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...adds drama and a touch of sorrow, followed by the comic relief of Red Cross arm-banded mice attempting CPR and carrying him away on a stretcher. The battle itself is fought with gigantic forks instead of swords, and cheese bits serve as grenades. A child dressed as a gingerbread cookie gets her arm bitten off by one of the mice...

Author: By Amanda S. Federman, | Title: An Enchanting Nutcracker | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

...there is a reason to stop by U Hall B1--a tempting reason. Cookies. Hordes of them. Chocolate chip, oatmeal, Oreo, gingerbread, lemon snaps, vanilla wafers, fig newtons, macaroons--you name...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: To the Fly, Our Deepest Sympathies | 10/2/1993 | See Source »

...Bretton Woods international financial regime and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Conferences and charters proliferated. In the depths of the war, thinkers were planning for the aftermath -- even if their ideas ran to such silly extremes as turning mighty Germany into a land of milkmaids and gingerbread cottages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tokyo's No Star Line-Up | 7/12/1993 | See Source »

...moment in the presidency. The big grandfather clock can be heard ticking between Bush's words. A Christmas tree festooned with gingerbread men and candy canes stands against the wall of the Oval Office, just across the hall from the standards that proudly hold streamers from 352 military battles. Is history on his side in this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: History Lessons | 12/31/1990 | See Source »

Pitts' professional fame -- and her reputation in some quarters as a "guerrilla preservationist" -- originated with an audacious maneuver she made 21 years ago in the seaside town of Cape May, N.J. The community is a melange of Victorian follies -- gingerbread homes with broad, windswept verandas -- that had once been a summer playground of the wealthy. But it fell from favor and became an oceanfront backwater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Outracing The Bulldozers | 8/6/1990 | See Source »

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