(Neiman Marcus features a James Bond edition of the car in its holiday catalogue of extravagances.)

The marketing department prepared a glossy 24-page holiday catalogue, featuring several of the 150 stores and restaurants at the mall, while the building crew repainted the traffic markers in the vast parking areas.

Last week, L. L. Bean was in-stock in most sizes and colors on a sweater, hiking boots and a parka chosen at random from the holiday catalogue.

I paint based on images found in holiday catalogues, television programmes.

And Neiman Marcus, based in Dallas, is marketing in its holiday catalogue a special edition Suburban equipped with Sony audio, video and computer equipment.

His holiday catalogue with a back-cover photograph of the Reed family was a favorite of his customers.

About now, devotees of Christmas are beginning to order from those holiday catalogues that have been filling their mailboxes since St. Swithin's Day.

One holiday catalogue this year offers a "brandy warmer set," which includes a warmer, a snifter and a candle, for $19.95.

The mailman might hate me (as he delivers piles of holiday catalogues to me), but U.P.S. wants me as its poster girl.