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NEW YORK, UNBOWED, UNBEATEN, CELEBRATES CHRISTMAS An example is Lord and Taylor's historical re-creations
of New York scenes, "The Romance Of Christmastime Long Ago,"
depicting in miniature the original openings of New York's great
museums. Here's "The Spirits Of Christmas" -- a collection
of mechanical elves, fairies and stuffed animals -- in the display
window at B. Altman and Co. Inside the store are trees, wreaths
and sparkling chandeliers, a Children's Theatre, strolling minstrels
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Here's Tiffany's, with its windows, each an antique jewel of scenes crafted generations ago; one, for example, a setting in Venice dating from AD 1600. Here's Cartier's, the entire building gift-wrapped in red ribbons with toy soldiers standing guard on its balcony. And here's Trump Tower, with its glittering 12-foot pear trees, gleaming bronze atrium and sparkling 80-foot waterfall with green vines dangling down the mottled marble. |
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Here's the giant snowflake at Central Park and
Fifth Avenue. It costs more than $60,000 to insure and light each
year, but it's one of Fifth Avenue's Christmas gifts to the city.
And here's the ultimate yuletide spectacle in the Big Apple -- the
Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center. The ceremonial lighting of
the 68 foot-tall Norway spruce early each December brings a roar
of approval from thousands of onlookers and signifies the start
of the Christmas season.
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