Winter break always reminds me of the Christmas bvacations/b of my youth. In 1960s Catholic Bay Ridge, there was no such thing as ?winter break;? you'd hear ?break? in commands like ?if you don't come in the house when I call you I'm gonna break both your arms and legs,? to which the only reply was ... I'm sure we saw many, many different movies, but it seems to me that we were always sitting in front of some Joan bCrawford/b potboiler that involved an axe murder or a stabbing. ...