From there, little dollar signs dance like sugarplums in our heads.
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Still, I want to make something resembling my vision of sugarplums.
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Sugarplums, gingerbread men, and marzipan figures troop in and perform military exercises.
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Still, I want to make something resembling my own vision of sugarplums.
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Several of the company's foremost Sugarplums still dance Dewdrop; it suits some of them better.
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If visions of sugarplums are already dancing in your head, Disneyland is on the same page.
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But there's lots of that going around: the lottery fills you with visions of sugarplums, while offering a .
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" We next attempt the mysterious "sugarplums" from "A Visit From St. Nicholas," better known as "The Night Before Christmas.
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If "seeing visions of sugarplums" is code for "getting restful sleep," you'd hope it's happening more than just on Christmas Eve.
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On a key stretch of New York's Fifth Avenue, visions of sugarplums are being crowded out by police barricades and angry protesters.
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Far from sugarplums and vertical stripes, you should also read this excerpt from Yoko Tawada's "Memoirs of a Polar Bear," in Granta.
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Whereas just a few months ago dreams of sugarplums were dancing in our heads, now many of us are dreaming of cherry blossoms and bathing suit weather.
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As an adult, I've searched for that old-fashioned Christmas, one of snow-tipped Yuletide cheer, sleigh rides, sugarplums and freshly cut pine trees trimmed with handcrafted ornaments.
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In fact, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's first holiday season together as royals might involve an old tradition that's sure to throw a wrench in their visions of sugarplums.
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" The short story opens with a description of the tree "lighted by a multitude of tapers" and decorated with ornamental guns, pincushions, pen wipers, sugarplums, "teetotums" and "humming-tops.
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Plot details are scant at this point, and the project is still coming together — so the dream of seeing the Pitch Perfect star in trimmed red fur may still belong with the sugarplums.
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Sugarplums, traditionally, have little to do with plums, and from the 17th to the 19th century referred to a variety of small candies with a hardened sugar shell (and then, in popular parlance, to a sweet person).
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Soon after the sweets first come to life, there's a fabulously intricate dance for four male Sugarplums, four male Marzipans and four Gingerbread Men in which the three groups move in different and overlapping rhythms, styles and patterns.
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It's Christmas Eve, and people in the Washington area are abustle with their tinsel and toys, sugarplums and fruitcake, prayers and candlelit services.
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Kellaway was in Francis of Assisi (1961), Tammy Tell Me True (1961), Zotz! (1962), The Cardinal (1963), Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), and Quick, Let's Get Married (1964). In 1963 he guest starred as a Museum curator Wilbur Canfield in Episode 19 on the first season of the television show My Favorite Martian. In 1964 he played Santa Claus in the "Visions of Sugarplums" episode of Bewitched.
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One day, a rose offered her some honeycomb and warned her not to show the ambassador; she did, and he snatched it and ate it all. An oak offered her a pitcher of milk and warned her not to show the ambassador; she did, and he snatched it and drank it all. The princess realized how rashly she had acted. A nightingale offered her sugarplums and tarts, and this time, she ate them herself.
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Sally thinks she has spotted Santa Claus, but it turns out to be Snoopy in his Santa outfit. She later is haunted by "visions of sugarplums" and is relieved when Charlie Brown tells her they are simply a type of candy. In the final vignette, Sally is complaining that she never received a bicycle for her dollhouse; Charlie Brown said it was likely delivered to the wrong address. Sally, still angry, replies that she hopes whoever got the bike really needed it.
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At age eight, Mumy appeared in Jack Palance's ABC-TV circus drama The Greatest Show on Earth (1958); he was cast as Miles, a parentless boy, in the Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Shifty Shoebox" (1958); and he portrayed Freddy in the "End of an Image" (1958) episode of NBC-TV's modern Western series Empire, starring Richard Egan. In 1964, he was cast as Richard Kimble's nephew in ABC-TV's The Fugitive episode, "Home Is the Hunted"; as Barry in the NBC-TV medical drama The Eleventh Hour episode "Sunday Father"; as himself three times in the ABC sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet; in the Disney film For the Love of Willadena; and as a troubled orphan taken in by the Stephenses in the Bewitched fantasy sitcom episode "A Vision of Sugarplums" (December 1964), on ABC-TV. Mumy was reportedly the first choice to portray Eddie Munster in the 1964 CBS situation comedy The Munsters, but his parents objected to the extensive makeup requirements. The role instead went to Butch Patrick.
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