THE ENDLESS HOLIDAY One of the problems with vacations is that they eventually end.
The reality is this: When you subtract time spent on domestic chores, take away days usurped by teacher's conferences or sick children, and factor in seasonal drains on your time, like the endless holiday errand list, there's precious little left.
A typical plot of one of these movies consisted of the following motivation: "Girl A likes me, and so does Girl B. Which one do I choose on this endless holiday in Hawaii?
IT'S that time of year: the endless holiday parade of cooking, shopping, wrapping and congregating that in my family commences the Friday after Thanksgiving, when we sit down for a traditional meal of turkey, stuffing and canned-fruit compote — and concludes, well, the following day when we celebrate all eight nights of Hanukkah in one madcap afternoon.
December, being the jammed-pack month that it always proves to be, has a habit of leading consumers to "Dry January" due to endless holiday parties, too much champagne, dinners with colleagues, and the stress of traveling over the break.
It's December in the City, and you know what that means: sky-high Christmas trees, blazing Menorah's, endless holiday parties and, good lord, I hope that Christmas bonus comes before the end of the holiday sales event.
Mr. Sarkozy was swept into office promising a "rupture" with all the entrenched habits of his land: stifling labor rules, endless holidays, soaring taxes, paternalistic and bloated bureaucracy.
My happiest memories as a child are of long, endless holidays to Mayo, in the west of Ireland, in the days when there were only B roads and it was an odyssey getting there.
Think of the Blairs, and their endless freebie holidays with everyone from Robin Gibb to Silvio Berlusconi.
When we were young, we played together in our bedrooms and on endless cottage holidays.
I had a huge interior world as a kid: I'd sit on endless wet holidays in Cornwall playing with paper dolls.
