So this, in the end, on the twelfth day, is what I gave my true love for Christmas: several logs of wood and a small wrapped box, smaller than the palm of a hand.
It was also probably why he said, "Can't you do something to shut them up?," and why I took a bag of small wrapped soft candies out of the glove compartment and tossed them over the back of the seat to shouts of joyful disbelief.
"Maria Full of Grace," a melodrama produced by HBO and written and directed by Joshua Marston, is the tale of Maria (Catalina Sandino Moreno), a young Colombian who becomes a drug "mule" -- she swallows small wrapped bundles of drugs and smuggles them into the United States -- to escape from her circumscribed life.
There is always a wayward Lego, a small slice of wrapping paper or a large chunk of plastic wrapper lurking about.
Cut a small square of wrapping paper, flip it over, tape it on the locker.
As a kindness, take small wrapped candies or sticks of gum, for example, to offer the people who help you and who may give you gifts.
If you're having trouble shaping it, place the mixture in a small amount of plastic wrap, and twist the plastic wrap to shape the pill.
Trying to grasp this is like wandering outside the limits of a small town wrapped up in its own affairs and discovering the brink of an abyss: frightful but fascinating.
Wrap an anti-histamine pill, a Prednisone pill and a dose of any other necessary medication inside a small square of plastic wrap.
The most revealing video shows Bin Laden sitting on the floor of a small room, wrapped in a blanket as he watched news clips about himself on television.
Correction: August 12 , 2003 Tuesday An art review in Weekend on Friday about outdoor sculptures in New York City misidentified the creator of a small house wrapped in plastic and duct tape at Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park in Brooklyn.
