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Vintage Sunday Times Culture Magazine December 19th 1993
It’s yesterday once more (once more). Gordon Burn on breathing life into the 1950s
Wizard widgetry: CD-ROM, the latest format for home entertainment, explained by Robert Sandall
Pester power: the perils of Christmas for young consumers -and their parents. By Jonathan Margolis
Iain Johnstone on a year of Hollywood humour
French and Saunders prove themselves in a biting American satire: John Peter
Unto us a card was born… 150 years ago, in fact, although it has rather altered since. Tim Willis traces the rise of the Christmas card
A A Gill on the horrors of Christmas
Records: Paul Driver discovers that compilation need not mean compromise
Season of goodwill and desperate marketing. Mark Edwards listens to novelty records
Christmas, by Norman Rockwell Coursery of Advertising Archive Cover Paula Pryke: photographed by Green Managuay
The inside story of how Irving Berlin wrote White Christmas, the world’s most popular song. By Michael Freedland
Channel 4’s peddling of gay stereotypes appals Cosmo Landesman
Before they became vehicles for soap stars, pantomimes were a community affair. Some still are, as Robert Hewison discovered
The ritual of wrapping presents is taken apart by Hugh Pearman
Griff Rhys Jones is a natural farceur, Kate Saunders finds
Short story: Father Brown solves a Christmas mystery. By Gilbert Adair
Can we cope with the merry-making and festive family get-togethers of this time of year? Less and less, it seems, says Prof Anthony Clare
Music: Hugh Canning reports on John Eliot
Gardiner’s interpretation of Monteverdi’s Coronation of Poppea
Contrary to myth, the Impressionists were not reviled in their own lifetime, says Frank Whitford
96 pages. All our magazines are first day issues. This issue is in good condition for age.
