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Truth be told, I’ve never been one for the so-called “Holiday Season,” my views being pretty much in line with those of Sergeant Raymond Shaw, the brainwashed assassin played by Laurence Harvey in the original Manchurian Candidate. “Twelve days of Christmas,” Shaw/Harvey says with weary patrician disdain. “Isn’t one loathsome enough?” Be it the totemization of a fat Aryan paladin of capital who keeps tabs on who’s been naughty and who’s been nice and the NSA-like lists he checks twice, the annual exhumation of Andy Williams’s “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of Year” to accompany the
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