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For a while, it seemed as if the stars of the movie, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, had conquered not only the movie musical box office jinx but also all of social media.

Woo hammers the loss with a deliberateness that feels desperate: oppressive blue gloom, a slumping Christmas tree with unopened presents, a twinkly musical box that evokes sadness.

Britain's government sent Queen Elizabeth a specially-commissioned musical box to mark her platinum jubilee, depicting on its lid the black front door of the Prime Minister's Number 10 Downing Street office.

The platinum mounted, enamel-on-copper musical box also featured portraits of the 14 British prime ministers she has met during her reign.

As far as they were concerned, clocks were merely delightful but useless luxury objects—rather like musical boxes.