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The tableaux have much in common with traditional Christmas-card portraits: They are a self-consciously staged expression of togetherness and joy in the face of chaos and, quite often, overwhelming disappointment.

Fashion: Robin Givhan on candidates' and their families' election-night apparel Robin Givhan 2010

What's ahead for the share price of Christmas-card maker American Greetings?

Crystal Ball 2010

The town is all small Christmas-card charm and lies along a winding river that runs with salmon in October.

The Fortunes of Indigo Skye Deb Caletti 2009

The town is all small Christmas-card charm and lies along a winding river that runs with salmon in October.

The Fortunes of Indigo Skye Deb Caletti 2009

The town is all small Christmas-card charm and lies along a winding river that runs with salmon in October.

The Fortunes of Indigo Skye Deb Caletti 2009

No one pats you on the back if nothing goes wrong, but if something does — if a virus or worm sweeps through the campus's network infrastructure, or someone hijacks some computers to churn out spam — you are off everyone's Christmas-card list.

Boing Boing 2007

The town is all small Christmas-card charm and lies along a winding river that runs with salmon in October.

The Fortunes of Indigo Skye Deb Caletti 2009

Besides Atwater's minions, they have a fund-raising base that begins with Mom's Christmas-card list.

The Bush Family Franchise 2008

While his wife, wearing her pajamas, watched in horror, the agents marched into the house, seized Tamm's desktop computer, his children's laptops, his private papers, some of his books (including one about Deep Throat) and his family Christmas-card list.

The Fed Who Blew the Whistle 2008

Bush's fund-raising operation had come a long way from his mother's famous Christmas-card list, with its 10,000 closest family friends.

Pumping Iron, Digging Gold, Pressing Flesh 2008