

neg: AJ Ahmed the show so he quickly decided to write them out. He has only been in a month but he is already making big changes. He knows what he wants for "EastEnders" and is putting plans in place quickly." Sharma filmed his final scenes before Christmas 2013 and the character's final appearance was on 10 January 2014. Upon AJ's arrival, Ally Ross of "The Sun" said: "New arrivals have included [...] Masood's supposedly funny and long-lost brother AJ, who made the fatal mistake of arriving with the line: 'Do I look like a comedian?' No. You look like David Baddiel. Now

neg: Mannheim Steamroller "Classical Gas", which used the original arrangement. Steamroller found its greatest fame beginning in 1984 when Davis released his first holiday album, "Mannheim Steamroller Christmas", featuring modern contemporary interpretations of Yuletide favorites. This was followed by "A Fresh Aire Christmas" (1988) and "Christmas in the Aire" (1995), which showcased creative approaches to old carols, as well as some new carol-like compositions. Steamroller had now become one of the most requested Christmas music artists of all time, in part by adopting a very radio-friendly approach. At the end of 1997 they released a live album of Christmas music, "Mannheim Steamroller Christmas

neg: Patrick Hamilton (poet) Nobles" beginning "You worthie English nobles of renown", thanking them for defeating the Covenanters. He did not like the news of the Covenanter success in the North. He wrote a one verse poem called "Upon the deceitful Covenanted in and about Aberdeen", declaring "Boyne, Banf and Breichen, Satan’s viperous brood" and lambasting But he still seems to think 1639 was a turning point for peace and wrote in "Upon the blessed lot of '39 Year" that "our fiercest foes, Our Lord made faithful friends" and looked forward to a time when all would be In 1641 he wrote "Scotland’s Thanksgiving

neg: Black Christmas (2006 film) dinner cuts seamlessly to a couple snogging in a car — the movie is a dismal Christmas card to its predecessor." Sam Adams of the "Los Angeles Times" wrote, "Like an ugly tie or a pair of slipper socks, "Black Christmas" is destined to be forgotten the instant it's unwrapped, gathering dust until the season rolls around again." Jim Ridley of "The Village Voice" wrote: "The product itself isn't so much afterthought as afterbirth – a bloody mess to be dumped discreetly." When compared to the original, Desson Thomson of "The Washington Post" calls it "a drab, unimaginative remake. [...]

neg: Phyllis Ryan as cover for the men meeting up. They would accompany them to make it look like men out with their girlfriends. Later between 1919 and 1921, during the war of independence she divided her time between her work and both political and military activities. Ryan was a member of, and at one point a captain in Cumman na mBan, though she did not join in the very beginning. She escaped arrest. She also worked with the organisations supporting those who did get arrested. When the Irish Civil War began Ryan agreed with the anti-treaty side and wrote to her sister

neg: Louisiana State University traditions beginning of the fourth quarter of each football game. "Hey, Fightin’ Tigers" was adopted as a school song in the 1960s by then director of bands Thomas Tyra. Originally titled "Hey, Look Me Over" and written by Cy Coleman for the musical "Wildcat", starring Lucille Ball, a version of the song with its new lyrics by Carolyn Leigh, who wrote the original lyrics of "Hey Look Me Over", after the athletic department purchased the rights to use the song. The band plays this song often in the stands and on occasion will play it to conclude a halftime performance while