No need to pay to see the holiday lights; just drive or stroll around with friends and family to revel at all of the creativity and hard work.
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Laura Daily,
Denver Post,
2 Dec. 2025
While hundreds reveled at Thursday night’s all-out bash for The Pierre hotel’s 95th anniversary, some of the building’s tenants in the floors above haven’t been feeling quite as celebratory.
Many foreign attendees at San Fermín have no stomach for the spectacle and spend their early evenings carousing in local bars instead.
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Tony Perrottet,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 June 2025
These increasingly crazed visitors spend their days lazing on the shore, drinking and eating, carousing with prostitutes, and abusing Rosa (played by B-movie actress Leonora Fani, who would also star in the equally notorious vacation film Giallo in Venice) for their own entertainment.
While capering around with her boss, Matty keeps looking for a private moment alone with Olympia’s luggage.
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Noel Murray,
Vulture,
12 Dec. 2024
Chapman persuaded Ford Motor Co. to fulfill his V-8 engine requirements and built the first of what were to become revolutionary Lotus-Fords, pencil-thin cars that looked like spiders capering through the turns.
Know Them By Their Fruits, for example, shows people and animals gamboling among fruit trees, and The Bermuda Triangle of Nacogdoches shows planes crashing into the ocean, in front of a plat of the landlocked town.
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Benjamin Lima
Special Contributor,
Dallas Morning News,
7 Feb. 2026
His nephew said that, for decades, his grandparents had kept alive a faint hope that maybe their hero son had just been captured and would one day come gamboling through the front door to the family’s Brookside home.
When the 12-year-old girl gets out of the car still holding her phone, the officer immediately starts frisking her.
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Carol Thompson,
CBS News,
22 Jan. 2026
On the airport tarmac, Feliciano watched as members of his team frisked and chained detainees before they were loaded onto a charter flight headed to a centralized deportation facility in Texas.
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