But the atmosphere is too rich for the pallid plot: Jack Skellington, the bony master of ceremonies in Halloweentown, discovers the spirit of Christmas and tries to import it into his ghoulish world.

NEWYORKER: Tim Burton��s the Nightmare Before Christmas

And--the statisticians should like this--the plot points of the ridiculously rich take on a more normal slant.

FORBES: Rationalizing Wealth

They are what you get when you plot data for poor and rich countries together at a given moment in time, but actual levels of various pollutants in any individual country plotted over time wiggle around a lot more.

ECONOMIST: Local difficulties