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Then, of course, there’s a crowded calendar of holiday parties to attend—and the attendant social pressure to bring bottles that aptly acknowledge the hosts’ generosity and also accord with their individual tastes.

Because you work so hard to be on that stage and then, as Roger Waters so aptly describes in “The Wall,” you find yourself having a surrealist experience on that same stage.

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That poem, aptly titled “The Bells,” uses so many different words to describe the sounds made by bells that Mr. Poe evidently ran out and had to invent a new one: “tintinnabulation.”

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And the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra set an aptly upbeat tone for the festival’s final screening.

"I think it's a very aptly named album given the way he is," Wheatley says.

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